WebI document output

Hi
I have a question.
Whenevr a WebI document is refreshed or run manually in InfoView, and saved on the repository, is there a way to get the output file from the server?
Does BO save a copy of the file anywhere on server?
I dont want to schedule the report ans store the output/mail the output. This is a report with prompts and the user needs to change the values each time he/she runs the report and thus cannot be scheduled.
This has to be on a manual basis.
Please help. Please let me know if the question is unclear.
Thanks in advance.

Thank you Kuldeep for your response.
But i guess this is not exactly what i am looking for.
The scenario is, the user needs to inout the values for prompts, which you rightly said can be achieved via refresh on open option.
Now after this report is saved, there can be 2 options, either just save it to repository(which would save the structure and the last refreshed report output). Or save it to the computer as a local copy(xls or pdf).
We actually want to use this file as a parameter file for an ETL process and thus dont want it to save to personal computer as a lcoal copy.
I want to know if the last refreshed report is saved somewhere on the BO server, or if it can be saved to some location? And what format would this report be in? So that the output file can be taken from server and used as a parameter file for an ETL run.
Thanks again

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