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Hey there,

You can use some jquery to do this.

If you have a URL that defines the content that you want to add (which is quite likely if it is a civicrm page) you can use something like

jQuery(document).ready(function(
    jQuery('#block_id').load('the_url);
});
If you are defining this block programmatically, your block view function would look something like this

function modulename_blockname_block(){
    drupal_add_js(drupal_get_path('module', modulename').'/js/yourfile.js');
    return '<p>The following div has some civicrm content in it</p><div id="block_id"></div>';
}
otherwise i guess you can allow js in your blocks input filter and just add it through the UI.  you might want to use CiviCRM's input filter for drupal for extra magic as well.

In terms of what URL to use...

http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/report/instance/1?force=1&snippet=1&section=2 is the results of report instance 1

and http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/contact/view/rel?reset=1&snippet=1&cid=10 is the relationships for the contact with id 10.

The snippet parameter is great for getting rid of all the extra stuff around the content that you are not interested in (that is normally useful to see all this since you want to see it in the page).

For reports the section parameter allows you to hide different sections like the report criteria which is quite handy.

An easy way to find the URL of the page that you want, especially if this is not visible in the URL (for example, when stuff gets loaded in a contact tab) is to open firebug or similar and look at the console which should display the URLs.

That should get your started!

Thanks, Michael. that's very helpful!