Can a BIP report be deliveredto local or network file system

We have OBIEE 10.1.3.4 installed on Linux Redhat 5.2. We have some reports on BI Publisher and want to save the report to a local or network file system. Not sure if it is possible as save to file system is no list as an option in BIP Admin Delivery list.
Please help!

Thank you for help. But is it a way to save the whole report to one file instead split it according to a key.
One way I can think of is to create a dummy key of a single value. Is there a BIP built-in way doing this?

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BIP report security from Dashboard to Publisher is not working
Posted: Jan 10, 2011 11:38 AM Reply
Hi ,
Hi ,
I created a BIP report(.xdo) and placed it on Dashboard as a link . As admin , I can see the report . As a user , I am able to get into publisher but not able to see the report . Iam getting the below error message .
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