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Automations Writer - multiple child jobs run against a single engine

  • March 3, 2025
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ebygomm
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If there is an automation where a workspace with an automations writer, triggers a child workspace a number of times is it possible to restrict those jobs to run on the same engine without the use of a queue?

I want all child jobs triggered from the writer to run on the same engine as each other for a single automation run, but i don’t necessarily want to say that jobs can only be run on a single engine, as would be the case if I set up a queue.

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hkingsbury
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  • March 9, 2025

Sounds like a good idea to submit for development consideration!


mattmatsafe
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  • March 18, 2025

Hi ​@ebygomm, there isn’t a way to do this at the moment. As mentioned, you can submit an idea for the product team to review: https://community.safe.com/ideas

If you do submit an idea, please share the reason why you need to do this and why queue control doesn’t meet the current need.

https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME-Flow/WebUI/Queue-Control.htm

Thanks!


ebygomm
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  • December 11, 2025

I’ll add this as an idea as I’ve stumbled on the same issue again. 


Basically I want to ensure that a workspace triggered multiple times by an automations writer waits for each job to complete so the workspaces are run consecutively and not in parallel. In a similar way to how the Workspace Runner has ‘Wait for job to complete’ option works.

 

I don’t want to simply assign these to a queue with a single engine as I want the first job to pick the first available engine.