Delievers and IBOTs

Hi,
I can see you can create an IBOT to schedule the auto running of a report and email out but can you set an IBOT up to auto run the report and save the output as xls to a network windows drive, I can't see any where to do this ?
Thanks

hi,
the below link should guide you :
http://www.oracle.com/technology/obe/obe_bi/bi_ee_1013/delivers/delivers.htm
cheers,
vineeth

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Hi,
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