Variants Values in BI 7.0 New Reporting Tools

Hello SDN,
We had an OSS Message (204968) to address the issue where we are NOT able to see query "predefined" Variants values in new reporting tools BI 7.0 BEx Analyzer.
SAP support has responded saying they are able to see the Variants values. We've tried again but I still CANNOT see the Variants values, could this be an authorization issue?
If yes, do you know if there are any new authorizations for query components and its access?
Many thanks for any helps and a highest point will be rewarded.
Best regards,
Niki

So as part of your upgrade to 7.0 -
Someone ran RSR_VARIANT_XPRA which converts Basis variants to new BW Variant tables - For use by 3.5 tools.
Table Name                     Short text
RSRVARIANT                     Variant Values
RSRVARIANTDIR                  Directory of Variants for Queries and Selection Objects
RSRVARIANTTXT                  Texts for Variants
RSRVARIANTVIEW                 Variant Header and Texts
Then RSR_MIGRATE_VARIANTS should have been run to convert the converted 3.5 variants to the to the new 7.0 variant tables?
Table Name                     Short text
RSRPARAMETRIZA                 Parametrization for a query, workbook, webapplication, pla
RSRPARAMETRIZAT                Text of parametrizations
I believe by default - all variants get converted as Global.
So if you look at the RSRPARAMETRZA* tables, do you have variants appearing in them or not?

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