Define Desname for PDF in Oracle Application

[Chiere]

We are running Oracle Applications 11i, 8i database on a Unix box and use windows 2000, internet explorer, acrobat 6.0 to run, and view the reports.

I just finished redesigning a Oracle report to output to PDF instead of printing on a preprinted form.

The user has requested that the output file (Report) be saved to a specific directory on a server that is on the windows platform.

The report is being run from the concurrent manager inside of Oracle Applications, which seems to be over writing my desname that is specified in my report (rdf). Our current workaround is that the user opens the file in acrobat and save it to the desired directory, which they have to set manually for each session.

Is there a way to run a report on UNIX and output the report to a windows directory?

Thanks in advance... Chiere

 

[smart99]

Is the data to be printed is stored as blobs? If not why not use Utl_file to print data into files that can be stored in the windows directory Instead of reports.

If you just want the data in the fileformats you can use the UTL_file pacakage.