FME Flow

I am making a self service map generator workspace app. My want is to be able to verify a username by using either SSO/Windows authentication. then I have a script that has outputted all the groups and its users in our ArcPortal in a spreadsheet. so I can relate their username to the group they’re in which then I’ll use a testfilter as to what layers each group is allowed to use in their map. Unless there’s an easier way to go about this?

Y’all.I thought it was possible to export a single automation, and install it on another server ?But now I can’t seem to find this feature anywhere (on 2022.6).They’re backed up in the general configuration backup, but you can’t restore parts like a single automations from a backup.Am I missing something ? What to do ?Cheers.

Hi - We recently set up a new server for fmeflow for a test environment. As the jobs are running, fme flow is opening source files like csv files or trying to create a new directory on the old server. The old server has the FME services turned off but it still seems like it’s reading from the old server with the old server folder path for the source location. The path of the source file is in the Resources on the new server. I’m afraid once we shutdown the old server completely, the new server with fmeflow is going to fail all the jobs. Is there a setting to change to the new server for all the path locations in Resources or something?  Thanks,Eva

Out of curiosity, does anyone know if there is a limit to the number of jobs which can be queued on FME Server/Flow?

HiI am currently looking to create a CityGML model of the buildings in a specific area using various spatial data. I have followed this tutorial Point Cloud to 3D Terrain Model with Buildings and obtained an Adobe 3D PDF model of the buildingsBut I now want to convert this model into a CityGML LOD2 model. Is this possible?Since I have just started using FME and am not very familiar with the software, what should my next steps be? Could you provide some useful references? Thanks for your advice😊

Hello, I want to read AGOL polygon feature service and write in SQL server feature class. Reading is not problem, I can see the geometry but writer is only writing attributes and not geom in SQL.I am using feature writer (SQL Server Spatial) and want to understand how I can write geom in SQL table “GDB_GEOMATTR_DATA” column. Any help is appreciated. TIA 

Hi,We cannot get FME to work behind an AWS loadbalancer.Using fme-flow-2024.0.2.1-b24217-linux-x64~ubuntu.22.04.runDeploying FME behind an AWS Application load balancer with a HTTPs listener, works for signing in and browsing https://.../fmeserver/. However, when testing the installation using the following instructions, this error is returned “400 - Bad Request The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port”https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME-Flow/AdminGuide/Test-Installation-Linux.htmThe FME server has a security group that only allows HTTP and SSH connections and so connections to port 443 are not possible. The Browser issues two requestshttps://.../fmeapiv4/workspaces/Samples/austinApartments.fmw/encodeparametervalues-> 200https://.../fmeserver/run/form/fmedatadownload/Samples/austinApartments.fmw-> 400 The AWS Application Loadbalancer terminates the HTTPs connection and forwards to FME on HTTP port 80. Nginx receives these requests on HTTPNginx10.xxx.1.144 - - [21/May/2024:09:

We are updating from FME 2022 to 2024. On our Staging-Server FME 2024 has already been installed.I tried to run some of our Workspaces there, but they failed as the connection to the database could not be established.I finally found out, that the problem was, that we are using embedded connection parameters and not database connections, if I use database connections, it works.As we never used database connections, none of our workspaces will run on FME Flow 2024, unless we change to database connections. This means, we have to edit every workspace with a connection to a database, that’s a lot of work…!Do we really have to do this and if so, is there an efficient way to do it?

Hello,Seeking your help, please.I have published the workbench from Desktop to FME Flow. It should extract files from S3 and do further manipulations. It works good on the desktop. But when I published it on FME Flow, I am getting an error:S3 AccessKey and Secret key are stored in the workbench as User Parameters.What is missing to make it work on FME Flow?

Hello fellow FME enthousiasts, I've run into an issue with a FME Flow parameter in FME Flow 2024.0.1:We have a automation that uses an Email-IMAP trigger to scan an email-box.Whenever a new email with a certain text in the subject gets detected, the automation get's triggered and any attachments are saved to a designated folder under 'Recources/Data’.Since the e-mail box is being used for several projects i've build in a small workspace that checks the sender, if it is from an unexpected sender the attachments and folder they are in get deleted and the automation stops.Workspaces that checks for sender, if failed deletes attachmentsAs input I use the ‘Send from Address’ and ‘Email Attachments Folder’ from the automation. With a logger in the automation i checked what the content of the ‘Email Attachments Folder’ is: $(FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_DATA)Bijlagen POC A5H\20240517134534-POC_dashboard_A5H-Fwd__Jeroen__test_bijlagen-0ac262ed-55a4-4301-b0cc-3a2e53ae76a1.When I run this through the Syst

Hi,I’m trying to make an Automation App that ends with a workspace that streams a html writer. The workspace will stream the html writer if I make it a Workspace App so the worspace works as intendet.  When I put the workspace in the end of the automation and make this a Automation App the workspace is executede and writes its html but the html is not returned/streamed to the user in the web browser!? What to do? 

Hi,We have recently upgraded from FME Server 2020 to FME Flow 2024.I have an Automation with a “Ressource or Network Directory (updated)” trigger watching a folder on the network. The automation was working before upgrading, but now it says “Invalid path to watch:”What’s strange is that I created a workspace with a PATH reader pointing to the same network (UNC) path, and it’s able to read and log all the files in the folder I want to watch. I’ve also tried reading a file in that directory using a textfile reader, and it works.I don’t understand why FME Flow can read the files in that directory on the network using a workspace, but the automation can’t. If you have any ideas/explanations or possible solutions.The user account that runs the FME Flow Core service has read and write permission on that directory.Thank you in advance

Hi allI have FME Flow installed in production environment with 2 nodes (Fault-Tolerant installation).I have now 4 workspaces that i have scheduled every 4 minutes.My DB Administrator see many query like this UPDATE fme_node_health SET modifieddate = :1 , expirydate = :2 , timeout = :3 , expiry = :4  WHERE process = :5  AND name = :6UPDATE fme_lock SET val = :1 , uuid = :2 , expiry = :3  WHERE lock_key = :4  AND (uuid = :5  OR expiry < :6 )They occours more time and and fill the disk space dedicated to Oracle logs.It's the first time it's happened to me and I don't understand if it depends on the scheduling or the Fault-Tolerant type installation.Can someone help me?Thanks a lot

Hi All,I have created a workflow in Form and now wanted to publish it to Flow and make available to my team but am very new to Flow tbh. One of the inputs is a gdb and I have set up the Output Ports to ‘Single Output Port’ and wanted the user to pick the feature class from the GDB in the ‘Feature Types to Read’, see below: If I published the workbench to the, would the ‘Feature Types to Read’ be available to the end user? I would be good to have some insights on how to achieve this,

Hi,Is there a way to configure FME Server/Flow, so that logs are  automatically saved not only to standard .log file, but also to .json file (containing JSON formatted data)? It would be very helpful when it comes to further log information processing.

Does the fanout expression is available on FME FLOW 2023 ? My FME Workbench works well on FME Server 2020, but on FME Flow, I got an error that mention that I don’t have the permission to write in the specific folder, but I have that permission.  For example, the Destination Fanout is $(FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_DATA)/temp and the Fanout Expression is /gpkg/test_@Value(attribut).gpkg.zip. I got this error message:MULTI_WRITER: Failed to create folder '/gpkg/test_hello.gpkg.zip'. Please ensure you have sufficient permissions to create this folderIt seems like Destination Fanout is not taken into account.

According to the GE Documentation Smallworld 5.3.3. has been officially tested/validated with FME 2023 version 2023.1.2.We would like to upgrade our current FME Server and FME Desktop 2021.2.x 32 bit.To consider FME 2023.2.3, I would like to know if there are any modification to Smallworld Translators between the versions, 2023.1.2 & 2023.2.3? 

Hi.I have built an automation with some business logic consisting of 4 chained workspaces (W4). I duplicate this automation for each new dataset I need to run, using a single global variable to control the data being handled (SQL Server schema name).However, one customer has 4 such setups, which gives me some problems when coordinating the 4 automation runs, and I would very much like to just have to run a single automation for each customer (with multiple schemas).I’m thinking that I could use the global variable to define a separated text with all 4 schema names, using a single workspace to split this into 4 outputs via an Automation Writer feature type, and start my 4 workspace chain (W4) for each value.However I’m unsure how to merge the 4 W4 runs. How will a Split-Merge block  (or Merge action) handle such runs ? The content inside the block is just the 4 chained workspaces, but they’re being run 4 times in parallel.Has anyone attempted this, or have any insight into merging works

Hi,I am struggling to trigger a automation from a custom html-form. It seems that the post-action never gets to the automation in FME Flow. My html-page looks like this:html-formThe html-code is this:html-code When I hit the [Submit]-button I get a white page - no error - nothing is logged! I know the automation works because the API-page gives me this: API-pageWhat I think might be wrong is that on the API-page I have a Token - which I don’t have on my custom html-form! How do I add the token to the HTM-form? Another question is wheather the request body coming from the custom html-form is right since I don’t see it?  Thanks in advance.Regards Jakob

When in automations you work with the dynamic workspace runner the workspace field blanks after hitting [apply]. It is annoying and confusing because some times the chosen parameter value is not forgotten and some time it is forgotten!? I believe this is a bug but have not seen any mentioning of this in here. So appologies if this is a known issue expected to be solved in next release!Before [apply]:After [apply]:

Hi All,We have FME Flow (and Hosted) 2023.2.I would like to set up a FME Flow Hosted instance. The instance will have engines configured both on Cloud and on-premise. I am not very sure if the FME Flow Hosted instance can connect to the remote on-premise engines through so-called remote engine service. I read a discussion of the topic in this Forum below. It appears to be negative. But the discussion was 9 months ago. Not sure if it is still valid today. As the FME Administrator's Guide states, “Customers of FME Flow Hosted can also connect to Remote Engine Services.” https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME-Flow/WebUI/Remote-Engine-Services.htm#:~:text=Customers%20of%20FME%20Flow%20Hosted,Flow%20installation%20behind%20a%20firewall.But it is still not very clear and definite. Therefore. can anyone shed some light on this? Thanks-John

I have a workspace app published to FME Flow allowing users to upload files to process and load into a branch version through the portal feature service writer. When other users run the workspace via the app, the new version created shows my user information, along with all of the editor tracking fields. What steps can I take to configure the workspace/workspace app/web connection to utilize the user credentials of the user running the workspace app, ensuring the version and features created reflects their information rather than mine?

Hi,Yeah, this was an old wish, to be able to easily see the difference between the FME Flows on the tabs in a browser when multiple FME Flow servers are running, e.g. for development, testing, acceptance and production (DTAP).See also this question: FME FLOW 2023, Is there a way to change the color of the blue ring logo on the browser tab icon? We took it even one step further - see image below Two simple changes: a different color for the icon on the tab and for the bar on the left hand side.to modify the icon you will need to have access to:<FMEFlowDir>\Utilities\tomcat\webapps\fmeserver\images\favicon-fme-flow.svgThe (one?) good thing about the new FME Flow logo is that it is monochrome, so it is easy to modify favicon-fme-flow.svg (with an SVG editor, for example Inkscape) to set a different color.to modify the color of the sidebar you will have to edit<FMEFlowDir>\Utilities\tomcat\webapps\fmeserver\styles\safe-software-app.min.cssSearch in this minified CSS file for.si

Hi I am getting error message below when running JobHistoryStatisticsGathering in FME Flow. I am using FME Flow 2021If I download the workspace and run it in FME Form, it works OK.Any ideas? 2024-4-26 15:55:20 | JobHistoryReader_TestFilter (TestFactory): Feature specification `TEST_GROUP' in mapping file row `FACTORY_DEF {*} TestFactory FACTORY_NAME { JobHistoryReader_TestFilter } INPUT FEATURE_TYPE JobHistoryReader_TestFilter_INPUTLINE TEST_GROUP TEST { @EvaluateExpression(FDIV,STRING_ENCODED,<at>Value<openparen>timeFinished<closeparen>,JobHistoryReader_TestFilter) CONTAINS_REGEX <backslash>d-<backslash>d<backslash>d:<backslash>d<backslash>d ENCODED } TEST { @EvaluateExpression(FDIV,STRING_ENCODED,<at>Value<openparen>timeFinished<closeparen>,JobHistoryReader_TestFilter) CONTAINS_REGEX <backslash>d<backslash>+<backslash>d<backslash>d:<backslash>d<backslash>d ENCODED } BOOLEAN_OPERATOR

Hello All,I want to complete this in FME similar to how I did it in ArcPro below using Select by Location  Calculating the percentage of  area in each Grid Determine the number of  pixels within each grid Calculate the % of  areas within each grid by dividing the number of pixels by 111 111 and multiplying by 100 Generate the density map with density classes: 7 categories Example: if the grid has 35 000  pixels, then the percentage is 31.50%thanks!