Found erroneous expression <> in SAP BODS Designer [SOLVED]

Issue: SAP BODS shows no error on validation, but comes up with this 'Found erroneous expression <> ' error at times. 

Found erroneous expression error in SAP Data Services Designer

Cause:  This is because your workflow, or dataflow might not have proper calls to variables/parameters that are being used. The variables may not be properly referenced. The value of the parameter probably is not being passed from the parent object(job,workflow) to the child object(workflow, dataflow). 

Resolution: Check for parameters used and whether they are correctly being referenced from the child object. Solved the problem for me.  

References

1. http://www.forumtopics.com/busobj/viewtopic.php?p=1036501