PowerPivot and query parameters

Is there any plans to support parameterized sql queries?If I try to execute query it requests declared parameters by means of form,but I can't check resulting query.Why?It says "Must declare the scalar variable ...".
WTF?
Regards.
P.S.
Without parameterizing PowerPivot is useless IMHO.

What we decided to do, as this is a glaring oversight is to expose a Parameters table via BDC. The end users can then set the "global parameters" for the site, (like date ranges for a quarter that they want to expose). They are able to make updates directly
to the parameters then when the data is refreshed we are able to get a filtered view. Not perfect, but certainly better than having to open multiple sheets to reset very similar parameters.
We did something like this, with the initial settings set to defaults so if the users were to delete the parameters they would simply get this current year. While it isn't 100% wonderful it gets us by, and enables our customer to surface only the data sets
they are interested in making available.
Declare @datestart as datetime
Declare @dateend as datetime
Set @datestart='01/01/2013'
Set @dateend='01/10/2014'
select @datestart = value from parameters where name = 'StartDate';
select @dateend = value from parameters where name = 'EndDate';
QUERY HERE.

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Kalpana.

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NEVERMIND:
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Hi Sebastian and Manas,
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There are no errors coming as such. Its just that my on-premise is showing no results from SPO. However if the same user logs on into the Office 365 SPO site he is able to see SPO search results. That means there is no permission related issue specific to
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I am totally out of ideas now. In case you have faced similar issues while setting up the same then any pointers to troubleshoot would be very helpful.
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"For data feeds, you can only change the columns that are imported. You can’t filter
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How to handle a large number of query parameters for a Browse screen

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>
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