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david.gardnerParticipant

asked in Automation

Flow Email Trigger different attachments with same Email Subject

Hi All,I currently have an Email trigger setup in flow however I’m running into the issue where the source email has the same Email Subject for all of its emails. I am currently receiving 2 scheduled emails from the source system which will come through daily in 2 separate emails with different attachments. e.g. Top 20 Regions.xlsx, Daily Occupancy.xlsxI have the download attachments moving to a Folder in Resources.Following the trigger, I have a workspace running however if I use “Source Microsoft Excel File” “email attachment” I have no control over which attachment is occurring due to the above. Any assistance would be very helpfulThanksDave

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14 hours ago

ldreyfussContributor

asked in Automation

ArcGIS Portal writer works in FME Form 2025.1, but fails in Flow 2025.1

I have a workbench that was written in Form 2024.1 that takes data from a file geodatabase, runs a bunch of tests on it, and eventually writes to two Portal feature services. I published the workbench to Form 2024.1 and it worked without issue. When we upgraded to Flow 2025.1, the process stopped working, erroring with “ArcGIS Portal Feature Service Writer: 'addResults' error for a feature in '<feature service name>'. The error code from the server was '10500' and the message was: 'None'”. The workbench still runs successfully in Form 2025.1 with no changes to the data.The Portal writer is set to Use Existing and Insert and Truncate Existing. From other Community posts, it looks like the error I get is usually associated with a schema change, but there hasn’t been one here. Did something else change? We are running Portal 11.3.

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1 day ago

tm7Contributor

asked in Automation

Workbench not doing the same when uploaded to FME FLOW

Hello I have a simple workbench that should export data from and ArcSDE Geodatabase to a local File Geodatabase. I have 2 readers, 1 for a point feature and one for a polyline feature. After the reader I only have a datetime Stamper and an Attribute Manager. These features should be written to a local file geodatabase, so both features in the same file geodatabase. The goal is to run this automated every day, so I used “Fanout Expression” with “Export_@Value(timestamp).gdb” so the exported file geodatabase has the date in the name. If I run this script in FME Workbench it works perfectly fine and I have the 2 features in the same local geodatabase. I uploaded this exact script into FME Flow, configured the connection to the ArcSDE Geodatabase and the desitnation file geodatabase. But now if I run in in FME Flow only the point features get written correctly into the file geodata base, the polyline features not. But there is also no error so I have no idea why. Im a noob so im sure the

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1 day ago

ebygommInfluencer

asked in Automation

Retrieving the published parameters set against a workspace within an automation

Is it possible to retrieve the published parameters set against a workspace within an automation, via the Rest API (v4) or another way?I’ve had a quick look at the FME Flow REST API V4 endpoints but cannot see anything obvious.

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1 day ago

chosbaconContributor

asked in Automation

Issue with Noto Sans Condensed rendering in FME Mapnik Rasterizer

Hello everyone — I’m struggling with the Mapnick rasterizer and would really appreciate some help. I’m using the Mapnick Rasterizer and need to render labels with the Noto Sans Condensed font;I’m attaching screenshots that illustrate the problem: Mapnick outputs configured to use: Noto Sans, Noto Sans Bold, Noto Sans Condensed, Noto Sans Condensed Bold. Mapnick open showing the four font settings for each situation.The result, showing that Noto Sans applies Bold, but Noto Sans Cond does not apply Bold.Noto Sans font configuration — but the Mapnick Rasterizer, although it shows Condensed + Bold in the font styles, does not accept selecting it and always reverts to only Bold.Finally, comparing this image with a label in QGIS — both using Noto Sans Condensed at size 30 — the fonts do not appear to be the same.I need to use Noto Sans with various styles — almost all Condensed, some italic, some bold — but I can’t apply all the styles in Mapnick and the Noto Sans Condensed rendered there d

Modern Authentication with Emailer issues

I'm fairly new to FME and am trying to setup the emailer to use modern authentication as per the article: https://community.safe.com/s/article/How-to-use-Microsoft-Modern-Authentication-with-FME When configuring the web connection, I am successfully able to test the connection to the Azure App. However, when I actually try to email using the transformer, I am getting the following message: <class 'requests.exceptions.HTTPError'>: 404 Client Error: Not Found for url: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/sendMail Any ideas?

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6 days ago

jonas_nelsonEnthusiast

asked in Automation

Validate user uploaded Excel in Flow

I would like to create a Flow app where the user can upload an Excel file for further processing. But I need some help on how to validate it:How do I best make sure that the uploaded file really is an Excel file? How do I validate that the first row contains attribute names and that the first attribute follows a certain name standard (for instance, “Street_Name”)? How do I automatically create attributes for the remainder of the columns? (Some uploaded Excel files might only have “Street_Name”, but other may have columns like “Speed_Limit” or “One_Way” or whatever attribute the user want to keep in the processing.)

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9 days ago

elzbietaContributor

asked in Automation

FeatureWriter and FeatureReader together in fmw

Hi,I wonder if using FeatureWriter and Feature Reader together in a workspace affects how the fmw runs in FmeFlow?My fwm looks like that:When I run the fmw in Fme Form everything works fine. I get the correct fileB.xlsxDepending on the type of service used in FmeFlow, I get different results:Data Download – error: 'E:\FMEFlow_Temp\fmeengines\localhost_Engine1\TempFS_1757066224587_10608\dsR_2_0\FME_22532F00_1757066082752_10608_0'. Error message was 'Permission denied Job Submitter - The result file is correct and saved to the defined path in the Fme Form Data Streaming - Under Uploads there are two folders: FeatureWriter with the fileA.xlsx and XLSXW_1 with the correct result fileB.xlsxI have spoken with our IT department, and it seems that Fme Flow has full permissions to the temporary folder.I would be grateful for any feedbackEla

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9 days ago

virtualcitymattCelebrity

asked in Automation

Securing automations - looking for input/best practice

I’ve been working on a service which is to be triggered by a webhook. The process ends with an email to the initial requester with a link to the data where they can download it from. On of the things I want to include was/is a summary of the request to help the user figure out what it is they requested when they look at the email. But that requires me consuming and then giving back the user their own input. In testing I’ve found that it’s really easy to just inject key words into the request. There are certain key words that just get resolved directly meaning I couldn’t even try and sanitize the request. Is this a lost cause? Has anyone else battled with this?For example if the request was something like { “parameter1”: “{event.id}”}Then {event.id} just gets resolved and if I’ve using “parameter1” in my email then it just gets set out as the event id.

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12 days ago

parke372Contributor

asked in Automation

SQL executor - continue translation without results?

i’m not even sure how to title this - i have a workspace that looks like this: in general, the process is looking at input user parameters from an upstream workspace via FME server automation, the first step is the SQL executor to see if the current date is a holiday, if so, then that dates gets flagged as “Holiday Exception - YES” otherwise i want it to continue to process to the attribute creater that appends some numbers and makes some features from user parameters there is then a series of filters to route the email different places depending on time,day and holiday status, then ultimately they end up at one of the FME automation writers. the SQL exe looks at a table of holiday dates and then uses a tester to see if the current date matches a holiday: the problem i’m having is that if i use a separate SQL reader to check for the holiday, then when holiday = YES i get 2 features that are processed through the filtering when there should only be one. I want to append the attribute “H

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13 days ago

dbannon22Contributor

asked in Automation

Long File Paths - Over 260 characters

After enabling long file paths in all the proper locations there are still long file path restrictions on the FileCopy writer. Am I missing something? I ended up using a PythonCaller to get around this restriction, but thought I would bring up the issue so it can be updated or fixed. Thanks

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19 days ago

dellerbeckContributor

asked in Automation

Automation Parameters are Resetting

If you have an existing automation and need to make a change, you make your changes and publish \\ overwrite in FME Forms. Once you go to the automation and stop it, all parameters are reset to defaults. This happens even to workspaces that were not updated. This has happened the last 2 or 3 releases, currently we are onFME Flow 2023.1Build 23619 - win64

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21 days ago

f.kemminjeContributor

asked in Automation

Emailer Transformer Error in FME Workspace while running fme from "CMD prompt"

Dear Team,I have an Emailer transformer at the end of my FME workspace (FMW file) that is configured to send a completion notification to my Gmail account. However, I am encountering an error when it tries to send the email.I have already updated the Emailer transformer, Python, and other relevant components, but the issue persists. But from desktop it runs perfectly. only when i run from command prompt it gives error.("D:\Program Files\FME2024\fme.exe" D:\fvt2\1_spatial_tables_ver9.fmw )Could someone in the group please help me identify what might be causing the problem?Thank you in advance for your support.Best regards,Farook2025-04-29 05:17:31|1614.6| 0.5|STATS |DateTimeStamper (TeeFactory): Cloned 1 input feature(s) into 1 output feature(s)2025-04-29 05:17:31|1614.6| 0.0|STATS |CRCCalculator_2_Executor (ExecuteFunctionFactory): Executed FME Functions on 1 input feature(s) -- 1 feature(s) completed and 0 feature(s) rejected2025-04-29 05:17:31|1614.6| 0.0|INFORM|Successfully close

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21 days ago

virtualcitymattCelebrity

asked in Automation

Semi-Dynamic Automation - token based authentication

I have set up an automation which is triggered from a webhook.depending on the content of the request it will process different datasets. These different datasets may, in some cases, require the use of a web connection. I thought I’d be able to control the access via the token, however, it seems that the user who triggered the automation is not the one running the workspace and therefore has no bearing over access to a given connection. Any ideas on how I can make it so the token controls the access?I was thinking about instead using a workspace before the automation to list the available connections for that user and then pass that along to the automation.

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22 days ago

francisco_1988Contributor

asked in Automation

Designing Scalable and Flexible Workflows for Shapefile Processing in FME

Olá a todos! Estou procurando informações mais detalhadas sobre espaços de trabalho dinâmicos, mas não encontrei muita documentação detalhada. Estou procurando dicas e práticas recomendadas para criar fluxos de trabalho dinâmicos no FME. Tenho vários Shapefiles, cada um com atributos específicos. Todos eles passam por um processo padrão de limpeza de atributos e validação de geometria. Alguns também exigem processamento personalizado, além das etapas padrão. Estou pensando em começar com o SchemaMapper, já que temos uma planilha interna do Excel que controla o mapeamento de nomes de atributos — acredito que essa seja uma boa prática. Aqui estão minhas principais perguntas: Qual é a melhor maneira de processar um shapefile por vez, executá-lo no fluxo de trabalho padrão e, então, usar um testador para direcioná-lo a um processo específico, se necessário? É recomendável criar uma fila de processamento? Essa é uma prática recomendada? Você recomendaria criar um espaço de trabalho dinâmico

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23 days ago

f.kemminjeContributor

asked in Automation

FME emailer transformer not working in fme.exe(cmd)

I am still facing this error. My Email Transformer is up to date, but the issue persists. When I run the workflow through FME Desktop (Form), it works fine. However, when I run it from the command prompt, the email is not sent and I receive the error log shown below. Could you please clarify why FME uses different Python environments for Desktop (Form) and fme.exe? This inconsistency is causing problems. 2025-08-21 06:23:59|1853.9| 0.0|INFORM|Successfully closed POSTGRES database reader2025-08-21 06:23:59|1853.9| 0.0|STATS |SQLExecutor_5 INITIATOR Splitter (TeeFactory): Cloned 1 input feature(s) into 2 output feature(s)2025-08-21 06:24:02|1854.3| 0.4|ERROR |Message Type: fme::internal::_v0::py::Exception2025-08-21 06:24:02|1854.3| 0.0|ERROR |Python Exception <ModuleNotFoundError>: No module named 'fmepy_emailer'2025-08-21 06:24:02|1854.3| 0.0|FATAL |PythonFactory failed to load python symbol `fmepy_emailer.Emailer'. An outdated FME packaged transformer may be in use. Please

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26 days ago

joyEnthusiast

asked in Automation

When does the License About To Expire trigger, trigger?

Due to the changing license model of SAFE, the license file now needs to be updated every year.In order to not forget that, I am trying to create an Automation that gets triggered by the License About To Expire trigger, but I am not sure when this trigger occurs. Is it one week before or one month?I can’t find anything in the documentation. System Events

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28 days ago

ecxSupporter

asked in Automation

Flow Version Control - How to get all of my workbenches on github?

Hello,I’ve recently turned on Version Control a few days ago and just got around to setting up a Remote Repository (GitHub), I’ve just ‘pushed to remote’ for the first time, and I’ve noticed there are only 3 items on my GitHub repo, while I have 100+ workbenches uploaded.I assume this has just uploaded items which have changed since I turned on Verion Control a few days ago. I was hoping enabling remote repo would push all of my workbenches to github. What is the best way to proceed? I want to get all of the items uploaded to my github repo, not just changes, so I have a backup of all of the items on Flow.Thanks.

FME Server Single Sign-On refuses logins while Active Directory login works fine

Hi, It must be stunningly simple however we miss the clue, but we're trying to get FME Server to accept Single Sign-On logins. We connected to Active Directory, that seems to work nice since we can use a user and password from the domain and log in, that's a success. Mon-13-Nov-2017 04:20:33.924 PM INFORM RequestHandler-Thread 401831 : Accepted new client connection from /127.0.0.1 on port 7,071Mon-13-Nov-2017 04:20:33.926 PM INFORM RequestHandler-Thread 401933 : Successful login by user XX99999However, when we press the Use Windows Credentials the login is denied and fmeserver.log shows this error message:Mon-13-Nov-2017 04:23:22.734 PM INFORM RequestHandler-Thread 401831 : Accepted new client connection from /127.0.0.1 on port 7,071Mon-13-Nov-2017 04:23:22.770 PM INFORM RequestHandler-Thread 408043 : (Single Sign-On) Enabled single sign-on authentication.Mon-13-Nov-2017 04:23:22.770 PM INFORM RequestHandler-Thread 408049 : (Single Sign-On) Using pre-authenticated cre

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1 month ago

mechomicky_bmcdContributor

asked in Automation

Sending an HTTP Response to a Webhook in Automations

Is there any way possible to send an HTTP Response after receiving a webhook trigger in FME Flow Hosted Automations? I am attempting to set up an automation that runs in response to webhooks coming from Monday.com, however before I can start configuring the actual webhooks, monday.com requires verification that I have control of the endpoint. I need to do this by having the platform send a JSON challenge to the endpoint URL, which must then be responded to with an identical JSON POST body. I believe it must also be returned with a status of 200. Documentation on setting up monday.com webhooks here. I have tried to accomplish this by adding a workspace after the webhook trigger to pull the IP address that the challenge request was sent from from the HTTP headers, and then using an HTTPCaller to send a POST request with the JSON challenge body to that IP address, but this is not working - the request just times out.

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1 month ago

ebygommInfluencer

asked in Automation

Trigger automation to run once at a specified time

I want a workspace to run on FME Flow at 11pm with a user initiating it at some point within the working day.Currently thinking of having the workspace run within an automation, which is scheduled to run daily at 11pm. User would enable the automation, workspace would run at 11pm and then trigger a second workspace which makes a http call to stop the automation. So the workspace is only run once and won’t run again until the process is repeated.Any ideas of a better way to do this?

Is it possible to read emails with FME Desktop? We use Outlook (Exchange).

I have an email in Outlook (Exchange) and hope that it is possible to read the emails with FME Desktop. Does anyone now how to do that?Regards,Morten Friis

alsherrenContributor

I have been provided some .raml files, but unclear how I interrogate; can anyone advise?

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1 month ago

suresh007Contributor

asked in Automation

Select a Service grayed out

While trying to create a workspace app , I find ‘Service’ dropdown to be empty (pic2). However, I see ‘Job Submitter’ as service in the published workspace (pic1). May be I am missing something as we just started using FME products. Thanks for your review and input.

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1 month ago

fei2000Contributor

asked in Automation

How to work with Active Periods

I am leaning how to do the engine management in FME Flow 2024 at the moment. I had setup 2 extra queues out of default queue, but I only create 1 active period for one of the queue. Then I found out all jobs within another queue were in “Queued” state. My questions are:Do I have to setup active period to cover all queues? When 1 queue was setup in active period, how does other queue(s) work? What the default behaviour in active period. When the jobs in “Queued” state, can I resume it to run rather than re-submit the job and delete the existing “Queued” job?Thanks,Henry from TfNSW

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1 month ago

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