BPS Variable exits Ranges showing only Low Value

Question

Hi,
I am attempting to show a comparison column in my planning layout which represents YTD values.
The data in my cube is as follows.
Cal Qtr      Fisc Period      Amount
2006.1       2006.003           10
2006.1       2006.001           20
Now in my variable selection for the layout, i define user exits for cal quarter and fisc period. I define the restriction for cal quarter as  between 2006.1 and 2006.1
and the restriction for fiscal period as between 2006.001 and 2006.003. However the resulting output is only the data from 2006.001 (the 'low' value = 20). Does anyone know why this is so ? Is this a bug or an expected functionality?
Thanks for your help.
Shailesh
Message was edited by: Shailesh Unny

Answer 1

Hi,
In BPS, you can only select a single value.
If you enter multiple values in your variable, example like you did with 2006.001 to 2006.003, only the lowest value will be used for selection.
The result is thus the same as if you would have entered 2006.001 to 2006.001.
This can be bypassed in 2 ways (out of which none deserves the beauty price):
1) reload the data in your cube and post the result on a single date. You can then restrict your comparison column to this single date.
2) make the comparison column dynamic on your time variable.
You will then see 3 columns for each month, you can sum the 3 columns to display the total.
Please assign points if this was helpful or solved your problem.
Best Regards,
Filip