Automation

As per this post last year, Salesforce is retiring the SOAP API login().  Any news from FME on when the Salesforce readers and writers will be updated?  

Hello!We are using Flow FME 2026.1.2. I would like an overview of when most automations trigger. Unfortunately, there isn't much information about it in the documentation, so I did some research and found this post:I tried it and now I'm experiencing some really strange behaviour. Until today, I could run all the API requests I ever needed and get results. I can even run FMEURL/fmeapiv4/schedules?limit=100&offset. What I can’t run is the solution in the thread:FMEURL/fmeapiv4/schedules?limit=100&offset=0&sourceType=automationAs soon as I add 'sourceType' as a parameter, I get the following result:{"message":"Unauthorized request by user USERNAME due to lack of proper permissions or the object does not exist."} Do I need special privileges to use this parameter? Or is it just bugged? Is there a workaround to achieve my goal of creating an overview of automation schedules? Many thanks in advance for your help.Kind regards, Henning

I have an FME Flow 2026.1.1 Automation that runs a series of FME Form workspaces. The 1st workspace grabs data from an AGOL Hosted Feature Service. This automation runs every 30 days. But, every time it runs it gives me an AGOL re-authorization error. Then I need to go into the FME Form workspace and sign back into AGOL and republish to FME Flow. What is the best way to keep signed into AGOL for more than 30 days using FME? is there something I need to do in FME Flow, if so, what? I am the admin of our AGOL account. I know I can use a token, but are these good for more than 30 days or just 2 weeks? It would be nice if could stay signed in a year or longer that way the automation would run without the AGOL re-authorization error. 

Has anyone tested the workaround described here?Workaround for geometry parameter basemap bug | CommunityIt’s changed the basemap against the workspace, and it shows the changed basemap during app creation but when you go to the app itself it shows the original default basemap.

Hey guys, We are on FME Form and Flow 2026. I have a Form which generates an email, and I have a Flow Automation that using the “Resource or Network Directory (updated) delay” trigger my Form.I am facing an issue. The directory that I am watching will always gets update with three different files, this means, my Flow runs my Form three times and three separate emails gets generated with the same content. I am unable to change the directory where files are located, since the files that get generated are from am older system that I can’t touch. Is there anyway to add a delay to the Flow? or to the Form that stop the system from running three times?  Thanks

Hi,I have an automation on FME Flow 2025.1.It is triggered by a webhook I have set up and a JSON payload is sent from an external system. The JSON payload can be up to ~20mb. There is a workspace which writes the payload into an SQL table. Payloads over and under 2mb successfully trigger the automation Payloads under 2mb trigger the workspace successfully. Payloads over 2mb do not trigger the workspace - and the payload seems to get lost between the webhook and workspace I’ve found this article which suggests there is a 2mb limit - but my workflow isn’t specifically ‘Data Streaming’: Data Streaming Cannot Submit a POST Body Larger Than 2 MB – FME Support Center“FME Flow Data Streaming has a built-in limitation on the size of text parameters. Text parameters larger than 2 MB are not supported, which means that any content exceeding this limit is automatically removed from the requestAs a result, the job runs without the expected input, leading to empty responses and {} appearing in the

I created a webhook automation in FME Flow (2025.1.3.3). It is a simple layout the webhook and a action to log a message. I connected this webhook in ArcGIS Portal (11.5) under organization → webhooks → Organization webhooks → For /groups -> linked to the webhook API in FME FLOW. This was all pretty simple and easy to do. I am able to trigger the automation successfully by making changes to a group. The trigger is logged in the _ fmeautomations.log. I can clearly see the successful triggering --(Fri-10-Jul-2026 09:35:24.906 AM | INFORM | pool-6-thread-1 | Automation_Webhook (7d4efa47-4a28-4564-928a-c3744e704560) | no-event | 410160 : (Automations) Automation successfully triggered)However, as shown in this article https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407612807821-Automate-ArcGIS-Enterprise-Portal-Administration-with-Organization-Webhooks-and-FME-FlowThe expected Payload does not follow the “Automation successfully triggered” entry. I can’t find the payload anywhere.Now, when

I want to find the connection attach to the automation in workspace/workflow. I am using {fme_flow_domain}/fmeapiv4/automations/{id}/components this url but I am not able to get the connection and then I check for the dependencies I got something there and then I check for the repository and workspace, but I don’t get exact answer like what id deployment parameter and connection used.

I have an automation that passes a value from one workbench to another.The first workbench reads in a list of lines from one database table, creates a new attribute using one of the attributes and passes that attribute through the output port to a second workbench. The second workbench is used to find the closest features to the input feature.My issue is there is 300,000 records in the table and the process is very slow but since the automation calls a second workbench, I end up with 300,000 queued jobs. So is not only hogging the queue but if it fails for any reason there is a momumentental task to deleted all the queued jobs.Is there a better way for me to do this, either in a single work bench or a setting that grabs the first record, passes that to the second workbench and then when completed gets the next record?    

I have a Flow Automation that is triggered by webhook with various parameters within the URL. I can assign those user parameters from my webhook to my workspace parameters, unless they are Boolean parameters. Those are just shown as tickboxes without being able to getting assigned a user value. Am I missing something?The two Boolean parameters in the green box cannot be assigned a user key value.We’re on FME Flow 2025.1The current workaround seems to be to change the User Parameter type in FME Form(!) from Boolean to Choice

What happened to the “includeAutomations” parameter in the “schedules” endpoint in the REST API? We were using that to pull all Flow scheduled Workspaces and Automations for a report. Has it been replaced with something else?

If an automation is triggered by a schedule, you can obtain the schedule properties via the Schedules list.  https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_REST/apidoc/v3/index.html#!/schedules/list If an automation is triggered by a topic, how do you obtain the name(s) of the topic(s) that trigger that automation?If an automation posts to a topic, how do you obtain the name(s) of the topic(s) that automation posts to?

Can Flow connect to Apache Artemis? We currently have an automation that connects to Apache ActiveMQ and we will be replacing ActiveMQ with Artemis.

How to trigger an FME Flow Automation when a file is uploaded to a GCS bucket?

Hello Everyone, I have an FME Flow 2025.2.4 automation that contains nineteen individual FME Form 2025.2.4  jobs. In addition to those nineteen jobs, I have two separate FME Form jobs that are used only for email notifications. One notification job is intended to run when jobs succeed, and the other is intended to run when jobs fail. Both of these notification jobs contain an FME Form 2025.2.4 Emailer transformer in their build. All nineteen FME jobs in my automation are connected to the Success notification job through their success ports, and those same nineteen FME jobs are connected to the Failure notification job through their failure ports. This wiring ensures that the appropriate notification workflow is triggered depending on the outcome of each job. The goal is not to send an email for every individual job result. Instead, the goal is to send a single consolidated email per outcome type of Succeed and/or Failure. For example, if nine jobs succeed and ten jobs fail during an au

/fmerest/v3/transformations/jobs/completed?limit=1000&offset=0&sourceID=41f3j459-5560-4bb3-90fj-3j2673b2b91f&sourceType=AutomationsThe above V3 rest api call used to include a lot more information about jobs, including job directives/fmeapiv4/jobs?status=success&sourceType=automations&sourceID=41f3j459-5560-4bb3-90fj-3j2673b2b91f&limit=100&offset=0The V4 equivalent above returns far less information, specifically the NM Directives aren’t included. These are included in the /jobs/{id} call but i don’t really want to query each job individually.Does anyone know of anyway to return jobs and their directives (i’m specifically interested in the event id) en masse? 

Hello everyone,I have a question in regards to naming the filename of the datadownload output.I was wondering whether it's possible to change the name instead of having a name such as FME_55460769_1764252272631_14296.zip for example.I found a post with a workaround, but he post is already 7 years old and I don't manage to use the workaround succesfully. Does anyone know if there is a different and easier way to change the name of the zip file?

I have an ArcPy script that works in FME Form but not in FME Flow. Can anyone help me resolve this issue?

Hello all, I have a FME flow web-app (image 1). I am attempting to get a message to the user in certain circumstances via HTML output (image 2), which displays a message via the browser to the user if certain conditions are met, via redirecting the web-app page, e.g. there is an issue with their edits (image 3)image 1image 2image 3, text printed through the browserThis works, sort of. but its not good enough for end users, as the page redirects, but is blank and is stuck in a perpetual loading state. Until the user hits the ‘stop refresh’ (X) on their browser, then the message (image 3) appears.My questions are:How can I make this work without the user having to hit the stop refresh button?Will that page redirect stop the rest of the FME process from running/committing changes? Is there a way to link this to a terminator? if I can terminate the process the perpetual refresh may also stop.   I have the services set up like this:Or, are there any alternative ways to get a message to the

I don’t have a lot of experience in using split merge blocks within an automation and I’m unsure whether this is the expected outcomeExpected behaviour (my view)Workspace 1 triggers workspace 2 a number of times via an automations writer. Workspace 3 doesn’t start until all workspaces within the split merge block have successfully completedObserved behaviourWorkspace 1 fails and triggers workspace 3Does the failure port of workspace 1 need to be connected to the failure port of the split merge block to prevent this? Should a failure within the split merge block lead to a feature appearing from the success port of the split/merge block? FME Flow 2025.2.1

It seems the issue described in the related topic, where the job variables show in the result, instead of the values, has never been resolved. Or the issue has returned in version 2025.2.4.As a workaround I can send an email to a Teams-channel. But I looks a lot better when I send an adaptive card to the channel, using a Workflow in that channel.But as described in the related topic, when I send a adaptive card with a HTTP Request in an Automation, a job variable like {automation.name} just shows as {automation.name} in the result. Of course I would like it to show the name of the automation.Is there a way to make this work? Or is this a bug and I just have to wait when it will be fixed?

Hi All, I’m sure this is very simple but I can’t seem to get it to work.I want to take the text body sent to my automation via a webhook and use it as the input to my workspace.So this would be the POST I’d then like to pass “this is not a test” into the workspace POST_test (below) so that I can process it further in the workspace. I imagine the issue is that I’m not defining where the information is coming from when entering the workspace, which is just a text file reader and text file writer for the purposes of this test.I followed this tutorial and can trigger the workspace using this method but I cannot get it to read the text directly from the body.Send Source Data to FME Flow with HTTP POST – FME Support CenterFurther searching suggested setting the source as a user parameter.I’ve tried to set the input as text string using a user parameter but this doesn’t remain in the reader after clicking ‘ok’.I’m using Flow 2024.0.5 and the V3 REST APITIA

Hi,I’m using FME Flow 2025.2.4.I have an FME Flow Automation which runs 4 workspaces. Each workspace takes an email address parameter (which will be the same value for each workspace).I would like to use the same Automation to run on a bi-weekly schedule but also allow it to be run on demand via an Automation App, so I have 2 triggers: Schedule and Manual When the Automation is run on Schedule it should pass a pre-defined email address to the workspaces.When the Automation is run manually via the Automation App the user needs to be able to provide an email address at runtime.Is this possible? Or do I need to create 2 separate Automations?I know I can create a manual parameter that gets passed from the manual trigger to the downstream workspaces but if I configure the workspaces to use this value it won’t exist when the Automation is run on schedule.Similarly, if I use an Automation Parameter for the workspaces when run on a schedule I can’t specify the value at runtime for the manual t

Hello Esteemed Community,I have been banging my head on this issue and have tried the help documents, this forum and the academy training to find an answer and am still stumped. I am struggling to access data that I submit with a topic through the data streaming service inside my automation via the FME Flow Topic Trigger. I have successfully tried the FMEFlowNotifier transformer just to see if I could get that working, but it does not fit in line with what I am trying to do which is to post to topics on success or failure at the end.This is what the service properties looks like: Service PropertiesAnd the JSON writer: JSON WriterI have tried access the properties both using {job_id} and {data.job_id} but the translation log shows that it uses those values as is.Value ExampleOne of the key issues I have is that I need to set the values to a custom attributes because the parameters I am using them for are number type and it won’t let me type something non-numeric. Custom Attributes on FM

We have an automation that is triggered daily with a CRON expression which runs 4 workspaces. The first 3 workspaces are run in parallel and the fourth runs on successful completion of one of the workspaces. Last night, two events appear to have been triggered at the scheduled time and so each workspace was run twice. Has anyone ever come across anything similar? I can’t see any obvious errors in the logs