Hierarchy variable names in report

I'm would like to be able to display the user selection for a hierarchy variable in a Crystal Report but when I do I get a message that says you can't add this to a report as a field. Is there any way to get access to this so it can be put in the report header? I know how to get the technical name from the parameter, but we need the description.

Hi Ingo and the others,
so, that unfortunately a very hard constraint.
We have for example the following scenario:
A sales Crystal Report which is built on a SAP BW Query. The query contains a country variable, to select the country. Now we want to create Country Sales report. In Crystal the variable is converted into a parameter. The country selection works fine and the report is able to show the correct data. But all this does not make sense with the country name in the report title. Is there no way to achieve this?
Would rebuilding the parameter with Crystal means and deleting it from the BW query an option, or would this have a bad effect on performance issues?
Best regards,
Sebastian

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