When creating variant for a particular program, we can protect it by checking the checkbox ‘Protect Variant’ (please refer to the below screenshot).

Variants are protected to avoid unauthorized users from modifying it.

Unprotected a variant:

Please follow the below steps to unprotect a variant which has been protected:

Step 1:

In transaction SE38, execute the program ‘RSVARENT’, on the selection screen, enter the program/report name and the name of the variant to unprotect.

Step 2:

Execute the program to unprotect the variant (or cancel the protection on the variant).

The following message will appear on the variant has been unprotected: