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data download with excel template


owen
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Hello,

 

 

I have a workspace that updates an existing excel template.

 

 

When publishing it to a data download service, it writes the excel file, but doesnt use the file specified in the writer.

 

 

I know this is because the data download writes to a temp location, not the writer output folder - is there anyway to force it to use a template?

 

 

Owen

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nrich
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  • May 16, 2013
hi owen,

 

 

see http://fmepedia.safe.com/articles/How_To/Data-Download-Service-Writing-to-a-template-ESRI-File-Based-Geodatabase

 

 

this is working for me and personal geodatabases.

 

 

set the file_copy writer to D:\\ and the excel writer to d:\\myexcelfile.xls, after you have registered the workbench with the download service D:\\ should be replaced with the temp download path on both writers and hey presto your template is in the download directory for your writer to connect too.

 

 

regards,

 

Nick

owen
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  • May 17, 2013
A-ha! I couldnt find a way, so thats really useful. Now wheres that temp folder....

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