Variable - select YY in MM-YY

Question

Hi
I have a report to do, with differents ratios. I would like their name to be variable.
So I use variable caracteristics witch allows to have title like 'Advertising budget 2005' rather than 'Advertising budget N'.
But sometimes, the user has to select an accounting period instead of a year. In this case, I can't have the year to put in my title. so I use the variable 'year calculed from the period', named ANNEECAL. but when I put in my title and I run the Query Designer, an error message says that that variable doesn't exists.
WHY?
Thanks
PS : i did not create the variable; the previous developer did.
Do you think there is a pb with it and that I should create a new one?
In that case can you help me?
because I search on help.sap.com : I think that I should create a variable wizard but I can't arrive to link a query to the variable I create.

Answer 1

try by Creating  a new text variable.
The upper part of the screen contains a text field in which you enter a description of the calculated key figure/Restricted KeyFigure.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/85/e0c73cccbdd45be10000000a114084/content.htm
If you want to use a new text variable, place the cursor at the required position in the text...(in u r case it is 'Advertising Budget'... )
remove the already existing 'text variable' from here.
Click on 'select text variables' icon (which is just next to description  block of u r RKF/CKF)...go with 'new' .choose processing type as 'replacement path'....and 'replace variables with' as 'key'.
now u r description lokks like "'Advertising Budget NEW TEXT VARIABLE".
hope this helps
regards
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