It often happens that my workspace runs for a decent amount of time only to crash upon accessing the writer (e.g. the excel file I want to write to is opened by another user). It would be useful if FME checks the accessibility of all writers/featurewriters upon starting the workflow and not only when it wants to commit the result.
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Check writer accessibility when a workspace is started
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Would be great on FME Server/Cloud too... I recently had an Enterprise Cloud instance ($10/hour) happily chug away for 3 hours, complete succesfully but not writing anything because the workspace still had the output path on my local network drive specified. I know I should have been paying closer attention, but still... :)
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I have a little snippet of python I stole from somewhere that checks whether an excel file set as the writer parameter is open and terminates the workspace if it is, but it would be nice to have something native to do the same.
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