Automation

I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on : a way to "watch" a PostgreSQL table using FME Flow Automation. Since I began working with FME Server/Flow, Automation has always stood out as one of its most powerful and easy-to-demonstrate features. The ability to trigger workspaces based on incoming emails or new files and automatically send notifications, consistently makes an impact during demos. But one question kept coming back:“Can I detect changes in a database table and trigger workspaces from that?” For a long time, my answer was: “Not really”, or at least, not in a clean or recommended way. I used to think the best option was for the database to notify FME Flow, not the other way around. For instance, in PostgreSQL, you could use a trigger on insert/update/delete and call an FME Flow webhook using something like the PL/Python or pgsql-http. That method is covered here:- 🔗 4 methods for tracking data changes in FME (blog post) - ▶️ Triggering FME with your Database (YouTube

So in one of the tutorial for creating AR, the screenshot of FME Flow has the Create AR App option in Flow Apps. But I opened my FME Flow 2025.02 version, it only appears these options without Create AR App: Is anyone having the same issue? Is there anything I did wrong? Thank you so much for the help.

Hi, I’m running into an issue with FME Workbench 2021. When I run the workspace locally, all expected files are generated correctly. The same workspace also works when published to our older FME Server (same version, 2021.0). However, after publishing it to a new FME Server environment (also 2021.0), some of the output files are missing. No errors are reported in the log, but certain files simply don't get written. The log even says they have created the files. Nothing has changed in terms of file paths or logic – they still use dynamic paths (e.g., FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_TEMP). The only major change is that we replaced FeatureReader with HTTPCaller to avoid a bug with esri_OID in high availability setups. I’m running the exakt same job but still I get this issue. I’ve already: Verified that the paths are correct Checked resource locations Tried republishing and updating the “download data” edit. Still, the problem remains in the new server setup. What could be causing this?

Hi there, I have an FME Flow automation set up triggered by a survey123 submission. When i submit a survey from survey123 on my computer it works fine and runs the automation. When submitting from my mobile device however nothing comes through, the automation doesn’t run. Any help would be much appreciated, cheers.

Hello everyone, I have some experience with Workspace apps, but not as much with Automation apps. In my previous work with Workspace apps, I created an app that is based on user input on a map. When a user clicks on the Run button, the "Running..." button appears. Once the script finishes successfully, the user can download a ZIP file by clicking on the Datadownload URL. Now, I’m trying to build something similar using an Automation app, but I’ve found the process to be quite different. Based on the following post, I’ve set up the following: I have a manual trigger that includes a manual parameter called "Geometry" (GEOM). This GEOM parameter is then used in the subsequent Workspace. Similar to the Workspace app, I want to show a "Running..." button while the script is running, and once it finishes, makes a download URL available to the user. However, the only feedback to the user is the green "Automation Triggered." message. There’s no further feedback for the user, that the script is

Hi All, We have recently ran into an issue with using a SharePoint Multitenant web connection of FME Flow. A connection/client id/client secret has been created in azure and used to creat the mutlitenant connection within FME form and then published up to flow. This connection works the day of but when added to a schedule to run daily, it fails out the next time it runs. When we go back in and authorize the connection again in flow, it seems to work. Is there a particular setting in the connection or azure to keep this connection active? Thanks,

Hello, Does anyone know how to create triangles between two 3D lines using FME tools? The triangles can also be vertical.

Hi everyone. I need to display an outline of GIS data on a basemap that runs in a Flow app. For example, an area shapefile. This is to display the area of operations, as a starting point when using the app, and the users will then select areas within that area to grab other data (addresses and statistics etc). I’ve been working through this: Using the Geometry Parameter – FME Support Center to get a workspace built and published to Flow. But how do I ensure the outline of the area of operations is displayed from the very start? I am a bit of a noob when it comes to Flow apps, so please do not worry about over-explaining anything: I need all the help I can get! Many thanks in advance. Stu

Hi everyone, We are planning an fme upgrade shortly and I want to compile a list of the workspaces, automations and other items we have on our FME Flow instance to help plan for testing, and determining the amount of effort etc we will need to plan for. Is there a way of doing this? Does anyone have a process they can share? Have had a look at using the api interface and http callers and could set something up with this, but hoping someone might have already done this that I could adapt for my systems. Or that there is a simpler native way that i have missed. TIA Jacky

I have several automated jobs that use either a startup or shutdown python script. These scripts run fine in workbench and even in the ESRI Python interpreter on the Flow machine. The issue arises when I run them from Flow. When it gets to the script it will output expected products until the exportToPDF command at which point it fails. No errors are indicated anywhere except in the Engine Log where this is displayed: WARN localhost_Engine2 393562 : Process "localhost_Engine2" ended unexpectedly. Being restarted on attempt 1… Example of script: import arcpy, os, sys, time, shutilfrom datetime import datetime sdpFolder = r"****OBSCURED****"exportFolder = os.path.join(sdpFolder, "SiteDevPlanFiles")date = time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")dateFolder = os.path.join(exportFolder, date) archiveFolder = os.path.join(sdpFolder, "_Archive") zipExportFolder = exportFolder + ".zip" # from zipfile import ZipFile# for file in ZipFile(zipExportFolder).namelist(): # archive previous zip destZip = os.path.join

We have an automation that is triggered daily with a CRON expression which runs 4 workspaces. The first 3 workspaces are run in parallel and the fourth runs on successful completion of one of the workspaces. Last night, two events appear to have been triggered at the scheduled time and so each workspace was run twice. Has anyone ever come across anything similar? I can’t see any obvious errors in the logs

Want to create a Session Token with JavaScript and api. What is the way to do it with rest api v3? best regards Gerhard

I accidentally deleted the wrong automation in FME Flow and I am not able to see how I can recover it.

Dear All, I am requesting your input on how to automate task on Teams using FME? Excel tracker on TEAMS ON TEAMS : I have day-to-day job task tracker in Excel format. ON MONDAY.COM: The team members go and update data (dates, complete / in progress status, this Monday.com data could be manually downloaded in excel file ACTION / INPUT required : I would like to do fully automate process meaning: FME connect and pick /extract data from MONDAY.com FME apply those transformer to obtain desired statistics (i have complete this part and could do this myself) FME goes back and APPEND the new statistics in Excel file stored on TEAMS. When the task is complete, am email goes to line manager and other stakeholder that the task is completed. Highly obliged with you inputs many thanks /Vim

If an automation is triggered by a schedule, you can obtain the schedule properties via the Schedules list. https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_REST/apidoc/v3/index.html#!/schedules/list If an automation is triggered by a topic, how do you obtain the name(s) of the topic(s) that trigger that automation? If an automation posts to a topic, how do you obtain the name(s) of the topic(s) that automation posts to?

I am creating an Automations proces and when assigning the parameters to an integer field get the following message: Must be a whole number. Decimals are not supported. In the Automations first a csv is read for creating all sorts of parameters In here there are no decimals. In the workspace tm_data has the Type int16 In the Automations writer it is also defined as integer. But when assigning the parameters, I receive the error. This applies for all integers I use in this. This is a automations proces that I also build in Server 2021 and I didn't have this issue but in Flow 2024 I can't get any further because of this error. Is there something I do wrong or is this a bug?

I have a job running that takes 10 minutes and generates 19.000 rows in the log. The runtime is not the issue here, I'm just curious to out some numbers on time-spent. What’s the best way to find out where the time is spent? I suspect a few specific transformers, but since this is probably a common question I wonder what other people are doing.

Hello everyone, I encounter a similar problem to the following post from 4 years ago.I am able to write several output files (2 .dgn files) in FME Form. However when I publish the script to FME Flow and run the script in the form of a workspace I only get one output result back. I already looked into the Data Download Service Properties when I publish the script to FME Flow and both writers are already included in the Writers in Download attribute. So I am not sure why I don't get both files in the zip file. The files don't have the same name. The weird thing is also that the dgn file I get back from FME Flow has the same name as the zip file, while in FME Form they get the name I have defined in the writers (Bomen.dgn and Kabels_Met_Buffers.dgn). Another finding is when I look into the translation log on FME Flow, it looks all features are written (23000 features). I know that 18000 features are in one file and 5000 features in the other file. So it looks like all feature are written,

This job works fine in FME Workbench 2024.2. But in FME flow, when I try to run the workspace, it’s trying to create a folder instead of a .xml file. See screenshots

If you have an existing automation and need to make a change, you make your changes and publish \\ overwrite in FME Forms. Once you go to the automation and stop it, all parameters are reset to defaults. This happens even to workspaces that were not updated. This has happened the last 2 or 3 releases, currently we are on FME Flow 2023.1 Build 23619 - win64

I have a 2023.2.1 workbench that reads in a JSON file using the TextLine reader, does some FME magic and the outputs the results for FME Server (Flow) to use. 2023.2.1 workbench to process JSON The reader parameters are set to read the whole file at once The workbench is published to FME Flow 2023.2.1 and is used in an Automation that gets an AWS SNS message with the JSON info in the message of the SNS. The SNS is received as expected but the message appears to be reading each line as a separate source and as such it never processes the file as expected. Any advice as to what I am doing wrong in the process?

Hello, I am using FME Flow 2021. I have an Automation that uses Directory Watch. When a file is added to the “Directory to Watch,” the Automation should run. But it does not run when a new file is added. I can run it manually, and it works as expected. In my screen capture below, it seems I need to add something to “Events to Watch for” to trigger. What am I missing?

Hello all, I have a FME flow web-app (image 1). I am attempting to get a message to the user in certain circumstances via HTML output (image 2), which displays a message via the browser to the user if certain conditions are met, via redirecting the web-app page, e.g. there is an issue with their edits (image 3) image 1 image 2 image 3, text printed through the browser This works, sort of. but its not good enough for end users, as the page redirects, but is blank and is stuck in a perpetual loading state. Until the user hits the ‘stop refresh’ (X) on their browser, then the message (image 3) appears. My questions are:How can I make this work without the user having to hit the stop refresh button? Will that page redirect stop the rest of the FME process from running/committing changes? Is there a way to link this to a terminator? if I can terminate the process the perpetual refresh may also stop. I have the services set up like this: Or, are there any alternative ways to get a message to

Greetings! I have a simple workbench that runs without issue on Form (v2025.0) that uses a CSV reader that lists File_name, file_url in which the url is a SFTP://hostname:22/path/filename.typ The CSV reader is linked to the FTPCaller. This process works fine on Form (desktop) and loads the files to the respective server and path. However, when the workbench is run from the server, is runs Successful-but does not load the files; in the log there is an error: FTPCaller (FTPFactory): FTP/FTPS/SFTP transfer error: Could not resolve hostname Any suggestions on why?

Dear Team, I have an Emailer transformer at the end of my FME workspace (FMW file) that is configured to send a completion notification to my Gmail account. However, I am encountering an error when it tries to send the email. I have already updated the Emailer transformer, Python, and other relevant components, but the issue persists. But from desktop it runs perfectly. only when i run from command prompt it gives error.("D:\Program Files\FME2024\fme.exe" D:\fvt2\1_spatial_tables_ver9.fmw ) Could someone in the group please help me identify what might be causing the problem? Thank you in advance for your support. Best regards, Farook 2025-04-29 05:17:31|1614.6| 0.5|STATS |DateTimeStamper (TeeFactory): Cloned 1 input feature(s) into 1 output feature(s)2025-04-29 05:17:31|1614.6| 0.0|STATS |CRCCalculator_2_Executor (ExecuteFunctionFactory): Executed FME Functions on 1 input feature(s) -- 1 feature(s) completed and 0 feature(s) rejected2025-04-29 05:17:31|1614.6| 0.0|INFORM|Successfully c