Download multiple workbench files from FME Server for use in FME Desktop?

Hi @tomaslindberg,

The best way to do that would be to use the REST API of FME Server. Have a look at it via the Help menu > REST API or

http://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_REST/v2/apidoc/index.html#!/repositories and have a look at the repositories > retrieve item end point.

Hope this helps

Thanks @itay and @david_r

I have FME Desktop/Server 2015.1 so I can't look at your workspace at the moment and the REST API is new to me (not a developer), but I will have a look into it (and maybe get some help from IT).

 

Thanks @itay and @david_r

I have FME Desktop/Server 2015.1 so I can't look at your workspace at the moment and the REST API is new to me (not a developer), but I will have a look into it (and maybe get some help from IT).

 

Thanks a lot for your effort @ijay!

 

The workspace runs through and correctly produces folders and all the workspace files. However, the files only contain a single row with the folder path

 

"c:\\temp\\ws_downloader\\GDWJKAR"

 

 

 

FME(R) 2015.1.1.0 (20150715 - Build 15515 - WIN64)

 

FME Server 2015.1.2 - Build 15538 - win64

 

looks like the the name of the ws is not generated properly, can you place some loggers in the ws and attach them here?

6857-downloadws2015-log.txt

 

 

This is the logger attached to the end of the workflow, hope it helps?

 

Something strange with the source attribut? Just the value of the attribute i written to the file.

 

 

The filenames of the created files are correct

 

Ha! apparently the download doesn't work properly, I have adjusted the ws.

downloadws2015v2.fmw

Impressed @itay ! It works, kind of:-)

 

 

When running downloadws2015v2.fmw with a fresh output path, it could not create the folders and files in the output location (see attached log-file).

 

 

If I first ran the first version downloadws2015.fmw , folders and files were created (but with no real content). Running downloadws2015v2.fmw again with the same output path as used with downloadws2015.fmw, workspaces were downloaded into the existing folders (see attached log-file). So running them after one another does the trick!

 

 

I got 16 rejects were 6 of them were workspaces in our production repositories, the other ten were from the Samples and Utilities repositories. When I investigated my 6 rejects some of them were probably due to Swedish characters å,ä,ö, which I replaced and managed to download. The others seemed "corrupt" in some other way (to old versions probably, could not download them in FME Workbench either.

 

 

So all in all you have solved my problem, many thanks!

 

 

I'm sure more users would love this...

 

6866-downloadws2015v2-no-folders-log.txt

 

6866-downloadws2015v2-existing-folders-log.txt).