Broadcasting and Variable Assignment

Dear Experts,
I want to assign variable in broadcasting dynamically. For example, this variable will be changed every month. I tried to set the variant on BEx Analyzer, and looked into the table TVARV, but I couldn't find my variant in that table. Is there any way to assign variable dynamically?

Hi CSM Reddy,
1. while creating your Broadcasting Settings ... you can use your Variable for OLAP Cache.
    Question1. How and where can I use variable for OLAP Cache in broadcasting. What I just see is variable assignment in the General Precalculation tab
    Question2. Variable for OLAP Cache you said is the same as the variable created in Query Designer, right?
2. then you make sure the variable in Bex is setup with "Ready for input" unchecked
    Question1. I have to allow users to input month to see the report in the month they want, so I think I can't default the value for this variable.
    Question2. What do you mean 't Type variable'?

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Hi folks,
I encountered a problem while working with 10.1.3.1 which I haven't managed to solve yet and would be grateful for assistance. I have defined a complex data type (just a sequence of strings) and want to fill that data type by going through a flow of screens, e.g. through several human tasks. I have defined that type as a variable to the BPEL process and have managed to assign simple expressions to the variable and pass that into a Human Task. In the task I see now a simple input form for all attributes of the type.
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The global variable:
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               <stadt/>
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These are my tries:
Command 1:
<copy>
     <from variable="CaptureData_1_globalVariable"
part="payload" query="/task:task/task:payload" />
<to variable="outputVariable" part="payload"
query="/ns1:MyProcessResponse"/>
</copy>
Result 1:
<outputVariable>
     <part xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" name="payload">
          <ns0:MyProcessResponse xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bpel/workflow/task"     xmlns:ns0="http://xmlns.oracle.com/VacationRequest">
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                    <nachname>Beckham</nachname>
                    <strasse>HighStreet</strasse>
                    <nummer/>
                    <postleitzahl/>
                    <stadt/>
                    <maximaleDauer/>
                    <minimaleDauer/>
               </MyProcessResponse>
          </ns0:MyProcessResponse>
     </part>
</outputVariable>
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<copy>
     <from variable="CaptureData_1_globalVariable"
part="payload" query="/task:task/task:payload"/>
<to variable="outputVariable" part="payload"
query="/ns1:MyProcessResponse/ns1:vorname"/>
</copy>
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<outputVariable>
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               <strasse/>
               <nummer/>
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               <stadt/>
               <maximaleDauer/>
               <minimaleDauer/>
          </MyProcessResponse>
     </part>
</outputVariable>
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<copy>
     <from variable="CaptureData_1_globalVariable"
part="payload" query="/task:task/task:payload/ns0:MyProcessResponse"/>
<to variable="outputVariable" part="payload"
query="/ns1:MyProcessResponse"/>
</copy>
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Hello everyone,
It seems that we are talking about different things, I am afraid. Let me describe the scenario once again:
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Guess this will help to solve your issue.
You can have a look at this for more info
/thread/69150 [original link is broken]
Regards.
Shafi.
Edited by: shafi abdul on Jun 23, 2010 6:28 PM

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