Automation

How to set FME Flow Schedule (under Automations) to run quarterly? I’ve tried the following CRON expressions: 0 0 1 */3 * and 0 0 1 3,6,9,12 * FME throws an error for both of these expressions. Is there a known work around? Note: I do not want to use Schedules.

Hello there,I’m looking into finding how to decide on the actual geometry type of a MultiGeometry feature using python API. How to know which OGC type it is ? MultiPoint, MulitLineString or MultiPolygon.I need this for reporting on ingested data types. class FeatureProcessor(object): """Template Class Interface: When using this class, make sure its name is set as the value of the 'Class to Process Features' transformer parameter. """ def input(self, feature: fmeobjects.FMEFeature): """This method is called for each feature which enters the PythonCaller. Processed input features can be emitted from this method using self.pyoutput(). If knowledge of all input features is required for processing, then input features should be cached to a list instance variable and processed using group processing or in the close() method. """ feature_type_name = feature.getAttribute("fme_feature_type") if feature_type_name not in self.feature_types: self.feature_types[feature_type_name] = { "count": 0, "g

We have 3 automations that run in parallel (with a slight time offset) and each is identical but runs workbench(1) workbench(2) and workbench(3) so they can run without clashing. One of the parameters for these is a gdb connection file reference which is stored in Resources...Data. However to load this from a workbench we have either no value or a local file path in this parameter and this is edited in the automation to reference the resource file. Periodically one of these automations (not always the same one) will start to fail because when I look the parameter has reset to the default value. There seems to be no rhyme nor reason to this. The last one to fail was number 3 so today I’ve tried to recreate that automation from scratch. What i really need is a guaranteed fix for this so it doesn’t happen when we go to production. We are processing a large queue of data and in production need all 3 streams to be active. thanksRob

Hi, What timezone are FME Server Schedules supposed to be operating in? I currently have a Schedule, set to “Once a Day” at 2.00am, and the job is being triggered at 1.00am each morning. After daylight savings this year, the job on the Schedule moved backward by an hour. I also currently have an Automation Trigger schedule set to “Once a Day” at 12.30am, and the job is being triggered at 1.30am. After daylight savings this year, the job on the Schedule moved forward by an hour. Last month, these were triggering at the correct time, but not any more. The Automation is running in UTC, and the Schedule’s timezone is unknown or invalid. Time jumped forward, not backward. Can these be made to respect server local time? FME Server 2022.2Build 22765

Our team uses GitHub, VS Code and FME Workbench for our data engineering projects with good results. Now we want to leverage FME Flow to automate the deployment of FME assets upon a GitHub merge to the Staging and Production environments. I would appreciate any suggestions or experiences in this regard.

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.

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!

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.-

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

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. 🙏

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

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

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?

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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: []

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.

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

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

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

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?