VC Variant Configurator SD; changing values by FM 'CUOV* '

Hi everybody,
It appears me some troubles with VC when I try to set value for particular feature again.
I have inconsistency fault when I try to change the value by calling FM 'CUOV_SET_FUNCTION_ARGUMENT' from configuration profile but it was set manually by user first (in standard VC window).
Both values of feature are correct (old and new).
Error looks like :
E: Inconsistent values inferred for characteristic (here is number of characteristic)
and next in details:
The following values are incompatible with each other:
(here is old value)
(here is new value)
Let me also know you, that this inconsistency problem exits in case when I try to overwrite feature value by FM I mentioned, and this value was set manually first only ( VC window)
If I try to owerwrite the feature manually (using the same value) - there is OK.
I suppose, I should in "any way " clear values which was set manually first, or change "something" in SAP Variant Configurator what let me change priority and allows overwrite value by FM which was set first manually ( in VC window) . But I have no idea how to do it...
I will be gratefull for any hints.
Thanks & Regards
Tomas

Standard SAP does not let you overwrite a value that is flagged as "Set by User". We had a similar requirement where we had to force a user-entered value to be deleted and replace it with a calculated value. To get around the issue, we copied the code from FM CUPR_DEL_VAL, which deletes values set by procedure, into our own FM called Z_VC_CUPR_DEL_VAL. In our version of the code we inserted a couple of statemtents that delete both user-entered values and values that were set as a default.
The great part about this mod was that we didn't even have to create our copy of the module inside of the CUPR function group. It worked fine if we just created in one of our custom function groups.
These were the lines we added to the end of the module after we copied:
KNTYPE = 'DI'.
PERFORM DDB_DEL_VALS_BY_KNTYPE(SAPLCUDB) USING INSTANCE ICABN-ATINN
RFLAG KNTYPE RESULT.
KNTYPE = 'SF'.
PERFORM DDB_DEL_VALS_BY_KNTYPE(SAPLCUDB) USING INSTANCE ICABN-ATINN
RFLAG KNTYPE RESULT.

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