Automation

Hello,I am performing a data stream in FME Flow that reads two independent datasets with the same schema from the BC Wildfire Service’s (BCWS) Public ArcGIS Online Feature Service. These datasets are the BCWS current fires found on their Wildfire Dashboard:Known fire start locations (points) Wildfire perimeters (polygons)What my data stream does:(Read) Read both points and polygons of current wildfires, also read a previous copy of both datasets merged as a PostGIS table →  (FeatureJoiner) Join and overwrite points where polygons exist →  (ChangeDetector) Detect major changes from the PostGIS table: point-to-polygon updates, polygon area increases, and fire status indicators →  (Write) Write all changes to the saved copy in PostGIS, and write the major changes to a PostgreSQL

Y’all.I thought it was possible to export a single automation, and install it on another server ?But now I can’t seem to find this feature anywhere (on 2022.6).They’re backed up in the general configuration backup, but you can’t restore parts like a single automations from a backup.Am I missing something ? What to do ?Cheers.

Hi - We recently set up a new server for fmeflow for a test environment. As the jobs are running, fme flow is opening source files like csv files or trying to create a new directory on the old server. The old server has the FME services turned off but it still seems like it’s reading from the old server with the old server folder path for the source location. The path of the source file is in the Resources on the new server. I’m afraid once we shutdown the old server completely, the new server with fmeflow is going to fail all the jobs. Is there a setting to change to the new server for all the path locations in Resources or something?  Thanks,Eva

Hello, I want to read AGOL polygon feature service and write in SQL server feature class. Reading is not problem, I can see the geometry but writer is only writing attributes and not geom in SQL.I am using feature writer (SQL Server Spatial) and want to understand how I can write geom in SQL table “GDB_GEOMATTR_DATA” column. Any help is appreciated. TIA 

Hello,Seeking your help, please.I have published the workbench from Desktop to FME Flow. It should extract files from S3 and do further manipulations. It works good on the desktop. But when I published it on FME Flow, I am getting an error:S3 AccessKey and Secret key are stored in the workbench as User Parameters.What is missing to make it work on FME Flow?

Hello fellow FME enthousiasts, I've run into an issue with a FME Flow parameter in FME Flow 2024.0.1:We have a automation that uses an Email-IMAP trigger to scan an email-box.Whenever a new email with a certain text in the subject gets detected, the automation get's triggered and any attachments are saved to a designated folder under 'Recources/Data’.Since the e-mail box is being used for several projects i've build in a small workspace that checks the sender, if it is from an unexpected sender the attachments and folder they are in get deleted and the automation stops.Workspaces that checks for sender, if failed deletes attachmentsAs input I use the ‘Send from Address’ and ‘Email Attachments Folder’ from the automation. With a logger in the automation i checked what the conte

Hi,I’m trying to make an Automation App that ends with a workspace that streams a html writer. The workspace will stream the html writer if I make it a Workspace App so the worspace works as intendet.  When I put the workspace in the end of the automation and make this a Automation App the workspace is executede and writes its html but the html is not returned/streamed to the user in the web browser!? What to do? 

Hi,We have recently upgraded from FME Server 2020 to FME Flow 2024.I have an Automation with a “Ressource or Network Directory (updated)” trigger watching a folder on the network. The automation was working before upgrading, but now it says “Invalid path to watch:”What’s strange is that I created a workspace with a PATH reader pointing to the same network (UNC) path, and it’s able to read and log all the files in the folder I want to watch. I’ve also tried reading a file in that directory using a textfile reader, and it works.I don’t understand why FME Flow can read the files in that directory on the network using a workspace, but the automation can’t. If you have any ideas/explanations or possible solutions.The user account that runs the FME Flow Core service has read and write permission on that directory.Thank you in advance

Hi All,I have created a workflow in Form and now wanted to publish it to Flow and make available to my team but am very new to Flow tbh. One of the inputs is a gdb and I have set up the Output Ports to ‘Single Output Port’ and wanted the user to pick the feature class from the GDB in the ‘Feature Types to Read’, see below: If I published the workbench to the, would the ‘Feature Types to Read’ be available to the end user? I would be good to have some insights on how to achieve this,

Hi.I have built an automation with some business logic consisting of 4 chained workspaces (W4). I duplicate this automation for each new dataset I need to run, using a single global variable to control the data being handled (SQL Server schema name).However, one customer has 4 such setups, which gives me some problems when coordinating the 4 automation runs, and I would very much like to just have to run a single automation for each customer (with multiple schemas).I’m thinking that I could use the global variable to define a separated text with all 4 schema names, using a single workspace to split this into 4 outputs via an Automation Writer feature type, and start my 4 workspace chain (W4) for each value.However I’m unsure how to merge the 4 W4 runs. How will a Split-Merge block  (or Merge action) handle such runs ? The content inside the block is just the 4 chained workspaces, but they’re being run 4 times in parallel.Has anyone attempted this,

Hi,I am struggling to trigger a automation from a custom html-form. It seems that the post-action never gets to the automation in FME Flow. My html-page looks like this:html-formThe html-code is this:html-code When I hit the [Submit]-button I get a white page - no error - nothing is logged! I know the automation works because the API-page gives me this: API-pageWhat I think might be wrong is that on the API-page I have a Token - which I

I have a workspace app published to FME Flow allowing users to upload files to process and load into a branch version through the portal feature service writer. When other users run the workspace via the app, the new version created shows my user information, along with all of the editor tracking fields. What steps can I take to configure the workspace/workspace app/web connection to utilize the user credentials of the user running the workspace app, ensuring the version and features created reflects their information rather than mine?

Hi I am getting error message below when running JobHistoryStatisticsGathering in FME Flow. I am using FME Flow 2021If I download the workspace and run it in FME Form, it works OK.Any ideas? 2024-4-26 15:55:20 | JobHistoryReader_TestFilter (TestFactory): Feature specification `TEST_GROUP' in mapping file row `FACTORY_DEF {*} TestFactory FACTORY_NAME { JobHistoryReader_TestFilter } INPUT FEATURE_TYPE JobHistoryReader_TestFilter_INPUTLINE TEST_GROUP TEST { @EvaluateExpression(FDIV,STRING_ENCODED,<at>Value<openparen>timeFinished<closeparen>,JobHistoryReader_TestFilter) CONTAINS_REGEX <backslash>d-<backslash>d<backslash>d:<backslash>d<backslash>d ENCODED } TEST { @EvaluateExpression(FDIV,STRING_ENCODED,<at>Value<openparen>timeFinished<closeparen>,JobHistoryReader_TestFilter) CONTAINS_REGEX <backslash>d<backslash>+<backslash>d<backslash>d:<backslash>d<backslash&g

Hello All,I want to complete this in FME similar to how I did it in ArcPro below using Select by Location  Calculating the percentage of  area in each Grid Determine the number of  pixels within each grid Calculate the % of  areas within each grid by dividing the number of pixels by 111 111 and multiplying by 100 Generate the density map with density classes: 7 categories Example: if the grid has 35 000  pixels, then the percentage is 31.50%thanks!  

In a FME Flow Workspace App can users log in.How can I get the username as a variable in my workspace. Each user shall read and edit diffrent datasetts.  

I am having trouble setting up an FME Flow Workspace App. We have setup our environment to have many users added to the “fmeguest” group and have them pretty much exclusively use Flow by accessing Workspace Apps. For a while now we have been using the “Requires Authentication” option on our flow apps with “fmeguest” as an Allowed User. However this appears to now not be working. Any time we add any additional allowed user (above the author of the app) and hit ok to host the app, those users are dropped. When we return to the edit screen only the app creator has access again. This means no additional users can gain access to the flow apps, which very much defeats the purpose of them.  Just wondering if anyone else has encountered this problem, might be a tricky one for people to replicate to help.  We are on FME Flow 2023.1.1.1 Any Ideas are welcome, fire them through and we will give them a go 😊  

Our FME Server was patched and rebooted, which left it in a bad state. The automations and schedules kept triggering jobs but no jobs were running. It wasn’t noticed over the weekend and we now have over 160,000 queued jobs and I can’t get the FME server to respond (it hangs at the login screen, API calls just hang). I’ve restarted services, the machine etc etc. I think the issue is the fmejobrestore starts restoring all these jobs to the queue when I restart the fme server services. I’d like to cancel all the queued jobs in the back end database. Can I remove the records from the fme_jobs table? Will this cause any issues? Thank you!Kathy

Has anyone managed to upload a ZIP file of Cesium 3D Tiles into Cesium Ion through its API? I can upload a CityGML through the CesiumIonConnector but want to try writing Cesium 3D Tiles and uploading the ZIP file. Thanks

Hello everyone,I have a problem with FME Flow 2023.2.2 and the module xarray 2024.2.0. I need xarray for reading netCDF data and have created a Python script for this in FME Form 2023.2.2. This also runs without any problems. However, when I upload this workspace to FME Flow and start it there, I always get the message that the run has failed.After some research I found out that FME Flow has problems executing the command xarray.open_dataset(). I'll post the script and the logs of FME Form and Flow:import fmeobjectsimport xarray as xrclass FeatureCreator(object): """Template Class Interface: When using this class, make sure its name is set as the value of the 'Class to Process Features' transformer parameter. """ def __init__(self): """Base constructor for class members.""" pass def input(self, feature: fmeobjects.FME

G’day, I have been having all sorts of issues trying to get the Out of the Box backupConfiguration.fmw tool to run via a schedule, I don't think it has worked properly since we installed FME Server about 6 years ago, we have just kind of ignored it and never made repairing it a priority. At one point we recreated the schedule from scratch as a result of me creating this topic (BackupConfiguration.fmw "Unable to retrieve backup from FME Server..." | Community (safe.com)), but that win was short lived. I have only just now realized there is a tab on the admin panel of FME Flow called “Backup & Restore”, and I am wondering if someone can tell me the difference between the two? The Backup & Restore tab has apparently run fine for as long as our logs go back (Sep

How long in terms of days is a log file saved after an Automation is run? is the log file overwritten the next time the same Automation runs? or is the log file archived somewhere? Also, the log files in Resources referenced below, how long are they saved? how often are new ones created and saved?Files & Connections - Resources - Logs - Engine - OldFiles & Connections - Resources - Logs - Core - Old

Often getting error “QSInvalidRequest” while an automation triggering a job at scheduled time

Hello , I am looking to generate a 10km x 10km grid (10 000m x 10 000m)with 30m  x 30m pixel what would be the best transformer to complete this ?

Hello, I’ve got two user parameters in my gallery app. A Generic reader where i chose what data to read in, in my case a ESRI geodatabase, and a featuretype user parameter to choose which feature class or layer to read in. I can’t seem to get this to work from ESRI gdbs. Anyone have any ideas? I can’t select the gdb, only a file in the gdb folder. Thanks 

Hello,I am using FME (ESRI version) and I built a project that reads fileXX.osm.pbf. I use a clipper and schema adjustment and write this to a .gdb (ESRI). In my project, I do this for a part in Norway. All is great so far.Now I want to use the same project but with a different osm.pbf file, a different clip file, and a different .gdb. I see that the project is reading, but when writing, I get a message that it did not work because names are different. I tried to save a template and start a new project from the template, but it's the same result.I hope someone can point out what I am doing wrong here.Greetings, Peter