SSO Username shows up as NULL when scheduling a report

Hi,
I have Enterprise BIP with SSO integration. When I schedule a report I call a pre-report trigger that gets the SSO username, and then uses that to set up a VPD context:
v_ssouser := SYS_CONTEXT('USERENV','CLIENT_IDENTIFIER');
vpd.set_user (v_ssouser);
However, the CLIENT_IDENTIFIER value is always NULL (as is GLOBAL_UID and ENTERPRISE IDENTITY). Is there another way to get at the SSO Username when I schedule a report in BIP?
Thanks
Phil

Found this in another forum question.
Apparently, you use
Select :xdo_user_name from dual to get the sso username.
You can pass it into a procedure as a parameter in the dataTemplate in BIP.
<parameters>
<parameter="xdo_user_name"/>
</parameters>
(Why doesn't BIP use the standard mechanism though?!)

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