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Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 2
How to enable variant save option for VA05 ............................................................................................ 2
Introduction
Most common problem we all have with VA05 transaction is how to create/save a default variant for the
output.

You don’t get the normal Variant Save option enabled under Menu -> Settings / Layouts. It’s grayed out
for the user to select.

Therefore user cannot save a default variant for the report VA05.

How to enable variant save option for VA05

You can achieve this through user parameters.

 Go to transaction SU01

 Input user name and press Change option

 Go to tab
  In the Parameter ID section, enter “SD_VARIANT_MAINTAIN” as Parameter ID
 In the Parameter value section, enter “A”

 Save

Now to test the new settings, you need to logging to the system again. Now you should be able to see,
the Variant Save option is enabled.
Note:

Parameter ID’s that can be used for “SD_VARIANT_MAINTAIN” are;

 A - To define standard or user variants

 U - To define user variants

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