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FME Flow REST API (via Data Virtualization) Asynchronous Job Status Values - Complete vs Success

  • September 2, 2026
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chriswilson
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I was checking through the list of possible job status for an asynchronous (Data Virtualization) workflow I have going and didn’t find a definition for ‘complete’, or a comparison of that value to ‘success’.  I was referring to the REST API V4 documentation here: https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/38420159907213-Submitting-a-Job-through-the-FME-Flow-REST-API-V4

 

Would someone with familiarity around those statuses be able to clarify the meaning of ‘complete’ and how it contrasts to ‘success.  AI relented from guessing and admitted it didn’t know.

 

An update to this is that ‘complete’ is not listed in the OpenAPI spec for the FME Flow REST API V4, so at this stage is the documentation incorrect?

https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/fmeapiv4/docs/schema/static.json

          "status": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The current status of this job",
"enum": [
"queued",
"running",
"success",
"failure",
"cancelled"
]
},
          

Best answer by zoe.forbes

Hi ​@todd_davis and ​@chriswilson,

Sorry for the delayed response, I’ve was out of office last week. This is definitely a mistake - I’ll update the article! I had a quick look at previous builds of the API docs and couldn’t see the complete status anywhere so not entirely sure where it came from.

Thanks for pointing this out, the article update should be approved within 24 hours by our Knowledge team. 

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todd_davis
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  • September 2, 2026

Looks like a mistake in the article that they include “complete” as an option. We certainly don’t have any in any of our job statuses.


chriswilson
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  • September 2, 2026

I agree Todd, but I though it best to confirm so that others can also see it/documentation can be updated.


chriswilson
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  • September 3, 2026

@zoe.forbes can we confirm that complete is not a valid job status?


zoe.forbes
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  • September 10, 2026

Hi ​@todd_davis and ​@chriswilson,

Sorry for the delayed response, I’ve was out of office last week. This is definitely a mistake - I’ll update the article! I had a quick look at previous builds of the API docs and couldn’t see the complete status anywhere so not entirely sure where it came from.

Thanks for pointing this out, the article update should be approved within 24 hours by our Knowledge team. 


chriswilson
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  • September 10, 2026

Thanks ​@zoe.forbes that’s good to clear up.