Creating dummy prompt in Web Intelligence

Hi,
In a report that I am creating, I need to get an input from user to calculate the running total. Is there a way to create a dummy prompt or something where user can provide his input.
The actual scenario is that we need to calculate the total sales for last n months from x and y months that the user specifies. So user can say "show me last 3 (which is n) month sales for Apr 09 (x) and Apr 10 (y)". I wanted to read this prompt using UserResponse() but then trying to find a way for users to enter these n, x and y as input prompts. If I am using a date object etc to get this prompt then the report obviously gets filtered for that x and y date range, which leads to incorrect results.
we are using BO XI R3.1. If we use sp2 we could have used "input controls" unfortunately we dont have sp2.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks
Joe.

I'm not sure about what you just said....i simply need a dummy prompt in the BeX query based universe
Example:
Prompt('Enter Period','A',{'YTD','QTD','MTD'},Mono,Constrained,Not_Persistent)
I inserted into the Select: section of the object properties tab.
When I run the Webi report, I recieve the following error.
"Database error: The supplied XML is not valid. QTD. (IES 10901) (WIS 10901)"
Please help anyone. Thanks.

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