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When you use file processing to create an output file (either a snapshot or an export file), you must specify where the file is to be saved. This setting is called Output Folder in the File Processing pane. This setting does not apply if you are only emailing files.
You can use file processing variables or formulas to generate the output folder name (for example, if you are multipass processing and you want to save the file for each pass to a different location). If the specified folder does not already exist, Axiom Software attempts to create it.
The valid entries for the output folder depends on whether Output To is set to Local File System or Axiom Repository:
NOTE: This discussion does not apply to file collect processing, because the output folder settings for file collect are defined on the special File Collect Configuration sheet. For more information, see File Collect Configuration sheet.
Local file system
If you are outputting to your local file system, then the folder location should be entered as a UNC path instead of a mapped drive. If you browse to the folder, it is automatically entered as a UNC path.
You can use a folder on your local drive, but it will only be valid when running file processing interactively from your own computer. If you want to process this file using Scheduler, the output folder should be a shared network drive (or you can override the output folder in the Scheduler task). For cloud systems, a remote data connection is required to save a file locally when processing via Scheduler.
The ability to save files to the specified location and to create new folders (if necessary) depends on the network permissions for the user processing the file. Access to the files after they are created is also dependent on your network permissions.
Axiom repository
The specified location in the Axiom file system must be within the Reports Library, and the location must use the full path (meaning: \Axiom\Reports Library\...). The ability to save files to the specified location and to create new folders (if necessary) depends on the Axiom Software security permissions for the user processing the file. Users can only create new folders if they have read/write permissions to the parent folder, and they can only create new files if they have read/write permissions to the target folder.
Once the files are created within the Axiom file system, access to those files is dependent on the user's permissions to the output folder. Typically you should create the output folder in advance (or if you want to create output folders on-the-fly, create a parent folder to hold the output folders), and then set permissions for that folder as appropriate in Axiom Software security, so that the appropriate users will be able to access the files after they are created.
