Pre-Condition vs Selection Condition vs Procedure

[former_member1347238]

I am new to variant condition wanting understand the difference between these 3.

Precondition vs Selection Condition vs Procedure.

I am not the programming guy therefore it gets difficult to understand syntax and what difference do these make. An example would be helpful.

[a__engfehr]

Hello ujasmodi97,

You will want to seek out some training as all of these are basic objects used in Variant configuration.

In general:

1) Preconditions - use true/false logic to restrict and hide either characteristics or values of characteristics.

2) Selection conditions - use true/false logic to require characteristics or to "select" BOM items to be included in the BOM.

3) Procedures can be used in a wide variety of logic operations, such as setting a quantity value, preforming math calculations, setting a 1 characteristic value based on another, concatenating a string, executing a function/pfunction, etc..

These links may help you get started or there is a good SAP Press book as well as SAP training courses on Variant Configuration.

https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/PLM/Object+Dependency

https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/PLM/Introduction+to+Variant+Configuration+with+an+example+mode...

https://answers.sap.com/questions/7132017/variant-configuration---object-dependency.html