Variants are one of the most sophisticated and unique features of the censhare system. The term Variant in censhare terminology describes basically the ability to branch an asset. This is useful whenever an independent offspring of an asset is required, but the branched copy should retain some connection to its origin. There are plenty of uses for Variants, like technical variants (online and print variant of an image or text) or regional aspects of content.
A typical example is a text asset that gets translated into another language. For the translation it is mandatory to have a second independent asset, nevertheless, it is helpful to know the relation to the original text and whether the original text has changed or not. Actually, using the Variant architecture is a mandatory prerequisite for censhare’s language management system.