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hermannContributor

asked in Automation

FME Flow Workspace App: How to get the Username as variable

In a FME Flow Workspace App can users log in.How can I get the username as a variable in my workspace. Each user shall read and edit diffrent datasetts.

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6 months ago

fionasinContributor

asked in Deployment

Emailer Not Sending Full Zip File

I have a process which creates 4 asc files, and then sends them to a zipped file. At the end of this process, this file is to be emailed. I have an attribute creator which creates the file name as ‘attachment’, as it does contain dynamic elements, before using that attribute as the attachment field in the emailer. When i run it on my local computer, it works perfectly fine, and I get an email with all four files zipped. However, when i run it on FME server, the zip file only contains 1 of the four. Regardless if the files have content or not, they should all write to the folder, and then do, i can see in the fmeserver directory, that all 4 files have been zipped up, but when it is emailed, it just seems to delete three of them. The sampler is there so it only sends one email, but the attribute creator refers to the zipped file, which is created in the system caller, so all four should be sent.

565

6 months ago

marta.podsiadSupporter

asked in Deployment

Run ArcPro Python from FME

Hi, I have a toolbox in ArcPro that is creating a csv with list of all layers present in webappliction. Is there a way that I can run that script from FME and get the same result? I cannot access the content of the webmap in FME as I am using SingleSignOn to log in into EsriEnterprise.

854

6 months ago

krlemContributor

asked in Security

Is there a way to restrict access to python os module in FME Flow?

As we all know, FME supports use of Python in workbenches, either via PythonCaller, scripted parameters, etc. The risk I see though is, that unexperienced user or malicious insider could potentially run Python code with access to Operating System commands (os.system for example) and create some damages (delete shared data folder contents, remove some files or corrupt Engine host, map external drives and copy data there, etc., you name it).What are the best practices to restrict access to this type of Python modules? Is there any built-in functionality in FME Flow that could help to address this security concern?

796

6 months ago

adrian_farrellContributor

asked in Deployment

SharePoint Issues

Hi Could anyone help please? I have created two connections to Microsoft SharePoint, one for SharePoingOnlineConnector and one for SharePoint List Reader/Writer in FME Form.When i use either after uploading to FME Flow i get this error from Flow when running a published Flow App but it seems to work when running directly from the Flow UI SharepointOnlineConnector: Connection 'xx SharePoint Files' does not exist. Check connection parameter and connection definitions in FME options and try again I have gone into the group settings and granted full control to every user group that can use the Flow App, we are using AD authentication and that appears to be working fine. If anyone can assist i would be very grateful Thanks Adrian

672

6 months ago

ponting13Contributor

asked in Automation

FME Flow - Workspace App not allowing additional "Allowed Users" when Authentication is required

I am having trouble setting up an FME Flow Workspace App. We have setup our environment to have many users added to the “fmeguest” group and have them pretty much exclusively use Flow by accessing Workspace Apps. For a while now we have been using the “Requires Authentication” option on our flow apps with “fmeguest” as an Allowed User. However this appears to now not be working. Any time we add any additional allowed user (above the author of the app) and hit ok to host the app, those users are dropped. When we return to the edit screen only the app creator has access again. This means no additional users can gain access to the flow apps, which very much defeats the purpose of them. Just wondering if anyone else has encountered this problem, might be a tricky one for people to replicate to help. We are on FME Flow 2023.1.1.1 Any Ideas are welcome, fire them through and we will give them a go 😊

Uninstallation process takes an unusually long time (tested with FME Form and Flow 2023.1.2)

Uninstalling FME Form (and FME Flow) takes an unusually long time. We’re talking about 15+ Minutes on a powerful desktop PC (i9-10900k @ 3,70 GHz, 32GB RAM, fast SSDs). This is somewhat annoying, as there is still no way to update the program “in place”. Tested with FME Form and Flow 2023.1.2 Build 23641. I wonder what could be the reason? Maybe some kind of Windows real-time protection? Changing the Windows security settings is not an option as these are dictated by the IT department. Edit: I’m unable to create this thread in the “General” category (can’t be selected from the drop-down menu). So please move this thread if it doesn't belong here.

1223

6 months ago

kathyjbryceContributor

asked in Automation

FME Flow - remove queued jobs from fmeserver database table fme_jobs?

Our FME Server was patched and rebooted, which left it in a bad state. The automations and schedules kept triggering jobs but no jobs were running. It wasn’t noticed over the weekend and we now have over 160,000 queued jobs and I can’t get the FME server to respond (it hangs at the login screen, API calls just hang). I’ve restarted services, the machine etc etc. I think the issue is the fmejobrestore starts restoring all these jobs to the queue when I restart the fme server services. I’d like to cancel all the queued jobs in the back end database. Can I remove the records from the fme_jobs table? Will this cause any issues? Thank you!Kathy

883

6 months ago

swachContributor

asked in Deployment

How to control FME Flow distributed engines

I have finished a fresh install of FME Flow 2023 with a core machine and a distributed engine machine. The distributed engines show up on the web interface but I can’t control them. I can’t tell it how many of them to start (or stop). What additional configuration do I need to do?

390

6 months ago

od10Contributor

asked in Automation

Upload Cesium 3D Tiles through Cesium API

Has anyone managed to upload a ZIP file of Cesium 3D Tiles into Cesium Ion through its API? I can upload a CityGML through the CesiumIonConnector but want to try writing Cesium 3D Tiles and uploading the ZIP file. Thanks

892

6 months ago

virtualcitymattEvangelist

asked in Architecture

404 not found from jobsubmitterservice

I’m trying to debug an issue with the Job Submitter Service (I haven't actually tried any of the other services) .I have a process which runs fine from the FME Server UI (FME Server 2021). I can fill in the parameters (also upload an input file) etc. The jobs runs.If instead I try and run this using the jobsubmitter service via REST call - e.g., http://Host/fmejobsubmitter/Repository/workspace.fmw?parametersThe response is a 404. What is interesting to me is that I’m able to use the URL without the parameters and get back a proper response - that is for example: http://Host/fmejobsubmitter/Repository/workspace.fmw. It seeeeems like the issue is somehow related to the input file, however, in that case I would expect the job to fail rather than return a 404. so to me it seems like there is a problem actually submitting the jobI’ve checked permissions and the user definitely has access to the repository where the workspace is, and in my testing removing the permissions returns a 401 ERROR

502

6 months ago

todd_davisSupporter

asked in Security

Moving user data between Active Directory (AD) to Azure Active Directory (AAD or ME-ID) in bulk

Hi,I have a basic outline of how I would do this with FME Rest API, but wondering if anyone else has done it already in a comprehensive fashion, or whether Safe may have already created something for it? @siennaatsafe We are moving from Active Directory to Azure Active Directory (new name: Entra ID) in FME Flow. I just need to be able to move all user content and roles to a new AAD (new name: ME-ID) user.For instance:group: FME from AD already exists, but I am going to import group: FME from AAD and then switch all the content and role capabilities for all the underlying users. Happy to take anyone's learnings as well, just to ensure we don’t overlook anything? Cheers,Todd

681

6 months ago

missp29Contributor

asked in Architecture

Can I still run a workspace in command line on a separate distributed machine when the FME Flow Core server down?

Hi All,I am new to FME Flow. We are installing FME Flow 2023.1. We are setting up a two-tier distributed FME Flow environment with a machine which hosts FME Flow Core and Web server, and two separate distributed machines where the workspaces will be executed within the same network. Let’s say I have an automated scheduled job which supposed to run at one of distributed machine at a certain time. For some reasons, the FME Flow Core machine is down at the time when the scheduled job supposed to run. When the FME Flow Core machine down, is the scheduled job still able to start to run at the scheduled time automatically? If not, am I able to start the job manually on the command line on the distributed machine without the FME Flow Core machine available?Your help is great appreciated. Thanks, -John

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6 months ago

jiranek_hsroObserver

asked in Security

how to integrate Flow Apps through iframe into another web site?

Hi everyone, is there a way how to integrate Flow Apps through iframe into another web site page. There is a block in CORS setting Flow Apps strict-origin-when-cross-origin. Any idea? Kindly regards

572

6 months ago

manuel_hContributor

asked in Automation

Problem with Python module xarray used in FME Flow 2023.2.2

Hello everyone,I have a problem with FME Flow 2023.2.2 and the module xarray 2024.2.0. I need xarray for reading netCDF data and have created a Python script for this in FME Form 2023.2.2. This also runs without any problems. However, when I upload this workspace to FME Flow and start it there, I always get the message that the run has failed.After some research I found out that FME Flow has problems executing the command xarray.open_dataset(). I'll post the script and the logs of FME Form and Flow:import fmeobjectsimport xarray as xrclass FeatureCreator(object): """Template Class Interface: When using this class, make sure its name is set as the value of the 'Class to Process Features' transformer parameter. """ def __init__(self): """Base constructor for class members.""" pass def input(self, feature: fmeobjects.FMEFeature): print("Assign file") file = '/dafis/OpMod/t_file_fine/t_file_fine_2024040300_006_012.nc' print ('File: ' + f

523

7 months ago

benvkContributor

asked in Automation

Backup & Restore admin tab vs backupConfiguration.fmw

G’day, I have been having all sorts of issues trying to get the Out of the Box backupConfiguration.fmw tool to run via a schedule, I don't think it has worked properly since we installed FME Server about 6 years ago, we have just kind of ignored it and never made repairing it a priority. At one point we recreated the schedule from scratch as a result of me creating this topic (BackupConfiguration.fmw "Unable to retrieve backup from FME Server..." | Community (safe.com)), but that win was short lived. I have only just now realized there is a tab on the admin panel of FME Flow called “Backup & Restore”, and I am wondering if someone can tell me the difference between the two? The Backup & Restore tab has apparently run fine for as long as our logs go back (Sept 2023). Am I duplicating effort by trying to get backupConfiguration.fme to run? Or are they separate things? Just for interest's sake I have attached the log of the most recent run of backupConfiguration.fme including the

251

7 months ago

vxn43Supporter

asked in Automation

Automation and Engine Log Files - How long are they saved?

How long in terms of days is a log file saved after an Automation is run? is the log file overwritten the next time the same Automation runs? or is the log file archived somewhere? Also, the log files in Resources referenced below, how long are they saved? how often are new ones created and saved?Files & Connections - Resources - Logs - Engine - OldFiles & Connections - Resources - Logs - Core - Old

201

7 months ago

swethabhupathiContributor

asked in Automation

getting error “QSInvalidRequest”

Often getting error “QSInvalidRequest” while an automation triggering a job at scheduled time

438

7 months ago

curtisd54Contributor

asked in Automation

transformer to generate grid?

Hello , I am looking to generate a 10km x 10km grid (10 000m x 10 000m)with 30m x 30m pixel what would be the best transformer to complete this ?

251

7 months ago

od10Contributor

asked in Automation

Reading GDB in FME Flow Gallery App

Hello, I’ve got two user parameters in my gallery app. A Generic reader where i chose what data to read in, in my case a ESRI geodatabase, and a featuretype user parameter to choose which feature class or layer to read in. I can’t seem to get this to work from ESRI gdbs. Anyone have any ideas? I can’t select the gdb, only a file in the gdb folder. Thanks

524

7 months ago

keithhastingsContributor

asked in Deployment

Uploading Google Sheets package to FME Flow

Hi, We’ve recently upgraded our FME Flow install from 2022.2 to 2023.2.1I had a published workspace that used the Google Sheets v4 package. Previously when I published this workspace, the included Google Sheets package uploaded to FME Flow and became available to use in FME Flow. This all seemed to work fine.Since the upgrade to 2023.2.1 I seem to be having trouble getting this to work. When I publish the workspace, using FME Form 2023.2, I get the option to upload the Google Sheets package, and this appears to work fine.But when I run the workspace from FME Flow I keep getting this error:File D:\Program Files\FMEFlow\Server\fme\metafile\SAFE.GOOGLE-SHEETS.GOOGLESHEETS4.fmf could not be openedIf I look in the Resources>Engine folder I can see that the file safe.google-sheets-3.3.4.fpkg has been copied in here (with the appropriate timestamp when I published the workspace).Is there something else that has to happen to make this package available?ThanksKeith

791

7 months ago

gjaguilarContributor

asked in Security

Error writing to a hard drive on another server

I am starting with FME Server and can someone help me understand and learnI have a download process that runs on a virtual machine with Windows Server 2019 data center (Server 1) and it must write a file to a disk of another virtual machine that also has Windows Server 2019 data center (Server 2), but I gives permissions error. I understand that the process is executed with a user created in the FME Server, in this case of type System.My doubts are:Should the user created on the FME Server also be created as a user on Server 1 and have write permissions to the Server 2 disk?Should the user be changed in FME Server to Directory Server type or is it not necessary?

474

7 months ago

texldsContributor

asked in Deployment

Return FME SERVER job results to an external webpage

A client has a website that allows for uploading and downloading of data. That’s not the issue here. There is one button on their website that when clicked it lists all of the feature types and their last time an upload was completed. This output is in HTML.At the present time we are now realizing that the results from an FME Workspace, that is sitting on FME Server, properly formats the output in HTML. But here’s the issue … We discovered there was no job set up to run in FME Server which also means it is not set up to do anything related to automation. We have also discovered that the results of that job were just periodically being manually run and then directly uploaded to their website (We are the ones that built the site and maintain it, but none of those individuals who originally did this are with our company today).So, it was just a stagnant picture in time, and totally dependent on someone always remembering to go in every day, week, month, or year (We truly do not know what

361

7 months ago

ayatelnmer_2010Observer

asked in Deployment

engine is not seen

Hi,We have installed the FME Flow on a new server and successfully licensed it. However, I do not see any available engines in FME Flow. I tried to use the old server license, then removed it and installed the new licensed version. I noticed that the workspaces are running. I checked the web connection and found it is connected to the new server, and the host is related to the new server. However, on the deployment status page, the host is related to the old server.I want to ensure that everything is related to the new server and to see the available engineswe use FME FLOW 2023

501

7 months ago

texldsContributor

asked in Deployment

FME Server Automation to Website (Reposting: Not sure what happened to the previous one)

A client has a website that allows for uploading and downloading of data. That’s not the issue here. There is one button on their website that when clicked it lists all of the feature types and their last time an upload was completed. This output is in HTML. At the present time we are now realizing that the results from an FME Workspace, that is sitting on FME Server, properly formats the output in HTML. But here’s the issue … We discovered there was no job set up to run in FME Server which also means it is not set up to do anything related to automation. We have also discovered that the results of that job were just periodically being manually run and then directly uploaded to their website (We are the ones that built the site and maintain it, but none of those individuals who originally did this are with our company today). So, it was just a stagnant picture in time, and totally dependent on someone always remembering to go in every day, week, month, or year (We truly do not know wha

492

7 months ago

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