Emailer > How to include FME Feature Attributes from workspace

Hi ​@epro_admin,

Absolutely, you can do this in FME Flow! The Automations Writer lets you extract parameters from a workspace running within an automation, which you can then pass to an Emailer. You have complete flexibility in formatting the email and embedding those parameters in the email body.

To complement the article you shared, I'd recommend taking a look at the documentation here: Routing Data From Workspaces. Additionally, there's a helpful tutorial in FME Academy—check out the Flow Authoring course under Connect Automations with Job Orchestration > Use the Automations Writer. You can access this course for free with your community account.

The Emailer will send an email as soon as a feature reaches the transformer, whereas the Email in Automations will only be triggered once the workspace translation has been completed. This provides additional control over which scenarios an email is actually sent out.

Please let me know if you need more information. 

-Dylan

Hi ​@dylan.at.safe ,

Is there a way to use attributes from a workspace in the fme flow email action without connecting the port?

I have an automation that runs a workspace and then a resource/directory watch that triggers an email once a new file is added.

If i connect the automations writer port to the emailer then it sends two emails, one when the attributes hit the email action and one when the directory watch fires. the first email contains the attributes, and the second contains the attachments which is of course not ideal.

Hi ​@bromp, 

Do you have a screenshot of your automation? It sounds like you may need to use a Merge Action. Unfortunately, there isn’t a straightforward way to include workspace attributes in the Email Action without connecting it to the workspace's Writer port in the automation.

-Dylan

You might want to write your data in a file/database, and retrieve them when your directory watch fire.