Techniques are disclosed for providing a process plan of a magnetic resonance examination incorporating n protocols where n≥1. The process plan includes selecting an examination strategy with a number n of metaprotocols and a chronological order of the n metaprotocols. Each of the n metaprotocols includes a protocol category having a plurality of different variants of a protocol of the one protocol category. The process plan further includes selecting a variant of a protocol of the one protocol category of an ith metaprotocol, where 1≤i≤n, repeating the step of selecting the variant of a protocol of the one protocol category of an ith metaprotocol until i=n, and providing the magnetic resonance examination process plan including the n protocols.