Bex Broadcasting with Variable

Hello Gurus,
  I  have a BI Report that has calendar date as selection screen which by default displays current date(18.03.2011) .
After running the Report and scheduling the report to send through email  every day  via Bex Broadcasting tool.  That works fine for today (18.03.2011).
But tomorrow   when I receive the report through the email . This variable automatically not changing to  tomorrows date ie 19.03.2011 so still shows  the data for 18.03.2011.
Is there any way to change this date field automatically through Broadcasting .
Thanks for your resposne.

You have two options:
1) If the calendar variable is not ready for input then it will automatically update.
2) I am assuming you created a variant and the broadcast always shows the data for the day you saved the variant. In BEx 3.5, you can save a variant without saving the value for calendar day. This variant will force the default value every day. If you didnot create a variant and are just setting the variable values in the broadcaster, then you should create a variant as explained above and set the broadcaster to use the variant.
Vineet

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