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Hi, I have a workspace with a generic reader that reads multiple shapefiles. Everything works fine as long as I run the workspace with FME Desktop, but when I run the workspace with FME Server (Debian Linux) I get an error message like this:2022-1-5 12:43:30 | Shapefile Reader: The .dbf for '/data/fmeshare/resources/system/temp/upload/Tests/crs_fmt_converter.fmw/<username>/060101_BOSCO.shp' could not be found. Reading will continue, but features will not have any attributesI have investigated a bit further and I have discovered that if I upload a single file, everything works fine on FME Server too. Could it be a bug of the reader used by FME Server? I'm using FME Server 2021.2.1 (Build 21797 - linux-x64 ) Thanks!

Update:I was able to use this link to get my reporting workbench started:https://community.safe.com/s/article/Monitoring-FME-Server-Job-Activity-using-the-REST-API

Hello everyone!I recently saw two very interesting webinars regarding Data Streaming.We want to prepare for our customers proof of concept on the subject.I am looking for a free or low paid data source from which I can extract data and show to our customers.Is there such a data source that can be selected by a particular country, and type of data? (IoT, GPS, etc.).Thank you!@stewartatsafe​ 

I have the FME server in english (version 2021 I think) and I would like to change the language. When I open my apps, It asks me "to upload the file" and I would like to put this message in french. How can I do ? Thanks you

HiI have a workbench published as a download service and i can run it from the address bar in my browser using... http://<server>//fmedatadownload/<repository>/<Workbench>.fmw?--TIMESERIES%20%22OP%22where the parameter --TIMESERIES "OP" is as specified in the FMW. however this parameter is ignored it appears.I eventually want to run this from the HTTPCaller and there I can't seem to avoid getting "=" between the name and value which again is ignored. So, i guess the questions is how do I translate workbench parameters to add to the url string?

Hello, Is it possible to get the FME JOB ID from inside the currently running workspace? I have a database that should be updated multiple times during a workspaces run. I would like to update this database from within the workspace itself, but one of the parameters I need is the the FME job id and I cant seem to find a way to get it from within the workspace. Thanks,Samuel

Dear all, I am currently facing a strange behaviour with my writers parameters.I have a got a workspace writing 2 distinct text files in the same destination folder.When publishing the workspace with a data download service in FME Server, I cannot distinguish them because both are <not set> [TEXLINE]Any idea where I can set up kind of an alias or name? Thanks in advance to the FME community.

How do you enable "Resources" tab within workspace application?If I run my workspace in FME Server and want to input source file > Browse Resources.I get the Resources tab (highlighted in Yellow)I have created a workspace application and when you select > Browse Resources. I don't get the "Resources" tab in the application? I'm pretty sure it probably has something to do with how the Resources are shared in FME Server, I have pretty much shared I believe out to everyone in FME Server. Example of resource sharing below: Pretty new to FME Server so I'm sure it is a very easy change.Thanks in advanceBrendan

Hi, I'm currently sending a excel file via a XlSXW writer with FME SERVER. I am able to receive it with fmedatadownload as a zip file. Is there anyway to received it unzip, just as a .xlsx?  I saw in the documentation the following:The download is returned as a zip (compressed archive) file for the following reasons:The result is a number of output datasets (not just one dataset).Folder-based datasets do not consist of a single file; for example, ESRI Shape format has files with the extension .shp, .shx, .dbf, and some others.Even file-based datasets may consist of more than one file; for example, a GML dataset includes both a GML file and an XSD (XML Schema Definition) file. So my guess is that its not possible to receive it unzip.  Thank you in advance, Ian

We have several workbenches on server that we had set up to use the Download service to allow us to extract sections of national datasets for queries and plan production purposes. However, recently they have stopped providing the download links to the results and any new workbenches we've published to the server are also unable to provide links to download (these have also been set up with the download service). The workbenches are able produce the results, it's just not returning any links.Any ideas on what could be causing this would be appreciated.

We do have FME Server setup on Ubuntu OS, and some of our big data stores are in windows file shares AWS FsX. Our users would like to access windows fileshare from FME workspaces in the FME server. Any ideas on how we can achieve this?

Hi, Our FME Server infrastructure is deployed in AWS on Docker, Core is running on dedicated EC2 with docker and engines are running on docker + EC2 which starts as users start the job. I have a user who has a workflow that uses python script. We followed the documentation and asked the user to upload the module to Resource>Engine>Plugins>Python FOlder. After uploading the module user is still facing the error. I am suspecting this is related to the path where the module is and where the script is looking for the module. Most likely, I am not the first one to encounter this but I could not find any documentation or community post with examples that can help us solve this situation. Any pointers? Thank you in advance. -Naman.    

@stewartatsafe​  , you mentioned the modification of templates in :https://community.safe.com/s/article/Deployment-options-for-FME-Server-in-the-CloudI could not find any example (or even better step by step tutorial) to adapt the Azure distributed deployment template to be "ESRI server compatible". The engine instances should have the ESRI libraries included if I understood well. Do you have any kind of resource or advice in this regard? Thanks in advance!Antoine.

Hello, I encountered an issue using FileDeleter as it fails to delete the files. I have some scripts deployed on FME Server that download some xls files daily, perform some reports and next day, new files are downloaded,and the old ones must be moved to an archive and delete the target file or folder. I get the next error when the transformer FileDeleter is trying to dedlete the files from previous day in order to download new ones. This error is not present in a Windows env (now I am trying to replicate that FME Server installation along with it's scripts on unix env...maybe this can be an issue?) Error: " 2022-3-29 13:58:28 | File Copy Writer: Error attempting to move from '/opt/fmeserver/resources/data/Reports/temp/route_gps_pos_arc_20220329.xlsx' to '/route_gps_pos_arc_20220329.xlsx'. Please check for sufficient permissions on the source and destination. Alternatively, if Overwrite Existing File is set to 'No' please ensure output file does not alre

Hi, We are implementing FME Server, we have set up server core components on one machine using docker-compose and engines on different machines using docker. All these are done on Linux, the host is a Linux machine and all component is running on Linux containers. I do have a few users who have jobs that have a dependency on arcpy. I came across this article ArcPy on FME server (safe.com). This is more about windows, is there any way to support arcPy with FME on Linux environment?  Thanks,Naman 

Hi, I have a workspace that runs successfully on desktop, but fails on FME Server. I want to annotate/highlight validation errors in DWG files. So I created a second workspace, that's being triggered by a WorkspaceRunner/FMEServerJobSubmitter, to write these annotations using the correct original DWG as a template. To collect this output in the output of the master workspace and make it available in the download service, I was thinking of using a File Copy Writer. This writer can then be included in the download service when publishing. As said this works perfectly on desktop. But when running on FME Server, I get the "File Copy Writer: Feature contains an invalid source dataset" error.Though this file is definitely created on FME Server:This file exists and is not corrupted, so I don't have an idea why it's invalid. I tried shortening the paths and filename, but no solution.I also tried to add filecopy_dest_filename and filecopy_type, though these don't seem

ArcGIS Pro requires an email to license the software for the service account. Once the service account was changed to the UPN format, the FME Web Interface recevied a login failure when logging in using the service account. We have an open case with ESRI, but want to know what other companies did since the account has to be a service account to be used with FME Server and must be used to install and license ArcGIS Pro.

Hi all. Is there a way to prevent a scheduled job from being launched, if it's already present as a queued job ? If there is a bulk of jobs that need to be processed first, it clogs up the system. Lower prioritized jobs will be bulked together, and you can end up having a handful of identical jobs waiting to be processed, one after the other. This is a waste of resources. It would be nice, if subsequent job launches could be cancelled in advance, if the very same job with the very same parameters (none in this case) is present as an already queued job (or running). Cheers.

Hello,  I'm using FME Server 2019.2.3, and have written a Server app, which runs a data download workspace. How can I get an email sent to the user with a link to download the output? Currently I have an automation which is a triggered by posting to a topic, and sends an email, but am stuck on how pass a parameter from the job with the user's email address to the automation? Thanks,  Owen

Hi! I would like to ensure that no scheduled task could be triggered between 5:00 and 5:30 AM because its the maintenance time of some other servers that interfer with the tasks. I use to set schedule time manually outside of this range but sometimes, for obscur reason, tasks are delayed and put in queued and are triggered during this period and cannot complete successfully. Is it possible to define an exception time range where no task can be triggered at all? Thank you

I have a job that processes a lot of data (sqlite file +/- 50MB) and during the execution the job get automatically relaunched. The first job finishes without failure after the relaunch.When I execute the same process with a smaller dataset this doesn't happen. It is as if that the recovery call to the rest api doesn't know that the job is still running

I have a Transform master workspace. Depending on the input this workbench can start three different types of other workspaces. The Transform master is called using an API, that should be notified when the transformation is complete. But my problem is that I want the master script to not wait for the job submitter to complete so that it does not block one of our engines. Is there a way to send back the job ID of the job submitter to the API instead of the master job ID? Or any similar solution to this problem? Thanks, Samuel

I created some shared file resource folders by editing the fmeServerConfig.txt file. Then after I removed the new shared source codes and restarted the server, the folder still displays under the web interface. How do I delete those unused folders? Thank you.

I want to build a workbench (for publishing to a FME Server) that converts any DWF file to a DXF file of the same name. I started by use the Generate Workspace Dialog and ticked Dynamic Schema. However, the name of the output DXF is hardcoded. I would like the name of the output DXF to be the same as the name of the input DWF (with DXF extension). How do I make this work?

Hallo, i need something like this in FME / FME server. to be able to automate it. Currently I use ArcGis Desktop like the picture. Which FME component is the right one.