Dashboard prompts for passing parameters to BIP reports

We have BIP reports that we want to display on a dashboard.
These reports are driven by parameters, which we need to display on the dashboard.
From what I understand from the documentation, Dashboard prompts can be used for that with the presentation variable having the same name as the BIP variable.
however, i am not able to get this to work.
Our reports are not using any subject area and are BIP reports based on SQL query data sets.
Our parameter is also based on a SQL query.
Has anyone done this before? Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks
-anupma

Check this
https://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher/entry/running_bip_reports_in_biee_wi

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