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Building workspaces to run on FME Server? Then this is the page for you.

FME Server uses the same underlying technology which drives FME Desktop. This means the same workspaces built to run on the FME Desktop will also run on the FME Server. There are however several things you need to focus on when building FME Server specifc workspaces:

  • Leveraging Published parameters
  • Source and destination datasets.
  • Tailoring workspaces for use with specific services.
  • Building highly flexible workspaces

Explore the resources and learn how to develop workspaces which will ensure you get the maximum out of FME Server.


Top FME FME Server Author Area Articles

  • Spatial Image Serving Through WMS with FME Server

    This example demonstrates how to create a disk based image cache using FME and how FME Server can serve that imagery through a WMS service. It will serve image data to WMS capable viewers...

  • Using Oracle Triggers to send requests to FME Server

    This how to article outlines how to set up an Oracle Trigger that will fire a request to FME Server and run a job.

  • Workflow management for multiple workspaces

    This article describes how FME Server can be used to combine multiple workspaces into a seamless workflow.

  • Chain Jobs in FME Server

    How to link workspaces together so that one starts after another without deadlocking FME Server. Performs process control of workspaces on FME Server.

  • Using python to deliver FME Server results to an external FTP site.

    This article provides an example workspace that contains a Python Shutdown script which zips the results and then uploads the zip file to an FTP site. It is intended for FME Server and th...

  • Notification Services based on the Subscription Model

    View a demo showing how FME Server enables Notification Services based on the Subscription Model.

  • Including additional files in the data download result zip file

    The FME Server Data Download Service returns the result of a translation to the user in a zip file. Sometimes you want to include other files (e.g. metadata files) in this zip file. Ther...

  • Create specific directory structure in the Data Download ZIP file

    Create specific directory structure in the zip file provided by the FME Server Data Download service

  • Take a photo, email it to FME Server and put it on the map

    Take a photo with your phone and email it to FME Server. In this demo, that photo is placed on a map.

  • Mobile Asset Tracking with Geofence and Notification

    This example uses FME Server to receive real-time mobile asset locations, publish them to KML, determine if their an asset is inside of a geofence and if so a message is tweeted.


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    Top FME Server Author Area Samples & Demos

  • Spatial Image Serving Through WMS with FME Server

    This example demonstrates how to create a disk based image cache using FME and how FME Server can serve that imagery through a WMS service. It will serve image data to WMS capable viewers...

  • Workflow management for multiple workspaces

    This article describes how FME Server can be used to combine multiple workspaces into a seamless workflow.

  • Notification Services based on the Subscription Model

    View a demo showing how FME Server enables Notification Services based on the Subscription Model.

  • Take a photo, email it to FME Server and put it on the map

    Take a photo with your phone and email it to FME Server. In this demo, that photo is placed on a map.

  • Mobile Asset Tracking with Geofence and Notification

    This example uses FME Server to receive real-time mobile asset locations, publish them to KML, determine if their an asset is inside of a geofence and if so a message is tweeted.

  • Streaming XML with FME Server

    XML is a standard way to exchange data between web services. With FME Server we can easily create a web service to stream any kind of geographic information in XML. FME Server can be used ...

  • Bringing Real-Time Data to the Web – A Live Example using Node.js, Pusher, and FME Server

    Using the FME Server notification server and several other technologies to push real-time data to the web browser via Web Sockets.

  • Configuring an email notification and send using a Workspace

    FME Server 2012 sends email using the Notification Server. In the example below we show you how to configure the email notification and then trigger an email using a workspace.

  • Dynamic xfMap Example

    This example shows how to generate an xfMap when the schema is embedded in the data such as with: fieldname = 'name', value ='Sophia'.

  • Reading Complex XML or GML using XfMap

    FME's XML reader can be used with Feature Paths or XfMaps. This is a basic example to help you get started with XfMaps.


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    Helpful Resources

    FME Server Tutorial
    Deisgned for new users of FME Server, the tutorial gives you an introduction on building worksapces specific for FME Server and on how to publish, run and maintain workspaces.