BEx query characteristic description change

Hi all,
We have some BEx queries that we have changed one of the characteristic description - title only (by dragging the characteristic to the rows, right click, attributes, description).
Lately when we try to refresh the queries the description that shows up is the original one.
Only after saving the query and then execute we can see our own defined description.
Does anyone have an idea to solve this issue for all the queries together?
Thanks in advance.

Thank you A J for your reply.
I want to specify my problem:
We have about 100 BEx queries that were designed by the same person (a top user) at the passed year and are viewed through our SAP Portal by many people every day. When the queries were designed some of the Characteristic's descriptions were change (For example: The characteristic 0MAINTROOM description was changed from ROOM to SITE in some of the queries).
At the passed few days, we have noticed that the description at the portal is the original one (ROOM). We opened the BEx query and we saw that the 0MAINTROOM has the description of SITE . but... After that if we execute the query (by clicking only "Quit and use Query"), the query result is with the description ROOM. Only by saving again the query and then execute - we will see SITE at the result.
We also tried to generate all the queries by using RSRT --> Environment --> Generate Queries but with no success to solve this issue.
Thanks again.

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