Conditional Display in Report Template

Hello!
This is a BI Publisher / Apex question but I'm not sure which forum my question should fall under...thought I'd try this one first. Let me know if I guessed wrong. :)
I have created a report template (Word) and a report query in Apex. Everything works great (meaning the data is displayed as it should), but I can't figure out how to display a header/footer based on a user's response. On my search form, the user selects Yes or No if they want/don't want a header/footer printed on the report. The header/footer is predefined in the main database table, but it's not a field in my report query. How do I incorporate this into my template? It's been a while since I created a template in Apex but I don't think I've come across this issue before.
Any ideas?
Thank you,
Tammy

After a week off, I'm back to tackling this issue. I successfully created a sub-template and it works, except when I try to call the report via APEX. I've searched the forums and came across the "disable external references" set to False, but I'm using the standalone version of BI Publisher so I don't have that option. Is there a similar approach via the standalone version?
Thank you!
Edited by: 73pixieGirl on Feb 15, 2010 9:15 AM

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