Automation

Due to the changing license model of SAFE, the license file now needs to be updated every year.In order to not forget that, I am trying to create an Automation that gets triggered by the License About To Expire trigger, but I am not sure when this trigger occurs. Is it one week before or one month?I can’t find anything in the documentation. System Events

Hello,I’ve recently turned on Version Control a few days ago and just got around to setting up a Remote Repository (GitHub), I’ve just ‘pushed to remote’ for the first time, and I’ve noticed there are only 3 items on my GitHub repo, while I have 100+ workbenches uploaded.I assume this has just uploaded items which have changed since I turned on Verion Control a few days ago. I was hoping enabling remote repo would push all of my workbenches to github. What is the best way to proceed? I want to get all of the items uploaded to my github repo, not just changes, so I have a backup of all of the items on Flow.Thanks.

Hi, It must be stunningly simple however we miss the clue, but we're trying to get FME Server to accept Single Sign-On logins. We connected to Active Directory, that seems to work nice since we can use a user and password from the domain and log in, that's a success. Mon-13-Nov-2017 04:20:33.924 PM  INFORM  RequestHandler-Thread  401831 : Accepted new client connection from /127.0.0.1 on port 7,071Mon-13-Nov-2017 04:20:33.926 PM  INFORM  RequestHandler-Thread  401933 : Successful login by user XX99999However, when we press the Use Windows Credentials the login is denied and fmeserver.log shows this error message:Mon-13-Nov-2017 04:23:22.734 PM  INFORM  RequestHandler-Thread  401831 : Accepted new client connection from /127.0.0.1 on port 7,071Mon-13-Nov-2017 04:23:22.770 PM  INFORM  RequestHandler-Thread  408043 : (Single Sign-On)  Enabled single sign-on authentication.Mon-13-Nov-2017 04:

I want a workspace to run on FME Flow at 11pm with a user initiating it at some point within the working day.Currently thinking of having the workspace run within an automation, which is scheduled to run daily at 11pm. User would enable the automation, workspace would run at 11pm and then trigger a second workspace which makes a http call to stop the automation. So the workspace is only run once and won’t run again until the process is repeated.Any ideas of a better way to do this?

I have an email in Outlook (Exchange) and hope that it is possible to read the emails with FME Desktop. Does anyone now how to do that?Regards,Morten Friis

I have been provided some .raml files, but unclear how I interrogate; can anyone advise? 

While trying to create a workspace app , I find ‘Service’ dropdown to be empty (pic2). However, I see ‘Job Submitter’ as service in the published workspace (pic1). May be I am missing something as we just started using FME products. Thanks for your review and input.

I am leaning how to do the engine management in FME Flow 2024 at the moment. I had setup 2 extra queues out of default queue, but I only create 1 active period for one of the queue. Then I found out all jobs within another queue were in “Queued” state. My questions are:Do I have to setup active period to cover all queues? When 1 queue was setup in active period, how does other queue(s) work? What the default behaviour in active period. When the jobs in “Queued” state, can I resume it to run rather than re-submit the job and delete the existing “Queued” job?Thanks,Henry from TfNSW 

HalloI am currently experiencing an issue where a running job becomes stuck and cannot be canceled via the FME Flow Web UI. Even after restarting FME Flow, the job remains in a "running" state. When restarting the FME Flow Application Server, Core, and Engine, the Automation restarts but gets stuck again.The following error message is displayed:2025-07-28 16:43:11 | AUTOMATIONS writer: FME Flow error: `FME Flow error: UNPROCESSABLE_REQUEST(Automations) Route "Param_Bundle" does not exist`I have already tried both options mentioned in this article:https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/29779782496141-Known-Issue-Job-Submitted-from-Automation-is-Stuck-Running-and-Cannot-be-CancelledUnfortunately, neither resolved the issue.Could

Hello to the community,I successfully set up an fme flow automation with a final action to send out an smtp email via our email server. The connection to this email server with the “SMTP Account” is valid and successfully tested and mails were sent. But the “SMTP Account” is not setup to receive emails at all.When i try to change the parameter “Email From” in the “email send” action to a different mail address than the used “SMTP Account”, our mail server denies to send out the email as a different user.This is for security reasons.But i want the email recipients to be able to just reply to an incoming email without changing the mail address. Further I don’t want to place a hint in every mail that it is not possible to simply reply to this mail without changing the address.Is there another way to change the smtp header parameter “replyto” for the email send action in fme flow?Thank you very much for any help and hintsbest regards

Hi,  What is the approach to pull the username information from the active directory ? Use case: My role on FME flow is admin and I publish the workspaces using the create workspace app. The workspace links are provided to end users (they don't have any user profile created on FME flow) and all they do is simply use the link to ingest the file and use the generated output. My ask is what is needed to integrate the AD to the FME flow and if the user profiles must be created on FME Flow in order to fetch the user information? I want to imprint the user name ( user who executes the job ) and display it on the reconciliation report?

Hello everyone,I have a short question. How can I share an automation app so that an user doesn't need to  authenticate. himself/herself? I am able to share workspace apps with users by disabling the Require Authentication button, but I can't find something like that for an automation app.I also looked at manage token and enabled some options with Automation, but still the autonmation app does require an user to authenticate himself/herself. 

I have a folder that contains various zipped shapefiles that I am trying to export to a geodatabase. This folder is updated regularly and the shapefiles are points, lines and polygons. How can I read in and then export them to the geodatabase without needing to worry about the geometry type? I have looked into generic readers and writers but I have not been able to figure how to get them to work.

Does anyone have any hints and tips for testing automations in fme server 2019?ExamplesI have a scheduled automation and want to test whether an email gets sent correctly reporting on job success or failure, do i have to manually change the schedule to 5 minutes in the future to do this or is there another way?I want to check whether an email that is constructed using user-keys returns the correct output, do I have to artificially construct workspaces that fail to check the fail part of the automation?I'm thinking that creating a dummy workspace with a parameter that will control a pass or fail result is and building the automation with this initially might be the way to go but wonder if I'm missing something?

I have an Oracle SQL database containing about 200 tables, with tables containing anywhere from 5 to 700000 records. I want to figure out which one of those tables contain records we actually modified over the past two years, preferably without having to query all 200 tables for a record containing a last_modified date after January 1st 2023. Would there be a quick way to just return the table names for every table containing a record that contains one or more records matching the criteria?

Hello everyone,I was trying to create a webhook based on my colleague's workspace, which I want to invoke using an HTTP Send action in an automation. My colleague used group boxes in his script to neatly organize the user parameters.The strange thing is that when I try to create a webhook from his workspace, the user parameters are not available. However, if I make a copy of his workspace, remove the group boxes, upload it to FME Flow, and then create a webhook based on that version, the user parameters do appear in the webhook URL.I also tried manually copying the parameters my webhook url to my colleague’s webhook URL to test if it would work, but I received an error. This error does not seem to appear when in the workspaces the user parameters are not grouped within group boxes.Has anyone experienced this behavior before? Does anyone know if this is a bug—where user parameters placed inside group boxes are not recognized in a

Hi All - I have done this multiple types with different data formats/inputs (e.g., Excel, CSV, Shapefiles) with no issue. However, I can’t seem to be able to allow end-users to select a fgdb from their drive and use as an input for the script (very simple script which converts Feature Class to other formats). The Workbench works perfectly fine via setting up a User Parameter which is linked to the ESRI File Geodatabase FeatureReader. I could even add another User Parameter to allow users to select specific Feature Classes for the script which is handy too but not necessary (linked to Feature Types to Read).However, once this is published in Flow then the interface doesn’t allow for the end-user to “Upload Files” like other Self-Serve Apps I have created. You only have the option to “Browse Resources” which doesn’t let you browse your computer to select the relevant File Geodatabase. Note that I have tweaked with the User Parameter “Item to Select” choice

Hello, I’m new to working with Flow automations and still fairly beginner level with FME. I appreciate any guidance you can provide.The WorkspaceI am working with ArcGIS Online and Field Maps. We have teams in the field everyday collecting data. At the end of the day I run a workspace that tidies up their tracklogs and calculates how many km they covered and hours spent.I’m using 2024.2 build 24783 for both Form and Flow.What I want to achieveHaving this data in the feature service isn’t enough. I also want an email summarising this information.How can I do this with Flow Automations?What I’ve triedWith the Email action I see options to send basic information like attaching the log, how much time it took to run, what time it ran, but I want more detailed information to show in the email. The information is an FME Feature Attribute created in the workspace pictured below.

Hi,I’ve developed a workbench that scans a selected folder and generates an Excel document listing its contents. I’d like to publish it to FME Flow, allowing users to input a folder path from the same PC where the workspace is executed. However, the app is currently failing. Is this setup possible?

Hi all! First post here, so I’m excited to get some feedback!For context, I do a report on our organization’s EV chargers every month. In this report, I need to calculate the average time of day people are charging, the average charge time (duration), and the total duration.Currently, I am unable to get the average duration and the total duration.Here’s my processConvert the time to FME format using a DateTimeConverter Sum and average the times using a SatisticsCaclulator I attempt to convert the summary back into H:MM...But then I am met with the below error: Where am I going wrong?

Hi there, I know it is possible to use attributes from a workspace in a Flow automation by using the automation writer, however that seems to only work if you connect the output port of the automation writer to your next action in Flow. I need a way to use these values in a later event without connecting the port.Scenario:Webhook trigger → runs a workspace to create a report that is then stored in a resource folder, also outputs a few attributes that i want to use in the body of my email action. I then have a resource or network directory trigger that fires when a new file is added, this triggers an email to be sent. The issue:If i connect the automation writer port to the email action then i end up with two emails. One contains the attributes in the body but with no attachment. the other contains the attached file but is missing the attributes.Any help would be much appreciated,Cheers

I see there’s already an Idea for providing the option for versioning Automations in FME Flow but the Idea was created 5 years ago and there doesn’t seem to have been any traction on it.So, in the absence of any official support from Safe, what are people doing with regard to creating and saving versions of Automations?Currently, if I make a change to an Automation but then need to revert that change there’s no way of doing it once it’s been saved.The only workaround for this I can think of is to make a Project containing the Automation and then manually exporting the project (and saving it to a version control system) before making any changes to the Automation. The obvious problem with this is that it relies on:remembering to export a Project before making any Automation changes making sure the Project name is consistent (hard to do with multipl

Hello everyone,I have some experience with Workspace apps, but not as much with Automation apps. In my previous work with Workspace apps, I created an app that is based on user input on a map. When a user clicks on the Run button, the "Running..." button appears. Once the script finishes successfully, the user can download a ZIP file by clicking on the Datadownload URL.Now, I’m trying to build something similar using an Automation app, but I’ve found the process to be quite different.Based on the following post, I’ve set up the following: I have a manual trigger that includes a manual parameter called "Geometry" (GEOM). This GEOM parameter is then used in the subsequent Workspace.

Hi guys we have a generic translator app built in workspace app. however we often has issue when there’s no output written (file generated for download) or translation failed. on the app it still display process completed but return no download link.  Im using downloading service on writter outputs but wondering if there’s a way to let it return a message or simplely inform user traslation failed / error occured / or no output was generated. thanks!

Hello,I have automation which triggers a workbench and has to send result file on email in the end.The resulted excel file has dynamic name with @DateTimeNow parameter.How to set that automation takes the correct file? If I add fixed name, it works fine but I don’t know how to make it for dynamic name. Could anyone help, please?