Replacing Bex variables

We are on BI 3.5
Is there a way to replace an existing Bex variable with another one via program (custom or SAP), function module etc ...Is this feature available in BI 7.0 ?
We have quite a few queries which uses variables of processing type '6' and we would like to replace it with another type.
Of course hard way is change it manually.
Thanks in advance .
Hitesh Mehta

Dear Hitesh,
As I understand your question, you want to fill one variable by using another. You can do this using a customer exit variable. Lets say you have a variable (V1) created on 0CALDAY and this is displayed to the user for manual entry. Uing this you can fill another variable (V2) created on say 0PSTNG_DATE.
You can try creating a replacement path variable V2 on 0PSTNG_DATE and try filling it with V1. However, I am not sure whether this will work in 3.5.
Alterntively you can create a customer exit variable V2 on 0PSTNG_DATE and fill it using V1. You can use the following code in CMOD:
DATA: LOC_VAR_RANGE TYPE RRRANGEEXIT.
DATA: L_S_RANGE TYPE RSR_S_RANGESID.
WHEN 'V2'.
IF I_STEP = 2.
LOOP AT I_T_VAR_RANGE INTO LOC_VAR_RANGE WHERE VNAM = 'V1'.
    CLEAR L_S_RANGE.
    L_S_RANGE-LOW = LOC_VAR_RANGE-LOW.
    L_S_RANGE-SIGN = 'I'.
    L_S_RANGE-OPT = 'EQ'.
    APPEND L_S_RANGE TO E_T_RANGE.
    EXIT.
ENDLOOP.
ENDIF.
Regards,
Prem.

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Figure 1
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Figure 2
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