BW-BPS Attribute variable selections issues

Hi Marc / Gerd,
I am using an attribute variable on material that has a lot of filters for values on material group, material type, EANUPC, and even a date such as created date / product start date (reference 0date).
The function /layout has issues if the selection has no material choosen and I know we needed to create exit variables on a previous project (someone else did the ABAP and I set out the spec) to do material group / category selection based on material attribute and the material group variable.
Any other good options or work arounds since we cannot use variable in attribute variables?
Thanks,
Mary

Hi Marc,
1. I checked the layout configuration and the config was transported okay to QA so the field that I want to input does not have compariable checked and it should be open for input.
2. there are no data slices yet.
3. Validation check - that might be an issue. The BW loads originally had some master data not loaded in BWQ and have some mapping not occuring as it should and I have been asking for them for the last 2 load cycles. I was told all missing master data have been since loaded and I need to ask for a load of the transaction again but the BW person is waiting for some missing mapping. Also we had to document enabled some infoobjects.
But the category we are using for the integration testing should have all the master data correctly set up since I checked on it end of last week. Do I have to set up some system settings for the document server? Do I need to force it to regenerate after some transports?
The master data we used for the 2 systems are different since the DEV has very little master data and some were manually maintained or uploaded via flat files. The BW QA has a lot of master data since R/3 QA has been refreshed recently.
Thanks,
Mary

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