Variant support

When you author a plan, you can define the product variant to which an operation belongs. Defining product variants by operation allows you to analyze the entire plan definition for a product. When variants are defined, you can also filter data on the Line Balancing page.

Process Planning for BTO/BTS/CTO supports both classic variants and Product Configurator variants.

Caution

Active Workspace dropped classic variant support in version 6.2. If your environment contains classic variants, you must migrate to Product Configurator variants.

Note

If you use variants, the collaboration context and structure can use either classic variants or variants from the Product Configurator. Process Planning for BTO/BTS/CTO does not support a mixture of classic and Product Configurator variants.

Process Planning for BTO/BTS/CTO uses variant information (for families and features) from the configurator context that is related to the root node.

Variant-related terminology in Process Planning for BTO/BTS/CTO differs depending upon the variant type you are using. The following table lists variant terminology, based on variant type.

Product Configurator	Classic variant
Family	Option
Feature	Value
Formula	Condition