FME Flow

Hello, I’m new to working with Flow automations and still fairly beginner level with FME. I appreciate any guidance you can provide.The WorkspaceI am working with ArcGIS Online and Field Maps. We have teams in the field everyday collecting data. At the end of the day I run a workspace that tidies up their tracklogs and calculates how many km they covered and hours spent.I’m using 2024.2 build 24783 for both Form and Flow.What I want to achieveHaving this data in the feature service isn’t enough. I also want an email summarising this information.How can I do this with Flow Automations?What I’ve triedWith the Email action I see options to send basic information like attaching the log, how much time it took to run, what time it ran, but I want more detailed information to show in the email. The information is an FME Feature Attribute created in the workspace pictured below.One colleague said it wasn’t possible in Flow and is better to do in Form using the Emailer transformer. Is that corr

Hi,I’ve developed a workbench that scans a selected folder and generates an Excel document listing its contents. I’d like to publish it to FME Flow, allowing users to input a folder path from the same PC where the workspace is executed. However, the app is currently failing. Is this setup possible?

Hi all! First post here, so I’m excited to get some feedback!For context, I do a report on our organization’s EV chargers every month. In this report, I need to calculate the average time of day people are charging, the average charge time (duration), and the total duration.Currently, I am unable to get the average duration and the total duration.Here’s my processConvert the time to FME format using a DateTimeConverter Sum and average the times using a SatisticsCaclulator I attempt to convert the summary back into H:MM...But then I am met with the below error: Where am I going wrong?

Hi there, I know it is possible to use attributes from a workspace in a Flow automation by using the automation writer, however that seems to only work if you connect the output port of the automation writer to your next action in Flow. I need a way to use these values in a later event without connecting the port.Scenario:Webhook trigger → runs a workspace to create a report that is then stored in a resource folder, also outputs a few attributes that i want to use in the body of my email action. I then have a resource or network directory trigger that fires when a new file is added, this triggers an email to be sent. The issue:If i connect the automation writer port to the email action then i end up with two emails. One contains the attributes in the body but with no attachment. the other contains the attached file but is missing the attributes.Any help would be much appreciated,Cheers

Hi,I created a workspace that uses an Esri ArcGIS Online (AGOL) Feature Service. The workspace run on FME Form and on FME Flow if i run it. However, once I make an workspace app from the workspace on FME Form I get the following error and my workspace fails: 89 2025-7-2 14:58:39 | ArcGIS Online Feature Service Reader: Connection 'AGOL service' does not exist. Check connection parameter and connection definitions in FME options and try again  Here is a screenshot from my jobs. Lower one is of my run and top one is through the workspace app.  We are running on FME Flow 2023.2.4

I see there’s already an Idea for providing the option for versioning Automations in FME Flow but the Idea was created 5 years ago and there doesn’t seem to have been any traction on it.So, in the absence of any official support from Safe, what are people doing with regard to creating and saving versions of Automations?Currently, if I make a change to an Automation but then need to revert that change there’s no way of doing it once it’s been saved.The only workaround for this I can think of is to make a Project containing the Automation and then manually exporting the project (and saving it to a version control system) before making any changes to the Automation. The obvious problem with this is that it relies on:remembering to export a Project before making any Automation changes making sure the Project name is consistent (hard to do with multiple people editing)There does not seem to be any System Event that is triggered on Automation change and no API call available for downloading

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 r

Hi,I created a token that is used in an HTTPCaller to download Workspaces from Flow via the Flow REST API. I granted the token only permission to access Repositories which worked fine but the problem is that as soon as a new repository is created, the initial permission is not extended for this new repos.  It seems that I either have to manually re-grant permissions everytime a new repository is created or grant “All Permissions”. Is there any better option?   

Hi guys we have a generic translator app built in workspace app. however we often has issue when there’s no output written (file generated for download) or translation failed. on the app it still display process completed but return no download link.  Im using downloading service on writter outputs but wondering if there’s a way to let it return a message or simplely inform user traslation failed / error occured / or no output was generated. thanks!

Hello,I have automation which triggers a workbench and has to send result file on email in the end.The resulted excel file has dynamic name with @DateTimeNow parameter.How to set that automation takes the correct file? If I add fixed name, it works fine but I don’t know how to make it for dynamic name. Could anyone help, please?

We have set up an automation to send data to a number of ArcGIS Portals,In each of the portals we have set up an application and in FME Flow Hosted we have set up corresponding web connections.The issue we are finding is that every day we need to re-authenticate the connections, other wise our automation fails to complete from start to end.Is there are way to ensure the web connections automatically authenticate or is there a way to run a process each day to refresh / re-authenticate? 

Is it possible to have a log out button/log out link in an Automation App?

Hello,I followed the FME Flow tutorial to trigger a workspace when an email is received using the SMTP protocol:https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407759987981-Run-a-Workspace-in-Response-to-Incoming-Email#FME-Flow-email-via-SMTP-protocolThe server is a Linux Debian server, and ports 25 and 7125 are open on the firewall.I tested it on port 7125, then on port 25, and finally on port 25 with redirection to port 7125, but it still doesn't work.The log files show no trace of emails arriving on FME Flow...I don't understand what's blocking it...

Hello everyone,I already looked at the following post, but this post is already 6 years old. Myself I don't have any experience with the the FMEServerJobSubmitter and I was wondering if there are other ways to pass the job-id from one workspace to another workspace in an automation.  I tried using the automation writer as a method to pass a job-id from one workspace to another workspace, but that doesn't seem to work, the job-id is empty in the second workspace.

We use Azure Entra ID (formerly known as Azure Active Directory) with FME Flow to login the application.So now we have two methods: 1. user name and password2. button "Sign in with Microsoft"My colleagues often use the first method, which does not work for them.I set up the system events to notify me when a login is failed. But now I would like to know who tried and failed to login. Is there a log that shows the username someone used to try to login? Does anyone know which logfile it is in?ps it would be nice if I could hide the first login method. But that method is used by the admin-account. So I guess that is not an option.

I have an automation which has a few workbenches which are SQLExectutors that gather parameters and write to automation writers.  There are then workbenches which consume these parameters and use them for processing..  In the automation setup I assign the parameters to the incoming attributes.  This process runs weekly.  It runs successfully but occasionally it starts failing, when I go into the automation it is failing because these parameters have reverted to their default values. I have to re-assign them back to attribute values.  How is this happening by itself? This process isn’t being touched by anyone else and will run successfully for months. This is in FME Flow 2023.2.1

Hi Everyone,I have created a Server App (as admin) and gave an active directory account a right to run it (please, see attached)Then, using app's url I log in as myself (dshatilov) and run the app. I thought it would run the job (the workspace) as dshatilov, but yet it runs it as admin. Is there a way to fix it? What I am trying to achieve is to be able to run a server app as an active directory user and automatically extract user's name, so I could send the results back to a user without asking him or her to type in an email address.When I log in as myself to the FME server and run the workbench from there, it runs it as dshatilov and sends the results back to my address, but when I run the server app, it doesn't. 

Hi, our IT department have reported Apache Tomcat Vulnerability CVE-2025-49124 which impacts both our production and non-production servers running FME Flow 2024.2.1.Has anyone else reported this to Safe Software and is there a plan to provide a fix in 2025.1.4?DescriptionUntrusted Search Path vulnerability in Apache Tomcat installer for Windows. During installation, the Tomcat installer for Windows used icacls.exe without specifying a full path. This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.7, from 10.1.0 through 10.1.41, from 9.0.23 through 9.0.105. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.8, 10.1.42 or 9.0.106, which fix the issue.

Hi!After FME Flow upgrade from 2022.2.1. to 2023.1 our organization is not able to use login with Windows credentials (Active Directory) anymore. It seems to be similar issue to Known Issue: FME Server SSO failed login due to insufficient credentials (safe.com), the error message is Failed login by user YIIJygYGKwYBBQUCoIIJvjCCCbqgMDAu... due to insufficient credentials. We haven't changed the configuration and until now the upgrades to a newer version haven't broken login with Active Directory user. 

We have 3 automations that run in parallel (with a slight time offset) and each is identical but runs workbench(1) workbench(2) and workbench(3)  so they can run without clashing.One of the parameters for these is a gdb connection file reference which is stored in Resources...Data. However to load this from a workbench we have either no value or a local file path in this parameter and this is edited in the automation to reference the resource file.Periodically one of these automations (not always the same one) will start to fail because when I look the parameter has reset to the default value. There seems to be no rhyme nor reason to this. The last one to fail was number 3 so today I’ve tried to recreate that automation from scratch. What i really need is a guaranteed fix for this so it doesn’t happen when we go to production. We are processing a large queue of data and in production need all 3 streams to be active.thanksRob

Hi, I'm still a beginner with FME and I have the following problem: I have an automation that is triggered via webhook. The caller expects a JSON response in a specific format. How can I achieve that? Normally, only the default 202 response is returned. 

Hello, my question is quite simple and probably idiotic but I haven’t found a clear solution to this anywhere, so here we go…I have a very simple Flow App where the user drags and drops a DWG file that then gets split up into separate layer entities and written to our SDE. So what I want, and again quite simple, is that that after running that App the user gets an email notifying him/her if the process succeeded.  Meaning the running of the Flow app is the trigger for the Flow automation that then sends out an email based on a attribute value from the Flow app (the user basically fills out their email in the Flow app that gets assigned to a attribute in that process).I cant for the life of me figure out how to use a ran Flow app as the trigger and the other things that comes after that is just bonus question material if anyone wants.How do I do this?-Hlynur 

Good Morning Safers, I am installing FME Flow 2021.2, and I wanted to check on the version of PostgreSQL I should be using, and the instructions on how to configure a provided a database server. As per Safe’s documentation, it seems I am looking at 11.13 but this version is long retired. I did find the following post that seems to indicate it is still compatible with 14:   Have other discovered the same? Also, there doesn’t seem to be documentation about provided a configured database server. The documentation seems to indicate I would provide the scripts for creating the user and schema to the database administrator that are downloaded with FME Flow, but I am making assumptions. I did find the documentation from Barrie, but the FME Flow documentation provided by Safe only seems to go back to 2024: https://dis.barrie.ca/fmeserver/help/PDF-FMEFlowAdminGuide.pdfThank you Safers!

Hi all, for a workspace-app in fme flow, i was asked whether ,and if, how it is possible to have only one upload field for all file types (.xlsx and .dwg), rather than having individual upload fields for each file type. To my knowledge, each reader in the workspace has its own upload-field in flow/the workspace-app and i can only select which are published and which are not.I tested the “Directory and File Pathnames” Reader and the “Generic” Reader, but the user should not have to select the folder, but each file individually (multiple files at once). This is needed for more user-friendliness.Hope that explaines the predicament :)Thank’s for your help!Cheers.

Hello Safers,I am currently planning on implementing a FME Flow server that I’ll need to use within an ArcGIS Enterprise that is federated. I understand based on the documentation that I need ArcGIS Server installed and licensed on that server before attempting to install FME Flow. This have I have already done. I’m now onto creating a site for this machine. I imagine this site would be federated with my ArcGIS Enterprise? We also have a separate server that contains all of our Web Adaptors. Would install the Web Adaptor the same as any other ArcGIS Server, and separately have the Apache application server install on my FME Flow? I would then use the aforementioned to create a reverse proxy so that external traffic is then routed onto our FME Flow server. Does this not effectively mean there are two different configurations: One to direct traffic to our ArcGIS Server site, and then another to our FME Flow Web Application Server?Basically, the question above is: I would configure my Arc