Oracle Smart View 11.1.2.5.400 prompt bug still not resolved?

Good morning,
in our company we have OBIEE 11.1.1.7.140715 and we are testing Oracle Smart View 11.1.2.5.400 (Build 376) on Excel 2007 32 bit and Excel 2013 64 bit to allow our final users to work more easily.
Unfortunately almost all of our reports contains prompts and when we try to insert an object in the Excel worksheet we see the error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object” and Excel hangs.
Is there any solution?
Many thanks.

Hi,
Check out the following:
When Attempting to Import a Report, a Pop Up Shows Up in Excel With the Following Error - 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object' (Doc ID 1952856.1)
Noted as:
CAUSE
Caused by code bug introduced in 11.1.1.7.140715 bundle patch. Also occurs in 11.1.1.7.141014.
Duplicated symptoms on 7.140715 and could not on 7.140527.
Bug 19545187 - SMARTVIEW 11.1.2.3 ERROR : OBJECT REFERENCE NOT SET TO THE INSTANCE OF AN OBJECT - duplicate of below
Bug 19682114 - COLUMNFILTERPROMPTDEFN'S LABEL OBJECT IS NULL FOR ALL NEW CREATED REPORTS - internal bug
SOLUTION
Apply Patch 19682114 - COLUMNFILTERPROMPTDEFN'S LABEL OBJECT IS NULL FOR ALL NEW CREATED REPORTS

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