FME Flow

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

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I have been provided some .raml files, but unclear how I interrogate; can anyone advise?

While trying to create a workspace app , I find ‘Service’ dropdown to be empty (pic2). However, I see ‘Job Submitter’ as service in the published workspace (pic1). May be I am missing something as we just started using FME products. Thanks for your review and input.

Hello all, When creating a Data Downloader service, the workspace is required to have a writer (the output of the writer is offered to the user in a .zip-file). However, I need to retrieve pdf-files from a website using the HTTP-caller. The writer is in this case embedded in the HTTPCaller and cannot be selected as writer in FME Flow. I have considered saving the pdf-files as attribute (binary). However, I have not managed to convert the binary files back to pdf, or write the attribute as pdf. I need the functionality of the Data Downloader of being able to draw an area of interest, from which the associated pdf-files are downloaded. How could I make a Data Downloader-service that retrieves pdf's from a website?

Since recently upgrading FME Form to Build 25609, I’m seeing the following warning on startup. UserWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API. See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html. The pkg_resources package is slated for removal as early as 2025-11-30. Refrain from using this package or pin to Setuptools<81. There are no obvious problems, but I would like to suppress the warning. Any ideas on how to accomplish this? Thanks.

I have just deployed a distributed Flow (2025.1) in Azure with following configurations (this is to replace a similar deployment in Azure with 2021.1 FME Server version) Core machine - 1 Engine machine -1 Azure storage account Azure hosted postgresql flexible server Azure application gateway In addition to the internal load balancer Azure creates as part of the deployment, we also have a public load balancer associated with the core VM to allow outgoing external traffic. A backup of the configurations from the 2021.1 FME Server is restored to the 2025.1 using the backup/restore fucntion in FME Flow. (Used an intermediate version 2024.2 to restore a backup from 2021.1 and then created a backup to restore to 2025.1, no error and everything works fine in Automation mode) However when select a workspace and ‘Run Workspace’ option is selected, it throws a message saying: There was an error submitting the job. This is same for any workspaces (Sample, test and project specific). The error is

We are troubleshooting an issue getting FME 2024.0.2.2 to write to an ArcGIS SDE hosted in SQL 2019 on AWS. We have ArcGIS Pro 3.3.5 installed. This should all align with guidance found here: Notes on FME and Esri Versions and Compatibility – FME Support Center Additionally, we’ve found new guidance that seems to suggest the decade + old method of using desktop/Pro is no longer valid and ArcGIS Server is required to reside on the same machine as FME Flow: Using FME Flow with Esri ArcGIS Software – FME Support Center We have confirmed at publishing in Pro, the default is all licensed users are hitting the concurrent server and being assigned an Advanced license. The error we are seeing is: Our questions: Is the documentation right and ArcGIS Server is the only option (i.e., cannot use Pro)? If ArcGIS Server is the only option, must the ArcGIS Server instance remain running (i.e., the ArcServer.exe process must be started and running or can it be stopped)? It sounds from our error that t

Hi, It must be stunningly simple however we miss the clue, but we're trying to get FME Server to accept Single Sign-On logins. We connected to Active Directory, that seems to work nice since we can use a user and password from the domain and log in, that's a success. Mon-13-Nov-2017 04:20:33.924 PM INFORM RequestHandler-Thread 401831 : Accepted new client connection from /127.0.0.1 on port 7,071 Mon-13-Nov-2017 04:20:33.926 PM INFORM RequestHandler-Thread 401933 : Successful login by user XX99999 However, when we press the Use Windows Credentials the login is denied and fmeserver.log shows this error message: Mon-13-Nov-2017 04:23:22.734 PM INFORM RequestHandler-Thread 401831 : Accepted new client connection from /127.0.0.1 on port 7,071 Mon-13-Nov-2017 04:23:22.770 PM INFORM RequestHandler-Thread 408043 : (Single Sign-On) Enabled single sign-on authentication. Mon-13-Nov-2017 04:23:22.770 PM INFORM RequestHandler-Thread 408049 : (Single Sign-On) Using pre-authenticated credentials (fo

I am leaning how to do the engine management in FME Flow 2024 at the moment. I had setup 2 extra queues out of default queue, but I only create 1 active period for one of the queue. Then I found out all jobs within another queue were in “Queued” state. My questions are: Do I have to setup active period to cover all queues? When 1 queue was setup in active period, how does other queue(s) work? What the default behaviour in active period. When the jobs in “Queued” state, can I resume it to run rather than re-submit the job and delete the existing “Queued” job? Thanks, Henry from TfNSW

Hello Everyone, I hope you are doing well. I ran the below scripts to set it to custom python interpreter. I would like to know the default settings for FME server to revert back to original settings ? Thanks, Naveen

Hi, Looking to call a PowerShell script that will need to be run as a different user to the service account that runs the FME Flow service. FME Flow is a shared server and these credentials need to be secure from other users scheduling flows. I could use an encrypted xml file for the credentials, but then all who use the server would have access via the FME Flow service account. Putting the password in the workspace as a password, I still see it in plain text. While these work and I can make the exposure risk lower, still don’t seem ideal, What are my other options?

Hallo I am currently experiencing an issue where a running job becomes stuck and cannot be canceled via the FME Flow Web UI. Even after restarting FME Flow, the job remains in a "running" state. When restarting the FME Flow Application Server, Core, and Engine, the Automation restarts but gets stuck again. The following error message is displayed: 2025-07-28 16:43:11 | AUTOMATIONS writer: FME Flow error: `FME Flow error: UNPROCESSABLE_REQUEST(Automations) Route "Param_Bundle" does not exist` I have already tried both options mentioned in this article: https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/29779782496141-Known-Issue-Job-Submitted-from-Automation-is-Stuck-Running-and-Cannot-be-Cancelled Unfortunately, neither resolved the issue. Could you please advise on further steps to resolve this problem? Best regards, Beata

Dear Community, i am experiencing a strange behavior from our FME Server when uploading/publishing a FME Desktop workspace in FME Server. Previously, it was possible to publish workspaces from FME Desktop to FME Server. Recently, publishing from FME Desktop is no longer possible, nor is it possible to upload workspaces to FME Server via the Web UI. I only receive very little information about the error in FME Desktop ,also with the debug logging. The following excerpt from the log: Successfully retrieved service properties. Retrieving service parameters for ‘geodatabase_sde2none.fmw’... No service parameters found. Uploading as ‘geodatabase_sde2none.fmw’... Publish failed - FME Flow encountered an error. When I upload a workspace in FME Server via Web UI, I get the following messages in the network console of the Browser: Get Call <FME-Server-URL>/repositories/{repository}/items/{item} returns a 404 Not Found status code and { "reason": "missing", "what": "geodatabase_sde2none.fmw", "m

Hello to the community, I successfully set up an fme flow automation with a final action to send out an smtp email via our email server. The connection to this email server with the “SMTP Account” is valid and successfully tested and mails were sent. But the “SMTP Account” is not setup to receive emails at all. When i try to change the parameter “Email From” in the “email send” action to a different mail address than the used “SMTP Account”, our mail server denies to send out the email as a different user.This is for security reasons. But i want the email recipients to be able to just reply to an incoming email without changing the mail address. Further I don’t want to place a hint in every mail that it is not possible to simply reply to this mail without changing the address. Is there another way to change the smtp header parameter “replyto” for the email send action in fme flow? Thank you very much for any help and hints best regards Jürgen

I am new to FME Flow. My organization had setup a FME Flow 2024.2 and integrated SAML for user login. I am just wondering whether I could use SAML account in FME Flow REST API and how to use it to generate a token for further REST API requests. Furthermore, is the generated token secure enough to prevent accessing other users’ resources, workspaces and data connections. Thanks in advance, Henry from TfNSW

Hi, What is the approach to pull the username information from the active directory ? Use case: My role on FME flow is admin and I publish the workspaces using the create workspace app. The workspace links are provided to end users (they don't have any user profile created on FME flow) and all they do is simply use the link to ingest the file and use the generated output. My ask is what is needed to integrate the AD to the FME flow and if the user profiles must be created on FME Flow in order to fetch the user information? I want to imprint the user name ( user who executes the job ) and display it on the reconciliation report?

Hello everyone, I have a short question. How can I share an automation app so that an user doesn't need to authenticate. himself/herself? I am able to share workspace apps with users by disabling the Require Authentication button, but I can't find something like that for an automation app. I also looked at manage token and enabled some options with Automation, but still the autonmation app does require an user to authenticate himself/herself.

Hi, We want to install FME Flow Hosted and would like to access to our internal network, so users can Read and Write files from the several disks. How can we do that? Thanks!

Description: Currently, FME Flow does not allow defining a specific language for an FME Flow App. This results in browser auto translation functions also translating user parameter values. In some cases, this can cause confusion, especially when certain words are spelled the same in both languages but have different meanings. In FME Flow Apps, the lang attribute in the <html> tag is always set to 'en', and there is no option to change this value. Idea: Incorporate an option to select the default language of the FME Flow App or prevent the automatic translation of parameter values. Benefits: This would help maintain the clarity and accuracy of the information in the FME Flow APP, reducing potential misunderstandings.

Hi Everyone, Currently FME Flow v2023.1 is installed in our client environment. From documentation it seems that the support will end for this version in Aug 2026. Can someone please confirm which version would be recommended for upgrade? ​@hkingsbury ​@david_r Thanks Kirti

I have a scheduled automation which runs every hour, it just checks how long the job queue is - the are no user parameters. Once a month or so I get an ERROR in the workspace. The error is (log attached): 2025-07-10 09:58:00| 0.0| 0.0|ERROR |'\xA0\xC2y\xDD/Z\x00\x0010 09:58' is not recognized as a valid encoding name. It’s an old workspace written with FME 2020 that’s been migrated a few times in FME Server to in FME 2024.2.2 The log indicates that something is getting garbled. I can see part of a timestamp in there - the timestamp is the the start time of the job. I’ve see a similar error in other jobs as well on customer servers as well with different jobs (also intermittent. Has anyone else experienced intermittent errors like this? I have a hunch that making a whole new workspace in FME 2024 will make the error go away - but was curious is anyone else had run into this

I use the ArcGISOnlineConnector (3.10) on FME 2024.2.1.0 On FME Form everythings works perfect. When I try to run it on FME Flow it still seems to finish the workspace, but it Fails and somewhere in the log is the following lines: 1002 2025-7-10 15:31:05 | Message Type: fme::internal::_v0::py::Exception1003 2025-7-10 15:31:05 | Python Exception <ValueError>: API not configured1004 2025-7-10 15:31:05 | Error encountered while calling method `input'1005 2025-7-10 15:31:05 | ArcGISOnlineConnector_CALLER (PythonFactory): PythonFactory failed to process feature Anybody an idea what the issue could be?

I have a folder that contains various zipped shapefiles that I am trying to export to a geodatabase. This folder is updated regularly and the shapefiles are points, lines and polygons. How can I read in and then export them to the geodatabase without needing to worry about the geometry type? I have looked into generic readers and writers but I have not been able to figure how to get them to work.

Does anyone have any hints and tips for testing automations in fme server 2019? Examples I have a scheduled automation and want to test whether an email gets sent correctly reporting on job success or failure, do i have to manually change the schedule to 5 minutes in the future to do this or is there another way? I want to check whether an email that is constructed using user-keys returns the correct output, do I have to artificially construct workspaces that fail to check the fail part of the automation? I'm thinking that creating a dummy workspace with a parameter that will control a pass or fail result is and building the automation with this initially might be the way to go but wonder if I'm missing something?