Copying and Pasting Variant/Option Effectivity

You can copy and paste variant/option effectivity from one product in the structure to another.

Before you begin:
  • You must have models attached to the root object.
  • Your Business Administrator must have decoupled variant and evolution effectivity.
Note: The following conditions apply to copying and pasting variant/option effectivity between products in the structure:
  • Pasting variant/option effectivity to multiple products at once fails if there is an error for any single product.
  • Pasting variant/option effectivity fails if the model is not attached to the product's parent.
  • The model attached to the parent of the source product from which effectivity was copied must be a subset of the model attached to the parent of the target products to which variant/option effectivity is pasted.
  • You can paste copied effectivity to a maximum of 50 target products at one time.
  • You can copy and paste effectivity only within the same instance of the Product Structure Editor.
  • You cannot copy and paste variant/option effectivity to another product if the source product's effectivity was defined before variant and evolution effectivity were decoupled by your Business Administrator.
  1. Select the source product in the structure whose variant/option effectivity you want to copy to another product.
  2. To copy the effectivities, do one of the following:
    • From the Configuration section of the action bar, click Copy Variant/Option Effectivity.
    • Right-click the product, then from the context menu, select Copy Variant/Option Effectivity.
  3. Select one or more target products where you want to paste the copied variant/option effectivity.
  4. To paste the copied effectivity on one or more target products, do one of the following:
    • From the Configuration section of the action bar, click Paste Variant/Option Effectivity.
    • Right-click one of the selected products, then from the context menu, select Paste Variant/Option Effectivity.

The variant/option effectivity from the source product is copied to the target products.