2879076 - Prompt Variant Limitations

• Personal Variants are not loaded as dependency while promoting the document from one environment to another.
• No option to promote user/personal/private variant to another environment along with documents.
• Prompt variants dont work in Web Intelligence Rich Client standalone Mode
• You must create, run, and then save the document to the CMS to see the prompt variant options.
• When you create personal or public prompt variants, they can be only applied to the document in which they have been created on.
• When you delete a prompt variant, it is completely removed from the document. It can't be recovered.
• A Personal Variant object, stored in the CMS must be accessible only by the user owner itself and nobody else , Even an administrator should not have “delete/view/edit” rights to a personal Variant if administrator is not the owner.  
  
  
  About Variant :
  
  
• BI Variant was a new feature introduced in BI 4.1 SP6.
• If a Web Intelligence Document contains many prompts and/or large list of values, you can save your frequent answers as a BI Variant in the Prompts dialog box. Later, you can reuse this prompt variant to automatically answer the same prompts.

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• SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.X
• Web Intelligence (WebI)
• Promotion Manager
• LCM

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