Comments in Input Template

Hi All,
I have a requirement to add Description in an Input Template. We are using BPC NW 7.5 SP04 version.
How to achieve this?
We have taught the option of Using COMMENTS but i have a questions like
1. How to store the comments data to the data base.
2. How to see the Comments data stored in Tables/ Database.
3. Can we bring the comments in Reports. We are using WEBI Reports in our Project. can we bring it in WEBI reports.
I know that there is a Limitation in Storing description as Comments -- As it will not get copied from one version to another.
So if you find any other solution of maintaining Descriptions other than comments please advice me?
Hoping for your valuable suggestions.
Regards,
Chaithanya T

Hi,
Answers for your question,
1. How to store the comments data to the data base.
You can check the How to Dcocument on comments in the below link to explore various possibility for storing comments,
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/508b62ee-000b-2c10-2d91-a867451ad958?quicklink=index&overridelayout=true
2. How to see the Comments data stored in Tables/ Database.
The comments are stored in a Data Table and the Technical name of it differs for different applications,
/1CPMB/appset_prefixappl_prefixCMT
3. Can we bring the comments in Reports. We are using WEBI Reports in our Project. can we bring it in WEBI reports.
I hope this should be possible. What I recommend in this is, you can pull data from the comment table in to your BI object and can have Webi Report on this.
For my knowledge i dont see any other option available for maintaining dimension description from IS other than comments, which ultimately is a work around.
Hope this helps,
Regards,
G.Vijaya Kumar

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