CR XI R3: Issue exporting shared variable to Excel - with workaround

Hi,
I have a report that uses a subreport to calculate a field based on the existance (or not) of data in a database other than the main report database. When I use a shared variable to pass this field back to the main report and display it on a detail line (in the main report), it works fine - until I try to export the report to Excel. When exported, the value that gets exported on all detail lines of the report is the final non-blank value of the shared variable, not the value that it contained when the detail line was initially generated. I am using a shared variable because there are multiple values that I want to pass back to the main report.
Luckily, only one of the shared variables are being printed, so the workaround that I am using is to use the subreport to print the field instead of passing the value back in a shared variable and displaying that (and hiding the subreport on a separate format).
Is this a known issue with R3 exporting to Excel? (It was happening in R2 as well...)
HTH,
Carl

Simplified somewhat, what this report is doing is looking up open orders in one database and checking to see if something specific happened to it in another database. If so, it generates the XML that needs to be applied to the first database to update it. The XML references the order number and line number. What I mean is that instead of the data coming out as
Order Line XML Snippet
12345 1234 ...<order>12345</order><line>1234</line><status>received</status>...
22345 2234 ...<order>22345</order><line>2234</line><status>received</status>...
32345 3234 ...<order>32345</order><line>3234</line><status>received</status>...
42345 4234 ...<order>42345</order><line>4234</line><status>received</status>...
I get
Order Line XML Snippet
12345 1234 ...<order>42345</order><line>4234</line><status>received</status>...
22345 2234 ...<order>42345</order><line>4234</line><status>received</status>...
32345 3234 ...<order>42345</order><line>4234</line><status>received</status>...
42345 4234 ...<order>42345</order><line>4234</line><status>received</status>...
I have Base Column Widths on Details, so there should be no merging attempted, but I'll check and make sure.
It seems to me, though, that the DLL is being told the wrong value to export...
Carl

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