Refresh cristal report sending it different parameters

I have Business Objects ENTERPRISE XI R2 installed on Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 4 update 4 and running on Apache Tomcat/5.0.27
Currently we have one Crystal template saved to Enterprise many times with the only difference being the name of the report and one parameter has a different value each time.
This is not ideal, because everytime we need to change something in the template we need to re-save over every report.
Idealy we would like to have one report (the template) saved to Enterprise and be able to execute it passing different parameters. execute from where? I don't really mind, Unix shell command, Java SDK or URL as shown below:
http://<server>:<port>/businessobjects/enterprise115/admin/en/infoobject.cwr
?action=-10005&cmd=run&refresh=r_ins&id=<report id>
I know the Java SDK can do it, but it may be a bit too advanced for me, I can't get a grasp on it.
What can you reccommend?

I'd have to ask you to clarify your requirement further, do you need these instances distributed to different folder locations within Enterprise or do you just want to restrict the content that users see and only run the report once?
The solution I provided will utilise your existing set up i.e. mulitple copies of the same report located in Enterpise however it will give you an easy way to update the report files with any changes you make. Use the enterprise query tool to query the CMS for the FRS location of the reports you wish to modify. Then build a batch file from the results wich will copy your new report over the top of the existing reports using the FRS location returned by the query tool. Note: you will have o modify the FRS location into a UNC path, just replace FRS with the location of your FRS folder.
Depending on exactly what you are trying to do, you may be able to utilise multipass bursting (row level security) to run the report once and then strip out data depending on who is accessing it.
As for links to further information, the original solution is undocumented.

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PS: Sun has blocked my other account as well, and this time they did not even send me an email to confirm that I was registered successfuully :( Is there someone I can contact on this? I guess next time I will reply with tx53m :)

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