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I have emailers embedded in many workspaces. Within each I have 1 parameter for the email password which applies to all emailers within each workspace but I am wondering if it's possible for multiple workspaces to reference the 1 email password parameter so I only have to change this in 1 place every 3 months as my password changes?

I would ​use user parameters. Whenever you can, also think about security of your passwords!

User parameters are like global variables across your entire worksheet that can be called from anywhere.​ Also very helpful when you want to do batch processing.


Hi @tfsrichard​ ,

 

web connections are the preferred method used by FME to store credential in a safe way. If you can send e-mails from a GMail account you can create a web connection (Tools -> FME Options -> Web Connections) and store the password there once.

If you need to use a generic SMTP server you could store the password in a text file and read it as an attribute when needed, although I think it's not a good practice store passwords in clear text file.

 

Hope that helps!


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