shared directories

Hi @barbara,

Thanks for posting on our new community!

I'm not sure I'm clear on the requirements. Let's ignore for a moment where you can write on your local system. It sounds this isn't going to happen.

What is it you need to accomplish?

1)I interpret from your question that you want to read and write from the same places that FME Server are reading from (so both are using the same source data, and can write to the same location). If so, this sounds like a Shared Folder (operating system shared folder)? So you'd want to decide on a location (which server) and create shared folder, then you can refer to this location using UNC paths (//<computer1/shared/folder/read_data_share and maybe a second common location //<computer1/shared/folder/write_data_share). You must use UNC paths and not mapped drives.

Also what version of FME software are you using (and hopefully both FME Desktop and FME Server are the same version)?

2) If you are referring to using the FME Server Shared Resources folders, like Data for example... then I would recommend adding a new Shared Resource folder (or 2) that points to an OS Shared folder location. This way FME Desktop would use a UNC path (FME Server could use this also) or using FME Server's Web UI...you could navigate to the Shared Resources when selecting data source or setting the destination. (Review this FME Server Doc on adding Shared Resources - and expand "Adding and Modifying Top-Level Folders")

Steve

The parameter FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_DATA is undefined in FME Desktop and if you reference it there you will get an empty string.

I usually solve this by creating a Python scripted parameter e.g. called "GET_SHAREDRESOURCE_PATH":

if FME_MacroValues.get('FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_DATA', None):
    return FME_MacroValues['FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_DATA']
else:
    return FME_MacroValues['FME_MF_DIR']

It will return FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_DATA when the workspace is running on FME Server, otherwise it will return the directory where your .fmw file is located.

You can then use this parameter to reference connection files etc, e.g.:

 $(GET_SHAREDRESOURCE_PATH)\SDE-Verbindung\ALKIS-Dataport.sde