Automation

Hi all, I'm trying to set up a workspace that should fire every time a file is added to a folder. I came across the reader format "Directory Watch Reader", but so for I have been unable to find any documentation about how to use this reader type. If this is covered in the documentation anywhere, or in an article here at knowledge.safe.com, I'd be grateful for a link.

I have .dwg file with large number of lines which are snapped to points, so they form closed polygons. I would like to create closed polyline from snapped lines so i can calculate area of polygon, and the main criteria is that lines are snapped to node of point, which is not always the case (lines are often snapped to endpoint, nearest point, or not even closed). My question is: how can i detect where lines are not snapped to nodes of points, so i can manually snap them? Thank you for answers.

Hi, I've signed up the FME Cloud Beta, and started to learn how to use it. As my first trial, I uploaded a workspace which transforms XML dataset into raster and writes the result into Geotiff file. Service type is Data Download. The workspace worked fine, and I was able to download zipped result file from the web page which was displayed after the completion, if I didn't check "Email Result" (Advanced Option) on the Configure page. However, when I checked "Email Results" and specified my mail address, I was not able to receive the e-mail even though the job has been completed successfully. I checked if the mail address was correct, and tried several times. But no mail has come ... Do I need some server settings to enable the "Email Results" option? Thanks in advance. Takashi

I've successfully have emails sent MS Exchange forward to FME Server. No problems forwarding the email to another address as backup, problem is some email have 1-10 attached files. FMESeverEmailGenerator Content: allows only one attachment from a list email_publisher_content{0} How I just cc an email with multiple attachments?

I've read through the documentation on email and can't find anything about this. When I pass a layer (ArcGIS) through the FMEServerEmailGenerator and the FMEServerNotifier I get an email for every record in the layer. If there's 68 records I get 68 emails. I understand how to get one email sent to me with statistics from the layer. That's not the issue. But what I want to do is basically have FME send one email that has the table of all 68 records (Along with the column headers if possible ... Here's an example: ) in the body of the email. Almost as if you opened an excel file and selected a range of cells, copied them, and pasted them into an email ... If that makes sense?

We are designing a conversion-job spanning multiple workspaces. We can run one after the other using notifications by subscribing the next workspace to the succes topic of the previous. We could design this much more beautiful if we could e.g. start workspace 'E' and 'F' when 'B' and 'C' are ready. But when 'E' has a subscription to the succes-topics of 'B' and 'C' this is evaluated as an 'OR'. 'E' runs when 'B' or 'C' is ready. It would be nice to evaluate the notifications a workspace is subscribed to with an 'AND' clause. You should do 'this', when you have 'this' and 'that'. Is there a possibility to do this using FME only? Ofcourse we could make our own 'notification service' using some database and python or C#, but as far as I can see, the only thing I am missing in FME-server is an 'AND' clause in the notification subscription. With such possibility we can determine the prerequisites of every workspace and translate that into the success-topics to which the workspace should be

I am using a C# REST service call to start a workspace. Passing the notification directives in the body. The notification subscription is setup with the PUSH service call. Basically, the subscription makes a service call when the workspace is failed or successful. When I published the workspace, with JobSubmitter, I made sure the right writer output is selected to be included in the service call, but the writer output will be included only if I run that workspace from WebUI, not with the service call. Is there a directive\\parameter that I can use in the initial service call to tell the notification to include the writer content in the notification body? Any thoughts?

Hi We have a problem running scheduled tasks when we activate AD-authentication on our FME Server 2015. We get the following message in the log: MEServerJobSubmitter(ServerJobSubmissionFactory): Could not initialize connection to server "localhost". FME Server error: `Authentication failed: Failed to bind to Active Directory with the given username and password.' Anyone got this to work ? Kind regards Guha, Stockholm Water

Hello! I'm using HTTPCaller and FME Server's REST API to get a job timestamp (timeQueued), when it was sent to a queue. It's working well, but the timestamp should be converted to UTC. Currently local time in Finland is +3h from UTC, and due to the daylight saving, it goes to +2h in the fall. The job should be run automatically, so that I wouldn't need to put a offset parameter to the local time, which comes from REST API. Easiest solution would be that the timeQueued would come in UTC. Is it possible to configure that in FME Server?

Does anyone have experience configuring FMEServer Email Notifications using Microsoft Exchange. What do I need to configure on the Exchange server to enable this. I am getting the error message below, IMAP settings are already enabled for this account, but I am getting this message when trying to validate. The logfile shows the detail below Tue-09-Aug-2016 03:54:00 PM INFORM IncomingEmailWatcher 809006 : : Connecting to email server "***********" on port 25 ... Tue-09-Aug-2016 03:54:00 PM WARN IncomingEmailWatcher 809009 : : : Failed to connect to email server. Please check IMAP settings in publication "IncomingEmailWatcher", and ensure IMAP is enabled for the email account. Error message: 220 ms-exchangeb4f2 Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service ready at Tue, 9 Aug 2016 15:53:59 +0100 Tue-09-Aug-2016 03:54:00 PM INFORM IncomingEmailWatcher 809011 : : : Accessing email account ... Tue-09-Aug-2016 03:54:00 PM ERROR IncomingEmailWatcher 809014 : : : Failed to process email. Error message: null An

Hi, I tried the method explained here (https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/678/create-a-custom-download-link-for-results-from-dat.html) in order to create a custom download link but it doesn't work.I put in attached my config file. Does someone has an idea where I am wrong? Thanks in advance!

When working through the Directory Watch Tutorial on Server 2015 located on a Win 2012 server, Step 3: "Verify the directory watch publication" fails to return messages to the monitoring page when a new file is copied into the Temp\\convert_tool\\Input resource folder.

Hi all, We have been trying to send notification via email (directly or through a subscription) and although we have tested connectivity with telnet to gmail (via telnet smtp.gmail.com 465) and it works ok, when we submit a job with email subscription to a gmail account, we review the log and see the following error: "javax.mail.MessagingException:Exception reading response"; java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out" Has any body had the same problem? Is there a solution? Thanks in advance.

Is it possible to setup the directory watch to monitor a network location for new files being added and email an individual anytime a new file is added to the newtwork location

I have a series of workspaces that are part of a web application and are called asynchronously via the REST services with an opt_requesteremail provided. In the workspaces I create specific messages using attribute information and format them with a variant of the FMEServerEmailGenerator. I then have a text writer registered with the data to post on a success topic. Note that if used the FMEServerNotifer instead of writing out the text file, and have no success topic published, then I end up with two emails, one custom email from the FMEServerNotifier, and the generic JOBSUBMITTER_ASYNC_JOB_SUCCESS. However, when it comes to failures, I run into a problem. In most cases I am forcing the failure via a terminator. I can generate the emails and use the notifier prior to a terminator. But then I end up with two emails, custom and generic JOBSUBMITTER_ASYNC_JOB_FAILURE. I can try to write out the failure message to the text writer and post to a a failure topic, with a branch to a terminator

I have a workspace that watches a specific folder for files to be added to it. The workspace then converts the xml file to an ascii file and moves it to a different folder. When I drop the file into the watched folder, it seems like the file isn't getting processed as the file doesn't get moved and the new file doesn't get created.

FME2016 run from Task Scheduler problem: TNS ORA-12154

Hi Why do I identify myself every time I use a service hosted by us internally. Although I use AD integration to use FME . Can someone give us instructions how to avoid irritation ? Regards Ahmed Jama

I have read this article: https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/678/create-a-c... How do you modify the fmeEngineConfig.txt file to make the necessary changes?

hello all, In my situation i have two polygos that aren`t both allignment : My question is: has a transformer that use one polygon like refference to make the allign to edge another? Thanks in Advance, Danilo de Lima

I created a workspace and tested it in FME Desktop. Then published it to FME Server and tested it again. Created a schedule to run the job this morning (and every day) at 07.00 (it is now 08.10). Next I edited the workspace, tested and republished it (no changes to parameters). Checked the schedule and it was still valid and enabled. But no jobs where executed at the scheduled time (no passes and no failures). My machine was locked and running (no shutdown). Any suggestions why my job has not run?

I'm new to notifications in FME server and I'm trying to create a service that notifies our helpdesk each time a Data Download job fails on our fme server. I've set up a subscription with the appropriate email settings and subscribed to the DATADOWNLOAD_ASYNC_JOB_FAILURE topic. I then start topic monitoring on the DATADOWNLOAD_ASYNC_JOB_FAILURE topic and when I test the topic, the email is received exactly as expected. The problem I have is that topic monitoring stops as soon as I navigate from the manage notifications page or if I refresh the page. Is this supposed to happen? I was assuming that once started, topic monitoring would continue until explicitly told to stop. Thanks in advance for you help (Using FME server 2015.1.1)

I was just curious if anyone might be able to shed some light on an issue that has now popped up after switching everything to smtp.(company name).com yesterday under Manage --> Notifications --> Subscriptions. We get daily updates from jobs that run overnight, and we were still getting them from smtp.(company name).local. But since changing all of the values yesterday to smtp.(company name).com, we got no messages or updates from FME Server last night. Can anyone shed light on why this might be happening? Can you look at the attachment containing the before and the after settings (SMTP Server is all that was changed) and let me know if we need to change anything else about them to allow the messages from FME Server to come through? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. Tony

Hello Before we got the FME server we used a Pyhton script in our FME workbenches to send email notifications to our customers. We sent information like: workbench name, input parameters, error logs, … FME Server has the built in email Notification. By modifying the Email template I was able to send the Job ID, number of written features, time started & time finished, … but wasn't able to send the workbench name. This would be the most important information. Is there a possibility to send the workbench name with the email notification tool? Thanks for any advice. felix

Is there a way to control which file types directory watch processes? I have a process set up to run xml files triggered through directory watch. Folders containing jpgs are also copied to this directory (I have no control over this). These folders trigger the process then fail. Is there some way to tell directory watch to only process xmls?