FME Flow

Hello all,Today I fell into a rabbit hole with the HTTP request action in Automations (2024.1).As the Action lacks the parameters key-value interfacing of a fully fledged HTTPCaller, I needed to build-up the parameter-part of the URL in the text-editor.There, some URL encoding happens. Spaces are substituted by %20 at least. But I was unable to parse a GeoJSON as the [ ] were not encoded. When I manually url-encoded the parameter values, the encoding (%) was encoded(%25) , so I still did not get a valid GeoJSON from a manual-trigger-Geometry parameter to a parameter in a workspace REST-webhook.I remember around 2016, the default server.xml in a FME Server installation did allow for non-encoded brackets through an exception in the <connector>. That has long gone in the standard install. Using Kubernetes, even if I wanted to, I would not know how to put that back.So:Has anyone figured-out the encoding which does occur (which and when)?  @Safe: Could we please have reliable full enc

Pretty much just as the error says:“There was an error submitting the job. COM.safe.fmeserver.api.FMEServerException: Job submission failed. Could not acquire valid job queue.”This displays immediately after pressing run in the workspace runner on FME Server 2021.2.5.I’m not sure where to start investigating and thought maybe someone could point me in the general direction.   

FME(R) 2023.1.1.0 (20230928 - Build 23631 - WIN64)I have a simple scripted parameter script in workbench to return the value of a deployment parameter and I’m wondering if there’s a bug in the interface. When I drag a user parameter onto the script canvas the code generated contains FME_MacroValues, eg.FME_MacroValues['SomeUserParam']If  I drag a deployment parameter, dpTest, onto the script canvas the code generated looks like$(dpTest)Here’s the script. The commented code fails; if I manually correct $(dpTest) to FME_MacroValues['dpTest'], it runs: # Get the archive folder from deployment paramimport fme#arch = $(dpTest)#return archreturn FME_MacroValues['dpTest'] Is this a bug? Thanks.

Is it possible to test (from within FME) which operating system an FME workspace is running on?

Is TLS 1.3 supported for FME 2023.2.1?How do you go about finding this out? ThanksKeith

Hi! I have an automation with an email trigger, and I want to use the emails subject in the FME Form workspace, how do I do that?  

(We use FME Flow 2024.0.2.1)I have an automation with about 20 actions. In the first action, a folder is read. The files it contains are the input for the other actions (written out with a automation writer, input parameter for the actions: route.xy)However, it should also be possible to start the automation with the manual trigger and specify a file as a parameter, which is then used as input in the subsequent actions.But this means that the input parameter for the other actions is not route.xy, but manual.xy.Is there a way to set the input parameter for the individual actions so that the correct path is used in each case (route.xy or manual.xy)? Or do I have to duplicate all actions and set route.xy for one half and manual.xy for the other (after the manual trigger)?Thanks, Vera

The title is self explanatory. I need to upload or create dozens of database connections and I found cumbersome to upload only once of them at a time.How can I do that? May I share a folder with them? 

Pretty much as the question asks. If I stop and start an FME Flow Instance or reboot an FME Instance, will the automations know when next to run based on before the instance restarted, or will it start the repeat from the start of the selected interval?Thank you for your help!Nick T

Hi, I’m new to FME, looking to setup a python caller to manipulate some feature services on our Enterprise portal.Is it possible to call feature services from within a python caller inside a workspace hosted by FME Flow?The script below works fine in FME Workbench and prints True, the FME Flow prints false. import fmeimport fmeobjectsimport arcpyfrom arcgis.gis import GISfrom arcgis.features import FeatureLayerdef ProcessWebhook(feature):        # URL to AGOL or Portal        url_gis = "https://<servername>/portal" # URL to AGOL or Portal        user = "xxxx" # AGOL or Portal username        pwd = "xxxx" # user password        gis = GIS(url_gis, user, pwd)        id = feature.getAttribute('webhook_feat_id')        whereclause = 'field_3 = ' + "'" + str(id) + "'"        in_feat_url = r"https://<servername>/hostedserver/rest/services/Hosted/service_3c55880fb4112b08f2af29c22e/FeatureServer/0"        in_feat_fl = FeatureLayer(in_feat_url)        in_feat = in_feat_fl.url       

Is there a way to set the font of the text in the Logger transformer as it is displayed in “View Details”?The Logger transformer has an option to set a font. I set my font to Consolas Regular 12Then I ran the workbench on FME Server (FME Flow)The I clicked on “View Details”I could see the text that was created by the Logger, but it was not in the font that I had chosen 

Hi all, We upgraded from FME Server 2021.1.5 to 2022.1.1 a little while ago and since then our automations no longer seem to be triggering jobs. Each of the automation logs shows a scheduled trigger event at the correct time, but no jobs are getting queued. Manually triggering an automation also does nothing, apart from showing a green 'Automation triggered' message in the web interface and adding a successful event to the automation log. Everything else about the server seems fine. Schedules run at the time they're meant to and queue jobs up properly, and I'm able to run all of the workspaces that should be automated with no issues at all. All of the server logs I can find show no obvious errors and fmeserver.log shows no hint of any of the jobs being run due to automations. I've tried uploading a completely fresh workspace to the server and setting up a new automation. The logs show the automation being assembled and actions being linked, etc. but this is subject

Hi all, I am running FME Flow 2023.1 and have a flow app with a handful of mandatory parameters which the user enters and clicks 'OK'. If the user does not enter all parameters and attempts to run the app, they get a 'Please supply a list for parameter' error.If the user re-enters all the parameters and attempts to run the app, the 'OK' button is now greyed-out. The user must refresh the page and start again.is there a reason for this behaviour?It's pretty annoying to have the user re-enter all parameters again if they have forgotten to enter a mandatory field. thanks

We currently have FME-supplied Flexnet running on a Windows server and would like to use the same daemon to licence another product. I have checked in the manual and the suggestion is that I simply need to tweak the other product licence file to point at a different port. However as the current Flexnet install does not show FME as he vendor file, when I try adding a vendor file it causes and error as it can’t find the FME licence file. I did put the other product’s licence file in the same folder as the FME file. I have also spotted a post that suggested adding the second products licence to the same file with FME pointing at the default port (27000) and the other product point at a second port.Can you advise what is the best approach?ThanksChris

Hi all. I am working on an automation triggered by Survey123 submissions based on webhooks. The initial part is working ok, but I am running into some strange behaviour:As it is now I have an automation with a webhook trigger that starts an action to run a workspace. This workspace parses the data from the webhook, sorts the input into various outputs depending on choices made in Survey123 and sent data to separate FME Flow Automations.Each of the outputs contain two attributes; one with a code for how the registration will be handled further downstream and one with the globalid for the Survey123 submission. To check the output I have set up one message logger and one emailer on the output route in my automation. The message definition to the logger and the email body are identical, but the globalid is only written to the log, not to the email (where I get _undefined_) 

We recently upgraded to FME Flow 2024.0 and have been struggling with an issue where access to a number of our ArcGIS Server services is being denied at the Flow level.  We were first able to circumvent this by using on-network calls using HTTP however a recent job where we use a PythonCaller to geocode addresses is failing when we attempt to hit our Address Point Locator.  Job works as expected in Form, and we have ArcGIS Server working on the FME hosts, in addition to the ArcGIS Server host that has our working services. Has anyone else experienced this so we might know where to look?  Sounds like HTTPS/SSL but I am not sure where to begin to work with our Network Engineers.  Thank you,Nicholas 36 2024-4-2 14:19:09 | Message Type: fme::internal::_v0::py::Exception 237 2024-4-2 14:19:09 | Python Exception <ExecuteError>: Failed to execute. Parameters are not valid. 238 2024-4-2 14:19:09 | ERROR 000005: Could not open the address locator. 239 2024-4-2 14:19:09 | Failed

Planning to upgrade the OS After that, How to setup the FME server and configure it ?How to Migrate the Existing FME server to New machine?How to move forward with new machine?   

Hello Community,As clear from the title I want to know dimensions, although file sizes are mentioned but that is not helpful at all. I don't wanna trial and error the sizes to find a perfect one.Maybe I am missing something, please let me know.Also when I add logo it shows up in center I want to be able to adjust its position. Thank for your answer and patience.

Hello, I would like to automate a process on IFC files analysis in order to generate an Excel report per IFC file. To do this, I use the workspacerunner by giving a directory which contains all the IFC files to analyze. But I can't write Excel files in this same directory. I created an attribute containing the target directory name, but I cannot give it to my "destination data" transformer.How is it possible to customize the "destination data" transformer ?Thank in advanceBest regardsBruno

Hello,FME Desktop 2022.2.5, using OpenSSL 3.0.8.0, is being flagged by Defender as having three weaknesses: CVE-2023-0464, CVE-2023-0465 and CVE-2023-0466. I can't find anything here about these three: Is there anything known about them? CVE-2023-0465 and CVE-2023-0466 are being re-analyzed, so I appreciate that we need to wait for the outcome of that analysis, but CVE-2023-0464 could potentially be quite harmful.  Thanks,Stefan

when i trying to run this workspace from server i get this error   This FME edition does not recognize the `SAFE.GOOGLE-SHEETS.GOOGLESHEETS4' reader. Please ensure that the current platform supports this reader, the reader name is spelled correctly, and that you have installed all required plug-ins

HelloWondering if anyone else has run into these issues when installing FME Flow 2024.1?  We’re testing an in-place upgrade process on a development system using the express installation.Engine name isn’t being updated correctly.  We changed the configuration per this post, and appears to resolve the issue . Also noticing a problem in the “Start FME Server” / "Restart FME Server” workflows.  Command line is reporting an error that seems related to the FME Database.  

In case you missed it you can now access web connection and database connection details in python now.Using the SystemCaller and PythonCallers in the past have always enabled remote code execution but since FME 2023 now your connections are also exposed. Just a reminder to never run what you don’t trust. 

Hi everyone,I have a task to automate a process which starts with a Smartsheet. I’m somehow new to FME. Does anyone know how can I add the Smartsheet to my workbench as a reader.

Hello, We are setting up a fault tolerant FME flow setup where in we have decided to use AWS RDS as FME Flow database component. First if all, is it right thing to use RDS or do we need to have a separate postgres instance installed on an EC2 machine ?Secondly, if we can use, please let me know the steps or any resource material to setup the fme flow withg RDS postgres as database component. Thanks.