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I have a customer that 4-5 times a year need to run an fme workspace on an offline computer. This computer can not be connected to any network at all.They have floating licenses and now would like to borrow a license without connecting to client to the license server.Is this possible?

I have amended the FME_SHAREDRESOURCED_DATA directory to E:/FMEServerShare//resources/data/ which was previously set to the default location in ProgramData. In the workbench I have a HTTPCaller that drops the file downloaded to $(FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_DATA)\\Geodesys\\.... Checking the fmesharedresource.log file and I can see that the correct directory is being references; Tue-02-Feb-2021 12:29:26.743 PM  INFORM  main  408602 : Configured Shared Resource Type: FILE | Name: FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_DATA | Display Name: Data | Description: This shared resource is the Server data directory | Migratable: true | Directory: E:/FMEServerShare//resources/data/ However, and here's the really confusing part (for me). When I run the workbench on FMEServer, the log file displays `--FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_DATA' `C:/ProgramData/Safe Software/FME Server//resources/data/' I have restarted FMEServer using the restart functionality, I've also stopped FMServer, checked that all the services have stopp

Welcome to a chilly What’s Up Wednesday. For only the 3rd time in 100 years, every Canadian provincial capital is below freezing!  WebinarsI can’t seem to keep up with all the webinars we are posting. Three more have been added! That’s almost two webinars each week for the next 2.5 months. The full list can be found on our website. How to Connect to Any REST API (Without Writing Any Code) - March 3rdUnveiling FME 2021 - March 9th 5 Ways FME Can Improve Your Excel Data - April 20th BlogAre you interested in batch processing? Check out the new blog about Implementing and Automating Batch Processing Methods. FME Server .NET API DeprecationAs of FME 2021, FME Server .NET API will be deprecated and removed from the installers. If you are currently using .NET we strongly recommend that you transition to REST API. Contact Support if you have any questions or difficulties.  FME TrainingDon’t forget, next week on February 17th, is the free live online Getting Started with the FME Platform cours

Is it possible to use CAS as a single-sign on mechanism for FME Server? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Authentication_Service It is not clear to me whether SAML would cover this. If I understand it well CAS 3.0 also allows SAML https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43676624/what-is-the-relation-between-cas-vs-saml

Hello,I have recently installed FME Server 2019.2.3.2 (32 Bit) and have been using it without any issues up until this point. I modified a config property in the 'fmeServerConfig.txt' file and even since then, the manager doesn't want to load correctly. After that, I restored the config back to what I had it at before (when it was working) and restarted the FME Server Services, the machine, etc. Has anyone else ran into this issue before? Have added some screenshots below: Thank you  

Assume I have an automation that starts with a directory watch to capture an updated zip file in a folder. The zip file name is passed as a parameter (File Path) to the 1st workspace. This workspace is followed by a second workspace, which needs to use the same zip file as a parameter. I can not figure out an easy way to feed the File Path (zip file path) to the second workspace as a parameter, other than writing it to a text file and let the 2nd workspace to read from the file. Any advice to make this easier and streamline? The FME server is 2020.1.3.

How can I bypass the problem that appears to me while trying to migrate from windows server 2012​ to 2016 R2, I have an error "Too long Path" , how can just skip this? I use Robocopy​

Hello,we are developing an application which is using Data Download Service. User gets an email with download link in it. When the dataset is already deleted from FME Server, user is redirected to a web page "Download Dataset Expired".Is it possible to customize this page? For example to translate it etc.?Or is there some way to automatically redirect the user to some other web page? Rudolf

I installed fme server "FME Server 2020.2.2 Build 20817 - win64" on a new machine, and then restored from backup "FME Server 2020.2 Build 20787 - win64". The restore appeared to go successfully however all jobs fail with a message like "Error: The log file for job ID "6" does not exist". I suspect there's a path somewhere that needs to be updated. How do I locate where it might be configured?http://SERVER:8080/fmeserver/#/systemevents/history?page=1 shows over 250 events so it's not that logs can't be written at all. I found a thread mentioning this message at https://community.safe.com/s/question/0D54Q000080hL2RSAU/fme-server-2019-error-the-log-file-for-job-id-2613-does-not-exist and the cure there was to run System Cleanup tasks. I have 14 tasks listed on that page and all are enabled. I don't see a mechanism to trigger them to run though. 

Hi everyone, I have tried to set up push notifications to our phones and Pushbullet has done an amazing job for Android devices, easy to set up, and more importantly, it's FREE.  For anyone who is interested, I've used this transformer from FME hub https://hub.safe.com/publishers/jrn/transformers/pushbullet.  However, Pushbullet doesn't support iOs devices while all of our work phones are iPhones so now I am looking for an alternative option for Pushbullet that can be used for iPhone.  Would be much appreciated if you could recommend any other alternative open-source option.  Many thanks!

Hi, In a workspace I used a few FMEServerJobSubmitters. It worked fine for a few days but suddenly the error message “credentials for user are invalid”.I can still login to the FME server with the same credentials as the workspace works with. How is it possible that these credentials are not held? Greetings 

So I have a Coordinate System Name Parameter and in Workbench I get this nice gallery to help me pick and choose. There are several columns of data to use for searching or sorting...very nice indeed.However now if I publish my workspace to FME Server, we get this:At this point the user would need to know what they're looking for, but without the metadata shown in the Gallery, you don't know exactly what you're picking especially if the end user is not a coordinate system expert (myself included!). For example I'd like to search for a UTM in meters, something in central US, etc. to ensure that any Lat/Lon coordinates are converted to something that makes sense for the picked area on a map.Any thoughts? Should this be a wishlist idea? Thanks.

Hi list.We're trying out the streaming capabilities of workspaces in FME Server (2020.2).When you upload a workspace, you can check streaming, and under its settings, you need to set one reader and one writer as streaming input and output resp. Both are mandatory, you can't upload if any of them isn't set.I did that with a workspace, using an ACAD input and a JSON output.However, when we ran the workspace, it erred because it couldn't create the (testing) JSON output file. Yes, the same transformer that ought to stream its output. Only when I disabled the writer (and re-uploaded), I could run the workspace.We're using the post /transformations/transactdata/< repository >/< workspace > REST API endpoint, as the workspace has 3 parameters other than the streamed input.The API documentation for this endpoint does state, that it streams a fixed JSON output (Response Class), and so it's logical, that it doesn't allow other streaming outputs.What g

I'm configuring fme (fme server 2019.1.3.1) to use https. When I try importing a pfx wildcard certificate into the tomcat.keystore and I'm get the following error: Importing keystore C:\\certificates\\xxxxxxx.xxx.pfx to tomcat.keystore...keytool error: java.io.IOException: DerInputStream.getLength(): lengthTag=109, too big. Any thoughts on what the error might be and how to fix it? Thanks!  

Hi folks, I'm building a set of workspaces that are combining into a larger whole and will be running on FME Server. Given it's a number of different workspaces, I'd like to be able to publish to the Server from the command line - partly because I'm lazy, but mostly because I'd like to avoid getting versions out of sync between my local repository and what's on the Server. It appears (based on text output) that the publishing process from FME Workbench uses a process behind the scenes, but I can't find any documentation about how to publish from the command line. Is this possible? If so, is there any documentation or can someone provide the appropriate command line magic to make this happen? I know this could be accomplished with the API, as well, but I'm attempting to avoid writing anything new if I don't need to. Any help much appreciated, and thanks in advance! Pat

I’ve been using dropbox watch for automation and worked fairly well (fast trigger after modifying a file in dropbox folder). now, almost never recognize the modification, and if so, it takes more than 2 mins to start the event ☹. any thoughts? Thnks!

Hi,I attempting to write to an existing table which contains polygons based in Postgres database. I have selected truncate existing table. I get following error:Error was 'ERROR: null value in column "objectid" violates not-null constraint The object ID seems to be an issue only when attempting remove existing data and add new data. When creating a new table, this is not a issue.  

I am wanting to automate PDF's to be downloaded on a weekly or fortnightly basis. The url changes slightly each week/fortnight: 'https://www.admiralty.co.uk/WeeklyNMs/Year%20-%202021/05wknm21_week05_2021.pdf " for example the '05wknm21_week05_2021' would change to '06wknm21_week06_2021' and so on. There is usually only 1 or 2 numbers in the urls that will change each week going up by a factor of 1. Is there a way I can automate these changes? Note I had a different example here but that link had a redirect URL which solved the problem for that particular URL but unfortunately it was not the same for the link above. Thanks in advance for any help.

Hello everybody... I'm trying to find a way to delimit a preservation area within the parcels of my allotment. The area to be preserved has always to be 30% of the parcels area, also it has to be on the bottom side of the parcel. I tryied to had draw it on the pic above. Is there any transformer that could fill a the polygon within a given percentage, or create another polygon wich the área corresponds to the a percentage of the lot?

Hi all, Hope you are well. I have recently created a FME workbench which gathers all the information and updates every 15 minutes via FME Server. This then writes directly to a PostGres Database. I have got this part working and have successfully published the data to ArcGIS enterprise. The issue I am facing is how does ArcGIS enterprise update the data every 15 minutes when the Postgres database gets updated without me having to publish it manually every time? Is there a possibility for FME to do this?  The output currently is in a map service.    

At this moment we have a working arcgis pro python environment working on FME Server (2020.2) and Desktop on a Virtual Machine. We've setup the python interpreter using the command prompt lines specified at https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Server_Documentation/AdminGuide/Using-Python-with-FME_Server.htm and set the PYTHONHOME variable with he custom python environement.  However, when using FME desktop on the VM and changing the python interpreter to a different python environment (mainly for testing), the FME server also seems to change its custom python interpreter to the one used within the desktop application.  When researching the information on python interpreters ( https://community.safe.com/s/article/choosing-a-different-python-interpreter-installati ), for FME Desktop there is the the following note: "NOTE: This option controls FME as a whole, and not just the current workspace. Therefore, all FME processes will use this alternative version of Python, until you reve

Our Gallery Apps on FME Server don't show a custom image as icon, but leave the space blank instead. In previous versions of FME Server this was not the case. Our installation is FME Server 2020.2, build 20787, win64.Any ideas on how to solve this issue?

I am attempting to hide external user content in FME server (FME Server 2020.0.2.1, Build 20238 - linux-x64) deployed to Openshift using the safe provided helm charts and docker images (With some minor modifications).  I have updated the docker images to apply the same change as described in the linked article by updating the relevent confd template. I have verified the file `/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/fmeserver/WEB-INF/conf$ file propertiesFile.properties` in the web container of the core pod is updated./usr/local/tomcat/webapps/fmeserver/WEB-INF/conf$ grep EXTERNAL_CONTENT propertiesFile.properties  # HIDE_EXTERNAL_CONTENT - Disable all external content from being displayed in the WebUI HIDE_EXTERNAL_CONTENT=trueThis appears to be the correct file based on the document and I cannot find any other references to this term but I am not seeing any change to the WebUI and the links to safe.com are still available. Does anyone have any idea what the issue might be? 

I have set up a sensor to send UDP messages to FME Cloud via a GSM modem and it works great as a trigger, but the message that arrives is nonsense.  I believe everything is sent as bytes through the serial port so I have no idea whether its possible to format it before sending or the problem is how FME Cloud is receiving the data. 

The default and non-overwritable company proxy setting on our FME server machines has not been working consistently against external data services in our 2019.2.1 FME server. I was glad it started to work consistently 4 weeks ago with our FME server 2020.1.3 upgrade in which we explicitly set the Proxy to a proxy IP address/Port inside the FME server. However, it stopped working since a week ago. The FME server error message shows the server is using the default company proxy setting again. Should the FME server proxy setting overwrite the server machine's proxy setting?