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1. CONNECT. TRANSFORM. AUTOMATE.
Workflow Management for
Multiple Workspaces

2. Workflow Management
What are we talking about?

3. Workflow Management
What are we talking about?
Using the power of FME Workbench to design workflows
 Moving and Copying Files
 Data Transformation
 Quality Control
 Database Updates
 Notification (Emails, Mobile Alerts)
 Etc.

4. Workflow Management
Why do we care?
 Because many of you are doing this already!
 Users have noticed that FME Workbench is a
powerful process control tool
 Many of you running complex workflows with
multiple workspace already
 FME Server Survey 2012 #1 Enhancement
Request was “Automated Workflows”

5. Workflow Management: 2 Case Studies
1. “Call Before you Dig” Client (FME Desktop based)
2. Norwegian Environment Agency (thanks to VAR Norkart)
Please note: Demos are very loosely based on these real
projects

6. Workflow Management - Key Tools
 Directory and File Pathnames Reader
 File Copy Writer
 WorkspaceRunner
 FMEServerJobSubmitter
 FMEServerNotifier
 Notification Service

7. Case Study #1 “Call Before You Dig”
Customers (ie Utilities) submit DGN Files – 1000s of
them!
Need to:
 Find out which territory each file belongs to
 Update database with files names and territory
 Copy file into directory by territory

8. Case Study #1 “Call Before You Dig”
 Reading a directory – Directory Reader
 Processing files with WorkspaceRunner
 Copying Files with File Copy Writer

9. Case Study #2 Norwegian EA
Goal: automatically add valid data from the SOSI-format to
the ArcSDE operational database
• geometry must be validated and inside the database before
running any other database updates
• split between
geometryhandling, attributehandling, databasehandling
• easily add other procedures. Currently working new one to take
attributes from the features and stores these in another database.
View the Application here:
http://innsyn.naturbase.no/

10. Case Study #2 Norwegian EA
SOS
I-file
ArcSDE
Operational
DB
MSSQL
Logging etc
SOSI-
file, PDF-
report, text-
report
1 2 3 4
Verfiy Data
and Database
updates
Generate
paths/published
parameters based
on attributes in
SOSI-file
To Do all checks:
- Geometry
- SOSI
- Attributename/values
- Exisiting Ids
Create logfiles (in SOSI, txt, 2D / 3D
PDF) and add geometry to ArcSDE
All data verified and all logs updated
To Do:
- Wrap-up files from previous FMW-
files into one package and send by
e-mail to supplier

11. Case Study #2 Norwegian EA
 Controller Workspace Running two consecutive
tasks
1. Quality Control Workspace
2. Database Update Workspace
 Notification at all stages (Success and Failure)

12. Thank You!
 Questions?
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