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mjoarder_pln

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Why our FME server jobs have been queued or in status Running??

Dear forum, I hope everyone is doing great. I am getting trouble in my FME server datadownload process from yesterday midnight at (00:00:00). Yesterday all the job was processed timely and users have downloaded data but from the mid night all the jobs is Queued or "Running" in status. I have checked that our license is till may 2019 , so this is not the case of licensing error. I have collected one information from one of our job that : statusMessageUndefined macro `FME_SERVER_DEST_DIR' dereferenced in file `xxxx\\dbexport\\dbexport.fmw' If this might be the case then why it was running before perfectly? We did not change any configuration. ThanksWith kind regards Muqit Zoarder

Automatically getting the direction of a forked line

I have a network of railway switches and I need to assign the value of a switch line being left or right automatically.What do I have: A feature class containing a track that looks like thisI need to generate something that looks like the following.The red arrow is always the direction you look at the intersection and that helps you determine if the lines branching out are left or right.

Email Template block/body access to published parameters of the Job! Possible?

Can we access the published parameters in mail body when success topic raised for the topic is success or failure?

6 years ago

aguanContributor

asked in Automation

FME server directory watch - can publication exclude some file extensions?

I set up a directory watch in FME server to watch changed shape files in a directory. Since each shape file has 7 components, updating one shape file will trigger 7 notifications, causing the subscribing workspace to run 7 times. I would hope the directory watch publication has an option to watch only ".shp" files so that each shape file change only triggers one notification. Any work around about this?

6 years ago

boubcherContributor

asked in Automation

Data Streaming direct URL

need to use this link in My APP, how can I run the direct link without having to enter the username and PW,I assume this is using the guest user credential, Thanks

6 years ago

vazquezsuarezyo

asked in Automation

Write multiple files in a directory

Hi all. I am trying to read a directory with many TIFF files, select the latest ones and copy or move them to a new directory. I read the files with a Feature reader using the Directory and File Pathnames format.The files got the date-time in the name so I use the Sorter to find the latest one and then I use the Sampler to select a few of them. Can someone advise me how to write them now in another directory? Many thanks

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6 years ago

stevenjhContributor

asked in Automation

From desktop, call FMEServerNotifier on translation failure

I have a desktop workbench that is using FMEServerNotifier to have server send emails as the last translation step. Aside from writing a shutdown script to POST the request to server, is there a way I can call FMEServerNotifier on translation failure?Maybe a Shutdown Notifier option is on the cards??nb. I'm using desktop as I need the 32 bit versionnnb. I can't get the desktop authorised to use the smtp server

6 years ago

dane_stephenson

asked in Automation

Varying Multiple Attachment Email Used to Trigger Workspace and Populate Publish Parameters

I can receive emails at FME Server and trigger a specific workspace if I attach only one of each file type (DWG and PDF) in the same order (DWG before PDF) so that I can specify the published parameter for my SourceDataset_ACAD (which requires a single value) to be the email_publisher_attachment{0} and the published parameter for my SourceDataset_PATH to email_publisher_attachment{1}.However, I would like to be able to receive an email with any number of attachments, in any order, and filter and apply them correctly to their respective published parameters (potentially more than one DWG, but I would not know how many in advance and/or what order they were received to apply the correct list values). Any ideas or examples of similar implementations would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

How do I restrict one user from getting email notification of Data Download?

Dear everyone, I am running some data download activities using FME server 2017. Everything is going well. I have set DATADOWNLOAD_ASYNC_JOB_SUCCESS email notification thus an user get to know about the successfull data downloading information. I want to restrict one user to get this email notification but I cannot find any parameter in this Subscription Topic. If anyone have any idea please let me know. Thanks With kind regardsMuqit

6 years ago

dane_stephenson

asked in Automation

Best Practices for Preventing FME Server Executing Workspace Based On An Email Reply All

I want to execute a workspace in FME Server by an email that is Bcc'd to FME Server. However, I am worried that a Reply All from both internally or externally may trigger the workspace to be executed again. Any thoughts or suggestions on best practices to prevent this from occurring? Thank you in advance.

6 years ago

nicholasContributor

asked in Automation

On server, run workspace on successful completion of previous workspace

I have two workspaces, one that does an extract and processing of data, and a second that does a final publication.I want to set up the FME server so that the extraction workspace is run at a scheduled time (2 am) and the publication workspace runs if and only if the first workspace succeeds.How do I set up notifications? I have created two topics JOB_FAILURE and JOB_SUCCESS

6 years ago

lorindaParticipant

asked in Automation

Emailer failing with 'target machine actively refused it'

I'm attempting to send an email at the end of a translation to notify the respective folks that the process has run.I'm getting an error:Emailer: <class 'socket.error'>: [Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.I've gotten the ip address and the port number with no encryption from the server guys. The machine that I am using for the script has been whitelisted with our SMTP server as well.This is to be used on a few different scripts, so really need to get this working. I have filled in the to, from, subject, and body of the 'email'. Using Generic SMTP as well. Granted, I am sending to myself, but will be in the long run anyway.Thanks.

overwrite default output-Directory for datadownload service

HelloI need some help in configuring the directory, where my datadownload-service sends its zip-files to... can this be done on the workbench-level?Thanks!

6 years ago

rdbath_

asked in Automation

Cancel Subjob automatically if Mainjob gets canceled

I have set up a directory watch with fme-server ( something likehttps://knowledge.safe.com/articles/51817/directory-watch-publisher-tutorial-2017.html)Some data can not be processed by fme-server so I set up a time to cancel of 30 minutes.After this time the main workspace (convert.fmw) gets canceled but the subworkspace which normally gets calles by concert.fmw through a FMEServerJobSubmitter does not get canceled so these jobs fill up the job queue as "zombie"-jobs. Is there a way I can get rid of these zombie-jobs in the queue?

6 years ago

mickstephens

asked in Automation

filecopy object - what is the difference between running manually in FME Server and scheduling the job to run?

I have a job I have created in FME Desktop 2017.1 which processes a file, and I use a filecopy transformation to move the file to an archive folder once it has been processed.The job uses two parameters, one for the working folder and one for the archive folder. I have published the job to an FME Server (version 2017). When I run the job manually from the Server from the "Run Workspace" page the job runs correctly. However, when I schedule the job to run automatically it fails at the filecopy transformation, it is treating the file differently. This is a screenshot of the FME job, showing the two published parameters, and how the filecopy transformation has been configured. The job starts with a Path transformation which is populated from the [INPUT_FILE] parameter.Below is a screenshot of the job running as scheduled, the errors are shown in red.Here is the same job running, the only difference being I ran it from the “Run Workspace”.Any pointers/suggestions are extreme

6 years ago

philippebEnthusiast

asked in Automation

CRON interpretor in FME Desktop

Hello,In FME Desktop I request with a REST API my FME Server schedule and I have CRON expressions for some workspaces.I want to create a calendar with the results, so I would like to have date values for the workspaces scheduled with CRON expressions.How could I interpret easily those expressions into FME Desktop?Thanks!

Problem with notification that is not "activated"

Hi all,I encounter an issue with topic on FME Server:I have one workspace (the controller) that triggers another (the worker) via a jobsubmitter.The worker posts on the topic "reporter_database" in case of success. It sends some json code.Case 1: When I run the worker via the controller, the topic is not "activated".Case 2: If I launch the worker directly via the web browser interface, it runs correctly and activates the topic.I remarked there was a difference between the two approaches (see picture). On the rigth (case2), there are some FME Directives and Notification Manager Directives while there is nothing on case1...Does someone have an idea how I can solve the case 1?Thank you !Laurent

Hi,Each time I try to use the Emailer transformer in a workbench, I get this error message :2018-02-12 15:28:28| 0.5| 0.1|WARN |Python Exception <UnicodeDecodeError>: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 43: ordinal not in range(128)2018-02-12 15:28:28| 0.5| 0.0|WARN |Traceback (most recent call last): File "Emailer.py", line 126, in inputUnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 43: ordinal not in range(128)2018-02-12 15:28:28| 0.5| 0.0|ERROR |Error encountered while calling method `input'2018-02-12 15:28:28| 0.5| 0.0|FATAL |f_6(PythonFactory): PythonFactory failed to process feature2018-02-12 15:28:28| 0.5| 0.0|ERROR |A fatal error has occurred. Check the logfile above for details I tried with the generic SMTP and a Gmail account and always get the same error.Any ideas ?Thanks

How to get "email " parameter value automatically?

Dear everyone, In my fme workflow I have some published parameters and one of them is email (opt_requesteremail) . For data download option I used this email parameter to get the data download link in email address. Till yet I am putting email address by my own. But I want to get email address automatically from user login. We are using LDAP. Thanks RegardsMuqit Zoarder

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6 years ago

asked in Automation

Maximum file size for incoming email? [FME Cloud]

HiI am using an incoming email with attachment to trigger a workbench. An email with a 46mb attachment was rejected - can anyone advise on the maximum allowable file size for incoming email attachments? I can't find this in the documentation.Can this limit be configured to allow for larger files? Thanks.

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6 years ago

asked in Automation

FME Server API and Data Upload

HiI have a workspace on FME Server (Cloud) which currently uses the data download service. It requires the user to upload a .csv and a .pdf, then it runs a translation and delivers a .kmz and a folder of geoTIFFs. I'd like to run this workspace using a call to the REST API. I'm struggling to figure out how 2 files can be uploaded as part of the same SUBMIT call. Assuming I can do this, will the call still trigger a data download? Or will I need to write to a shared resource folder? Any help appreciated, thanks.

Intregration with PRTG

Hi All,Our company has a strategic tool in PRTG from where we have unified monitoring for all things such as servers, jobs etc. Does anybody have experience or know of integrating FME with PRTG such that scheduled jobs can be monitored in a single location? The main aim is to enable quicker identification of failed jobs.Thanks in advance

6 years ago

martijnb

asked in Automation

How to generate Token for Active Directory user in FME Server 2018?

I configured FME Server 2018 with Active Directory authentication and Single Sign-ON. I can login with my AD user and run workspaces, but I can't generate a token through the token service with my AD user. How do I generate a token for an AD user with the Token Service?I don't want to generate the token through Manage Token after logging into the webinterface, because I want to generate a token for a Web application.

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6 years ago

richardsrContributor

asked in Automation

FME Server - Push subscription dynamic target URL

When we first ran across the push subscriber it seems this could really help out across many different types of workflows and also an agnostic interface with many of our major business systems. Many rest based API's contain keys within the URI so in our case we would like a dynamic target URL based on content with the topic. Is it possible to pull elements out of the topic and represent them as variables in the configuration of the push subscription?I have looked around and cannot find any documentation on how to use variables from the topic within the rest target URL?Below is a simple example:topic = { "activity": "180340", "attachment": "\\\\\\\\server\\\\share\\\\180340.pdf","emailReceived": "Fri May 25 13:37:12 PDT 2018"}In the target url we would like to use the activity number & attachment. These will change with each notification, therefore we need a way to build dynamic target url's. Below is an example url

6 years ago

howelljo

asked in Automation

When attempting to download workbench, I get json instead

A team mate published a workbench to server. I need to make a change to it, but when I went to download the fmw from server, it downloads a json file instead. I can log into the hosting server and copy the file from the repository, but can't figure out how to get the workbench to download from the server web page.

6 years ago

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