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Hi -

I could use a hand. We are working with FME Flow 2024.1.1 with work spaces being generated in FME Desktop 2024.1.1.


The data download service is working fine, but we would like to be able to do one or two things:

  1. Is it possible to just download a .docx or xslx file without it being zipped? It is one other step that our end users don’t need.
  2. If not, is it possible to name the zip file according to report for the area we are working in, something like: BostonStreets_20250203.zip. An example of the output we are seeing, and would like to change, is attached. 

We can name the files within the zip file whatever we want, no problem.

Any help or suggestions are appreciated!

Thanks!

 

When you publish the workspace to Flow, you edit the service and specify the Writers to include. Unfortunately the zipping is standard in Data Download. The option option is to use JobSubmitter service and write them to a user parameter URL/File/Folder type allowing the user to edit/specify where

In terms of writing the date into the file name, you need to use a DateTimeNow function

you can create an attribute, then pass the datetodayfilename result to the Dataset path on your writer

or simply write the above function in the file name… and at runtime it will stamp the date in that format 

@DateTimeFormat(@DateTimeNow(),%Y%m%d)

 

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