Broadcasting Workbook as Email

When I broadcast a workbook using a precalc sever and send it as an attachment the user cannot run the workbook even though they have the latest version of the bex frontend installed. When the user clicks on a drill down hierarchy it gives a message "the file could be accessed".
The bex menu it is missing from the excel menu.
According to the SAP documentation this is suppose to open and prompt you to login if you have the bex frontend loaded.
Any help would be greatly appreciated and rewarded with points.
Thanks
Richard

I've been reading threads on this forum and I think the message may be related to the hierarchy drill down icon ?
Also, once I start the analyzer I can refresh the query if I don't click on the hierarchy icon.
Any suggestions ?
Thanks
Richard

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