Adding drilldown characteristics in WEBI Report

Hello folks,
Is adding new drilldown characteristics on the fly, possible in WEBI at all? For those familiar with BW, am talking about free characteristic functionality. Here is a scenario in case that we are trying to emulate. So upon executing the report, the initial view should display Sales for 3 months in different columns, and that should be shown at a Sales Organization level. Once we have that, the user would like to expand using a different characteristic for drilldown. So lets say, show the same monthly numbers but broken down for every 'Industry' and/or 'Location' and/or 'Plant'. Hierarchy is definitely an option but it may work well only for true parent and child type relationship between the characteristics. Please share your insights on the topic.
Thanks,
Rv

Try Drillfilter()...
Hope it will solve your problem...!!
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hi,
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If you want to print your Web application, choose Print in the context menu for the executed Web application.

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I have the standard navigation panel on the left side of my web report that shows a list of the characteristics in rows and a list of free characteristics. Under the heading columns I can see the point key figures.
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