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Variants overwritten by upgrade/patch?

Former Member
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Hi,

Can anyone confirm if an upgrade or patch for an SAP delivered application overwrites selection screen/ALV variants stored by the user. If so, how do we prevent this?

Regards

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Former Member
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Don't know about ALV, but an upgrade does not normally overwrite normal report selection variants; however, if a report is changed, the existing variants may become invalid if say a field on the screen changes length.

SAP has provided a couple of programs to help you out:


RSVARDOC                       Rescue obsolete variants 
RSVARDOC_610                   Rescue obsolete variants 

Rob

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Thnx for the reply. Check out SAP note 65343 for problems with screen variants and 617023 for ALV lyout problems.

Regards