BW LOV in OLAP Universe

Hi All,
I have a little problem with BW variable (individual values, required) in query where in my OLAP universe it turns prompt in the following sturcture:
BW BEx
Infoobject Year/Month (0CALMONTH)
Variable 0PCALMON
BO Universe
Class Year/Month
Dimension L01 Year/Month
Hidden dimension Lov Year/Month Base
My report makes the search or should seek direct the LOV that contains the year in infoobject BW ("JUL 2011", "AUG 2011", ...) but it does not return expected. It simply returns "01.0000", "02.0000", "11.0821", "SEP 1787" ... and only at the end of LOV it returns the correct values or are in the InfoCube ("JUL 2011, AUG 2011", ...)
I'm using BO XI 3.1 SP3 and BW 7
Any suggestions ?
Tks,

Hi,
These values come straight out of the BW masterdata.
My guess is you still have some old invalid values there.
Note that whenever you see the key version in stead of the formatted version,
it means no text was found associated with this key (in the current language).
Hope this helps (better late then never right),
Marianne

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First of all I would say u are lucky to start with SP2. Because whatever modifications you do in Universe those are retained.
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