Delete variables in WEBI Documents

Hi,
We are creating WEBI documents on top of BW queries(Query-Universe-WEBI) and BW query variables automatically flows into WEBI and we don't want to show all variables to the user while he is creating his own WEBI documents so we wanted to delete variables in WEBI instead of Universe. Is there any way to achieve this functionality?
Cheers,
Preetham

Hi,
but keep in mind that even when you do hide them the underlying BI query still requires values as input for the BI query to be executed.
you mentioned that you want to hide the variables from the user - so why do the variables exist in the BI query ?
Ingo

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