Reports & Portal integration

Once you have deployed a report as a portlet in Portal, according to this document (http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/cd/A97329_03/bi.902/a92102/pbr_run.htm#1008446) you should be able to schedule it to run regularly, and to push the resulting reports to specific pages.
Has anyone had any luck with this in v2? I have found plenty of documentation on this for v1, but cannot find anything about scheduling reports within v2.
Thank you,
RC

hello,
there was a behaviour regression in 9.0.2 portal that disabled the scheduling capability of reports. this will be fixed in the upcoming release or portal.
regards,
philipp

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Hi
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