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  • December 18, 2013
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If I want to run a workspace, either as a workspace or as a job on an FME server, I want to assign values to its published SourceDataset entries.

 

 

What what is the precise format for these entries ?

 

 

Do the file paths need to enclosed in quotes ? Either seperately or all-in-one ?

 

What separartor character needs to go between each path ?

 

 

Cheers

 

Lars I.

Best answer by lin_geopartner

Just to wrap this up:

 

 

There seems to be a bug in version 2013 that "decodes" all other occurances of "\\\\" than the first one.

 

 

The work-around is to split the UNC part from the (relative) path parts, and instead of just a comma separated list of paths (i.e. "path1,path2,path3"), create an expression as follows:

 

 

"UNC_part{rel_path1,rel_path2,rel_path3}"

 

 

Of course this only works if all paths have the exact same UNC part. Which they fortunately have in my case :-)

 

 

Cheers

 

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I should add, that I'm using UNC paths, i.e. paths that start with "\\\\".

 

 

This seems to pose problems in itself, as a double backslash somewhere along the line is interpreted to be a single backslash !??

 

 

Cheers

 


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  • January 10, 2014
Just to wrap this up:

 

 

There seems to be a bug in version 2013 that "decodes" all other occurances of "\\\\" than the first one.

 

 

The work-around is to split the UNC part from the (relative) path parts, and instead of just a comma separated list of paths (i.e. "path1,path2,path3"), create an expression as follows:

 

 

"UNC_part{rel_path1,rel_path2,rel_path3}"

 

 

Of course this only works if all paths have the exact same UNC part. Which they fortunately have in my case :-)

 

 

Cheers