Conditional Display in reports doesnot seems to work

hi ,
I tried to set conditinal display in a report to a pl/sql expression and it didnt work.
in order to check if conditinal display works I tried to set it to never, and it is still displayed . I'm using Apex 2.0
Please help
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The report is based on my own report template and using links
a basic report does work with conditinal displau
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