Architecture

Dear FME community,  we are using a total of three FME licenses in our company. These are concurrent network licences. This means that everybody can use the software who has it locally installed and under the condition that a license is available at this time. Since FME is very popular, the licenses are in good use :)  However, we sometimes have the case that somebody has opend FME Workbench or the Inspector, but he or she is not using it and simply forgot to close the program. In this case, the license is blocked unnecessarily.  Is there a way for an administrator or better for every FME user to detect this "idle time"? I don't mean the time when one is working on a workbench. I have seen something of this kind before where one could see which function/factory was used at a specific time. Perhaps this is already implemented.  Additionaly, one shoould be able to free the license in the case when FME is not used for a specific time. Is there a way to do this?  Kind regards

Does anyone know where I can query with a location to get the local hospitals and other emergency services?  Idealy as a live query rather than downloaded dataset.

Hello,  I have a workspace in which depending on certain conditions I am calling another workspace using python shutdown script. This is my script  if DataType == 'ABCD':    wsr.runWithParameters(current_workspace_dir+"/test1.fmw",{"SourceDataset_GENERIC": FME_MacroValues["Input_FileName"]}) else....  If I run this from desktop works fine. but when I publish it to the server. It gives error in processmonitor log as "No FME Floating Licenses are available.  Contact your distributor to purchase additional licenses."  Other workspaces without chainig works fine. Is this something to do with licensing?  Cheers    

Dear all,  I have a question to the Transformer ArcSDEGridSnapper: http://fmepedia.safe.com/articles/FAQ/What-is-the-ArcSDEGridSnapper  How do I correct configure this transformer. In the Article above there are some picture with values. But they do not match together?  How important are the Parameters Min X, Min Y: Can this value be approximatly fit the values from ArcMap?  My problem is that every feature-class differs slightly, so I need to change the values all the time. Or is there a way to read the values automatically?  Thanks in advance

Hi   I have a fusion table that i need to update base on a certain criteria. Does someone have any suggestions on how to do it.   UPDATE Seminar SET YearOS = 2013 where seminar ='CollectingData';  Base on Google documentaion   UPDATE <table_id> SET <column_name> = <value> {, <column_name> = <value> }* WHERE ROWID = <row_id>  To update values in one or more columns of an existing row in a table, use the following syntax in an HTTP POST request:  

Dear community,  I'm currently using FME 32bit on WIN64 with 16GB. To obtain better performance, I'm thinking on migrating to 64bit FME.  Can I exchange workspaces that were created on a 64bit FME with my colleagues who use 32bit FME? Is it right that the primary disadvantage of FME 64bit is the missing support for ESRI geodatabases compared to FME 32bit?  I read on an other topic that a parallel installation is possible. Are there any side effects by using 32 and 62 bit together on one machine?  Kind regards Thomas

Is there a way to work with Git on the FME Server to easy rollback to another version? On slide 24 is something mentioned: http://de.slideshare.net/SafeSoftware/implementing-a-simple-web-application-with-fme-server "Allows workspaces to be shared with confidence, placed under source control (e.g. Git), and configured externally"  Or what is a good workflow in context with FME Server to not disturb a productive system and develop/change stuff in the workspaces? Is there a tutorial/best practice paper or video? Or what are your experiences? 

Hi! I'm working on an FME Server based Upload Service, that should give feedback to uploaders via e-mail. This works well if the underlying workspace runs successfully, however, if the workspace fails I'm having problems getting FME Server to communicate with the uploader via e-mail. I need to get FME Server to communicate details of the failure (read: log) etc in an e-mail, not to sysadm, but to the 'user' directly. Subscriptions like 'JobSubmitter_Email_JobFailure' only send e-mail to sysadm on failure. Anyone know how to do this?

I have a workbench that contains two FMEServerJobSubmitters which run based on an attribute value. When I run the process within server with the attribute vale of 'X' the correct server workspace runs and finishes successfully. When I use the value 'Y' it gives an error that no FME floating licenses are available.  Processes X and Y are identical, they are taking data from SDE and clipping it to output to shape and dwg, just using different data.  When I run the original workspace from the desktop everything runs successfully.  Why would one part of this process give a license error and not the other part?  I don't have any problems with licenses running any other processes.

Hello,  I'm trying to upgrade to FME Server 2014 by producing a backup in FME Workbench. It fails to read the features when I try to include the scheduled tasks. I've previously noticed that in the web console only 100 of our tasks are displayed and we have nearly 500 setup so I think it might be to do with this. Is there a limit and how do I get round it if there is and do the backup?  Thanks,  Peter.

I received this error when installing FME Desktop 2014 (20140120 - Build 14235 - WIN32) on Windows Server Standard 2008 SP1 (64 bit).  I clicked ok, and the installer finished without any other errors.  FME opens up and seems to be working correctly.  Should I be concerned about this?     I later looked at the system requirements for FME Desktop 2014 and noticed Windows Server 2008 SP2 or above is required.  http://www.safe.com/fme/fme-technology/fme-desktop/tech-specs/ 

I have an attribute "Address" from which I want to flag (and not trim) the left and right (Leading & Trailing) white spaces.  What I want exactly is, a new field is created automatically and if there are any leading and trailing white spaces in the attribute, just put 0s and 1s in that newly created field. Can we do that in FME?  Thank you in advance !

Is there a way in FME Server 2013 to email the entire log of a workspace job?  I setup the notification/topic/subscription to send an email after a job completes, but all the email says is success or failure.  I want the details on what happened right there in the email.  As far as I can tell the only way is to Python shutdown script that runs after the workspace closes.  It would read the logfile for the job, check if there was an error or warning messages, and if so use python smtblib to email the entire contents of the job log to me.  I guess the other benefit of this is I can provide the To: email address as a dynamic parameter of the workspace.  I plan to use the same workspace dynamically for different datasets. Based on which dataset its working on, email that dataset's maintainer directly.   Is there a more straight-forward out of the box approach?  The FMEServerEmailGenerator and FMEServerNotifier seem close, but I'd need the logfile after the workspace completes.  Tha

Hi,  I want to run multiple workspaces in a row on FME Server. I found this example (http://fmepedia.safe.com/articles/How_To/FME-Server-Workflow-Management) and wanted to test it on our FME Server. But it doesn’t work. The child process always starts with the default parameters. It appears that the FMEServerJobSubmitter doesn’t send the parameter to the child process.  Has everyone experience whit the FMEServerJobSubmitter? I run FME Server 2014 build 14234 64bit on Windows Server 2012 R2.  Thomas

Just upgraded from 2011 FME ESRI edition to 2013SP1 x86 ESRI edition build 13450.  Had several workbench scripts that were working fine in the 2011 version, now the 2013 ones won't work. I've got ArcGIS10.0 SP1 installed, Win 7 x64, SDE server reading from is ArcSDE 9.3.1 SP something, writing to ArcSDE 10.1 SP something (no, not every server is the same). When I run the older script, it gives a fatal error of: The error number from ArcObjects is: '-2147220969'. The error message from ArcObjects is: {Must be the owner to perform this operation.} I've changed nothing in the original script, nor have I changed the password or anything on the SDE databases and am using the data owners - as evidenced that I can access them both thru ArcCatalog. Is there something that has changed drastically with the new version and how do I get these to work?  Also, when writing a new script or adding a new writer, it was writing all of the data into new feature datasets rather than in

Transalation using Fme desktop 2012 fails error  - Oracle client libraries could not be loaded. Ensure the client is installed and properly configured. Check the System path Environment Varialble. The Path variable seems to be ok - the Client can connect to the Oracle database - Some issue between the Application and version of Oracle installed.

Hello,  Using the FME Server publishing wizard from FME Workbench, I configured my workspace to run whenever a topic was notified (subscribed to topic).  No errors were generated during completion of the wizard and the FME server web application shows no errors in the configuration of my subscription.  However, the workspace is never run when the topic is notified.  After hours of digging thru the logs, I finally found a warning in the '..\\logs\\notifier\\subscribers\\push\\push_XX.log' file:  WARN     802009     : Invalid target url for push notification: 'https://servername/fmenotification/UtilityStakingOperations/ProcessIncomingUtilityStakingEmails.fmw?opt_servicemode=async  I have no idea what's wrong with this url.  If I paste it directly into a new browser window and log in with the same credentials used in the subscription configuration, the job runs (although it fails as the FME Server Email reader recieves no content) and I can find it int he job history.  Als

Hi ...  How can I check the availablily of an FME license using python?  I want to make sure a license is available before executing a series of arcgis and fme steps.  I think I've seen it somewhere on fmepedia before but I can't find the thread now.  Ken   

Hello,  FME return me this message : Error - Cannot write out a file larger than 4.295GB. Split your data into two or more shape files   My configuration : Microsoft Windows Server 2003 family Standard Edition 64-bit Service Pack 2 (Build 3790)   Version : FME(R) 2013 SP2 (20130605 - Build 13499 - WIN64)  if you have an idea to solve this problem because my project size is more than 25 Gb  jy    

Hi there, I'm wondering to get the output log for the success or failed transaction with my own convention name. How can I afford it?  thanks

Hi,  Does anyone know where i can get a list of fme error codes and reasons for them being raised?  I'm seeing quite a few "231047:Job cancelled." responses, with no obvious reason why, and they don't appear to be user cancelled either.  the job duration of these cancalled jobs appears to be from a few minutes to a few days, but they don't appear to be tying up the engine.  also, if I look in the fmeserver.log the process often looks like it has run and finished in 4 seconds or so, but the record in the db jobs table suggests it ran for a lot longer.  can and do jobs requests get orphaned or something?  Any ideas anyone?  Nick

I have several workspaces that work fine on the desktop version but doesn't work on FME Server mainly due to memory issues. (The Server version is installed on a virtual server with 10GB of RAM and my laptop has 8GB).  This is a huge dissapointment since we have invested in this software to automate our processes and now it seems FME Server is not able to handle the same workspaces that the desktop version does. Has anyone else had the same kind of problems?  Additionally I have run intio character set issues with FME Server that I didn't have on FME desktop.

Hi dears.  There is some documentation with the installation procedure FME Server 2013 for Linux?  Thank in advance.  Kind regards.  Ramon Rocha

When uploading a workspace to FMEServer and adding Resources I want to be able to NOT upload these when uploading another workspace to the same Repository. Ie I have some large LIDAR-files which several workspaces use. However I do not want to upload them once for each workspace. Is this possible?

Hello  FME 2013 was released Jan 15 with Build 13261  Now I find Build 13264 in the download area and FME Pedia  has the info that FME 2013 is Build 13264. see: http://fmepedia.safe.com/articles/FAQ/Build-Numbers-for-FME-Versions  I couldn't find any info about the difference between 13261 and 13264 ?!  We want to build on top of official FME 2013. This confusion is unexpected and not really helpful.  Michael