Restricted KeyDate and Text in Variable Screen

Hi Experts,
I have a query displaying a hierarchy. The KeyDate for the Query is used as Date in the hierarchy as well, so I can choose the according hierarchy to the date. Works fine sofar.
Now I want no keydate to be displayed, but a kind of fiscal year, and moreover, only the fiscal years to be selected.
I thought of an customer exit, but this does not work for the hierarchy selection in the variable screen. Modeling an Infoobject of type date does not work as well, as it is only a reference to 0date. Setting default values does not work either.
I now thought of an replace ment part, but I guess, I'll have the same problem, as with the customer exit.
Do you have any ideas how to customize the keydate, so a customer can choose it context wise?
Plan B would be taking the hierarchy into the webtemplate.
thanks in advance,
Dominik

Hi Dominik,
Try using Customer Exit variable with User Input enabled, so that you can populate default value if required and as the variable will be displayed on selection screen you can work on the input value given by user as well.
Regards,
Durgesh.

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