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Deploying FME Flow using Flow Apps or the REST API

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keller
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kellerContributor
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FME FLOW runs small workspaces but fails on large workspaces without an error

Hello, I recently received a new fme flow 2024 from my IT department and something keeps failing when i run a large workspace(1096704 kB), i get no error but the workspace fails.This same workspace runs in fme flow 2023 without any problem. Here are my system details, FME FLOW 2023 System Status: 43.39 GB of disk space available in the FME temporary folder (C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Temp\fmeengines\{enginename}_Engine1) System Status: 30.00 GB of physical memory available System Status: 126.00 GB of virtual memory available FME FLOW 2024 System Status: 65.31 GB of disk space available in the FME temporary folder (C:\Windows\TEMP\fmeengines\{enginename}_Engine2) System Status: 30.00 GB of physical memory available System Status: 126.00 GB of virtual memory available I have been reading around but i have not been able to pint out where the problem actually lies. How can i check for example how much memory has been allocated to an engine?Could it that i need to change the engine to

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keller
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cbird
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cbirdParticipant
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Deployment parameters in Flow 2024.1.1 app not working

A simple workspace created in Workbench 2024.1.1 with three FME Flow deployment parameters - a web connection using Esri ArcGIS Portal (Template), a DB connection to PostgreSQL and a Text deployment parameter - works perfectly in Workbench as well as a manual or scheduled job once published to Flow. An FME Flow app created from that workspace fails trying to access the Web and DB deployment parameters. The Text parameter works fine. The app fails whether or not authentication is required to run the app. The Web and DB connections and the associated deployment parameters have been shared with fmeuser and fmeguest roles with Read access to try to fix the problem - but that did not help. Web connection error: 2025-3-20 14:46:38 | FME Flow error: `FME Flow error: `Unauthorized request by user due to lack of proper permissions for connection: WEB_ARCGIS_PORTAL. Please see: http://fme.ly/zn8'' 2025-3-20 14:29:41 | ArcGIS Portal Feature Service Reader: Connection 'WEB_ARCGIS_PORTAL' does not

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mattmatsafe
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durgam.balaraju
Observer
durgam.balarajuObserver
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The error message in your FME Flow Server job indicates that FME is unable to connect to the File Geodatabase at \\vmbldtstweu001\F$\TestFME\TestCheckout_ERW.gdb.

While running a job on FME Flow 2024 Server, the following error occurred: "Unable to connect to the File Geodatabase located at '\vmbltstweu001\FS\TestFME\TestCheckout_ERW.gdb'. Please verify that the correct file path is specified and that the Geodatabase is not saved in a newer version of ArcGIS than the one installed on the server. The error code from ArcObjects is '-2147024891'." Could anyone please help me on that

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mattmatsafe
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wvdmanden
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wvdmandenContributor
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Problem costumizer not removing items

I made a flow gallery app with some banners en footbanners. But i did not like them. So i tried removing them. But when i remove them end click OK. They are not removed and come back in the site and in the costumizer. But when i add an item like a logo it saves it oke. But then when i want to remove that also, it won’t.

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mattmatsafe
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albinepro
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albineproSupporter
asked in Deployment
FME Flow unavailable services

I’m trying to publish a new app on FME Flow, but there are no services listed to create the app. If I try open an existing app, it says “You do not have access to the "fmedatastreaming" service.” I’m logged as a admin with all possible rights. If I go to services settings, all seems normal. So Im not able to create any app and practically run any workspace. What could have gone wrong? EDIT:After updating to FME 2024.2.3 the problem stays exactly the same.

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albinepro
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michaelh
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michaelhContributor
asked in Deployment
FME Server/Flow HTTPCaller Fails with Web Connection but works on Desktop/Form

Hi! I could use a hand. I'm running an FME workspace that downloads data from ArcGIS Online using 4 HTTPCallers and a Web Connection. The workflow works fine in FME Form 2024, but when I publish and run it in FME Flow 2024.1, it fails. Setup: Using a Web Connection to authenticate (ArcGIS Online). The Web Connection exists in FME Server and is assigned to my user. The Web Connection is correctly assigned in FME Server. Does anyone have experience with this issue? Could it be related to permissions, token handling, or FME Server settings? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

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bjarne
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worjak
Contributor
worjakContributor
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Restore after install failed!

Hi, We are following this instruction Upgrading In Place, On the Same Machine and failing in the last step. what could be wrong? We are upgrading from FME flow 2023.1 to 2024.2 So what about that file: Migration) File "/temp/tomcat/fde0b0779317417da467e76dec4c9027/restServerRestore.fsconfig" does not exist for shared resource "FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_SYSTEM".

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steveatsafe
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pragathjobs
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pragathjobsParticipant
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FME server 2020.2 failing with - "Unable to perform any licensing related tasks. This 64-bit version of FME requires 64-bit Background Geoprocessing, ArcGIS Pro or ArcGIS Server"

FME server 2020.2 failing with - "Unable to perform any licensing related tasks. This 64-bit version of FME requires 64-bit Background Geoprocessing, ArcGIS Pro or ArcGIS Server". There is already ArcGIS pro installed on same machine and the version of ArcGIS Pro is 2.6. Is ArcGIS server required for this?

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crutledge
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9val
Contributor
9valContributor
asked in Deployment
Best EC2 instance type for FME

Hi all, Could you please share your experience on what types of AWS EC2 instances you use for FME Flow and FME Form. I wonder if the M5 instance type is recommended since it is used for FME Flow Hosted. We mostly use “t3.large”. I understand that the choice depends on server load etc., but I would like to know the best practices. Thanks!

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redgeographics
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hlynur
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hlynurContributor
asked in Deployment
Flow's map based data distribution

Hello you all and perhaps especially ​@LizAtSafe Gone through this tutorial here: Using the Geometry Parameter – FME Support Center And this is of great help, just have one question that I cant figure out the answer to and that is if the selection map can be set as “Inline” by default instead of “Pop up”, as in that the users have the little imbedded selection map by default when accessing the tool? With regards,

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hlynur
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emo10001
Contributor
emo10001Contributor
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Questions about in place upgrade of FME Server 2022 to Flow 2024

We are currently running FME Server 2022.2. on prem (not cloud hosted). We had been planning on upgrading to the latest, but now even more so with the privilege escalation issue, and there apparently not being a fix for our version….except to upgrade. Looking over the “in place upgrade” portion of the documentation, it seems we can simply backup the configuration files (we’re not using version control yet), do an uninstall of 2022.2, do a fresh install of the latest 2024, and then restore the configuration backup. Are there any known issues with doing this from 2022 to 2024? I know the product was rebranded in 2023, but the differences I could see between 2022 and 2023 seemed mostly cosmetic for the rebrand. However, I know 2024 seems to be different. I just really want to dot all my i’s and cross all my t’s, and keep any down time to a minimum. And know if there are any “gotchas” that can be avoided. Thank you.

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j.botterill
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mgress
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mgressContributor
asked in Deployment
FME Flow 2024.2.3 Download

Where can we find the download for FME Flow and Form version 2024.2.3? I only see versions 2024.2.2 and 2025.0 in the list of available downloads. Thank you

702
danilo_fme
Evangelist
jnknnn
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jnknnnContributor
asked in Deployment
Oracle client libraries (e.g. oci.dll) could not be loaded in kubernetes installation of FME Flow

Build info: FME Flow 2024.2.3Build 24825 - linux-x64 running in Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS AWS Kubernetes I have trouble installing oracle client correctly. We are using FME Flow in AWS Kubernetes with helm. I used this dockerfile to install oracle client to the engine pod (this worked in fmeserver 2021): FROM safesoftware/fmeflow-engine:2024.2.3USER root RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \ unzip \ libaio1t64 \ sqlite3 \ software-properties-common && \ apt-get clean && \ rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* RUN mkdir -p /opt/oracle/instantclient_19_26COPY instantclient-basic-linux.x64-19.26.0.0.0dbru.zip /opt/oracle/WORKDIR /opt/oracleRUN unzip instantclient-basic-linux.x64-19.26.0.0.0dbru.zip ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/oracle/instantclient_19_26:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH RUN rm instantclient-basic-linux.x64-19.26.0.0.0dbru.zip COPY mod_spatialite.so /usr/local/lib/ RUN echo "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/oracle/instantclient_19_26:\$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" >> /etc/environment WORKDIR / USER fmeflow i used kubectl exec to

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jnknnn
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carl.turner
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carl.turnerContributor
asked in Deployment
Parallel Processing - Worker Logs

We make use of parallel processing within FME Flow 2023.1. However we are struggling to de-bug issues that intermittently occur in the worker processes. I can see that, whilst running, each worker process has a log file, stored under the parent job log. However, this is deleted when the worker process closes, even if it fails. This makes it very difficult retrospectively diagnose any issues. In our FME Server 2021 instance, the worker logs are surfaced in the main job log once complete, which is fine, but I can’t identify any setting to control and replicate this behaviour. Does any one know of a config change that I can make, in FME Flow 2023, to retain these worker logs somehow?

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luke.hicks
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ebygomm
Influencer
ebygommInfluencer
asked in Deployment
FME Flow Web Connection parameters not using Configuration

FME Flow 2024.1 Workspace set up on FME Form with a web connection configured as a user parameter and only allowing one type of supported service. This works on FME Form as expected. Once the workspace is uploaded to FME Flow, any web connection present within Flow can be selected irrespective of what service this is for. Is this expected behaviour?

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hkingsbury
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emo10001
Contributor
emo10001Contributor
asked in Deployment
Questions about Flow in place upgrade from 2022.2 to 2024

We are currently running FME Server 2022.2. on prem (not cloud hosted). We had been planning on upgrading to the latest, but now even more so with the privilege escalation issue, and there apparently not being a fix for our version….except to upgrade. Looking over the “in place upgrade” portion of the documentation, it seems we can simply backup the configuration files (we’re not using version control yet), do an uninstall of 2022.2, do a fresh install of the latest 2024, and then restore the configuration backup. Are there any known issues with doing this from 2022 to 2024? I know the product was rebranded in 2023, but the differences I could see between 2022 and 2023 seemed mostly cosmetic for the rebrand. However, I know 2024 seems to be different. I just really want to dot all my i’s and cross all my t’s, and keep any down time to a minimum. And know if there are any “gotchas” that can be avoided. Thank you.

521
merlinegeorge
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worjak
Contributor
worjakContributor
asked in Deployment
After new SSL certificate FME Flow apps complains about Rest API

I updated the pfx cetificate file according to this : Configuring for HTTPS Basically updating these lines i server.xml: keystoreFile="<file>"keystorePass="<password>" Now apps complains about REST API? Why? - what to do? What is the realtion between the SSL certificate and the FME flow Rest API? Where to find information about this?

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worjak
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worjak
Contributor
worjakContributor
asked in Deployment
After new certificate FME Flow apps complains about Rest API

I updated the pfx cetificate file according to this : Configuring for HTTPS Basically updating these lines i server.xml: keystoreFile="<file>"keystorePass="<password>" Now apps complains about REST API? Why? - what to do?

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worjak
Contributor
mferwerda3
Contributor
mferwerda3Contributor
asked in Deployment
cancel system restore

Is there any way to cancel a system restore, it appears to be hung at Unzipping migration package stage for 1.5 hours now. I think the file system/network glitched during the process. There is no cancel in the UI, no jobs running.

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mferwerda3
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louielou1234
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louielou1234Contributor
asked in Deployment
Dead in the Water after FLOW upgrade

We just upgraded our on-prem Flow (from 2023.2 to 2024.2.2) and are now are dead in the water --all scheduled workbenches will not run, but seem to be valid --after restoring from the backup (I even tried reinstalling the successfull backup again, but it failed on the second try). I then tried re-uploading the workbenches to the new Flow version from the Form workbenches (both old and new versions) but can not access the repositories to save them there to re-schedule them in the new Flow. Yikes. Help. Please.

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louielou1234
Contributor
matt.stull
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matt.stullContributor
asked in Deployment
Engines on different versions?

This question came up at my office today. Can I have two FME Flow engines at different versions installed on the same Windows Server? I’m guessing that the answer is no but I wanted to get official verification on that.

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matt.stull
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geomancer
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geomancerEvangelist
asked in Deployment
Alternative for external stylesheet?

HTML Pages created with FME use an external stylesheet: <html> <head> <title>Report</title> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@4.5.3/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"> </head> <body> ...... </body></html> This is somewhat of a problem when FME Flow has no access to this location, as HTML pages displayed from FME Flow Apps in that case will show without this stylesheet, thus maiming the layout. Are there alternatives for using this external stylesheet, like placing a copy of it somewhere on the FME Flow machine? Then the <head> of the HTML page could point to this local stylesheet. The stylesheet contains a lot of information, so adding the contents of the stylesheet to the header of the HTML file does not look like a viable option.

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geomancer
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hlynur
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hlynurContributor
asked in Deployment
Feature type selection/Feature types to read on Flow

Hello and happy 2025! Was speculating on feature types selection possibilities when reading as a single merged feature type with a wildcard on flow. My scenario being that a user will drag and drop a DWG to a Flow tool and then that said tool would read it in and then display all the feature types (layers) that said DWG consists of in a list. Where the user could then check a box in front of each and every layer they need and afterwards select “Run” to start the main tool (which is a conversion into another file format). Thus the tool not converting all features/layers within a file but only a selected few which are selected like one does for example with the “Feature types to read” option in the FeatureReader. Anyone here done this before that wishes to share?

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hlynur
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mmccart
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mmccartContributor
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Create New User in FME Flow PostgreSQL DB

We are trying to create a read-only user within the FME Form PostgreSQL DB using pgAdmin logged in as the fmeflow user. We are using the out-of-the box PostgreSQL DB which is installed on the core machine. However, we can’t seem to create a new user. Items (such as right-click menus, etc.) are grayed out. Is there documentation somewhere on how to do this? We want to query the FME Flow DB directly. Or is this frowned upon? Version: FME Flow 2024.1.1.0 (Build 24619) Thanks, Mark

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david_r
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juliovinicius
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julioviniciusContributor
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Engine type UTILITY?

Hi everyone, I just noticed in the dockerfile (version 2024.2.1-b24801) line 130 a new engine with the type UTILITY. Does anyone know what this is for? Is it a mandatory component in the architecture? Thanks a lot!

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juliovinicius
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