Clearing Planning Function variables

I have a planning function / sequence assigned to a button in my web planning layout.
The function includes user input variables.
If the user repeatadly executes a planning function the values that were entered for a variable previously are not cleared.
Is it possible to clear the variable values so that the user is forced to reenter a new value each time the planning function is executed?
Thanks
Ian

Thank you all for your replies.
Perhaps I am missing something but I am unable to get the desired outcome, that I am sure is possible.
First a few points just to clarify.
We are using Integrated Planning.
The planning function / sequence uses several variables.
Most are populated using SELECTION_BINDING_TYPE > ITEM_CHARACTERISTIC.
As seen below the variable for employee is populated from the row selection of my analysis web item.
This works exactly as expected. (see XHTML below)
 *<bi:BUTTON_LIST type="ORDEREDLIST"
 *<bi:BUTTON type="COMPOSITE" index="1" >
 *<bi:CAPTION value="Employee Adjust Pay Increments" />
 *<bi:ACTION type="CHOICE" value="INSTRUCTION" >
<bi:INSTRUCTION >
 *<bi:EXEC_PLANNING_SEQUENCE_SIMPLE >
 *<bi:PLANNING_SEQUENCE value="ZPS_0112" />
 *<bi:VARIABLE_VALUES type="ORDEREDLIST" >
 *<bi:VARIABLE_VALUE type="COMPOSITE" index="1" >
 *<bi:VARIABLE value="ZP_EE_001" text="ZP_EE_001" />
 *<bi:VARIABLE_TYPE type="CHOICE" value="SELECTION_BINDING_TYPE" >
 *<bi:SELECTION_BINDING_TYPE type="CHOICE" value="ITEM_CHARACTERISTIC" >
 *<bi:ITEM_CHARACTERISTIC type="COMPOSITE" >
 *<bi:ITEM_REF value="ANALYSIS_BUDGET_FTE" />
 *<bi:CHARACTERISTIC value="0EMPLOYEE" text="0EMPLOYEE" />
 *</bi:ITEM_CHARACTERISTIC>
 *</bi:SELECTION_BINDING_TYPE>
We also have another variable in the function to adjust the pay scale increment.

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