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matthieu_polyte
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geomancer
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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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rob_m_esriuk
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rob_m_esriukContributor
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nathanherzog
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nathanherzogContributor
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Copy email attachments from FME Flow Resource folder to UNC network path

The trigger is an incoming IMAP email with potentially more than one attachment. I wasn’t able to use the “Send Event As JSON” option because the email body is being delivered as HTML which fouls up the JSON parser in FME Flow. So I’m sending individual components of the email to a workbench+From:{email.from}+Subject:{email.subject}+Sent:{email.sent}+BodyType:{email.contentType}+Attachments:{email.attachments}+Body:{email.body} I’m splitting up the individual sections of the delivered data in the workbench using StringSearchers with Regex. I wind up with a string with the location that email attachments have been saved to in Flow, which is something like this:$(FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_TEMP)20250121124721-IMAP_Email_Testing-FW_Attachment_test-98e024d4-2316-4cd5-9905-1eb756d02a09I’ve been struggling with what to do with this string in order to access the attachments to save them somewhere on the network. The ultimate goal is to have the inbound email trigger a workbench that automatically cre

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nathanherzog
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ebygomm
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Jobs submitted via automation go to job queue intermittently

FME Flow 2024.1 Build 24612 - distributed setupI’m raising with Safe but if anyone has any bright ideas before Vancouver wakes up :-)Recently upgraded our pre-production environment to the above version. Noticed an issue however with some jobs getting stuck in a queued state and never moving on. The jobs are triggered by automation that runs every 10 minutes and assigns the jobs to a specific queue which in turn has two engines available. Sometimes the job gets submitted and runs successfully, sometimes the job gets put in a queue where it remains forever.  e.g. the job triggered at 11:20 was processed successfully, the job triggered at 11:30 ended up in the queue, the job triggered at 11:40 was processed as expected The automation log (running in debug mode) doesn’t show any errors or warnings, the queued jobs show as submitted but with no other information Other perhaps relevant information, the jobs should also expire once in the queue beyond a certain length of time and that is not

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gregbensnoco
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Using different accounts for FME jobs

We currently run all our FME jobs as an AD service account.  Unless a workspace uses SQL Authentication for DB access, all DB access occurs as this service account.  This has turned into a security concern and I’m sure others have dealt with this.  Which of the following is the best solution or what have I missed?It sounds like the new FME licensing allows unlimited engines.  Could we create a new engine for each workspace and run it as the service account with DB access, and access to network shares?  Kindly point me to steps to do this.Group Managed Service Accounts - can a FME workspace run as a gMSA? Use SQL Authentication instead of Windows Authentication for DB access.  I understand FME encrypts passwords but we’d still use the FME service account to access a ton of resources.How do others handle FME jobs and access to resources?

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hkingsbury
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swach
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swachContributor
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nathanherzog
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nathanherzogContributor
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IMAP email automation trigger - message body sent as HTML via Event As JSON

I’m using an IMAP email trigger for an automation where I’m using the content of the email in a workbench with the goal of delivering a JSON payload to Cityworks to automatically create a new Work Order.I’ve set up a User Parameter in the workbench to receive data from the the email. When I use the “Event as JSON” option for the parameter in FME Flow, the message body is being delivered to the workbench as HTML. This crashes the JSON being delivered. Everything up to the body is fine, but the message body doesn’t make it over, and everything that follows the body is also lost.I’ve been able to get the message content into a workbench by using the individual headings such as “Email Body”, “Email Subject”,  “Sent from Address” headings in Flow as the parameters to pass, but doing it this way does not allow you to use the JSON transformers in the workbench.Essentially what I am needing to do is receive JSON formatted data in a workbench from the IMAP email trigger, create attributes from

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nathanherzog
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pflegpet
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pflegpetContributor
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matthewb
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matthewb
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matthewbContributor
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eanolan2024
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eanolan2024Contributor
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ADFS SAML use in FME FLOW

Hello, I am new to administering FLOW. We actually have just purchased the product and are in the process of setting everything up, and learning.I would like to integrate SAML with FLOW. It is straightforward enough with the ability to use the metadata URL or import from a xml file. All of that and actually enabling SAML under User Management was quite straightforward. We are a huge IT shop and I have to submit tickets to another department to have the applications integrated with ADFS.The software was installed as port 8080, and is accessed through an F5 (load balancer). After install, I had the F5 team set up listening on port 8080 and the software is accessible via the F5 VIP and internally. All that said, there have been a few issues. Initially the software was passing communication for ADFS over http, because that is how it was setup. So this was expected. The problem there, is the ADFS console would not allow http to be used, it only allows https. I have since used a FME article

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eanolan2024
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poonam21
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aaron
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aaronContributor
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curtisd54
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hlynur
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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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abirami
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mmccart
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juliovinicius
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asked in Deployment
fmesafe.podpora
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fmesafe.podporaContributor
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jeresv
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jeresvContributor
asked in Security
Azure AD SSO and embedded workspace app in ArcGIS Experience builder

HiWe are about to configure Azure AD (Entra ID) Integration to authenticate users to our FME Flow. There are some workspace applications (flow apps) that are embedded into an ArcGIS Portal Experience builder app. The authentication to the ArcGIS Portal is also done with Azure AD accounts. The idea is, that the end user will open the ArcGIS Portal web application and access the FME Flow workspace application from that platform, rather than re-navigate to the Flow app. If SSO is enabled, will the FME Workspace/Flow app application authenticate automatically without extra login to the workspace application, when it is accessed from the ArcGIS Portal Experience application, as it is embedded to the application? Current setup with basic user authentication and FME Flow user access control fully inside FME Flow naturally requires a log-in to the app OR requires the Flow app to be published without authentication, but we want to ensure security. Does anyone have experience with this kind of s

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jeresv
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sunnywaygis
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koen
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koenContributor
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Module 'realdwg/REALDWG' is unavailable for use with this FME edition (FME Flow 2024.2)

After upgrading FME Flow to 2024.2 some of our workspaces fail with the following error:WARN  |Library 'F:\FMEFlow\Server\fme\plugins/realdwg/REALDWG.dll' was found but could not be loaded. Ensure that all the dependent modules exist for this library WARN  |Could not load module 'F:\FMEFlow\Server\fme\plugins/realdwg/REALDWG.dll' : 'The specified module could not be found' WARN  |Could not load module 'F:\FMEFlow\Server\fme\realdwg/REALDWG.dll' : 'The specified module could not be found' ERROR |Module 'realdwg/REALDWG' is unavailable for use with this FME editionSeems like RealDWG and AUTOCAD_OD readers/writers do not work anymore. -Is this a known issue/bug?-Is RealDwg not supported anymore? It does work in FME Form 2024.2

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daveatsafe
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9val
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9valContributor
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anteboy65
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