Generate PDF directly to file server

We have a group of BIRT reports that are run twice a year and could generate up to 10,000+ reports in a given run. Our current process is to generate a URL for every 500 reports generated meaning that if 10,000 report are being generated 20 different web browser windows will open with 500 report in each. We are looking for a solution to avoid having multiple browser windows opening in a user's session and are searching for solutions to send the report directly to a file server as opposed to generating in a web browser via URL. We are running BIRT 3.7.1. Has anyone done something similar for high volume reports?

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johnw

If you are using the open source BIRT, there is already a batch file included with the runtime engine called genReport that you can script to do it. If is also possible to write a small Java program to do this, and in the RenderOption class, you provide the output filename to save to.