Automation

We've been using automations to run jobs, and then report the status back to Teams using an HTTP Request to call a Teams webhook. This was working fine in 2021.1, but since upgrading to 2022.2 the teams message now shows the job variable names, and not the values. The issue seems to occur somewhere within the Adaptive Card format - as I can use a very simple JSON object in the HTTP body of the HTTP Caller (eg. { "text": "{job.id}" } )- but it seems as soon as the variable call is enclosed in square brackets - it won't populate the value. Am I making some silly reference mistake?(Attached HTTP Caller body.)

As the title implies, I have a workspace where two different workflows have to write to the same CSV but different sheets. How do I go about doing that? I've attempted to use fme_feature_type as CSV File Name but that resulted into 2 separate CSV files as depicted by the image attached  

I create an FME workspace with ArcGis Online. I have a new project so I made a copy of FME Workspace and I want to change Feature Services to use a new project. How do I redirect or change Feature Service to new project?

Issue: During the Christmas break, one of our automations failed regularly due to an account issue. I did not get any notifications and only upon my return and a manual review did I see this issue. Question#1 : What is the correct method for tracking automation failures. Can the system send email notifications with the associated error message. If so, how do I do this ( note: my knowledge in the product are still basic ) Question#2 : We are scanning workspace logs from the logs folder , but where are the automation logs ? Many thanks in advance for any assistanceOliver @ EGW 

I want to build an app that will prompt the user to select a file.the file is on our network. I have set a resource for the root folder and set this resource as a parameter in my workbench. (It would be nice if the user could not change this) The first required prompt (parameter will allow the user to select 1 subfolder of the resource folder. Then i have specific values for 2 other subfolders that will be supplied and added to the root and the first selection. The second prompt will be a single file in the now complete folder structure. This folder will then be supplied to the output where the file will be written with the same name + datestamp.I have what i think are the parameters built in my workbench but don't get the path built correctly.I am trying to buld the path like this.$(FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_DATA)$(SELECT_PROJECT_ROOT_FOLDER)\\PROJECT_DATA\\WORKING\\$(SELECT_PROJECT_FILE)any ideas on how to accomplish this?

I am using shapefiles to create multple attributes for dwg OD table output.I have a dwg that does not have a feature for this output. (I am writing this to use in fme server). I use a tester to divert the shapefile feature out of the output stream. but the feature gets created in the dwg regardless.I tried putting a NoFeatureTester to try to keep this from happening. HOW does this feature get through the tester?in the screenshot. the feature that is in the NoFeatureTester ends up in the dwg.

Hey Community, I am trying to map generators/power plants and substations for Texas(ERCOT) region in US. I have got one datasets from HIFLD and the other that I have already(my org). I have created a workbench that preps the data and compares the two data for generators. Also, there are a lot of substations that have got 'Unknown' names and is not possible to compare the two. Is there a possibility where I can run the workbench and it compares the two datasets with satellite imagery(Bing Aerial, OSM, Earth street) and provide a validation result.

FME Server 2021.2.6 We have an automation which downloads attachments from an email to an UCN path. When the automation is triggered, it logs the following error:2022-11-28T16:43:49+01:00 | 809004 : \\uncpath\image002.png : Failed to download email attachment. Download location "{1}" is not available and could not find an appropriate alternate location.But when we look in this specific folder, we see that the attachment is downloaded successfully.Questions we have are:Do we try something which is not supported?Can we solve the error log?

How do I upload/post PDF files to Survey 123 Portal? I tried using both the put & post options in HTTPCaller transformer as well as FeatureWriter. It appears to work as I did not encounter an error message but the files don't get actually written in the portal. I guess it could be the HTTPCaller settings but I'm at a lost how to set it. Please advise what I'm doing wrong , or any sample FME script with httpcaller settings would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in heaps! Wilfredo  

Hi team,with the deprecation of Basic Authentication coming up in October later this year (Deprecation of Basic authentication in Exchange Online | Microsoft Docs),it's been suggested we move across to OAUTH for accessing emails via FME Server Automations. I'm a little stuck on how we can do this? There doesn't seem to be any OAUTHcapability within the templates? Any suggestions on how we can achieve this?

I have a workspace that needs to run when there is a new file in a SharePoint folder. Is it possible to set up an automation that would work similar to Network or Resource Directory?

Hello! I am trying to schedule a workspace to run 17 markets. Workspace is the same for all 17 markets. After the first market ends, I want it to start the second one. I know workspace runner on FME desktop that kicks off markets one by one.The scheduling of the two markets on the FME server worked well for me. Due to the fact that I have 17 markets to run, I was wondering if there was a better way to do this. I would appreciate any advice you can provide.

Hi, I have an automation workflow that is executed by dropping a file in a target directory. If the file is a ZIP archive (filter action), a hosted FME workbench should be triggered. The workbench expects a path specification (path of the ZIP file) as user parameter. However, in the configuration interface of the automation action I don't have a dropdown to access an output key of the trigger ({file.path}). Is there any configuration to be done in the workbench to handle output keys? Edit: Using FME Server 2022.1.1 - Build 22623-win64

Hi all.2022.2 introduces triggering an automation from a webapp, in addition to triggering automations in numerous ways already defined.One such triggering is "FME Server Topic notified".Can I create a workspace, uploading it to FME Server, and have this emit such a (custom) topic, in effect triggering the automation to run ?If so, I could potentially create a webapp for such a workspace, and achieve the same functionality, couldn't I ?Alas, there are no immidiate transformers that allows such emission, but workspace FME Server Parameters include FME_TOPIC and FME_TOPIC_MESSAGE. Can they be used for this, and if so, how ?Or must I resort to using the REST interface ??

I have points and lines, I want to snap the lines to the points, both edges, ends, and sides. I tried using the snapper and also tried using the anchored snapper, but I still don't get to snap some. I have used intersection transformer, it does the major part of the snapping but creates new points at any intersection without a point. I really would love to do this snapping based on relationship (attribute)

What I've done so far ... I've selected a .fgb from a location (the location will stay the same, however, there will be multiple .gdbs that come and go over time) I added a reader, Schema (Any Format), filtered for *.gdb.I added a FeatureReader, with a WHERE clause to only look for ... @Value(fme_feature_type_name) LIKE '%M_CSCL%' ...However, the way I've set up the FeatureReader doesn't work in it's current state.Any hints/improvements/better ways to achieve this would be appreciated, see the attached workspace.thanksJeremy   

Hi, is there an alternate solution available from safe to replace the basic authentication for IMAP and SMTP? Since Microsoft will stop supporting this solution soon

We have two FME server 2021.2.6 instances running (one Test and one Production environment) and on both environments every job/workspace fails to run with the following error. A Python interpreter could not be loaded. Please ensure the workspace `Python Compatibility` is set to an available Python version On one of the environments an automation runs a workspace every 5 minutes. In the logging we can see that the jobs began failing at exactly midnight 11-25-2022. The runs before midnight logged no errors, the run at midnight and all runs after that failed. Does anybody have any suggestions what may have caused this, and how to solve this?

I'm looking to make a query which uses the spatial data in the planning brief to search cadastre, duct, duct_route and SL layers. So that I can change each planning layer can become searchable and have an output. We are currently working with MapInfo.

I have a workspace published on FME Server that works lika a self-service where users can upload a shapefile, upload a pdf file and give information via user parameters.The Esri Shapefile reader has workflow option "Single Merged Feature Type"Running the workspace on FME Server works fine. I have created a server app for users to run the workspace and running the server app does not work. Does anyone know what could be causing this? Thanks in advance! This worked without a problem on FME Server 2021.1Now we use: FME Server 2022.1.2 Build 22627

I am writing file geodatabases using templates. this causes all fc in the template to be written wheter there are features in the workbench or not. If i am writing the gdb in an automation the only method i can think of is to have a second wb that opens the gdb that was just written and test for features in each fc. but then there is the problem of delteing the entire talbe. the database deleter will only delete rows. the database updater works on features also (not tables)Any Ideas how to accomplish this?I guess i will have to go with the read the schema method. this machine is used for fme server as well as desktop and as such i do not have a single use license for arcpro. so i have no way of using arcpy that i can find. as for the reading the schema solution. @ebygomm​  i guess just using a gdb reader and connecting each fc to it's output? but what about domains?

It's been a while since I last used FME and now it's time to start working with automations  seriously. I need some help to get a quite simple one working though. I'm attempting to do the following: whenever an email from a certain email address and with a certain concept in the subject is received, the email subject and body must be checked and parsed to write a temporary json file that will be uploaded to a server via sftp overwriting the existing file. I already have: An email trigger with a Subject filter. A 'Sent from Address' filter action. A workspace action: AttributeManager and JSONTemplater transformers and a JSON writer get the important information from the subject and content of the email into a json file that is written to FME Server temp directory. An SFTP Directory external action: reads the json file from FME Server temp directory and writes it to a server. The problem is that we are waiting for imap access to be enabled on the email account so I cannot test the email 

I would like an email notification every time a completed workspacehad an error within the log. Is this possible and how do I set this up within our FME Server.

Can I read FFS file by python?

Hello, I created a dynamic workflow to load geopackages into as many tables of a PostGIS database From a SchemaScanner, I retrieve the source schemas then I build the names of the destination tables and I make some modifications to the data types. For example, boolean attributes are not recognized by FME because the values ​​are not conforming. So I would like to replace all non conforming values ​​of these attributes. In the schema part of the processing, I retrieved all the boolean attributes (in a list or a concatenated string). I would now like to use this as a parameter to define in the features part of the processing the attributes whose boolean values ​​must be corrected (StringReplacer for example). I could manually select these attributes but I would lose the interest of the dynamic workflow. I don't know how to do it automatically. Does anyone know how to do this?