Dynamic publishing of crystal report in portal.

Hi All,
My understanding of publishing Crystal Report in portal is using the URL iview, is my understanding correct.
I have checked this in [Integration of BOE XI3.1 into the SAP Enterprise Portal 7.x|http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/IntegrationofBOEXI3.1intotheSAPEnterprisePortal+7.x] wiki
and my question is, when publishing the crystal report from Crystal Report Designer, it is published in BI via the bw publisher and saved under some BW role. Is it possible to display the saved report in portal with out creating the url iview as an object of pcd in portal, i mean the report which is saved under BW role needs to be displayed dynamically in portal with out iview creation. Is this possible.
Can someone comment on this.
Many Thanks,
Ansar

Hi Ansar,
The Crystal reports can be used for publishinh good quality gralha and charts through BW. though making a URL iView is not the only option.
Good examples of Crystal report usage have been explained in the link below:
[Crystal Report with BW|http://www.bi-expertonline.com/article.cfm?id=3666]
Regards,
Shailesh

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