Text variables in query not taken over into univers

Dear all,
We are working with text variables in our SAP BI queries ( &ZVAR001& ) for example, which are translated to 01.2008 02.2008 etc at query execution time.
When we build the BO Univers on top of such query, the text variables are not dynamically filled, but BO takes the variable name as value...
We are using BI 7 & XI 3.1
Did anyone had similar experience and/or solutions ? This is quite an annoying lack.
Thanks in advance,
Stefaan.

Hello Ingo
The most commonly used structure I have come across, is a structure where you have YTD, MTD last year etc. values.
As far as I can judge such structures or calculations are not very easily done in Webi (But I may be wrong here), hence the customer will want to use the structure. But it is quite tiresome to have to redo all headers of the structure.
But assuming I do the headers in Webi, I will need to obtain the value of the prompt answers. But so far I have not been able to get the value of a prompt answer using UserResponse() (when the prompt is auto-generated based on a BW variable). See also this thread:
Using UserResponse on BW originating prompts
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