Dynamic Conditions in OLAP universe

Hi all,
we want to use conditions that are derived from the current date to provide easy filters to our users. Like "Current Month" derived from the current date w/o users having to enter any value. In the old 5.1 Business Objects version this was working properly.
We use Webintelligence BO XI 3.1 with Fixpack 3.3 on top of SAP BW (BexQuery) which means we are dealing with an OLAP universe.
The Condition we want to use as an example is:
<FILTER KEY="@Select(Dates\Invoice Month)"><CONDITION
OPERATORCONDITION="Equal"><CONSTANT CAPTION="MonthNumberOfYear
(CurrentDate)"></CONSTANT></CONDITION></FILTER>
It parses correctly, yet when applied as a filter in a web intelligence report it does not return a result.
The ultimate goal would be not the "Current Month" but a date range "Previous YTD".
I have found many threads dealing with similar questions, but non seemed to fit - we want to avoid that users have to enter a date, and we want to avoid increasing the number of measures. (And we want to avoid the worst case to have to do it at the BexQuery level due to performance aspects)
Any idea would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Norman

Hi,
such filtering needs to be done using EXIT Variables in the BEx query.
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