BPS vs BI Integrated Planning

Hi All,
I was trying to get the functionality of users editing/entereing the comments in the web report and that gets stored in the cube.
Creatde a infoobject as a place holder with no master data.
I followed this How to Guide:
How To... Flexibly Change Characteristic Values and Comments in BI Integrated Planning
I was able to do everything in the BW but I couldnt do the steps in Integrated planning as we are still on BPS.
I tried to do similar steps in BPS as in Integrated planning and got stuck at a step where we have to use the variables.
Variables created in BPS should be used in the query deigner while building the query which was not possible in BW-BPS as in BI Integ.Planning
So I created seperate variables . Now can anyone tell me if there is a way to pass the value of SEM variable in to BW variable and vice versa ?
I have my coding for REPOST function in SEM.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Prasad

Hi Prasad,
have a look at this HowTo-Guide:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/b00f1721-c370-2910-b08b-9f0c56df5754
But actually I don't know if it's possible to pass a value from a BPS-Var to one BW-Var. because I've worked with IP or BPS but nothing in parallel.
Good luck,
Clemens

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