Active Cost Centers

Req : List of active cost centers in a month.
I tried doing this : ECC - Table CSKS - Contents
CostCenter|ValidTo|ValidFrom
AKST1|09/01/1999|07/31/2009
AKST2|08/31/2007|09/31/2007
AKST3|06/31/2007|09/31/2008
AKST4|12/31/2007|07/31/2010
Valid To & Valid From seemed not to be of any use in this context ( for filtering ).
When I do filter for valid cost centers in the month of 07/2007 by inputing - Valid From - 07/01/2007 | Valid To 07/31/2007, it doesn't do the look up if the inputed dates lie btn Valid From's & Valid To's Existing in the table. What it actually does is it just luks for 07/01/2007 if existing in all the Valid From dates available in the table & same for Valid To's....n so results no data for this instance.
Is there any workaround to get the list of active cost centers in a given period on ECC or BI side?

If you try the steps I gave beforee, it should work:
Try this:
1. Make cost centre as a info provider - RSA1 - Inset chars as info provider.
2. This makes cost centre as a reportable object.
3. Create a variable on valid from and give single values.
4. Same for valid to.
5. Use both variable in the query.
Ravi Thothadri

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Always recommended before loading into live system: upload in test system and check. check again just to make sure all is correct before real load.
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Edited by: Rohit Chauhan on May 26, 2009 12:00 PM

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regards
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