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gisbradokla
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gisbradoklaEnthusiast
asked in Automation
best method email processing fgdb

I currently have a workspace that i am turning into an automation. Current workspace runs a pathname reader and samples the latest zip file in a specific folder then sends that zipped fgdb to a featurereader using path_windows attribute to get the entire file path. In the automation i am reading the initial email with attachment. I am unfamiliar with flow processes the data from email attachments. I have the attachment contains “myfilename” (I am following this tutorial) . but i will need to completely change my current workspace. I assume i just add an automation as the initiator on my featurereader. Can anyone say this is the most proficient method? Or should i process the zip file and download it to my resource folder and then run it in the same manner i have my current workspace? I don’t have a need for saving the fgdb after processing.

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gisbradokla
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dataman
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datamanContributor
asked in Automation
Language Sever App

Hello everybody! I have a server app to calculate routes. The workspace needs about 3 minutes for that and the user get an english text during the operations (calculating or something like that). But the app is in german language. Can I change those english words into german? thanks a lot in advance!

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luke.hicks
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rzel24
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rzel24Contributor
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How Can I Monitor New Files in Google Drive?

Hello, So we have been using FileExistanceChecker to monitor the addition of new files into our network folders, now we want to do the same for Google Drive Folders. We were hopping someone in the community has had any previous experience on how to do this regardless of the method used. Does anyone has any suggestions on how to do this from FME Form and FME Flow?. Thanks in advance. RZ.-

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rzel24
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cstewartfortsas
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cstewartfortsasContributor
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FeatureReader works in Form but fails in Flow (by trying to read sidecar files)

I have a workspace that filters a folder for the newest .zip file contained within and then uses a FeatureReader to extract shapefiles out of it for further processing. This works perfectly in Form but in a Flow automation where it runs off of a folder watch, it fails with '<filename>.dbf' is not a valid Shapefile and cannot be read. So apparently when operating from Flow the FeatureReader is trying to read the sidecar files. Why? And how can I tell it to stick to .shps? Thank you

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bwn
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chelseawu
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chelseawuContributor
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How to conditionally send out email based on output of a workspace in FME automation?

Hello, I have a flow automation set up to send out email with attachment(s) from a workspace. The output from the workspace include files: f1.xlsx, f2.kmz, and some parameter (e.g. ‘kmzneeded’ with value Yes/No).The email will always send f1.xlsx, but depends on whether or not user draw on the map, then f2.kmz need to be attached. Right now, I configured to include the two file path in server in the email attachment ("$(FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_TEMP)/F1.xlsx" "$(FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_TEMP)/F2.kmz"), so it always emails two files (with incorrect kmz from previously run). Can anyone please help point me a direction how to handle this? Any information is appreciated. 🙏

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chelseawu
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kketola
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kketolaContributor
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Data Streaming Service -> Notify on Completion -> Post Data from Writer -> Automation FME Flow Topic Trigger

Hello Esteemed Community, I have been banging my head on this issue and have tried the help documents, this forum and the academy training to find an answer and am still stumped. I am struggling to access data that I submit with a topic through the data streaming service inside my automation via the FME Flow Topic Trigger. I have successfully tried the FMEFlowNotifier transformer just to see if I could get that working, but it does not fit in line with what I am trying to do which is to post to topics on success or failure at the end. This is what the service properties looks like: Service Properties And the JSON writer: JSON Writer I have tried access the properties both using {job_id} and {data.job_id} but the translation log shows that it uses those values as is. Value Example One of the key issues I have is that I need to set the values to a custom attributes because the parameters I am using them for are number type and it won’t let me type something non-numeric. Custom Attributes

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kketola
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kelin84
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kelin84Contributor
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Revit files is placed different places (France, correct, out of the world) although it works in ArcGIS

Hi, I have something I can’t find my way around in. We have a whole lot of Revit files. At the end we need them at ArcGIS Online as room Polygons and ghosted facades. I created a flow, that worked on the first file, but after that some works, some don’t and I can’t see the difference. I’ve testet and added the files in ArcGIS Pro and defined the correct coordinate system, and they are all placed correctly, using the exact same method, but using FME only some are placed correctly. I’m using a Feature reader using the Danish Coordinate system ESPG 4095, since that’s what have been added to the Revit file, and I’m using a feature writer using the same coordinate system. I was playing around with the Coordinate system to read, it’s not helping me at all, and why should that make any difference when it pops in perfectly in ArcGIS PRO. I hope one can help me understand this. Thanks

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kelin84
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bjoern
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bjoernContributor
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FME Flow Automations Parameter in a Group Box

Hi, In FME Flow (2024.1.1.1) Automations, I cannot set parameter values ​​from a trigger to a workspace when the published parameters are in a group box. There is simply no select button. On the other hand, if I bring the parameter to the first level, it works. Is this a know issue or intentional?

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luke.hicks
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joaniegeo99
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joaniegeo99Contributor
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Scripted parameter values _undefined_ in FME Flow emailer

FME Flow 2023.1.1, Build 23631 - win64 Hello FMEers, I have a simple workspace that is hooked up to a Resource or Network Directory trigger in FME Flow. I connected an emailer to the success port of the action, like so: The workspace contains scripted parameters which get written to an Automations writer called ScriptedParams. I want to get the values of some of the scripted parameters in the email, so through the text editor interface I navigate to Workspace > ScriptedParams > MyParam and it drops {route.ScriptedParams.MyParam} into the body of the email. But when the automation runs I only get the value _undefined_ in the resulting email. If I ONLY connect the emailer to the ScriptedParams port (i.e. delete the success port connection) the values are correctly passed. But of course I want the email to be sent when the workspace runs successfully. So what is the correct way to configure this automation to get the scripted parameters from the workspace into the success email? Thanks!

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joaniegeo99
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chriswilson
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chriswilsonSupporter
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Empty Survey123 Webhook Payload Received by Flow

In the past couple of weeks two previously-reliable webhooks from separate Survey123 surveys to Flow have received empty JSON payloads, or possibly no payload at all, whilst still triggering our respective webhook automations and email actions. Below is what the automation log is showing with nothing seemingly coming through for the feature object: I’m curious as to whether others have observed this recently and whether there may have been a change in the JSON provided by Survey123 - I will enquire to our ESRI vendor/Geonet about that - but thought it also worth posting here from a Flow point of view, not least if we unearth a solution that helps us all. Webhooks were set up following this Safe article https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407775273101-Push-Data-from-ArcGIS-Survey123-to-an-Application-in-Real-time-with-Webhooks We are on Flow Hosted 2023.1.11 Build 23636 - linux-x64

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chriswilson
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jbradfor
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jbradforContributor
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On Call Incident management software integration

We would like to convert a large number of scheduled FME flows we execute today via Autosys. Autosys has built-in integration with our Incident Management system (ServiceNow). So if any FME wokspace fails in the flow, it creates an incident in ServiceNow and our on call person is notified by ServiceNow. Automations in FME Flow have the ability to execute a workspace on failure of a workspace, which could use the ServiceNow API. However, we have many flows with many workspace executions in each flow. We run 15 min, 30 min, hrly and daily flows. What is the recommended best practice to integrate our incident management system into FME Flow. Some of the items: When we publish a workspace to flow what are the recommended services (ie Job submitter, Notification Service)? Flow - in the automation do we connect every workspace failure to a Topic then to a ServiceNow API call workspace to send info like workspace name and error code/msg info too? Or do we call the ServiceNow API call workspac

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sanaeatsafe
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vanessarapior
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vanessarapiorContributor
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FME server 2022 Some or all of the input parameters are invalid

Hello I get this message on FME Server 2022 and I do not know what is wrong.

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siennaatsafe
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evoteck
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evoteckEnthusiast
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issue performing this (FME Flow Connection dialog opens, and he fills it out to connect to FME Flow running on his own machine:)

I am finding it difficult completing the task’s above on the image. how can I check my own username and password set during installation . Get the connection details from your FME Flow Administrator. If you are using FME Flow on your own machine, use http://localhost and your own username and password set during installation.

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evoteck
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swach
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swachContributor
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FME Flow Automation parameters changing by themselves

I have an automation which has a few workbenches which are SQLExectutors that gather parameters and write to automation writers. There are then workbenches which consume these parameters and use them for processing.. In the automation setup I assign the parameters to the incoming attributes. This process runs weekly. It runs successfully but occasionally it starts failing, when I go into the automation it is failing because these parameters have reverted to their default values. I have to re-assign them back to attribute values. How is this happening by itself? This process isn’t being touched by anyone else and will run successfully for months. This is in FME Flow 2023.2.1

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swach
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albjoh
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albjohContributor
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Warning when running automations

Hi, I get warnings when running some automations in FME Flow. Running just the workspaces manually does not give these warnings and all data is written as expected in both cases. Any ideas for what is causing these to appear? Thanks Automation log: 1 2024-04-04T22:00:00+02:00 | 803022 : Dependent parameters: [] 2 2024-04-04T22:00:00+02:00 | 803018 : Expected parameters: [DestDataset_GEODATABASE_SDE, SourceDataset_MSSQL_ADO_3] 3 2024-04-04T22:00:00+02:00 | 803019 : Provided parameters: [SourceDataset_MSSQL_ADO_3] 4 2024-04-04T22:00:00+02:00 | 803019 : Provided parameters: [SourceDataset_MSSQL_ADO_5, SourceDataset_MSSQL_ADO_6, SourceDataset_MSSQL_ADO_7] 5 2024-04-04T22:00:00+02:00 | 803022 : Dependent parameters: [] 6 2024-04-04T22:00:00+02:00 | 803018 : Expected parameters: [] 7 2024-04-04T22:00:00+02:00 | 803022 : Dependent parameters: [] 8 2024-04-04T22:00:00+02:00 | 803018 : Expected parameters: []

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albjoh
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pflegpet
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pflegpetContributor
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Flow REST API Upload curl

Hi, I try to upload a file to the FME Flow Shared Resource Folder via the Flow REST API. When I use Postman the request works as expected but I need to send the request in a command prompt with curl. Of course, first I tried to use the curl that can be generated in Postman but it always returns the error “curl: (26) Failed to open/read local data from file/application. Here are the paramters for the working upload in Postman: POST https://fmeflow/fmerest/v3/resources/connections/FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_DATA/filesys/Test Headers Authorization: fmetoken token=1234 Body (form-data) file: test_upload.txt Postman generates the following curl: curl --location 'https://fmeflow/fmerest/v3/resources/connections/FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_DATA/filesys/Test' --header 'Authorization: fmetoken token=1234' --form 'file=@"/C:/Users/e059231a/Downloads/test_upload.txt"' I already tried to remove the quotes from the filename and to replace the slashes with double backslashes but still get the mentioned error.

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pflegpet
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ingalla
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ingallaContributor
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Send SMS / Text message to users

Hi all I am looking for suggestions as to if FME Flow can automatically send text messages out to members of the public. The scenario is as follows:- The day before a collection is due, FME runs an automation which finds all registered users who have signed up for notifications and live within the collection zone, and then sends a text message out to them to remind them of the collection. Any ideas if this is possible… Thanks Andy

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hkingsbury
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bromp
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brompContributor
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Survey123 not triggering webhook but Postman does

Hi there, I have set up a webhook in Flow that is (supposed to be) triggered by a survey123 submission. I have added the webhook in survey123, saved and updated the survey on my device. I have saved and started the automation in Flow. When i submit a survey there are no event counts running through the automation and there are no logs. I have tried both with https authentication and without and have tried with another very simple survey. When https authentication is off, I can test the webhook via postman which successfully triggers the automation. This could be more of an esri question but is there anything I am missing from this webhook set up?I have other webhooks connecting power automate to my surveys and they work fine. Cheers

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TandraAtSafe
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kelin84
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kelin84Contributor
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How to get input Revit filename for dynamic output in FeatureWriter?

I'm using a FeatureReader to import Revit (*.RVT) files. I need to loop through a folder of Revit files and write the output to a GDB using the same filename as the input Revit file. I'm looking for something like fme.basename, but I can't find it anywhere, neither in the FeatureReader's geometric outputs nor in the schema. I can't find any attribute to expose that would give me the input filename. I've also tried FilenamePartExtractor, but I have nothing to put in the "Source Filename" field. What am I missing here? Thanks

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tomfriedl
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gisbradokla
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gisbradoklaEnthusiast
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type a county name and it runs a workspace app to select features

I would like to either return a kmz county outline (polygon) or be able to use a polygon as input to an workspace app by typing the name of the county filter first on state then on county. I currently have a workspace app that accepts drag and drop kmz files. it filters lines points and polygons and buffers or not around the features then it hull accumulates or not. Then it does a spatial filter on a postgis db to return an aggregated table to excel file and creates a download. I recently added the kmz creation of the non aggregated features to the download. I have set up a few of the kmz county outlines but wondered about just making a dataset available and then punching in the county name to do the query for the input. I would also (pie in the sky) like to keep the drag and drop (AOI) kmz input to this app. Is this something someone has done?

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todd_davis
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ahmadrezakarim
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ahmadrezakarimContributor
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TemplateSyntaxError with Jinja2 in PythonCaller on FME Flow, but Works Locally

Hello FME Community, I’m encountering a puzzling issue with a Jinja2 template that I’m running through the PythonCaller in FME Flow. The template works perfectly fine on my local machine, but when I deploy the same script on FME Flow, I receive the following error: Python Exception <TemplateSyntaxError>: expected token 'end of print statement', got 'X' Context: The Jinja2 template is used to generate a Contract document with placeholders that are populated at runtime. Below is a simplified version of the template: Contract1. A Person with these Details 2. Name: {{ tag1 }} Postcode: {{ tag2 }} Date of Birth: {{ tag3 }} E-mailadres: {{ tag4 }} {% for compensation in compensation%} located at the* / the*: {{ fee.tag70 }} section: {{ fee.tag4 }} number(s): {{ fee.tag5 }} {% endfor %} Steps Taken: Local Testing: The template renders correctly when I run it locally using Python (same Jinja2 template) on my machine. FME Flow Execution: When running the same script on FME Flow, it fails with t

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ahmadrezakarim
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pvmvirus
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pvmvirusParticipant
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How do i dissolve line segments into longer lines

Hi, I am trying to connect transmission lines to POIs using the PointonLineOverlayer but before that i wanted to dissolve all the transmission lines into a singular line/polyline. The issue I am having is that regardless of what I try I am getting breaks in the lines where there isn’t supposed to be any like in the image below. I am trying to use a combination of the generalizer, snapper, intersector, and linecombiner transformers but these breaks still persist. I even tried to buffer the lines, dissolve and then use centerline replacer and they persisted. Would appreciate any advice on this manner.

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bwn
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ewb_fme
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ewb_fmeContributor
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Token (Web Connection) does not refresh and all Workflows fail on FME Server

I have a Web Connection configured that I use in my HTTPCallers as Authentication. This works fine on FME Desktop and also works for some time after uploading to FME Server. But after an hour or so (the expiry time of the token) all workflows on FME Server fail. So my guess is that the Web Connection does not refresh the TOKEN. Do you have any recommendations? My Web Service Settings: Acces Token Request: Request URL: configured Request Data: configured Access Token Response: Token Object Key: serviceResponse.access_token Expiry Time Object Key: serviceResponse.expires_in Expiry Time Format: Duration (Seconds) API Call Parameters: Placement: Header Header Format: Authorization: Bearer [TOKEN] This is the error log I get: `_error' has value `HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized' `_http_status_code' has value `401' `_response_body' has value `{ "statusCode": 401, "message": "GW-Unauthorized. Access token is missing or invalid." }'

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tschoppenhof
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rosh
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roshContributor
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How to create a loop that goes through multiple schemas?

Hello everyone, I need to create a loop in FME 2021, this loop would allow me to be able to browse several tables of several schemas of my database to retrieve a specific column "last_update" and then sort this column to retrieve the "last update date". So I would like to retrieve the "last update date" of all my tables but I don't know how to create a loop in FME 2021! Thank you for your help!

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hkingsbury
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dataman
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datamanContributor
asked in Automation
Server App - calculate shortest route to several schools

Hey everyone,ich have a nice use case in our city: we want to offer a service where families can look which school is the nearest. My Idea was an app Server to create with only one field in order to type one Address. The System should calculate all the routes to the schools in the city (these addresses are known) and visualize them as a list or/and in a map as a result of the server app. Do you think this is possible? I need first of all a FME workbench with an address and a file with the school addresses and calculate the routes and I have problems to get it. If this task is done, do you think is it possible to show as output the list with the distances and the routes in a map? many thanks in advance!

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redgeographics
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