topic Re: Variants overwritten by upgrade/patch? in Application Development and Automation Discussions https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/variants-overwritten-by-upgrade-patch/m-p/1500308#M231841 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>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.</P><P></P><P>SAP has provided a couple of programs to help you out:</P><PRE><CODE> RSVARDOC Rescue obsolete variants RSVARDOC_610 Rescue obsolete variants </CODE></PRE><P>Rob</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:42:25 GMT Former Member 2006-08-31T13:42:25Z Variants overwritten by upgrade/patch? https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/variants-overwritten-by-upgrade-patch/m-p/1500307#M231840 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>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?</P><P></P><P>Regards</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:04:25 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/variants-overwritten-by-upgrade-patch/m-p/1500307#M231840 Former Member 2006-08-31T09:04:25Z Re: Variants overwritten by upgrade/patch? https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/variants-overwritten-by-upgrade-patch/m-p/1500308#M231841 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>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.</P><P></P><P>SAP has provided a couple of programs to help you out:</P><PRE><CODE> RSVARDOC Rescue obsolete variants RSVARDOC_610 Rescue obsolete variants </CODE></PRE><P>Rob</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:42:25 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/variants-overwritten-by-upgrade-patch/m-p/1500308#M231841 Former Member 2006-08-31T13:42:25Z Re: Variants overwritten by upgrade/patch? https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/variants-overwritten-by-upgrade-patch/m-p/1500309#M231842 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thnx for the reply. Check out SAP note 65343 for problems with screen variants and 617023 for ALV lyout problems.</P><P></P><P>Regards</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:46:19 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/variants-overwritten-by-upgrade-patch/m-p/1500309#M231842 Former Member 2006-08-31T15:46:19Z