Opendocument URL with range parameter

Hi, we are running BO XI R2 with SP5 and have been recommended to switch from the older viewrpt URL functionality to the opendocument URL functionality due to issues with releasing of BOE sessions.
We have now written some code and are testing out the opendocument URL functionality, but are finding one issue with a range parameter that we cannot get past. Our URL is really quite simple and is built like this:
/businessobjects/enterprise115/InfoView/scripts/opendocument.aspx?sType=rpt&iDocID=23264&sViewer=actx&sRefresh=Y&lsSIndustryCode=&lsRPeriodRange=[12..12]&lsSBU=&token={url encoded token}
No matter how we configure the syntax for the range parameter PeriodRange we are always prompted to enter values for this parameter. The idea is of course that it should take the values we pass (periods 12-12). We have tried all possibilities with URL encoding the parameter value and the various settings for prompting on the parameter in the CMC. Nothing makes any difference. It will always bring up the parameter screen for this one parameter.
According to the opendocument documentation this is the correct syntax so why does it not accept the parameter?
Regards,
Stig Johansen

Thanks for the quick answer. However we could not get this to work.
If we use the 'prompex'-syntax for the parameters it always prompts for these
/businessobjects/enterprise115/InfoView/scripts/opendocument.aspx?sType=rpt&iDocID=23264&sViewer=actx&promptex-BU=*
/businessobjects/enterprise115/InfoView/scripts/opendocument.aspx?sType=rpt&iDocID=23264&sViewer=actx&promptex-BU="*"
and if we use all the same parameters as for viewrpt we just get an error 'Object is required'.
/businessobjects/enterprise115/InfoView/scripts/opendocument.aspx?id=23264&apsauthtype=secWinAD&init=actx:connect&promptOnRefresh=1&promptex-BU="*"
Even if we had gotten it to work this way it would not really resolve the situation. Basing European wide reporting on an unsupported solution would not be a way that we would like to move forward. After all much the reason we were recommended to move to opendocument was that the support for this method should be more comprehensive than for the viewrpt functionality.
Best regards,
Stig

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