APEX integration with BI Publisher

I am attempting to integrate our APEX applications to BI Publisher and replace our Oracle Reports.
We are using
APEX 4.0 .2.00.07
BI Publisher Release 10.1.3.4
IE 7.0.5730.13
I setup a simple report query in APEX shared components. The report query has only one source query. I pressed the test report button and the default BIP report came up successfully.
I then created an rtf document using Word 2003 and the BIP plug-ins. All I did was create two fields on the rtf and saved the report on my desktop as a .rtf.
I then created a report layout in APEX and imported the .rft report layout successfully.
I pointed my report query to the new .rtf layout and pressed the test report button and it work successfully.
I then created a button as “redirect to URL’ on an APEX page and created the http: url with the suggested print URL in the report query.
I ran my APEX application and went to the page with the report button. I clicked the button and the report came up fine.
I had another colleague sign into the APEX application and when he pressed the report button on the page all he got was a black browser window. We tested with other colleagues and got mixed results. Some got the report to appear others just a blank page.
We tried the query in both inline and attachment view with the same results.
What was interesting is that everyone was able to run the report within the report query clicking the “Test Report” button.
We are out of ideas on how to resolve this issue.
Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Frank

Frank,
I had the exact problem when I uploaded and replaced (with the same name) an existing rtf template.
Try the following:
Rename the template and generate a new url to use in the button click.
HTH
Pradeep

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