A fair bit of time working with FME Form is waiting, while you run your workbench to test and develop. To improve my productivity, wouldn't it be neat if I could get a little alert/notification when the workspace is finished?
There are various hacks one can implement to work around - I solved it this way:
https://gist.github.com/fraxen/ccca53cb496864123c82c7abdd4e12ee
...but it would be neat if it was built in and did not require dirty hacks… :)
+10I have actually implemented this another way previously - using a Autohotkey (AHK) script is looping and that watches the window titles - when a Form window have “Running” removed from the title - then a alert is displayed...
+26A more out-of-the-box hack. Can use a SystemCaller at the end of a workspace to play Eg. Default Windows Notify WAV file and other Windows API/Powershell calls for Eg. Notifications.
powershell -c (New-Object Media.SoundPlayer "C:\Windows\Media\notify.wav").PlaySync();
+20Not tested yet, but if you go with a SystemCaller you might try to get the following working:
Generating Windows 10 Notifications With PowerShell · Den Delimarsky
And maybe check before it if you run it on Form or Flow.
+20A more out-of-the-box hack. Can use a SystemCaller at the end of a workspace to play Eg. Default Windows Notify WAV file and other Windows API/Powershell calls for Eg. Notifications.
powershell -c (New-Object Media.SoundPlayer "C:\Windows\Media\notify.wav").PlaySync();
Playing a sound at the end is already built-in in the GUI as Mark Ireland described in his newsletter:
(2) What's Up Wednesday (25th September 2024): Data Interoperability Explained, Python IDEs, Smart Cities, Waiting for FME, and LOTS of events. | LinkedIn
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