FME Flow

It is common knowledge that Flow has to be on the same server as ESRI ArcGIS Server for all the ESRI toys to function correctly.How does this work with a Remote Engine? If we have 2 servers, one with Flow and the other with ArcGIS Server, can we overcome the licencing issue by installing a remote engine on the ArcGIS Server machine?I see from this article Using FME Flow with Esri ArcGIS Software – FME Support Center that it states“ArcGIS Server must be installed and licensed on the same machine as the FME Flow Engine Service”, but what does this mean in practice…???? The “Flow Engine Service” means the main installation of Flow, rather than Remote Engine, yes? Any help will be warmly appreciated.RegardsStu 

Hello,I am a newbie and want to use fmedownload api in our new webpage.what is the best way to integrate security?at the moment I would call the the get token service with user and password to get a temporary token.Then I would use this token and call fmedownload.Is that the best way? Will the token service be available in the future?thanksbest regards Gerhard

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

I am creating a PDF report in a PythonCaller and currently I am writing it into a subfolder of FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_TEMP.I would like to know where I have to write the file to be able to generate a download link for it.When I use normal writers than I reference the writer in the Download Service… but with a PythonCaller?

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

Hi,I get from our Security officer anmessage that there is an vulnerability dected on one of our servers.This server is has FME Flow 2023.2.2 Build 23781 - win64 which depend on Apache Tomcat.Can you tell me if there is an security risk? And how we can solve this?Thread is registered under: CVE-2023-44487.Thank you

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

Having an issue where users using the Palo Alto VPN can't get licenses assigned.The logs show that they can can connect to the server but the logs show that lmgrd is not running(it is).  It's works fine without the VPN 2025-05-22 15:52:28 Connected to a license service running on standard port 27000 on server  (x.xx.xxx.xx)2025-05-22 15:53:13 Checking whether the license service offers FME licenses2025-05-22 15:53:13 The license service running on port 27000 on server  (x.xx.xx.xx) does not appear to offer FME licenses. It provided the following vendor information: lmgrd is not running: License server machine is down or not responding. (-96,7:11001 "WinSock: Host not found (HOST_NOT_FOUND)")2025-05-22 15:53:13 The license service(s) tested on server  (x.xxx.xx.x) do not appear to offer FME licenses. Please have your system administrator check that a SAFE license service is running on the correct port (standard ports are between

Getting an error with the default (OOTB) schedules/workspaces for : backupConfiguration.fmw JobHistoryStatisticsGathering.fmw Both times it’s an SSL error with the HTTPCallers in those workspaces. Looks to me like they’re calling a URL based on the Windows machine name provided (gathered?) during installation.This was not an upgrade but fresh install so I think this thread about the API version does not apply. It’s definitely calling V3.However, after the initial install, I have switched to HTTPS and added a DNS name with a valid SSL cert. All my services - Data Download, Data Streaming, Job Submitter etc - are working fine with this new name/URL.But the HTTPCaller still uses the FME_SERVER_WEB_URL(FME_SERVER_WEB_URL

Dear All, I am requesting your input on how to automate task on Teams using FME?  Excel tracker on TEAMSON 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 goe

What is the process to access the database on the FME Server just so that we could have a trail of files that users ingested and the outputs that were generated? What are some of the best practices we can implement that can be helpful at the time of audit ?

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 parametersIn here there are no decimals.In the workspace tm_data has the Type int16In the Automations writer it is also defined as integer.But when assignin

Hi, I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this? Yesterday my site access for FME Flow worked fine and today it won’t work at all; I get 404 error.The only thing that seemed to occur between yesterday and today is a Windows Security update. Has anyone else experienced this? I have stopped/started all services; uninstalled the update and restarted the machine but nothing seems to work to get the site back up. I feel like rolling back to a backup is the only option.  Thanks!

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.

Hi,I would like to ask if there is a way to share webconnections to group of users with partial permission (ie only access permission) not full permission. the issue with full permission that the shared users can be able to delete web connections I shared. I have to tried to take off their manager and create permission but still wont be able to let them do not remove the share connection.We are looking for a way can do partial permission setting up. Thank you very much. 😁 

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

in a FME FORM i have made some user parameter, that takes in input; one of them have a conditional visibility based on whether another user parameter has an input of > 100. When i run the creator in FORM, and input a number abobe 100,  it works, but when i publish it to FLOW the conditional visibility doesn’t work.then, if I change the condition to “is 100” instead og “> 100” and republish, it works.is this a bug, or is there a work around?  

Hi -I could use a hand. We are working with FME Flow 2024.1.1 with work spaces being generated in FME Desktop 2024.1.1.The data download service is working fine, but we would like to be able to do one or two things:Is it possible to just download a .docx or xslx file without it being zipped? It is one other step that our end users don’t need. If not, is it possible to name the zip file according to report for the area we are working in, something like: BostonStreets_20250203.zip. An example of the output we are seeing, and would like to change, is attached. We can name the files within the zip file whatever we want, no problem.Any help or suggestions are appreciated!Thanks! 

Workspace I’m uploading from FME Form (2024.0.1.0) returns this error.  Failed to update definition of database type 'Microsoft SQL Server (JDBC)' - FME Flow encountered an error and reported the following message.Database type Microsoft SQL Server (JDBC) cannot be edited.Request to http://XXXXXXXXX/fmeapiv4/databasetypes/Microsoft SQL Server (JDBC) returned status code 422. Is a workspace that has SQL Executors pointing to a SQL Server database and outputs results to a XLSX file on my laptop.Any help would be appreciated. 

Hi FME community,I’ve recently been asked if FME Flow supports access via the Microsoft Entra application proxy. Has anyone configured this and can confirm it is supported?I believe it’s very similar to the setup explained in the documentation below, but I haven’t been able to find any documentation referencing the Microsoft Entra application proxy.https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407571916173-Use-a-Reverse-Proxy-with-FME-Serverhttps://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407364847885-Using-IIS-and-ARR-as-a-Reverse-Proxy-in-FME-FlowThanks!

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

We have an FME Flow Hosted instance running and I need to connect to an MS SQL Server. I have seen from the Reader/Writer documentation that MS SQL is not supported from FME Flow Hosted.Does anyone have a suggestion how we could still connect to MS SQL?The question is very relevant to us, since we plan to migrate to an FME Flow that will also run from an Linux-instance, which seems to be the cause why it isn’t possible to connect to MS SQL. N.B. Our current FME version is 2024.0.3.

Hi AllCurrently we are facing some weird issueWe have a FME workspace which is running fine in FME Form (2024.2.3 - 64 bit), we have published to FME Flow (2024.2.3) and when we ran the workspace from FME Flow, it started throwing below Ora error (changed ServerName & UserName values to XXX to hide)-“ Error connecting to Oracle database: message was `ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified'. (serverType=`ORACLE8I', serverName=`XXX', userName=`XXX', password=`***', dbname=`') “I have cross verified the below from my side on FME Flow (Windows Server) and I’m not sure what I’m missing, please suggest how can I overcome this issue in FME Flow.We are not connecting to Oracle using local naming (tnsnames.ora file) instead using LDAP TNSPING ServiceName - resulted correct response  Ensured both Oracle Client 32 bit and Oracle Client 64 bit paths are part of ‘Path’ environment variable under sys

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 JSONThe reader parameters are set to read the whole file at onceThe 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 suc

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?