Time Report variant setup

Question

Hi Experts,
Need help on dynamic variant setup for a custom program, which creates cost objects in custom table for Time writing purposes. Everything works fine The batch is setup with 03:00AM and 03:00PM  twice daily, I need support on variant setup with below requirement.
1) New cost object created during the day  (from 3:01 am - to : 15:00 pm)  will be picked thru batch job which runs at 15:00PM
2) New cost object created after 15:01pm to next day 02:59am to be picked thru batch job which runs at 03:00AM
And the cost object should not be imported twice with two batch jobs,  which created on the same day. The existing variants does the same (sending multiple times)
"D" - Date -1 , Date -0 (work days)   , Please tell me what has to be changed.
Thanks ~ Priya

Answer 1

A bit impossible to answer without knowing what your selection screen looks like, or what abap code you are using in your program.
If you have the begin and end time fields on your selection screen, then you can simply save these as part of the variant and have 2 different batch jobs i.e. one that runs earlier using variant 1, and the other batch job (with a different name) running later with variant 2.
If you don't want the same cost object selected twice I don't think you can do this in your variant, somehow this will have to be part of the program code in my opinion.