Hi Gurus,
We just noticed that the Report to Report Interface (RRI) functionality seems to behave differently between BEx and WAD. Our environment is 7.3 SP8, with the latest BI Java patches applied (9.30).
For instance, when we jump from our source report (WAD 7.x) to our target query, we get the following error messages when done on our entreprise portal:
- Characteristic [whatever characteristic] has no master data for "[whatever value]" or you do not have authorization.
- All selections for characteristic [whatever characteristic] are invalid and have been discarded
As a result, the query displays no result on the portal. It only shows "Could not find any data to display. This might be due to the current selection of variable or filter values".
However, when the exact same actions are performed in Bex (via MS Excel) with the same reports, same selections and ran with the same users on the same machine, the results are properly displayed. 
This different behaviour is not described in OSS Note 1296576 (Different Query Behaviour: ABAP – Java) nor in any other OSS note I found about RRI functionality.
We already have a Customer message open with SAP and they advised us to apply the latest BI Java patches and OSS Note 1832894, which we did, but the issue is still there.
I checked the SIDs of the characteristics and they of course DO have master data (otherwise they wouldn't be working in BEx) and is confirmed by an RSRV check. It is not a security issue either because we checked with the same users and performed several security traces.
Did someone else come upon this issue?