diff --git a/xdoc/plugin.jelly b/xdoc/plugin.jelly
index d84c0f15..0403d87b 100644
--- a/xdoc/plugin.jelly
+++ b/xdoc/plugin.jelly
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@
           ${report.put('pluginName', pluginName)}
           ${report.put('description', description)}
           ${report.put('link', link)}
+          ${report.put('externalLink', externalLink)}
           ${report.put('target', target)}
           ${reports.add(report)}
         </j:set>
diff --git a/xdoc/src/plugin-resources/navigation.jelly b/xdoc/src/plugin-resources/navigation.jelly
index 327c9cd9..a162aeab 100644
--- a/xdoc/src/plugin-resources/navigation.jelly
+++ b/xdoc/src/plugin-resources/navigation.jelly
@@ -53,9 +53,13 @@
             <item name="Project Reports" href="/maven-reports.html" collapse="true">
               <j:forEach var="report" items="${reports}">
                   <j:set var="link" value="${report.link}"/>
+                  <j:set var="externalLink" value="${report.externalLink}"/>
                   <j:if test="${!empty(link)}">
                     <item name="${report.name}" href="/${report.link}.html" target="${report.target}"/>
                   </j:if>
+                  <j:if test="${empty(link) and !empty(externalLink)}">
+                    <item name="${report.name}" href="${report.externalLink}" target="${report.target}"/>
+                  </j:if>
               </j:forEach>
             </item>
             <j:set var="devProcess" value="false"/>
@@ -76,4 +80,4 @@
       </body>
     </project>
 
-</j:whitespace>
\ No newline at end of file
+</j:whitespace>
diff --git a/xdoc/src/plugin-resources/templates/maven-reports.xml b/xdoc/src/plugin-resources/templates/maven-reports.xml
index 48e38764..5a1c6dd0 100644
--- a/xdoc/src/plugin-resources/templates/maven-reports.xml
+++ b/xdoc/src/plugin-resources/templates/maven-reports.xml
@@ -47,6 +47,16 @@
               <td>$report.description</td>
             </tr>
             #end
+            #if ($report.externalLink && $report.externalLink.length() != 0)
+            <tr>
+              #if($report.target && $report.target.length() != 0)
+              <td><a href="${report.externalLink}" class="externalLink" target="${report.target}">$report.name</a></td>
+              #else
+              <td><a href="${report.externalLink}" class="externalLink">$report.name</a></td>
+              #end
+              <td>$report.description</td>
+            </tr>
+            #end
           #end
         </table>
       </subsection>
diff --git a/xdoc/xdocs/changes.xml b/xdoc/xdocs/changes.xml
index c87b1e65..7869dbe8 100644
--- a/xdoc/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/xdoc/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
   </properties>
   <body>
     <release version="1.8-SNAPSHOT" date="in CVS">
+      <action dev="brett" type="add">Add an externalLink attribute to a report to use if link is not present</action>
       <action dev="vmassol" type="add">
         Added a link to the release notes in the download report. Note that this
         link is only created if the project has a <code>xdocs/changes.xml</code>