Opening a subreport from main report using HTML anchor

Kirandeep

I am in the process of integrating BIRT report generation to a web client on Seam/JSF. I am using the Jsf4Birt library for this purpose. To generate a single report on an html page works fine.

However, we have a requirement to open a 'sub-report' from a main report in the modal window through a hyper link. We have researched drill through reports, which do not work in the context of our web application as the URL of the drilldown report uses the "run" servlet which does not integrate with the Jsf4Birt framework. (this is because the generation of the report must go through the JSF lifecycle).

We aim to make use of dynamically loading <iframes/> with the sub-report report rather than using drill down reports. The hyperlink itself would be a regular html anchor embedded/hardcoded in the BIRT report. Do you have an idea about achieving this in a better way?