Report generation toolkit how to access "title text" 1.1.3

Hi at all,
in LabView 8.5.1 with Report Generation Toolkit 1.1.2 I used the "Generate Report Get Modified Data.vi" and "Generate Report Set Modified Data.vi" to modify the Report Title Text. In the Version 1.1.3 of the toolkit I found no method to access this property.
Is there anybody solved this problem?
Regards,
Nicolas

Mike,
I'm creating HTML reports.
...and I found an unaesthetic solution (thanks to my college):
immediately after I created a new report, I'm searching in while loop for the first report with empty Title Text using HTML Data global.vi (or anything else in the cluster) and the previous HTML Ref-num is the according report. Now I can set the property using HTML Data global.vi again.
I won't suggest this if you're creating reports at more than one place, but in my case I can't get a race condition.
Nicolas

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