BPS Layout / planning level / characteristic relationship issue

Hi ,
I have a design question.
I have a characteristic relationship for 0CALMONTH(Cal. Year/Month) The below are derived attributes
Calendar month
Quarter
Cal. Year/Quarter
Calendar year
Fiscal year/period
Posting period
I am not using 0CALMONTH in my level/layout.
Question1 : When I save the layout by changing the key figure, the system creates another record with what ever the changes perfectly but it is not copying all the characteristics that were in the original line. One example of this issue is for characteristic relationship object.
Question2 : I do have the problem with other characteristics that NOT in the level since I am not using it but when I make a change for key figure in the layout and save it , it is not copying to the new line with all the characteristics.
Can I design this way? If yes why the values are not copied over to the new line? Any user exits where I can check / debug during the layout save?
I do not have any problem when I use standard BPS copy function, have these problems during the layout save.
Thank you for looking into it , appreciate any inputs......
Raju

Thank you Mayank. Very helpful/excellent. I think I am very clear/ all set , I will solve some of them by using derived charaterstic relationships.
One more important questions : How can We provide a solution where We can not use a particular characterstics at level because of the agrregation behavior of the layout and can not be derived ? but while We save the layout We need to get those characterstics like copy function does copy all the characterstics even if they are not in the level.
Is this make sense ? may not be valid question ? any thoughts ?
Appreciate your help.

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