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 The FME Server Administrator's Guide indicates that configuration files must be modified in order to setup FME Server to receive emails: FME Server Admin Guide: Configuring FME Server to Receive E-mailBecause the file system is not available on FME Cloud, is this necessary? 

Is there a reason why I get multiple notifications on a create topic when only one file is copied into the folder?I have done some testing with a reasonably small file (8mb) and when copied I get a total of 17 notifications published to the topic that has been set up as a directory watch, as you can imagine if multiple files are copied I get some major notification spam. I have noticed that there is a setting for 'Modify' (time to wait after modify) so that if multiple sequential notifications that are sent they can be ignored. Is there something like that for 'Create' that I am not aware of? I am really only looking for 1 notification for 1 fileI seem to be getting some unexpected results, has anyone else had success dealing with similar issues?

Hi.I'm working with directory watch and facing some issues. Sometime the trigger fires the workspace properly (once) and sometime it fires it several times (more than ten) in a second. Not clear to me what's happening. The workspace simply runs a sql command and (exiting python procedure) sends an email.Thanks for supportRoberto

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Hi all,I've just used the Emailer transformer for the first time. And I've run into a curious issue.I've added a local service mail address as BCC to all emails, but when I review the emails in the service inbox, they all seem to have no TO entry. However, some of the external TO adresses I'm sending to responds with an error, so they've obviously gotten an email.Is that caused by the Emailer sending separate mails to TO and BCC (and CC) ?Is this a bug or WAD ?Cheers Lars I

I have a directory watch publication which notifies a topic which in turn notifies a subscription which runs a workspace. From a user standpoint, the workspace runs when a file is dropped into the directory being watched. I would like FME Server to notify me when the workspace fails in any way, not just under a specific condition(s). I can force the workspace to fail (by dropping the wrong file type in the directory) and can see it failed in the list of jobs. Can I utilize that somehow? Or should I use Notification Message Mapping in the subscription settings? The help for Notification Message Mapping is vague to me; I don't understand the specifics. Anyway, if someone could suggest a solution to email me when the workspace fails I would appreciate it. (FME Server 2016.1.0.1 Build 16494, Win32)

Hi,I'm faced with sending circa 10000 emails to clients from FME. That's one email per user per feature.There are only some 10 mail receivers, the huge number comes from sending them each many notifications.If I want to gather all notifications into a single email per receiver, what is the best/easiest way to achieve that ?I can aggregate the individual notification content into a list per receiver, but where to go from there ?Cheers Lars I

I have a publication that monitors a folder for new files that are created.I also have a working workspace that takes any number of files from a network location and uploads them where I they need to go. When trying to set up a subscription I get the following errorI have been able to run the workspace on its own however it fails when initiated by the topic.I can see the SourceDataset_PATH parameter is missing from the log but.Published Parameters Parameter Value SourceDataset_PATH FME_TOPIC_MESSAGE$(FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_SYSTEM)temp/subscriptions/277a9c3190634de39102c05756666082.json FME_TOPICDatasetWatchstatusMessageParameter 'SourceDataset_PATH' must be given a value. Any ideas?

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 possibili

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?

HiWe 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 regardsGuha,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 belowTue-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 +0100Tue-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

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

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.

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