Dynamic date variant

Hi Gurus,
I've a dynamic system date variant for my program, which runs in background. I have no issue with variant, it works fine. But when I went to job log to check the old jobs that has dynamic date variant, it always refer to current system date. Anybody can suggest me how to fix it to show the actual variant at the time of job run?
Regards, Raju.

The dynamic date overwrites the value that it was saved with at the time of processing. What you see when you display it is the value at the time it was saved (the non-dynamic value). There is no way to see the value at the time it was run. At least not that I know.
You can however compute it if you know that the variant hasn't been changed since it was run.
Neal

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How to create a dynamic date variant in SAP ver 3.1 ?

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I guess that you know how manage dynamic dates in a variant. (Please, tell me if you need help about it)
You can try with two DATUM type fields in the ABAP program. Fix the first one with a fixed date u201901.01.2009u2019 and the second one will be fixed with the dynamic date u2018Current Dateu2019
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In an abap query there is a date field in the selection screen with from & to values.
I am trying to create a dynamic variant that will fill the following data into those fields:
From date: will be left blank
To date: will show today's date - 90 days
For example, if today's date is 01/12/2006 the variant should fill the following data into the fields:
From date: <blank>
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I have tried all the methods I know with dynamic dates calculation in the variant definition but did not manage to create such variant.
Any help will be very appreciated and points would be rewarded generously !
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If the "from" date is meant to be left blank (beginning of time) and the "to" date is some date plus or minus number of days from today, you use the "current +/- days" dynamic date calculation format as was mentioned earlier. Likewise if the "from" date is some date plus or minus today's date, and the "to" date is infinity -- you only need the one Dynamic Date calculation.
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In the Save Variant screen, find the desired date select-option and:
1. Choose in column "Selection Variable", a "D" (Dynamic date calculation)
2. Use F4 in the "Name of Variable" column
3. Find "Current date +/- ??? days" or "Current date +/- ??? work days" in the popup, as appropriate
4. For "I/E" (include/exclude) column select as appropriate
5. For "Option" column, choose "LE", "LT", "GE", "GT", "NE" as appropriate
6. After clicking green check mark, enter your plus or minus days (and factory calendar if using work days).
7. Finish saving your variant.
8. You may not see your changes in your variant until you back all the way out of the variant and then redisplay it. You'll see a greyed out date along with the symbol matching your choice (LT, LE, etc.)
Unfortunately if you don't have infinity on either end of the date you are limited to 999 days differences as far as I am aware. If that is the case you can populate TVARVC table with parameter or selection variables, maintain them with STVARV transaction by hand, or use an ABAP program in batch to regularly calculate the values. Then you can reference the TVARVC values in your variant instead of the Dynamic Date calculation.
If someone knows a way to bypass the use of TVARVC for date ranges that are more than 999 days apart please let me know. TVARVC works well but it is extra effort whereas Dynamic Date calculation would be much easier to maintain if the date range could be made larger than 999 days.

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I have a selection option s_date in my program where I want to use the dyanmic variant with.
it is a date range and for the lower range, I would like to have a static value of 04/01/2010 and for the higher range I want to have last date of the prev month.
I see last date of the prev month in the drop down (F4) Dynamic table, but selecting that is overwriting the s-date-low instead of s_date-high. How can I use the dynamic variant for this ? Can i create my own custom drop downs for these dates?
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In variant you can specify dates dynamically.
When you save a variant, system ask you enter variant name and Meaning. On the same screen you can specify these dynamic values.
For the parameter/select-option where you want to specify dynamic value, press F4 on 'Selection Variable' column.
Choose type of variable as 'D' (Dynamic date calculation).
Press F4 on 'Name of Variable(Input only using F4) column and select 'Current date +/- ??? days' on next screen.
On input screen enter -1.
Repeat same for To Date' field.
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Dynamic Date Variant for SAP Job

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We have a program to be ran in the Background .
I am unable to create a Variant for Date ( Current year Jan 01st to Current Date).
Could you please advice how to create a Variant with Dynamic Date Calculation for above date range.
Thanks in Advance.
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I guess that you know how manage dynamic dates in a variant. (Please, tell me if you need help about it)
You can try with two DATUM type fields in the ABAP program. Fix the first one with a fixed date u201901.01.2009u2019 and the second one will be fixed with the dynamic date u2018Current Dateu2019
Regards,
OLA

Dynamic date in variant

Hi,
I need to create a dynamic date for my variant.
Date will be the select option - The from date should be the current date and the to date should be current date + 30 days.
When i am using the Selection variant and using the option D to calculate the current date+ 30 days. But that is getting stored in the from date but not in the to-date. My report will be running in back ground every day. So according to the requirment i need to have from date as current date and to-date as current date + 30 days.
I cannot use the logic in initialization as the report will be running based on the variant saved.
Thanks,
Raju

Hi Raj,
I can think of one thing,
just use parameters for start date and end date
and then set the their values in the variant as follows,
Press Save on the selection Screen and then put the name and short text then,
in the very last box called "Selection screen objects 1000" check on the fourth check box "Selection variable" for both start date and end date.
Then click on "selection Variable" Button on left hand top corner of the screen.
Then click on the D: Dynamic date calculation the must turn Green.
then click on the downward arrow that appears there you will have options to set the date.
there choose current date for the start date and Current date +/- ??? days for the end date.
now while setting the end date it will ask you the number of days there you have to put 30(as it is your requirement) and SAVE.
Then test it .
otherwise you can go for this approach.
Keep your date in select-options only and use the following option while selecting "Selection variables"
"Current date - xxx,current date + yyy"
Hope it helps you,
Regards,
Abhijit G. Borkar
Edited by: Abhijit Borkar on Jan 7, 2010 7:31 AM

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I want to create variant in BMBC -Batch Information Cockpit with Dynamic Date Selection. But it do not find the screen the to set-up variant attributes
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Ofer

Hi,
The dynamic dates on the selection parameters may come from the variant.
You need to create the variants accordingly to your requirements and specify how the date on the selection screen has to be calculated.
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Per the link below, I used to be able to activate "dynamic date calculation" in variant.
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Our system has been upgraded to 6.0 and now we do not the same variant attribues screen where I can activate the "D" variable. It brings me to program/screen SA38/281.
Any suggestion how I may activate the "D" dynamic date calculation variable in a variant?
Edited by: Thomas Zloch on Oct 14, 2011 11:34 AM

Actually I meant the relevant code of your custom report, you just provided me with the info of the standard variant screen.
You can go to SE38, enter your custom report name, display the code, and paste the definition of that parameter. (It would be something like
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What I am interested in is to know which data type is being used, since this functionaliy will only apply to date type fields. So, bottom line: this field must definitely be a date, which makes me think that either something has changed in the custom report or after the upgrade to ECC 6.0 this data type might have changed as well.
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Dynamic Date calculation in Variants

Dear SAP Guru's,
I am creating variant for Planning Run by maintaining the . I n this, I want to select the horizon as from 1st day of next month and to date as last day of next month. But I am not finding the Last day os next Month in the F4 list.
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Defining variant for report for job with dynamic date Gui 6.40 patch 21

The system does not take over my choice for the dynamic date.
I choose in the variant-attirubute-screen for a certain parameter: "type selection variable": D and then in the column "name of the variable" > I choose via F4: current date +/- days. OK and then I fill in 1 or 1- or whatever. The system however does only react with the message "Upper date of the interval is > than upper date". It does not matteer what I choose.
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I connot save the variant.

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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/d1/802cfc454211d189710000e8322d00/frameset.htm
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VARIANTS -->
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BEX to allow for the dynamic date on a variant as is the case with ABAP

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I have doubt that where we are able to use dynamic date for BEX date variable?
In normal ABAP program,We have option to get dynamic date for date field parameters.Like that can we have dynamic date for BEX date variable.
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Edited by: Bandana Baghel on Jul 3, 2009 10:44 AM

Hi Bandana,
When you say dynamic date, are you refering to the system date on which the BEx query run?
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