# Reporting Save File Action not executing and saving to the specified folder

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** vision, ignition80\
**Created:** [March 31, 2022, 3:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reporting-save-file-action-not-executing-and-saving-to-the-specified-folder/57879 "2022-03-31T15:16:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reporting-save-file-action-not-executing-and-saving-to-the-specified-folder/57879/6 "2022-04-04T15:40:19Z")

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For use with Vision, I recommend using a scheduled script to save the report bytes into a blob column in your database. Then you can query for that and load the bytes into Vision's PDF Viewer. (The report viewer re-runs the report, which it seems you don't want.)

If you are planning to switch to Perspective, it is a bit more trouble, as Perspective needs a URL to view saved PDFs. Help for that is in alpha:

> [@Automation Professionals' Blob Server Module](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/automation-professionals-blob-server-module/57970):
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> Automation Professionals is pleased to announce an alpha release of its new Blob Server Module. Available only for Ignition v8.1, here. The Blob Server Module provides a simple way to deliver images, PDF files, or other binary content from a database to your Perspective clients or other web applications. Without needing the WebDev module. All you need is a Named Query that has appropriate security settings and returns a single row with two columns: Content, and ContentType. Modest documentati…

{ / shameless self-promotion }

If you must use network file services, you should follow this documentation to set it up for Windows:

[https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Mapping+a+Network+Drive](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Mapping+a+Network+Drive)

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