Launching discoverer reports from portal, limitation..

Hi, I have already discussed this matter via a metalink SR to find that portal cannot launch a discoverer report using discoverer plus, but I have also been referred here by the metalink people so 'product management' can clarify whether the functionality we are seeking is never going to be implemented or if it may be in planning for the near future.
Specifically, the users want to be able to launch the discoverer reports in discoverer plus, through a portal application accessed on their browsers. (instead of discoverer viewer).
Thanks

Actually there is, we just had to work the metalink guys a bit harder. We found this in the Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Configuration
Guide.pdf (as found at http://download.oracle.com/docs/pdf/B13918_03.pdf)
Page 212 of 304:
13.5.3 Example 3: Starting Discoverer Plus
To start Discoverer Plus, connect automatically as jchan to the Sales EUL, open
a worksheet called January Analysis in a workbook called Monthly nalysis, you
might use the following URL:
http://<host.domain>:<port>/discoverer/plus?cn=cf_a156&opendbid=MONTHLY_
ANALYSIS&sheetid=179
So as the documentation claimed it to be a feature, we saught further help as the link structure above didn't quite work for us.
It was assigned to development and a patch was released: Patch# 5403717
Info:
Use a new URL parameter 'workbooksource' after the patch has
been applied.
URL Guide:
http://<server>:<port>/discoverer/plus?cn=< >&opendb=<WokrbookName>&wo
rkbooksource=Database
Hope that helps..

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