When you add a "file" manual key to an automation which get run by an automation app, the option is to choose a file already in the resources of FME Flow. It would be nice to have an option for a user to upload a file like what's already available in workspace apps. For a User Parameter "File" the user is able to upload a file which gets used by the workspace the workspace app runs. The same would be ideal for automation apps.
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I'm surprised this hasn't been implemented already. It seems like it would be straight forward. Is there any workaround that allows us to upload a .shp file into a user parameter within a custom attribute in the fme automations?
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I also stumbled just over this very weird limitation. After i added a manual Trigger to the automation, you can add a manual parameter of type “Choose File”.
This even already provides a UI for file selection in a Flow Automation App. But after struggeling with assigning Access rights to the app token to the File Upload Service and some Resource folders, i noticed that this manual file selection is only able to select a already existing file (and this is also stated in the doc).
I do not see any reason, why at this point the temporary file upload like with a Workspace App with file input should not be possible.
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