How to serve folder/files created by SystemCaller (python) in FME Flow?

You’re on the right track, and i’ll be honest, I always forget how to setup the filecopy writer

As the name suggests, the filecopy_source_dataset attribute is the folder/file you want to copy

In the writer, the Destination File Copy Folder is where you want to copy the above file to

On the canvas, the feature type (subfolder name) is the name you want to give the folder/file

Now this is where it gets a bit confusing, specifically for folders. You say you’d like to zip it? so you’d think you’d just change the feature type to end in .zip. However if you do that, it copies it to a folder with the name .zip
 

To zip it up, you actually need to add the zip type to the writer. But in doing this, you’ll then copy the source folder into a zip file, so the structure would be “/folder.zip/folder”.

To fix this, you set the feature type on the canvas to ‘\’ then set the writer to the full path of the output zip file.

Example:

You want to copy C:\temp\New Folder to C:\temp\copiedfolder.zip

Thank you ​@takashi and ​@hkingsbury for the help and suggestions!! I ended up using a FeatureReader and FileCopy solution as I couldnt get just the FileCopy to work but the information on how the FileCopy works is so helpful.

My solution:

Now I can use Python (with Conda env) and FME ! Been fighting for the last few weeks trying to get that combo to play nicely.