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No more Schedule Categories in FME Flow ???


agelfert
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Upgrading from FME Server 2022 to Flow 2024.2, Very frustrating to see no Schedule Categories in FME Flow 2024.2! WHY ? Instead of finally making the tabular Schedules page sortable (how old is that idea?) or adding some useful filtering, it’s now time for tagging? Man!

All my workspaces are organized by repository. Have been for years. My Schedules were organized by Categories, which matched Repository names. What was wrong with that? Go ahead and add tagging but why remove the categories? If I’m missing something, please let me know and I will gladly stand corrected. 

My real concern here is not with having to invent tags and changing my ways. Rather it’s the fear that Safe is becoming more like ESRI where changes seem to get rolled out not in an effort to improve the product but to make it look like the dev teams are constantly working. Please don’t follow their lead. FME has been my haven of sanity and productivity over the years when ESRI bugs shut me down. I can ignore the silly rebranding and I can swallow the tags. But let’s stop there. 

 

PS: Community posts appear to allow both Category and Tags. What a great idea! 😀

redgeographics
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Hmmm… I can’t seem to find any reference to tags in the v3 API, so a potential quick fix using the API to turn your categorey names into tags isn’t going to work.


agelfert
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  • December 10, 2024

I think this here may have been offered as a work-around.

https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/31522211518605-Known-Issue-FME-Flow-Schedule-Categories-are-Not-Converted-to-Tags-Upon-Migration

Sounds way too complicated for fixing something that IMHO should never have been changed.


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