Deliver IBOTS to Dashboard page instead of Alert

Hi Friends,
Can we deliver IBOT reports to Dashboard instead of Alerts.
Reason - We are creating report by using Direct Database Connection and that report hasto run everyday morning and display report out as message on the Dashboard home page.
Let me know your thoughts..
Thanks in Advance.

Why don't you just put the report itself in the dashboard? You can use the iBot simply to seed the cache. I presume that is why you have the iBot running the report. Schedule the iBot to run earlier than when your users would normally access the database in the morning without having it appear as an alert in the dashboard. The report would then be ready when the users log on.

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