Hello everyone,
It has now been over a year since we launched the QGIS–FME Form Connector, and the response has been very encouraging — both for the Connector itself and the accompanying algorithm. This month, the free QGIS plugin received a significant upgrade (or rather, a double upgrade): full Qt6 support and compatibility with QGIS 4.x, which naturally go hand in hand.
Alongside that work, we have also been developing a similar integration aimed at connecting QGIS directly to FME Flow. In short, the current concept allows users to select a layer in QGIS, send it to FME Flow for processing, and then receive the processed output back in QGIS as a new layer on the map. There is also a “send and forget” option, where a selected layer is sent to FME Flow for processing and then passed along to any downstream workflows in Flow — without expecting data to be returned to QGIS, aside from a success or failure response. The QGIS–FME Flow plugin is still in its experimental stage.
We have designed the interaction to be as seamless as possible for QGIS users, with support for both FME Flow REST API v3 and v4. Future versions of the plugin will most likely support only v4, but we’ll let time decide.
Below is a screenshot of the plugin.
Happy FMEing!