CR with Weighted Averages into Live Office

hello all,
has anyone got weighted average summaries working in live office. it works for me fine in CR, just does not come out in LO when i load the CR. the records are present with a blank/null in the field where it should be. CR runs fine, and it's latest instance can be viewed with the data in it. so how comes LO cannot see the data.
i know there is an FP3 or something out, but not sure if it will fix this. i am reluctant to run the FP due to the lack of SAP support.
if there is someone that has done this and can show me how, that would be a great help.
thanks
g

Hi,
Some additional info: It seems .unx is not fully supported with LiveOffice 4.0 - an enhancement has been registered on Ideas Place: https://cw.sdn.sap.com/cw/ideas/3578
I have also seen it that WEBI on BICS never pulls the prompts (SAP Variables) through into Live Office. There is a documentation fix in process to explicitly mention this limitation.
Regards,
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