Hi Danny!

 

 

1. What is the "long,weird error message"?

 

2. It MIGHT be a character-encoding issue?

 

3. It MIGHT be a filepath-issue?

 

4. It MIGHT be anything else...

 

 

Difficult to say unless we see a part or the complete log

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Here's teh error message...

 

 

The clause 'TEST @EvaluateExpression(STRING_ENCODED,<at>Value<openparen>_length< closeparen>,Tester) < 8 ENCODED' within 'FACTORY_DEF * TestFactory FACTORY_NAME Tester INPUT FEATURE_TYPE StringLengthCalculator_OUTPUT TEST @EvaluateExpression (STRING_ENCODED,<at>Value<openparen>_length<closeparen>,Tester) < 8 ENCODED TEST  @EvaluateExpression(STRING_ENCODED,<at>Value<openparen>INSTALLATIONDATE<closepa ren>,Tester) > 1 ENCODED BOOLEAN_OPERATOR AND OUTPUT PASSED FEATURE_TYPE Tester_ PASSED OUTPUT FAILED FEATURE_TYPE Tester_FAILED' is incorrect.  TEST must look l ike: TEST <value> <operator> <value> Program Terminating

 

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Hi Danny

 

 

How did you create your feature class list. With arcpy the content is utf16 coded, which you can force down using <string>.encode('ascii','ignore')

 

I came this problem across unraveling MXD contents when handling datasource, name, datasetName, definitionQuery etc.

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Given more time I would have used arcpy to grab the list of feature classes.

 

 

In this case I created a list (tuple actually) of FeatureClasses in Python manually.  I've triple checked all paths & spellings in this script so am confident there are no silly mistakes.  Here's my Python script if that helps shed any light:

 

 

import subprocess   # This is the path to the FME Workspace file you want to run. fmePath = r"\\\\pbi01wqa03.corp.local\\F$\\Test_ProcessData\\MD\\PEPCO\\fme\\State_Separation.fmw"   # This is the parameter name that you linked to "Feature Types to Read" tableParam = "Feature"   # List of Feature Classes to run. tables = ("A_Feature",     "PHI_AnchorGuy",     "PHI_Busbar",     "PHI_CapacitorBank",     "PHI_CircuitBreaker",     "PHI_FuseBank",     "PHI_Generator",     "PHI_NetworkTransformer",     "PHI_OHPrimary",     "PHI_OHSecondary",     "PHI_OpenPoint",     "PHI_OperationsNotesText",     "PHI_Pole",     "PHI_PoleLine",     "PHI_PrimaryConnectionPoint",     "PHI_PrimaryMeter",     "PHI_RecloserBank",     "PHI_RegulatorBank",     "PHI_SecondaryConnectionPoint",     "PHI_SecondaryNetworkSource",     "PHI_Sectionalizer",     "PHI_ServicePoint",     "PHI_SpanGuy",     "PHI_StreetLight",     "PHI_Substation",     "PHI_SurfaceStructure",     "PHI_SwitchBank",     "PHI_TransformerBank",     "PHI_UGPrimary",     "PHI_UGSecondary",     "PHI_UndergroundLinearStructure",     "PHI_UndergroundStructure",     "PHI_Vault")   # Run FMW once for each FeatureClass. for t in tables:     print "\\nRunning table " + t + " ...\\n"     subprocess.call("fme.exe " + fmePath + " --" + tableParam + " " + t , shell=True)     print "\\nTable " + t + " finished processing.\\n"      print "\\n\\nPress Enter to terminate script..." raw_input()

 

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