Can I precalculate a BEx query and email the results as an attachment?

We are on BW 3.5, currently pulling data from R/3 4.6C (but upgrading to ECC 6.0 in mid-July). I have been successful (once, once I was able to talk my email administrator into letting a .js file through) in sending an email, but the results are in HTML in the body of the email. I need to send the results as an Excel spreadsheet attachment. From all of the SAP documentation I've read, it seems this should be possible, but I haven't been able to make it happen. It seems to ignore the setting in the Broadcast scheduling screen. I've tried it with both "Execute" and time-based scheduling.
Many thanks for any documentation, pointers, or magic tricks.

Hi,
This can be done via Information Broadcasting.
Pls check
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/a5/359840dfa5a160e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
For Bi 7
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/a5/359840dfa5a160e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
Eddy
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