Identifying unique variant data

Teamcenter prevents you from entering inconsistent data when defining variants. These checks are especially significant if you have a large volume of data to specify on a variant BOM. For example, Teamcenter makes the following checks: You cannot specify a value for an option that you have not defined. If the option name is not unique, Teamcenter prompts you to specify an owning item when you author the variant condition. When you specify defaults, Teamcenter warns if you attempt to specify a default that would trigger an existing variant rule check. If the variant rule check is not currently loaded (because the item to which it is attached is not loaded), Teamcenter prompts you to load the item with the variant rule check when you expand the structure.