# Variant Management

## How to Assign a Variant Wildcard to an Item

| ### What to do:
| Select Start > Items.
| Please note, that this and the following examples are based on the Item and BOM Management example. Item management BOM management Steps 3 through 6 are not compulsory. They were taken in order to avoid changes to the overall structure of the Online help examples.
| Select the item ART-1000 EP Ball Pen.
| Select Copy > With structure from the context menu.
| In the Available relations mask, click OK.
| In the automatically selected Item No. field, enter the new item number ART-1000-B.
| Save the entry with the button .
| Select the tab Bill of Material with the left mouse button.
| Select the item ART-1200 Ornamental Ring. This item is replaced by the ornamental ring variant wildcard.
| Select Delete from the context menu.
| Change to Insert mode with the button .
| In the field PNo. enter the item number 60 or accept the default item number.
| Click the field Item No.
| Click the button . The item list is opened.
| Select the variant wildcard ART-1200-V Ornamental Ring (variant) in the Items mask.
| Select Take entry from the context menu.
| Save the entry with the button .