'Variable' variable offsets

Experts - Please advise.
My query accepts user entry for a fiscal week range - a from value and a to value. I am currently using a variable with range for this query. Now, the problem is that the user does not want to input the company's fiscal week. Instead, he wants to input just 2 numbers - say n1 and n2. My fiscal week range should then be
(current week - n1) to (current week + n2).
Has anyone done this before - accept 2 numbers (which are not modeled in the info cube) and pass it on to the user exit (or otherwise ?) and calculate the date range. Please advise.

Hello,
sounds interesting... there are more then one possible solution. One way could be to create an info object (num. 2) with master data. There you can store your 2-sign week-entries (F4-selektion on masterdata). Then include this object into the cube (without filling/mapping them). Within your query you can create a selection on this object. Create a exit-variable on the fiscal-week-objekt.
Within the Bex-exit you have the possibility (within STEP 2) do read the entries from the selektion of the first object. With this entries you could fill (and modify) your fiscal-week-object.
Bye, Joerg
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take an e.g.
u have characteristic say ch1
u want to restrict it with replacement path variable
first of all create a variable var1
click what it is based upon for e.g. 0calday, 0material etc.
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Hi Arun:
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Hi Aline,
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VC

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Richard

Use an interval which says:
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Can anyone provide me any system variable which will provide me the current offset of line from top of page (either in cms or in line count).
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Use SY-LISEL,
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Dear gurus,
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Best regards,
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Hi,
I have a query in which I use av variable (0CWEEK) for the current week. The query works fine with this varable. But when I use an offset of for example minus 1, the query displays an error:
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When I use the text variables, the values for selection month and prior month show the selection month only
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Param :
Yes, i think maybe it´s an sp issue. Try with 11 level, and see this link with the detail of sp and his corrections :
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Hi Honar,
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