Link from report to a file in a folder

i have a situation as follows :
i have a customers file and each customer has a agreement. what i want is a oracle portal report that has a link to the agreement (agreement is a pdf file), such that, when i run the report and click a particular column it opens up the agreement.
the only problem is that the link need to be dynamic meaning, if the user clicks customer id 10 it should open a agreement for cutomer 10. if the user clicks customer id 20 it should open a agreement for customer 20 and so on.
is there any way of achieving dynamic links to the items in site from the components.
ideas anyone ... ?
any help would be greatly appreciated ...

thanks all of you,
I don't went to save the file manually.
I only want to a function just like archiving function which can save file in background job.
I can develop a program to save a report as file in background job,but I have to develop a program for every report,I want to know is there any standard function for it, just like throwing the report to spool.

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bogdom and gaben,
I belong to your club too it seems. Though in my case the compilation was required on each database. Report used to work in the only that database in which they were compiled. Connecting to other database used to give this string error. Moreover this problem existed only for those reports in which i had used PL/SQL code in the formula columns. One way to avoid this is by writing all PL/SQL code in a library and call it in the formula column calculations.
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