Broadcasting issue- dynamic variables

[Former Member]

Hi,

I have a query that i use for broadcasting. This query has a dynamic logic picking up the current fiscal year and current month and mandatory inputs such as company code, controlling area which are available in the selection screen as shown below:

Now In broadcasting in MHTML format thru Email and also in xls format to portal, when giving the variable assignment- I need to give the inputs for the first 3 rows and i just click ok. But it's not changing dynamically - change comes every month.

I am not saving it as a variant either.. Shouldn't it dynamically change in the variable assignment?

And Do i need to check any option? What are these options in broadcasting used for - Only upon data change, Accessibility?

Please help.

[Former Member]

Thanks for your suggestions.. I shall try using the istep=2 logic..

Regarding testing for broadcasting dynamic values in development.. since the change comes every month... how do i test in broadcasting if i wanna check immediately if this dynamic stuff works?

[former_member199691]

in development system, in customer exit  give some fixed date and brodcast the report.

Now change the fixed date in exit and broadcast againg. This way you can test if broadcast is picking up the value from customer exit or not.

[hendrik_brandes]

Hello Joanne,

if you have build your customer exit, try to encapsulate your calculation logic for example with ABAP Objects as it is described here and use your own testing variant so you can easily test on a development system without influence your productive system.

I would suggest, to make one calculation method and derive a class from you base variable, to test several situations.

Kind regards,

Hendrik

[Former Member]

Thanks Gaurav and Hendrik.