Working with variants
Many AI tasks can run not just on the product you have open but on its variants too. Instead of opening every variant by hand, you turn on one switch, the work runs in the background, and you review each variant’s result from the same modal.
Which tasks support it
Section titled “Which tasks support it”The Apply to variants switch appears in the modal for:
If a product has no variants, the switch is not shown.
How it works
Section titled “How it works”- Open the task’s modal on the parent product as usual.
- Turn on Apply to variants. A variant list appears — use Select all / Deselect all or tick individual variants. The header shows how many are selected.
- Run the task. The selected variants are processed as a background job — each variant gets its own result — so you can keep working while it runs.
- Review per variant: pick a variant on the left to see its proposed result on the right, then apply or discard it like any other suggestion. Variants you don’t review stay pending.
While the job runs, each variant shows its own state — queued, being analysed, applied, or “not part of this run” — and the parent product’s progress reflects the variants it started.
Auto-apply during a background run
Section titled “Auto-apply during a background run”Some tasks add an Auto-apply switch next to Apply to variants (for example Auto-apply matched properties or Auto-apply matched measures). With it on, safe results are written to each variant automatically during the background run, so you don’t have to review every one. Anything that creates new data — such as a new property option — still waits for your review.
Starting it without keeping the modal open
Section titled “Starting it without keeping the modal open”When a task is running across variants you can leave it to finish in the background: use Run in background (or Continue in background once it has started) to close the modal. Reopen the product later to review whatever is still pending.