While many objects in your library will need specific variant-criteria values assigned, there may be some objects that are applicable to more than one product, location, or other variant requirement. Applying multi-select variant criteria to these objects will minimize the number of objects that need to be maintained in your library.
For example, Anne Ortha maintains user guides for the Acme Teleporters, with guides for each product (X1000, X2001, X3001, and X5000), and variations of the guides for most states.
Anne wants to create a topic that applies to the Acme Teleporter products X2001 and X3001 that will be used in the guides for New York, California, and Texas, but not for other states. This means the topic will be published in the guides X2001 for New York, X3001 for New York, X2001 for California, X3001 for California, X2001 for Texas, and X3001 for Texas.
If Product and State are single-select variant criteria, only one value could be applied from each. Anne would have to create a variant for each combination. If the information changed, Anne would have to update each variant.
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If Product and State are multi-select variant criteria, multiple values could be applied from each. Anne would create one topic and assign all values to that object. This means that one topic will meet the variant-criteria for each of the six guides. If the content changes, Anne only needs to update one topic.
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