Best way to use FME Flow to read Autodesk Construction Cloud

Hi ​@jkr_wrk! Apologies on the confusion there! We’re working on updating our article to include Flow configurations, but if I understand your post correctly, you should be able to authenticate and authorize this web connection in Flow without having to upload the connection from Form every time.

Here’s the official documentation on it here: Web Connections > Using Web Connections in Flow
 

And the process is very similar to the Web Connection steps in this article here: Creating an OAuth 2.0 Web Service and Connection in FME>Part 4: Test the Web Service Connection

Here’s what the process should look like:

1. Create your own app on Autodesk Developer (As outlined the “Set Up Your Application..” section in article: How to Create an Autodesk Docs or Autodesk BIM 360 Web Connection) which will give you your own:
   1. Client ID
   2. Client Secret
   3. Redirect URI options
2. Add a FME Flow specific URI in Autodesk
   1. https://<your-fme-flow-url>/fmeoauth Replacing <your-fme-flow-url> with your actual FME Flow URL
       

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3. Modify your web service in FME Flow to use that Flow specific URL
   1. Connections & Parameters>Web connections>Manage Web services

      

4. Reauthenticate Web Connection in Flow - which can be reauthenticated any time the access token expires 
   1. Connections & Parameters>Web connections>[select your web connection]>Authorize

      

       

The reauthentication in Flow will definitely save your users from having to upload a connection from Form every time!

Besides that, we’re still investigating the functionality of this application on Flow, as it seems that there are some limitations on what the API can do there. However, if you run into any particular issues, please let us know!