Is it necessary to use FME desktop to publish modified FMWs up to the Server repository, or can I simply use a file a manager to over-write the existing server workspaces with updated versions off my desktop?
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Update workspaces on server using file manager
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Best answer by hollyatsafe
Hi @garyb,
I just wanted to chime in to let you know that whilst other users may have had success updating workspace files to FME Server directly through a File Explorer this is not a supported approach or something Safe would recommend.
The publishing wizard not only pushes up the workspace file, but is where you upload connections, packages, register the workspace to different services and ultimately communicates with the backend database to store all this information, so there is a risk that workspaces will not run as expected if you choose not to go through the publishing wizard (or the FME Server Web UI in 2020+) to upload them.
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I have done that in the past but in the latest versions of FME Server you can upload workspaces through the web UI.
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Thanks gazza. I'm using server 2019 and don't think that uploading through the web UI is an option, so I'm going to use a file manager to copy them up. I just wanted to make sure I wouldn't have any issues with FME Server afterwards, but if it worked for you then I'll go ahead with it.
Cheers.
Hi @garyb,
I just wanted to chime in to let you know that whilst other users may have had success updating workspace files to FME Server directly through a File Explorer this is not a supported approach or something Safe would recommend.
The publishing wizard not only pushes up the workspace file, but is where you upload connections, packages, register the workspace to different services and ultimately communicates with the backend database to store all this information, so there is a risk that workspaces will not run as expected if you choose not to go through the publishing wizard (or the FME Server Web UI in 2020+) to upload them.
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hollyatsafe wrote:
Hi @garyb,
I just wanted to chime in to let you know that whilst other users may have had success updating workspace files to FME Server directly through a File Explorer this is not a supported approach or something Safe would recommend.
The publishing wizard not only pushes up the workspace file, but is where you upload connections, packages, register the workspace to different services and ultimately communicates with the backend database to store all this information, so there is a risk that workspaces will not run as expected if you choose not to go through the publishing wizard (or the FME Server Web UI in 2020+) to upload them.
And this right here was my worry. It sounds like I'll need to do some testing before getting too carried away with this. It's just that I'm modifying a lot of them, and the idea of having to publish them each individually from Desktop is not terribly appealing.
Thanks Holly
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garyb wrote:
Thanks gazza. I'm using server 2019 and don't think that uploading through the web UI is an option, so I'm going to use a file manager to copy them up. I just wanted to make sure I wouldn't have any issues with FME Server afterwards, but if it worked for you then I'll go ahead with it.
Cheers.
A better approach may be to use the FME Server API to publish them.
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Hi @garyb,
What sort of updates are you doing? You might get away with some changes. Test, Test and Test again.
Again though, as Holly mentions, this is NOT a supported mechanism to get your workspaces updated on the FME Server environment.
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steveatsafe wrote:
Hi @garyb,
What sort of updates are you doing? You might get away with some changes. Test, Test and Test again.
Again though, as Holly mentions, this is NOT a supported mechanism to get your workspaces updated on the FME Server environment.
Hi Steve. We are replacing our GIS servers so I'm changing the reader/writer parameters in existing workspaces to point at the new data locations. The connection files already exist and are being referenced on a third server, so I really just want to replace-in-place the workspaces that are already in server with modified ones pointing to the new databases. I'm hoping that using a file manager for this won't cause any issues, but it sounds like I need to be cautious.
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