Using Discoverer workbooks in JDev.

Hi All,
I have some discoverer workbooks Discoverer 10g R2(10.1.2) , and developed one web application. I want to import the workbook on click of related link from the web page with user defined look and feel. what I mean is the data and all the feature of the workbook (drill down etc )should like as if in discoverer viewer but the look and feel ( header,footer etc.) should as of the web page. Could any body help me out to resolve this.
Thanks in advance,
Ranjeet.

Hi,
I am not aware of this, but this may also b ethe wrong forum for such a question. There is a BI forum you can try
BI Beans
Frank

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