FME Flow

Hello,We recently made the switch to ArcGIS Pro and have made a named user account for the Pro license on our FME Server Machine. This has tended to work but sometimes we will get a slew of failed jobs on FME Server because it wasn't able to acquire a license. In the morning, we would log into Pro again and things would be fine after that for awhile. We haven't been able to get a reliable connection to the license. The only hypothesis we have is that up to 2 admins can log into the FME Server machine using the same service account then the same named account for ArcGIS Pro. In the past we never had an issue because we had a concurrent pool but now it seems like we are confusing FME with the named user license and breaking connection between FME and Pro. Has anyone been experiencing this?

We have successfully created a Web Connection for Microsoft SharePoint Online and had it authorise on FME Flow and workflows use a FeatureWriter to update list items in SharePoint.However, periodically (we suspect each day) an administrator will need to RDP to the server that hosts FME Flow, access the Web Application and Authorise the Web Connection otherwise workbenches error with the following message.2024-2-12 09:46:10 | Microsoft SharePoint List Writer: Client-side error: '401 Client Error: Unauthorized for url: URL' returned from SharePoint. Error message was: '' I have a suspicion that this is because as our FME Flow is hosted on-premise and is not configured for HTTPS. However, as the web connection maintains authorisation for a period of time I’m not 100% convinced.Has anybody experienced this behaviour in the past? How was it solved?We do have a ticket open with our infrastructure team to configure FME Flow for HTTPS and if this is the prime suspect then we can use this to pu

I am learning how to use Keys in Automations. I have created a Global Key (see screenshot below). As viewed in the text editor, is there a way to make the text “Automation Name:” bold or change its font? 

Hi!I would like to get all database connections and additional information (e.g host, service name, username etc ) from FME REST API. I know that I can get all database connections with this request:https://FMEServerName/fmerest/v3/security/categories/NamedConnections/resources?limit=-1&offset=-1 it gives owner, display name, permissions, name, but not connection parametes. Is it somehow possible to get connection parameters as well? Thanks!

While trying to download this file https://downloads.safe.com/fme/2023/win64/fme-form-2023.2.2-b23781-win-x64.exe trend apex one antivirus regards it as malware.

Hi Team, I am trying to create workspace applications in a newly installed instance of FME Flow 2023.1.1 (has to match our Form version) and when creating Workspace applications I can no longer select the "User can Upload" option on any newly created workspaces. If I select workspaces a historic workspace (brought in via backup from 2022) the option is there.  The only thing in changed in between screenshots was selecting a different workspace (same user, repository and service)Any ideas? All help appreciated 

HiI am creating an automation in FME Flow.My first workbench looks at a SQL database and extracts the most recent date/time. I would like to use this value to feed in to the Where clause of an Oracle reader in a second workbench so I can extract all records greater than that date/time without having to read all the records in. However, I cannot find anyway to pass the attribute value of the first workspace to the second. Im sure I read somewhere that this was possible using parameters with workspace runners in Form?    

We've just upgraded a couple of machines to FME Form 2023.1.1.1 in preparation for a full rollout , however we're experiencing issues with the default layout of FME Form. The menu bar has not loaded?  When selecting transformers in the canvas or items from the tool bar I have to click below the item to select? Like there is a spatial disconnect between the clicked location and the item I'm wishing to select? Pressing F11 makes the menu bar appear and the issues of clicking directly on a transformer or tool bar icon a non issue. However the navigator, translation log and status bar windows all disappeared unless I make these visible again via selecting them from View>Windows. I have to keep repeating this process every time I return to FME Form. Same issue also occurred when I installed 2023.1 as a trail earlier last month. Any advice greatly welcome. Thanks,Chris  

We have 2 job submitter services to validate the data they’re sent, write files to FME Server/Flow resource directory, write data to an Oracle database and send a response of the data validation and writing via an HTTPCaller.As far as I know some users use some automated mechanism to submit a high number of jobs in a row to any of these services, which are called asynchronously.At some point someone suggested to call these services synchronously instead, but we are unsure about what is the best service mode (sync vs async) for this scenario. Any idea? I’ve searched in FME Server/Flow documentation to no avail. 

Hi,I'm trying to upgrade a FME Flow Hosted instance, but I can't create snapshots from the backups tab, because I get this message "Snapshots not supported for unsupported instances"...How can I get a snapshot of my current instance to restore in the new one ?Thanks 

Can someone provide a link/info on where I can learn more about CRON Expressions? I know what they are used for and why but have never actually used them before. Thank you. 

Can someone expound on this topic a bit, why would someone use Schedules and create Notifications in Schedules when it can be done a whole lot easier in Automations? Example, setting up an email notification in an Automation is just a matter of adding the Trigger --- Workflow --- Email (one for Success and one for Failure if you like). As opposed to going through the brain twisting effort of using Notifications (Classic) to do this.  Automations are so much easier to work with. Does Safe have plans to remove Schedules and Notifications (Classic) in future releases? keep only Automations and improving upon them?

Hi,also see item Error when attempting to turn automation off - Have to run jobs via automation | Community (safe.com).We also encounter this issue after fresh install of FME Flow 2023.2.1 on a new Windows 2022 server. Below are all answers on questions asked in the related topic. Can anyone suggest some path to solutions?: What version and build of FME Flow are you using?FME Flow 2023.1.1 Build 23774 Win64Is this an express, distributed, or fault-tolerant deployment of FME Flow? Distributed (database on a separate MS-SQL Server)If you restart FME Flow, does it resolve (even if temporary)?We restarted FME Flow and that resolved it once. Later we ran into the same issue and after another restart it did not resolve.what is the FME Flow database? The default Postgres, or another, like SQL Server? This is a MSSQL 2019 Database Connect string: DB_JDBC_URL=jdbc:sqlserver://guo10794.k-domstad.org;port=1433;databaseName=fmeserver;TrustServerCertificate=trueThe connect string uses jdbc driver.

Bring the “Deployment Status” back!I really miss the overview of the distributed environment. Which core host is active? Are both of them alive?Let’s not look back, i’m not grumpy, but let’s still find ways to display this info.  Whats the reason to depricate the Deployment status? 

I'm have created a storage class and persistent volume according to their documentation (https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME-Flow/AdminGuide/Kubernetes/Kubernetes-Deploying-to-Amazon-EKS.htm) This is my helm install command: helm install fmeserver safesoftware/fmeserver-2023-0 --set fmeserver.image.tag=21821-20220728 --set deployment.ingress.general.ingressClassName=alb --set storage.fmeserver.class=efs-sc --set deployment.deployPostgresql=false --set storage.fmeserver.accessMode=ReadWriteMany --set fmeserver.database.host=mycluster.rds.amazonaws.com --set fmeserver.database.adminUser=user --set fmeserver.database.adminPasswordSecret=fmeserversecret --set fmeserver.database.adminPasswordSecretKey=password --set fmeserver.database.user=user --set fmeserver.database.name=fmeserver --set fmeserver.database.password=password --set fmeserver.database.adminDatabase=postgres --set deployment.startAsRoot=true -n gis-fmeserver Now my core pod is failing with the following details:All the oth

I upgraded my Development machine Thursday, and install ran smooth, import of backup ran smooth. Checked settings and all appear to match up with Staging and Production, but unable to get Single-Sign-On to function again. Negotiation reported an error: "Failure unspecified at GSS-API level (Mechanism level: Encryption type RC4 with HMAC is not supported/enabled)". All three of my systems use the same Service-Account, and Staging and Prod have not issue, and Dev worked fine until the upgrade.  

Hi Folks - I would like to use the FME Server API to get a list of the Web Connections that a workspace uses. I see that there is an endpoint for GET /repositories/< repository >/items/< item >/parameters , but this doesn't provide details regarding the Web Connections configured for the workspace.  I currently have a query like:http://domain.com/fmerest/v3/repositories/repo_name/items/workspace_name.fmw/parameters ... and wondering how to change this to get the Web Connection details as well. In the implementation notes of the endpoint above I see the info below, but I am not sure how to use the create a query using the "Sub-type: Web Connection Parameter"  Sub-type: Web Connection Parameterparameter {connectionTypes (array[string]): Connection types of this published parameter,defaultValue (string): Default value of the published parameter,description (string): A human-readable description of the published parameter,excludeConnectionTypes (array[string]): Co

I added a new row of info in Attribute Manager in the workspace. This row needs to be added in the Service request on Cityworks. Would republishing the workspace with same name brings in those changes in the Service Request, provided the source will include the new row ? Any insights are highly appreciated.

When enabling feature caching, there is a 'considerable' lag when trying to interrogate the cached features from an output port: usually have to wait 10 -15 seconds to expand the table attribute fields or sort the attribute fields, for instance. When clicking elsewhere to do another activity and returning to the cached features output, the same lag time is experienced. I though the idea was that cached features would be stored virtually, so they wouldn't have to be re-loaded each time? The lag is even present when only interrogating a handful of features. Are there settings that can optimise this to reduce the lag/remove? I do use a VPN to access the workspaces from OneDrive (there workspaces are not stored locally). Version: 2022.2.3.0 (20230131 - Build 22789 - WIN64) 

Patching our backend oracle database should the FME server be stopped while the update occurs?

Hi all,What is the correct process to delete admins from FME Server. I deleted 3 fmeadmin users, testing before that any schedules or automations would be assigned to another user etc. Today many of our schedules who are owned by a completely different user are not working. They also don't work if I do a manual trigger. Recreating the schedule does work. Re-adding the user doesn't.  I see in the Completed jobs that the schedules that ran before I deleted user have a reference to a Deleted user. I think the only way to fix this is to manually try to trigger each of our 25 job and recreate the schedule on acceptance and production.  Any other ideas would be appreciated. And it would be interesting to know what is the correct procedure? Did I miss something? We are using Server 2021 but this server has been upgraded with an old backup since approx 2015 version.    

I have a workbench that reads/writes CSV files to a network location. It works fine from my desktop but when published to FME Flow i get permission errors reading and writing. What user is FME Flow using to read/write to the network? any other workaround

FME Form 2023.2 installed produce always a memory Error at startup : "The instruction at 0x00007FFC9A16C1D0 referenced memory at 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. The memory could not be read."Click OK to terminate the program. The environnement is VMWARE Windows Server 2019 Datacenter, 16GB RAM, 4 CPU. This same machine runs FME 2020.1 32bits and 64bits with no issues.I have désinstalled ,reboot, reinstalled the FME product , same issue. If this is a know issue , is there a configuration to change ? How to troubleshoot ?  Thanks 

When creating an automation, I find that the "Next Action" boxes will just clutter the workspace and I end up deleting them anyway. Is there any way that anyone is aware of, that they can be hidden by default? Typically, I setup data downloads to refresh data from various other agencies. So I have a single Trigger, which then executes / queues, multiple workspaces. They can definitely be useful if creating smaller workspaces, so this is where a toggle button would be useful!

Perhaps just of curiosity, I would like to know what all the lines in the safe.lic license file actually mean. Not an answer like "they are needed" but more information why they are needed and what they correspond to. FEATURE FME (this might be the main license)FEATURE FME_GUIFEATURE nationalFEATURE basic_rasterFEATURE segy_readingFEATURE segy_writingFEATURE smallworld (this is the license level)FEATURE fmeobjects_reprojectFEATURE ssis_extensionFEATURE spatialbiz I've heard during my years as a FME expert that some of these lines correspond to "old licensing levels" or similar but now with FME Form, is that really true?