Multiple List Builder and Query As A Web Service Problems

Hi All,
I quickly became aware that trying to pass multiple parameters to "Query As A Web Service" from a "List Builder" object in Xcelsius was not a simple task to acheive after reading this post here :-
Query as a Web Service and In List
I followed the advice that David Brunner suggested towards the end of the thread about creating a "BI Service" by publishing a block from a Webi Rich Client report.
I then referenced the newly created "BI Service" by using it's WDSL URL through the Xcelsius Data Manager - Query As A Web Service connection.
Everything appeared to work fine (e.g. Did my selections from the last builder and got refreshed/changed figures in my Spreadsheet Table object in the Dashboard) until I realised figures in my dashboard were not reconcilling and appeared much lower than expected.
After monitoring what was happening traffic wise with "Fiddler 2" I discovered that Xcelsius was only passing the first entry in each of the selected values for the list builder even though a range of cells (e.g Month_Year!$a$2:$a$13) was specified to be passed as an input parameter to the BI Service (confirmed through viewing the Input/Output XML being sent).
I even tried specifying the multiple values in the different suggested ways that David Brunner advised such as a semi colon delimited list (e.g. Miami;Boston;Chicago) but this didn't appear to be working either.
Can anyone suggest what I may be doing wrong here? Why is only the first value being passed?
I am using Xcelsius Enterprise 2008 SP3.
Many Thanks,
Gary
Edited by: Gary Scott on Dec 1, 2010 3:49 PM

Hi Gary,
I have the same problem. Have you found any solution?
Thanks.
EZ

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