Multiple members in a substitution variable

Hi, I use substitution variables in Planning forms to choose wichyear to display. I would like to have FY06, FY07 andFY08 in the same variable. I just tried to add it in AAS(separeted by commas) and there is no problems, but when I open myPlanning form, I got this error : "<center><table style=" margin-bottom: 2px; margin-right: 75px; margin-left: 75px; margin-top: 2px;" border="0" id="bannerMsg" cellspacing="0"cellpadding="0"><tr><td align="left" valign="center" class="verysmalltext">Asubstitution variable required for this calculation is undefined.Variable: RFFcstYears</td><td style=" padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px;" valign="center"><img title="Close" src= "http://malbicl01a:8300/HyperionPlanning/ui_themes/tadpole/images_global/task_tabs_close_sel.gif" onclick="hideBannerMessage()"></td></tr></table></center>If I change it for FY06 only, all works fine. I don't want to use 3 variables as some times we will need only2 years (it's a rolling forecast over a 18 monhs period). Any ideas how to set the variable ? Thanks

Hi,
You cannot provide multiple values to single substitution variable. If you want that a variable can contain multiple values then you can use User Variable.
Request you to please look into the below links
for Substitution variable - http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17236_01/epm.1112/hp_admin/frameset.htm?ch07s05.html
For user variable- http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17236_01/epm.1112/hp_admin/frameset.htm?ch07s05.html
Hope this helps.
Regards
SST.....
Edited by: ss1988 on Mar 9, 2013 11:14 PM

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