Sub Reports (or similar functionality)

Hello all, new to Oracle BI Publisher but have been using other reporting tools (SSRS, Crystal, Pivot Tables, etc.) for a few years. It seems that there is no way to do a sub report, only a sub template which as far as I can tell only gives me formatting. What i would like to do is the following, it seems that no matter how I try to set it up I can't get it to work. Any help would be appreciated.
I have 3 sets of data, one set is header information (person and expenses), another set is person detail information and the third is expenses detail. I would like to show the header information, then when you click on the person show their details but when you click on the expenses show the detail for that. If I return all data and try to do grouping it seems there is a 7 column grouping limit. Usually I would just display the header report, create a second report for person detail and a third report for expense detail and call these other reports (with appropriate parameters) from the main report. Is this possible? Is it possible to display the secondary reports, maybe within a frame to not lose the current location?
thanks in advance!

Thank you for this information. The first link appears to get me part way there but would require a lot of manual work outside of BI Publisher and then I would have to find a way to hide sections and display them and filter based off a list.
The second link I had come across already but I don't see that in my version of BI Publisher (Trial 11g).
The third link doesn't really apply.
I guess that if there isn't another way I will have to see if I can get the first one to work but that will take an inordinate amount of time to do something that is relatively simple in other reporting platforms. It seems that there should be a simpler way to do this.

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Can anybody help me with crystal report - sub report problem as i am new to crystal report.
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See the developer help files;
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This will definitely work fine as i have done some report in this way.
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/* Applies to: XI
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Hi Guru:
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