Bex - variable creation

Hi Gurus,
I have vendor as a master data and vendor name as a text . In Bex , i need the vendor name in the selection screen. How to achive this..
Thanks in advance

Do you mean you have the characteristic vendor and you want to ask the user which vendor to select in the selection screen of the report?
If this is so, then you must create a user input variable on 0vendor.Put 0vendor to filter tab in query designer,.Right click on 0vendor ,restrict,create variable, do not change anything in the settings for creating variable(i.e use default settings but if you want to make this variable mandatory, then under details tab,choose mandatory).After that, right click vendor again and restrict,choose variables,choose the variable you have just created.
Regards,
Güneş BÜYÜKTANIR

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I know there are a couple ways of sourcing a Crystal report from a BW query - using MDX vs. not, etc. I created this report using the SAP menu > "Create new report from a query". I don't believe Crystal will easily let you use that menu option to create a report off two BW queries joined together (which is what I am doing), so I built it off one originally (using the SAP menu), then added the other later on. I have the checkbox for "Use MDX driver with support for Multiple structures" checked. In database expert, my "Selected Tables" both are of database type "SAP BW Query".
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