Automation

Why do I get this error?     2021-9-14 16:52:33 | File Copy Writer: Feature contains an invalid source dataset '$(FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_DATA)EmailAttachments\\20210323145356-FME_Server_Email_Watcher-External_-_LOE_Field_Ticket-ad0dc73d-6839-4747-8e4a-e6160c913495'. No file operations will be performed for this feature.  The specified folder exists. I am unable to put a slash between $(FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_DATA) and EmailAttachments in the automation configuration best I can tell. I have tried using the StringReplacer in the called workspace to put a in a slash and that didn't work. I have attached the workbench, pic of automation, log files for automation and called workspace.

Hi All, am trying to work out how to build some logic into an automation on FME SERVER. Here is my workflow: Workspace reads Arcgis feature service every day. If it reads a record with "Attribute A' = "HIGH" (test filter) then email bob the workspace outputs (csv of "HIGH' Records) , if "AttributeA" = "LOW" email Mary the workspace outputs (csv of 'LOW' records). I'm unsure where I'm meant to build this logic. Is it in the workspace or automation? The automation action (run workspace) only has 'Action Succeeded' or 'Action Failed'. Am I meant to be passing a notification from the workspace to the automation??. I have read all I can find on this but must be missing something. Thanks Steve.

Can SQLExecutor be used to get around having to read in all the data from a database table into FME and then running a feature joiner?Consider the example below we need to read in the entire table of 2Million plus records to extract data we are interested in.What I think should be possible but I'm not sure how to implement it is to create a temp table and use that as a subselect or joined table to get the data using a SQL query

Im trying out the new Dynamic workspaces in automations. Running the workspaces works great! The problem i'm running into is as followed: The dynamic workspaces are writing out files to a folder. Depending on how often the dynamic workspace will run, several files can be created.Ones the workspaces are done, i want to start another workspace that takes all the files in that new output folder and send them by email. The workspace that sends these files out should only run once! But, since dynamic workspaces run several times both output ports will yield x amount of output features, triggering the last workspace multiple times. I thought of using a merge action but when you try to connect that to the output port of a dynamic workspace an error occurs: "Cannot connect content router ports to merge". (this also happens trying to connect it to the automation writer output port which has the attributes i need). Is there any way to only trigger a workspace once after all the Dy

I too ran into the issue raised by @jurgen​  in https://community.safe.com/s/question/0D54Q000084ATxeSAG/how-can-i-merge-an-automation-flow-when-using-dynamic-workspaces - that my workspace that uses an automation writer, can't be funnelled into a merge-action. In the response, @daraghatsafe​ said that an enhancement request is on the way - but I needed to solve the issue before then.  This connection isn't possible right now Problem: We need some way of knowing that all the workspaces had run successfully, before we'd run the final step. In my case, I didn't want to update the "I've imported all the data up to and including this date"-field, until all the imports were done.  Idea: What we need, is to build a state store, where we can keep track of the completed workspaces for one specific run of one specific automation. We could build this in f.ex. any database, but then we run into issues with having to create schemas/tables for each automation. Instead

I'm trying to attach a file to the Email External Action in an Automation that always has a different filename (date/time) but is in the same location, and is the only file in the folder. I've added this folder as a resource and tried to use a * wildcard but it fails to send the email. If I give the exact filename, the email sends successfully with the attachment. Also, I can do this successfully using the Emailer transformer in a Workspace and feeding it the exact name via a Text File Reader, but I'd rather use the External Action in Automations if possible. Any thoughts?Thanks! 

Embarrassed to be asking this but in an FME Server Automation how do I get just the raw the "Content" from the trigger FME Server Topic Notified. We have the various keys but none of them seem to correspond directly to the Content of the notification. Please don't tell me Content has to be Json keys! 😅  In the workspace the FME Server Notifier has a Content parameter so

Dear FME community,I have a question concerning the FME workbench. I have a pretty complex workspace where I need two different inputs, which have to be compared with each other. Both inputs require several hundred files. Now it is important that input a starts with file 1 (not with any other file) and input b also starts with the first file. Both inputs have to select one file after another in the correct order. The files are named after a certain scheme so that corresponding have the same naming parts. Manually I could just select the files, but since there are hundreds of processes, I would prefer a batch method. I tried a workspace runner, but this only can handle one input. Is there any process that can handle this? I would appreciate any hint concerning this matter.Thank you so much in advance.

Hi, I am using FME Server 2020. I have a workspace that is available in a server app. I would like to trigger an automation when that workspace is runned from the server app form. How can I achieve that? Thank you!

This is actually a 2 part question:Is there a way to get a more verbose log from automations that don't have a workspace?If I can view the logs from the menu on the automation page, aren't the logs stored in a file somewhere on the server? So I can retrieve them in a file format? Thanks!

Hey all, I'm playing around with fme server and the automations. I've got an interesting usecase. There is a SFTP that im wachting with fme server for creation events. I see as and output you get the filepath en filename. Now i want to grab that file within a workspace. I tried with the FTP caller. Is it possible to use the output keys to set up the URL in the ftp caller if so how so? Cheers

I have an automation setup in FME Server 2021.1 that polls an inbox and parses the pdf email attachment. I'm receiving a failure from the reader attempting to parse the pdf with a filename that contains a certain character –. It is reading the character as "??".  I tried to identify this online and it shows it as U+2013 : EN DASH. I can see this is a formatting issue, but what can I do to fix this if I have no control over the filename that will be sent to the inbox? FilenameInvoice #2071 - 5559 REDACTED TR D #1256 – Proration.pdf FME Server Error2021-7-22 09:20:33 | PDF2D reader: PDF Reader: Failed to open document 'C:\ProgramData\Safe Software\FME Server\resources\system\temp\emailattachments\20210720120551-REDACTED_Invoicing-REDACTED_-_Fixed_Bid-8d4ca970-18b5-4f8b-84b3-c10893d5e69e\Invoice #2071 - 5559 REDACTED TR D #1256 ?? Proration.pdf' because it does not exist or because the reader does not have permission to access the file 

Hi - Wondering if this is possible? Having a global rule that can send an email if a workbench fails as opposed to having to consider this each time within an automation. Thanks

We have upgraded from FME 2014 to 2020 and we want to take advantage of the new available features.The problem here is that I thought automations would make everything easier and could replace things like using shutdown python scripts to do whatever when the workspace fails or end as expected but I don't see automations can help us when our trigger would be just the execution of an FME Server app.Any ideas?

AllI have set up a scheduled task to be run via the windows task scheduler and NOT on FME Server. If I run the work bench everything is fine, as it is when i run the workbench via the .bat file. However, when I try to get Task Scheduler to run the .bat file it says it has completed, however checks show it has not. When looking at the log file i see these lines2021-07-19 13:28:29|   0.3|  0.0|INFORM|Opening the Esri Geodatabase reader2021-07-19 13:28:32|   1.3|  1.0|INFORM|The ArcObjects license 'Advanced' is being selected from the ESRILicenseInfo ArcObjects call2021-07-19 13:28:32|   1.3|  0.0|INFORM|The Esri Product license used by this machine does not include licenses for the 'Advanced' licensing level2021-07-19 13:28:32|   1.3|  0.0|ERROR |Unable to perform any licensing related tasks. Please check your Esri ArcGIS Compatibility setting. This 64-bit version of FME requires 64-bit Background Geoprocessing, ArcGIS Pro or ArcGIS Server. Refer to this this article http://fme.ly/qua fo

17/08/2020 12:09  10.9  0.8  ERROR   Python Exception <ModuleNotFoundError>: No module named 'fmepy_emailer'17/08/2020 12:09  10.9  0  FATAL   PythonFactory failed to load python symbol `fmepy_emailer.Emailer'17/08/2020 12:09  10.9  0  FATAL   Factory proxy not initialized17/08/2020 12:09  10.9  0  FATAL   Emailer_CALLER (PythonFactory): PythonFactory failed to process feature17/08/2020 12:09  10.9  0  ERROR   Emailer_CALLER (PythonFactory): A fatal error has occurred. Check the logfile above for details17/08/2020 12:09  10.9  0  ERROR   A fatal error has occurred. Check the logfile above for details17/08/2020 12:09  10.9  0  ERROR   StringReplacer (StringReplacerFactory): 17/08/2020 12:09  10.9  0  ERROR   A fatal error has occurred. Check the logfile above for details17/08/2020 12:09  10.9  0  FATAL   HTMLReportGenerator (PythonFactory): PythonFactory failed to close properly17/08/2020 12:09  10.9  0  ERROR   HTMLReportGenerator (PythonFactory): A fatal error has oc

Is there any way to send a single, aggregated email listing all failed workspaces if multiple workspaces in an FME Server Automation fail?For example, if I have 3 workspaces running in parallel and 2 of the 3 fail, I'd like a single email telling me which 2 failed.It looks like this might be possible with the new Split-Merge block in FME 2021 but, unfortunately, I'm on FME Server 2020.

I am wanting to trigger a very simple automation using a webhook. There is no need to pass any parameters - I just need the automation to run two workspaces. When I set up the webhook, copy the webhook url, and then start the automation, the webhook fails to run if I call it.  What puzzles me is that configuring a webhook using the automations (as opposed to creating a webhook for a specific workspace) doesn't add a token that I can manage under User Settings >> Manage Tokens. I found this token management to be essential to ensuring that the webhook had the correct permissions to run successfully. Please advise on what I am missing or doing incorrectly. Note that I am using FME Server 2020.0 (Win64) Thanks

I have sample data where dual carriageway road is present in one layer and in another layer I have point layer, I need to find out of point which falls inside dual carriageway road, as shown in image red circle. If point is outside the dual carriageway road then no issues but it should not be in 2 lines, sample data is attached.If anyone can help with workbench then it would be really nice and time saver for me, thanks in advance 😀 .

I would like to take a number of dwg files from one location, change the coordinate system, and save them to another location with a suffix i.e. '_newfile'.I have the code for the coordinate conversion, but am having trouble with the bulk input and output with the suffx- any help with code would be much appreciated, thanks!

I have FME Server trigger event late at night and it will automatically email with the report right after the workspace has completed. Is there anyway to delay the email to send in early morning instead even though workspace still ran at night? Thank you!

Hello all. I'm new to FME Server Automations and I'm wondering about the Filter Action "Contains String" syntax. I want to filter on the Job Status Output text from the previous workspace run, and I'm wondering if you can add more than one text string to search for. I've tried a few ways and can't seem to find documentation specifically on this. I have it working searching for one specific string which needs no formatting at all, simply entering "FME_BEGIN_PYTHON script returned error on execution" filters correctly. Any info or assistance would be appreciated!I'm working with FME Server 2019.1.3.1.Thanks!

I will make a backup from my current Windows machine, Will it be possible to restore it on that machine? Thanks.

once i stoped an automation and again i want to start is its giving error "Unable to enable xxxxxx There was an issue with component "Workspace". Subscription e39f275f-b7d6-4006-89a9-bec0b5e5d8d7-b9c6a63a-bc2d-2914-9906-35915d3c392d already exists.

What I need is an easy example of how to publish a single workspace to the server in a Python script.