Broadcasting a Excel Workbook with additional drilldowns

I am trying to broadcast a Bex Excel Workbook by drilling down on couple of characteristics. The Underlying workbook has already been set NOT to refer to the Queries Global Definition.
So my problem is that when I broadcast this workbook after drilling down on the additional characteristics, it does not send it in the way I wanted, but it sends the workbook with whatever has been defined in the Bex Query (which is with no additional drilldowns).
I would like to know if there is way to add more drilldowns in the workbook and then distribute that workbook to the end users.

No we don't want to save the workbook, becuase this is for the end user who wants to add a drilldown and then would like to send the output to his/her own email. Basically end user should be able to add drilldowns to the workbook in the way he wants and wants to schedule the workbook in background using Broadcasting.

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