Scheduling Reports to FTP

Hi,
I have a requirement of scheduling reports to a FTP. I checked venkat's blog he wrote on how to schedule reports to a drive but iam confused how to schedule reports to FTP server. Its possible in bipublisher but iam looking the same to implement in answer's
Thanks,
Phani.

Hi,
Check this....Its in BIP..Might clear you doubts how to implement..http://gerardnico.com/wiki/dat/obiee/delivers_advanced_publication
Regarding deliver dashboards via FTP(No its not possible)...Check this....General OBIEE Questions - Scheduling and Exporting!
Regards,
Srikanth
Edited by: Srikanth Mandadi on Oct 10, 2010 9:17 AM

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Hi Neha,
This error message may occur due to following causes:
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or
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I am trying to send a crystal report to a FTP destination. I have enabled the FTP destination on all servers that have a destination option. I am able to connect to the FTP site manually from the server that is running crystal reports server. However every time I try to run the report in CMC, it fails with the following message:
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Symptom:
Scheduling of the Crystal Report to FTP destination prompts the Error: Connection error, CrystalEnterprise.Ftp: WSA0.
Cause:
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