BICS - Passing variables to a BEx Query

Hi Experts,
We are currently developing dasboards in Dashboard Design (XCelsius) using BICS. Since we want to leverage the 'create once, reuse many times' principle, we would like to populate our (data intensive) dashboard using 8 connections that fill out different values in one and the same BEx Query. The results (8 crosstabs) will be put in our embedded sheet on 4 different tabs.
All data has to be refreshed before components are loaded (so this option is set for all connections).
Furthermore, we set the 8 connections with the following parameters:
[definiton tab].[input values].[variables].[BEx variable] > link to a cell containing tech name of input value
[definition tab].[input values].[filters].[key figures] > link to a cell containing the tech name of the key figure we want to display in the crosstabs.
Now, we are facing 2 problems:
1. The variables are not automatically passed to the BEx query (we see a BEx web variable input screen on launch)
2. The key figures are not filtered (we did set the tech key i.e. 8KPM8AAGH55L3ONGZC0Y27FBG)
Does anyone have similar experiences, using BICS and (ideally) found a solution yet? I'd like to avoid creating 8 different BEx queries to solve this. Thank you in advance!
KR, Bart Santing

Hi,
You have to map the excel cell to the exact keyfigure or vriable.
For example.
I have two filters in my BEx Query. Calendar Year & Country
For mapping these filters expand the ==>Filters in Data Manager of xCelsius. Then you can see Calendar Year and Country. Map Calendar Year to an excel cell as well as map the country to another excel cell.
Do this same for variable also.
Thanks,
Ajish George

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