BPS to IP (variables) - Urgent!

Hi,
I am stuck with a problem while recreating a BPS application in IP (web). I needed to give the users options to choose values for some characteristics - but I needed to give them a restricted list, not all of master data hence I am not using variables but drop downs in the application. With drop downs, I was able to create list of specific characteristic values as desired and also have a cascading effect (one dropdown's list depends on prior dropdown's selection).
But the problem now is that, these dropdowns are not affecting the locking mechanism. Since I do not have any variable inputs, except year, all the combinations are getting locked. For eg, even if I select one brand from the first dropdown, all brands get locked. This is a complete show stopper because concurrent planning is completely impossible! Please suggest what can be done to solve this issue.
I am looking for any kind of solution even if its a completely different approach.

Unless you include a variable for "Brand" in the filter all brands will be locked to planning once the first user has entered the layout. This is how locking is designed to behave.
Include a variable for Brand in the in the filter for the planning query. The user can then select the next level of chracteristics for the Brand selected.
Hope this helps.

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