Variants are stored in the GN4 database and referenced by an article.

You can check the variants by looking at the XML of the article.

1.In TED, get the id of the article: right click the article in listing and then on the Properties form, click the Info tab to review the article id.

2.Login to either i4 or gnportal.

3.In the address bar, append to the url the following do.ashx?cmd=objs&ids=xxx&refkeys= where xxx is the article id. Example: the original url was http://youserver/i4/ and the changed url will be http://yourserver/i4/do.ashx?cmd=objs&ids=203798&refkeys=

4.Locate the <variants> node.

5.The URL to get the image is there, e.g. <url>http://yourserver/i4/do.ashx?Cmd=Data&amp;DataId=245739</url>, as well as the modifiedDate, e.g. <ref modifiedDate="2014-07-24T08:53:29.740Z". Note: before attempting to paste the URL in another tab of your browser, replace &amp; with & so it looks like http://yourserver/i4/do.ashx?Cmd=Data&DataId=245739.

6.In the same XML, the <pubInfo> node keeps the information about the publishing elements, including the variants.

When publishing the article, the variant modifiedDate is checked against the pubinfo publishing date of the same element, and if newer, the variant is sent. Otherwise, the file id of the previously sent variant is used.

If there is no variant in the pubinfo, autocrop will generate it.