Assign pages to a variant

There are several ways to assign a page to a variant:

Assign pages individually to a variant

Before having any variant created, all your pages will be in ‘Current’ by default. You can see that information in the Byline.
The easiest way to create a variant, is to duplicate your current page. Make sure you give it a different name, by adding the name of the variant for example.
It is normal to see a MULTIPLE DEFINITIONS error on your requirements because the duplicated page is also in 'Current', for now. You will then need to assign your duplicated page to the correct variant.
To assign the page, go into the byline and click on: “Variant : “Current” (change)”. You will then see this dropdown.
When you change the variant, you need to click the Save button. If your page has children pages, you can tick ‘Include child pages’. The user has to click Save button to trigger the indexation.

The byline dialog knows if there are children to index or not. In this case, it does not propose to Include child pages, because the page does not have some.

If your page requirements are listed as dependencies of other requirements, the dependencies will have to be edited to point at the new variant.

When clicking on the Assign pages button, a dialog is displayed:

When opening the dialog a list of page of your space are displayed as a tree (first level, then you can expand to see the children)

You can filter the pages
- By typing the name
- By using the CQL syntax
The list of variants associated to the displayed pages are listed. You can search the variant you want to use by typing in the Select a variant placeholder
You need to check the boxes next to the pages you want to assign
Then you drag and drop the selected items onto the variant you want.

The process may take some time, you can close the dialog, the processing is done in background.