How Variants Work

When a book is filtered or published, Author-it checks to see if any of the objects used by the book have variants that meet the selected criteria. When a match is found, Author-it replaces the primary object with the variant object.

Filtering a Book

	When a book is opened, it displays the standard and primary objects.
	Filter criteria are applied using the book object's variant criteria filter. Author-it identifies primary objects that have variants matching the chosen criteria, and then replaces the primary object with the variant. If the primary object does not have any variants matching the criteria selected, then the primary object remains in the book.
	The book now displays objects created for that particular variation of the document.

The following rules apply to working with Variants:

Each variant is a unique object that can be modified without affecting the primary object (or other variants based on the primary object).
Variants are stored in the same folder as the primary object.
Variants are visible in the object list when the view variant option is selected.
A variant cannot be used directly in a book. The primary object must be included and the variant object displays once the book is filtered using the corresponding variant criteria.
You can create as many variations of a book as you need by creating variants based on different criteria. To view each variation of the document, open the book and select the appropriate criteria in the criteria filter.

How Variants Work

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