Automation

I’m sure I read somewhere you cannot have multiple triggers (of a certain type) in an automation, but I don’t know if this was only valid for some old versions of FME Server.The thing is that a customer has FME 2022.2.2 and asks us to give them indications to build an automation (they’re not giving us access to their FME Server, which makes everything a bit tedious). I planned to have 2 webhook triggers, each of them would execute a workspace and both workpaces would be connected to the same ‘Send email’ external action. Each workspace would have 2 additional ports with the ‘email to’ and a pdf to attach to the mail to send.Now, is this possible in a 2022.2.2 automation or should I build 2 separate automations?Thanks!

Hello,I’m looking to trigger a workspace with a webhook which generates zipped data using the data download service which then provides that data link URL in a customized email to the user.I’ve setup an Automation to be triggered by a webhook which will run a workspace that generates the data (and outputs the information for the email with an Automation writer). I’ve got this launching another script that uses the first script’s JOBID along with an HTTPCaller to get the URL link which is then output using an Automation writer. This is finally passed through a Log and then on to an Email external action that uses the email information and the URL to generate a custom email with the download URL.However, when I trigger the automation, no URL is generated (even though the process works) as the workspace is not run with the Data Download service. I assume it defaults to Job Submitter. Is there a way to run a workspace in an Automation and make it use the data download service?If not, how c

I have a workbench that work fine on desktop and server with the job submiter.But if i use it with a workspace app on FME Flow 2022, the optional user parameter must be set.  I cannot leave blank.  any idea why or how to correct that problem.thanks! Edit : My app has the “authentification” activated.  if I desactivate the “authentification”… app works fine.

Hello community,I am currently facing problems uploading files to FME Flow. Previously I was handling this with a “FMEFlowResourceConnector”. One of our instances was now updated to version FME Flow 2024.2 (Build 24783 - win64).As the transformer “FMEFlowResourceConnector” was deprecated in FME 2024.1.0 (and it anyway refused to work with the transformer) I tried to go directly through the Flow REST API with a POST request. My request:/fmerest/v3/resources/connections/{connection}/filesys/{path}In my concrete example:/fmerest/v3/resources/connections/FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_DATA/filesys/Test I get this as a response:"message": "Error communicating with FME Flow host XXXXXX.\nContact your FME Flow administrator who can investigate the log files for further details.\nAlso see: http://fme.ly/e100007#error-communicating-with-fme-server-hostConnection refused: connect" However, when I try the same approach on my local installed Flow (same version), it works using this POST request. Does anyone h

Hi all,I removed/deleted several automations in FME Flow (Server), I stopped most of them, but probably not all. All these automations were monitoring the same folder, and for some reason they are still running and processing jobs.How can I completely delete them?I have already tried restarting FME services and restarting the server, but that didn't solve the issue.

An automation reads a message from a JMS queue and should trigger a workspace, the message content is passed as an automation parameter. This message is valid json, however we’ve had some cases where the message is something along the lines of{ "ID": "1234", "Notes": "Careless typing} includes a right hand curly brace"}This is valid json but the job fails with a status of FME_FAILURE and a statusMessage of  "extra characters after close-brace". How should the message be passed to the workspace if json like the above example leads to failure to submit? 

HelloWhat are the prerequisites to be able to run Automation on a FME Flow instance?When I try to build and test/run an automation I keep getting an error:Unable to assemble automation. There was an issue with component "Workspace". Subscriber configuration does not exist.It does not really matter what I add as action in the Automation. I keep getting this similar error.The FME Flow I am using is running in a Kubernetes environment on an Azure cloud with one Engine using version 2024.1.In the end my question is is it the set up that does not allow Automatons or is there possibly something missing in my installation? Or any other reason that I can not see? Unfortunately I was unable to find any thing in the documentation or any where that could explain this

 Hei,on the webside about Troubleshooting SharePoint Web Connections and Services – FME Support CenterIt says “If the application is single tenant then you should have the directory (tenant) id in the URL instead.”Unfortunately, I can’t see where to find/change this URL. Where should I register the tenant ID?Can somebody point me in the right direction?Thank you. 

Hello,I am working on converting point cloud data from the E57 format to the LAS format. However, I’ve encountered an issue with the intensity component.In the original E57 file, the intensity values range between 0 and 1. After the conversion, the intensity values in the LAS file become a constant integer with five digits.I would appreciate any guidance or suggestions on how to retain the original intensity format during the conversion process.

The trigger is an incoming IMAP email with potentially more than one attachment. I wasn’t able to use the “Send Event As JSON” option because the email body is being delivered as HTML which fouls up the JSON parser in FME Flow. So I’m sending individual components of the email to a workbench+From:{email.from}+Subject:{email.subject}+Sent:{email.sent}+BodyType:{email.contentType}+Attachments:{email.attachments}+Body:{email.body} I’m splitting up the individual sections of the delivered data in the workbench using StringSearchers with Regex. I wind up with a string with the location that email attachments have been saved to in Flow, which is something like this:$(FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_TEMP)20250121124721-IMAP_Email_Testing-FW_Attachment_test-98e024d4-2316-4cd5-9905-1eb756d02a09I’ve been struggling with what to do with this string in order to access the attachments to save them somewhere on the network. The ultimate goal is to have the inbound email trigger a workbench that automatically cre

FME Flow 2024.1 Build 24612 - distributed setupI’m raising with Safe but if anyone has any bright ideas before Vancouver wakes up :-)Recently upgraded our pre-production environment to the above version. Noticed an issue however with some jobs getting stuck in a queued state and never moving on. The jobs are triggered by automation that runs every 10 minutes and assigns the jobs to a specific queue which in turn has two engines available. Sometimes the job gets submitted and runs successfully, sometimes the job gets put in a queue where it remains forever.  e.g. the job triggered at 11:20 was processed successfully, the job triggered at 11:30 ended up in the queue, the job triggered at 11:40 was processed as expected The automation log (running in debug mode) doesn’t show any errors or warnings, the queued jobs show as submitted but with no other information Other perhaps relevant information, the jobs should also expire once in the queue beyond a certain length of time and that is not

I have an workbench published in FME Flow which gathers parameters then passes them in an automation to workbenches which use them.  I am using an Automations writer in it.  When I try to run it in FLOW it gives the error:AUTOMATIONS writer: FME Flow error: `FME Flow error: `UNPROCESSABLE_REQUEST(Automations) Route "NewFeatureType" does not exist''I have never used this writer type before. Does it need to be registered on the server or something?

I’m using an IMAP email trigger for an automation where I’m using the content of the email in a workbench with the goal of delivering a JSON payload to Cityworks to automatically create a new Work Order.I’ve set up a User Parameter in the workbench to receive data from the the email. When I use the “Event as JSON” option for the parameter in FME Flow, the message body is being delivered to the workbench as HTML. This crashes the JSON being delivered. Everything up to the body is fine, but the message body doesn’t make it over, and everything that follows the body is also lost.I’ve been able to get the message content into a workbench by using the individual headings such as “Email Body”, “Email Subject”,  “Sent from Address” headings in Flow as the parameters to pass, but doing it this way does not allow you to use the JSON transformers in the workbench.Essentially what I am needing to do is receive JSON formatted data in a workbench from the IMAP email trigger, create attributes from

Hi, is it possible to upload a file to the FME Flow shared resource folder through the Flow REST API? I tried to setup a POST request for fmerest/v3/resources/connections/<resource>/filesys/<path> but get a 415 Unsupported Media Type Response. I used the following parameters in Postman:In this example I want to upload the text file “test.txt” to the shared resource folder “Test”. Is there a problem with the request, or is this the wrong approach for uploading a file via the REST API? The goal would be to provide a means for external applications to upload files that are then processed by FME Flow. Thank you for your help!

hello all, I have 2 sets of data with no fields which I can join on (for Feature Merger transformer)I would like to keep the 1 set of data (ieqm2023) with its geometry and attributes and add to it the attributes ONLY from the 2nd dataset (ieqm2025) where geometry overlaps with the (ieqm2023) geometry.  so for instance I want the same numbers of records (ieqm2023 - 1,880,638 ) afterwards only with more fields (from 2nd dataset)    (see attached) I was thinking an Aggregator or an area on areaOverlayer transformer might work? but I have had no luck getting the correct result so far. thanks and much appreciated for any help!! 

Hey. I need some directions, please. I currently have several workspaces that I need to run chronologically. They are workspaces that process data, and they include WS that perform operations on the database. What is important is that each subsequent workspace is run based on the previous ws running correctly. My idea would be a sort of queue where each succesfly status of the previous ws would trigger the ws following it. This whole thing should then run on the server. Maybe a workspacerunner? Or something else?Thanks

Hi All, I want to extract detailed log messages from FME job running on FME Flow (Ver 2021.2.3). What options are available to extract this information along with basic job information like Workspace, Repository, user, source, start and end time. etc. Appreciate any feedback. Jay    

I am trying to create an automation using a trigger that watches a directory. If a file in the directory is added/created it launches an FME Workspace. However I keep getting the following error:2024-12-14T20:10:08Z | 410109 : (Automations) Creating link from trigger...3 2024-12-14T20:10:08Z | 410108 : (Automations) Creating dirwatch trigger...4 2024-12-14T20:10:08Z | 410112 : (Automations) Unable to assemble automation. There was an issue with component "Trigger". Publisher dirwatch does not exist.The same thing happens when I try add a trigger that watches an FTP? and I get the same error when trying to add a Publication under the Notification.What am I missing? Do I need to add something special for a trigger to work? is it possible that I am missing some part of FME?I am working with a FME FLOW 2024.1that is in a Azure Kubernetes cluster.Any help or hint that could explain the error is highly appreciated.

Hi everyone,I’ve created a python script that has the docx library and arcpy library imported in it that takes field values from a GIS feature class and writes it to a docx document successfully. I would like to trigger the python script to run every time that feature class in an enterprise geodatabase is updated.I am working in the 11.3 Enterprise Environment and have come across this support page regarding implementing webhooks and FMEhttps://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407414850061-Integrating-ArcGIS-Enterprise-Feature-Service-Webhooks-With-FMEI will attempt to do the above, but I have a simple question regarding the FME workspace itself.I have read up on the PythonCreator and PythonCaller transformers, with the PythonCreator not requiring an inpput. If all I want is an update to the GIS feature class to trigger the python script to run, would the FME workspace just have a PythonCreator with the python script in it and a logger? Or would it be more beneficial to have a Crea

I have a process that writes a number of graphs to a folder on the network.  It works great in FME Form.  If I attempt to publish this workspace to FME Flow as a Job Submitter it doesn’t write the files to the folder at all like the same file does at the desktop level.  The output path is set up in an RCaller so there isn’t a Writer in the .fmw script like normal.  There are zero errors on the desktop side, and I have made sure the FME Flow portion no R packages are causing errors.  When I run this process, I receive zero errors in Flow, but none of the files write to the directory.  The end process would be that a person could upload a number of spreadsheets run this process from a webpage (Flow) and the output would show up in their department’s folder.  I read in the community about it possibly writing to another directory and I attempted to check that out without success.  Any help or guidance would be appreciated.  

I tried to find an alternative transformer for the system caller to do the pg_dump, but even that did not work out.

Hi,When I run a workspace via an App I get the following error:Microsoft Azure SQL Database Non-Spatial Writer: A suitable Microsoft SQL Server OLE Driver is not found. Install Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server from http://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=56730 I can see from earlier on in the logs that it failed to connect :Microsoft Azure SQL Database Non-Spatial Writer: Failed to connect using Microsoft OLE DB Driver 19 for SQL Server. Provider error ''. When I run the same workspace from “Run workspace” it connects and runs fine:Microsoft Azure SQL Database Non-Spatial Writer: Trying to connect using Microsoft OLE DB Driver 19 for SQL Server…Microsoft Azure SQL Database Non-Spatial Writer: Starting execution of BEGIN_SQL commands I tried deleting the app and creating it again but that didn’t seem to work. TIA

I am sure that there is a solution within fme flow automation, but meanwhile I am pulling my hair for not finding it…The scenario:Through a directory watcher triggered automation, I import the content of a variety of geopackage files into postgis tables with corresponding names. This part runs well.For some of these tables, I have ElasticSearch indices, which have to be rebuilt after table import. For the indexing, I have a repo on the flow server named Elastic-Indexer, and therein are workspaces with names corresponding to some of the tables. (n.b. not all tables have corresponding indexer workspaces)Now I try to build up a dynamic system that gets notified with the schema.tablename after import and runs - if it exists - a workspace with a matching name from the Elastic-Indexer repository. My first idea was to read the workspace names from that repository and call the workspace if the name matches, but a) I was not able to read the workspace names and b) this solution looks clunky whe

Hello :) I have some workbenches on the FME Server 2022 and I get for all of them the error:2024-12-11 13:37:46 | java.sql.SQLException: Query failed (#20241211_123746_28965_mxxee): Unknown transaction ID: f6d2afb3-c2fa-4417-970c-375bf47d1c9f. Possibly expired? Commands ignored until end of transaction blockIs that something I can fix or is it a Server error that only admins can fix? It is some time ago I was running the workbench. I tested one on my Laptop for a small country and it went good. all other countries are too big that is why I choose the FME Server. Any suggestions of what I can do?Vanessa

We are running into issues with the user parameter file inputs for Automation Apps.  In this case our end user wants to upload a new csv file every time they run the automation app, and they want to upload it from their local computer/machine.  Right now the only way to accept this user input is to have the csv file uploaded to a data store in FME Server, prior to selecting it as a user parameter, and then running the automation app.  We noticed that this problem doesn't happen for workspace applications and they can upload local files directly as the end user, with no need to upload it to the data store in fme server prior.  Is it possible to have our end user run an automation app and upload the user parameter directly from their local machine?