SE93 - There are no variants for screen 1000

Question

Hello experts,
We cannot set variant for report transactions from se93.In our case, system prompts a warning as "There are no variants for screen 1000" But standard system variants (which are starting with CUS& or SAP&) are working fine. However, we can set them if we enter the variant name instead of using f4 input help.
There are a lot of entries about this issue on SDN but we want to do that on relevant system with using our own variants (using f4 search help) not system variants and I don't know how but we can also create transactions with own variants on different systems without any problem (which have same components and support package level)
Please note that, problem occurs only in se93 while creating tcode, there is no problem while using existing variants with tcode.
Please also see the below patch level information of relevant system ; (for core components)
EHP4 for ERP 6.0                    
SAP_ABA     701     6     SAPKA70106     Cross-Application Component
SAP_BASIS     701     6     SAPKB70106     SAP Basis Component
PI_BASIS     701     6     SAPK-70106INPIBASIS     Basis Plug-In
ST-PI     2008_1_700     2     SAPKITLRD2     SAP Solution Tools Plug-In
SAP_BS_FND     701     6     SAPK-70106INSAPBSFND     SAP Business Suite Foundation
SAP_BW     701     6     SAPKW70106     SAP Business Warehouse
SAP_AP     700     19     SAPKNA7019     SAP Application Platform
SAP_APPL     604     6     SAPKH60406     Logistics and Accounting
Can you please help us on this issue ?
Thanks in advance.
Kind regards,
Alper Ozdemir
SAP R/3 NetWeaver Consultant

Answer 1

I have to respectfully disagree - any variant can be assigned to the transaction code.
Please try the following:
1) Start your report (I'm assuming it is a report?) in SE38 and create a variant.
2) In SE38, open the report and open its object list (menu Utilities -> Display Object List)
3) If you have already created a transaction, you should see the node Transactions in the left-hand window (i.e. object list). Double-click on the transaction name and switch to Change mode. In the field Start with variant type in the variant name from step 1. Note that if you try to use the dropdown it will say "No variants exist...", but if you just type in the name, it will take it.
Activate and do the same thing with the second transaction or create the new ones, if you prefer. Note that non-system variants will have to be either created in each environment or manually added to the transport. This can also be done in SE38 - click Variant radio-button, click Display, then go to the menu Utilities ->Transport Request and follow the instructions.
All above may also be done in SE80, I just prefer SE38 personally.