Multiple subject areas within publisher & drill downs

Hi ,
can we pull data from multiple subject areas within publisher and place the report on a dashboard and still do drill downs?
Thanks in advance.

Thanks for your reply,
I could not see any provision to get data from multiple subject areas.
In BI Answers we can get data from multiple subject Areas but we cannot do the drill down.
If there is any way to get data from multiple subject areas and still do the drill down then plz increase my knowledge repository....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks,

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