Use BEx variable for user input data, not to filter.

Hi,
I have a situation where I am displaying notification task data. Each header notif has a number of tasks. These tasks are marked either newest, oldest or no mark (in the middle) for each different task code.
Using VKF's and by passing the user entered variables for newest and oldest I am able to make KF calculations.
So if I have a notif that is like this:
Notif XYZ
Task 1 Code: SCM     Date: 1/1/2000
Task 2 Code: SCM     Date: 1/4/2000
Task 3 Code: SCK     Date: 1/10/2000
If the user selects Newest = SCM and Oldest = SCK
The key figure would use those 2 different notif tasks to calculate.
This works fine.
My problem now is that since the data is displayed at the line level. When the user enteres his choices for task code, BEx will filter to find one single task item that has both the Newest and Oldest values that the user entered. It will return no data.
Example:
NOTIF    TASK      NEWEST     OLDEST
XYZ.........1.......SCM
XYZ.........3..................SCK
If user enteres Newest = SCM and OLDEST = SCK
It will look for one line with both value, returning nothing.
So, I want to simply use the BEx selection screen to pass values to my virtual code (which I already have working)- but I do not want the report to filter on a notification that only has both values as OLDEST and NEWEST tasks.
Is this possible? To deactivate the BEx filtering for two infoobjects thus only passing the user entered values to my CMOD code?
Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Brandon

Hi Prakash,
Can you explain what you mean? I know using a text variable would allow me to take the user entry and apply it to the header of a column... but how would it disable filtering on what was entered?
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