How To Fix WXP178 - Different period/fiscal year variants used in source and target steps

WXP178 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: WXP - Retail Planning

• Message number: 178

• Message text: Different period/fiscal year variants used in source and target steps

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  Certainly! Here's a detailed explanation for the SAP error message WXP178: Different period/fiscal year variants used in source and target steps:
  
  Error Message
  WXP178: Different period/fiscal year variants used in source and target steps
  
  Cause
  This error occurs during a data transfer process in SAP BW (Business Warehouse), specifically when you are trying to transfer data between two process chains or data targets (like InfoCubes, DataStore Objects, etc.) that have different period or fiscal year variants defined in their time characteristics.
  
  The source object (e.g., an InfoCube or DataStore Object) uses one fiscal year variant (e.g., 0001).
  The target object uses a different fiscal year variant (e.g., 0002).
  Since fiscal year variants define how fiscal periods and years are structured (number of periods, start/end dates, special periods), SAP requires that the source and target objects involved in a data transfer have matching fiscal year variants for time characteristics.
  
  
  When does it happen?
  
  During data activation or data transfer in