Dynamic Columns Generation in Bex

Hi Gurus,
I have a requirement to create a BEX report where user will enter a starting month/fiscal period and number of months/periods on a variable screen and the Bex will generate columns dynamically. If the user does not enter anything on the variable screen, then it will generate columns for all months the current year. For example if an user enters month; 01 and number of months 6, then it should generate Aug06, Sep06, Oct06, Nov06, Dec06, Jan07 these columns and populate values(0amount) in them.
If the user runs report on say 2/22/2007 and enters nothing on the variable screen, then it should generate Jan07, Feb07 just 2 columns for 2 months and populate values in them.
I checked the forum and there are couple of them addressing this topic but it is not clear to me. Somebody tells to create variable in row, somebody in columns and right customer exit.
Can some experts readdress this topic and provide a step by step guide, how to achieve this kind of report?
Any help is really appreciated.
Thanks.
Sheo

It seems like writing User Exit is the only solution.
in User Exit, at I_STEP = 2, you check for the input user value. If, u have month entered as 01/2007 and number of months as 6, you need to calculate the lower and higher limit of fiscal/calander month you want to restrict
So, at I_STEP = 2, you find the value of your month variable as 01/2007 and no of month variable as 6, set the low and high value of month as per your req using some sort of calculation, which will be added into columns.
if st I_STEP = 2, entered value is NULL or " ". Set the low and high value of month starting from jan of current year (which u can set using SY-DATUM) to current month of current year.

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This was a major issue (the main reason for opening this thread really) and I managed to resolve it!
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If you define a custom header renderer for your datagrid column and then a custom item renderer, don't create a new instance of your header renderer!
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