SAP ABAP Data Element MASSVARNAM (Variant Name)

Hierarchy

☛ SAP_ABA (Software Component) Cross-Application Component
   ⤷ CA-GTF-MS (Application Component) Cross-Application Mass Maintenance
     ⤷ MASS (Package) Mass Maintenance Tool: Generic Part

Basic Data

Data Element	MASSVARNAM
Short Description	Variant Name

Data Type

Category of Dictionary Type	D	Domain
Type of Object Referenced		No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type	MASSVNAME
Data Type	CHAR	Character String
Length	10
Decimal Places	0
Output Length	10
Value Table	MASSVARIANT

Further Characteristics

Search Help: Name	MASSVARNAME
Search Help: Parameters	VARNAME
Parameter ID
Default Component name
Change document	☐
No Input History	☐
Basic direction is set to LTR	☐
No BIDI Filtering	☐

Field Label

	Length	Field Label
Short	10	Var. name
Medium	15	Variant Name
Long	20	Variant Name
Heading	13	Variant Name

Documentation

Definition

Shows the name of the variant.

Use

You can use a variant to simplify mass maintenance. You can save your selection criteria and the new values in the variant.

To create a variant, carry out the necessary activities in dialog mode and then choose Variants -> Save as Variant.

To have the system immediately display a preferred variant when a variant is loaded, you can maintain the user parameter MASSD_VARIANT_NAME (prepopulation of variant name for mass maintenance).

Example

Dependencies

A variant is always required if you wish to carry out mass maintenance in the background.

History

Last changed by/on	SAP	20020827
SAP Release Created in