Audit Data in BI Publisher Standalone

Hi:
I'm trying to audit who/what/when BI reports are run and I've got the BI Publisher user from XDO_USER_NAME but I need to find out what report is being run. I don't know of an existing XDO parameter or anything else that has that. So I'm trying to set it in the .rtf file as a parameter and get that as an argument to a report trigger but it's not working. Assuming I have the parameter defined in the data template, the .rtf and the database package, what's wrong with the following format (or is it just not possible to do what I want to do?)?
Thanks
The parameter in the .rtf file is defined as:
<?param@begin:rpt_name;’”numUnsuccAuthnsDT.rtf”’?>And I see it in the report page by using
Report Name is: <?$rpt_name?>
<dataTrigger name="insertAuditData" source="BI_DataTemplateRT.insertAuditData(:rpt_name)"/>And the BI_DataTemplateRT package has a function:
FUNCTION insertAuditData(rpt_name varchar) RETURN BOOLEAN;

See the following blog posts from Kan:
http://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher/entry/how_to_audit_and_monitor_bi_pu
http://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher/entry/how_to_visualize_your_audit_da
http://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher/entry/11_1_1_5_new

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