Publishing to FME Server

See About the FME Server.

Note: To publish to FME Server, you must have an FME Server configured and available. For information, contact your System Administrator.

Open the workspace you want to publish, and choose File > Publish to Server.

Connect to FME Server

Host: Enter a hostname (the name of the FME Server). You can also enter a URL to access FME Server using the SOAP protocol. (SOAP is a lightweight protocol intended for exchanging structured information in a distributed environment.) Note that when you enter a URL, the Port field will disappear, and the connection to FME Server will switch to the SOAP protocol. You may need to contact your System Administrator for information on host names or URLs.

Port: This is determined by your System Adminstrator. The default is 7071. This field is not required when entering a URL in the Host Name or URL field.

Username: If this field has been configured by your System Administrator, enter the username configured for the FME Server account.

Note: You can set defaults for these fields.

Password: If this field has been configured by your System Administrator, enter the required password.

Click the Next button.

Publish Workspace

Workspaces are published to folders (called "repositories") on the server.

Repository Name: Choose a repository from the pull-down list, or click the New button and create a new repository.

Workspace Name: This is the name of the current workspace.

Existing Workspaces: This area lists the workspaces that are currently stored in the repository. You can choose a workspace from the list and overwrite it with your current workspace, or you can accept the name of your current workspace. It is possible that you may just want to review and accept all the defaults shown in this pane.

If the workspace is ready to be published, you will see a Publish button. Click Publish to complete the upload.
If the FME Server detects resources associated with the workspace, you will see a Next button. Click Next to select the resources.

Include Resources (optional)

If you have one or more file-based resources in the same directory as the workspace (for example, a Shape file or an Excel spreadsheet), clicking the Next button in the Publish Workspace pane will advance to the Include Resources pane. This pane lists the associated resources:

Resource

File Path

Upload

The name of the resource associated with the workspace.

The file path where the resource is located.

You can edit this field if you want to point to a different location.

Check this box to upload the file to the FME Server. Note that you might not always want to upload the file; for example, if you know it already exists on the Server.

Additional Files to Upload

For multiple-file datasets (such as Shape), you can upload all associated files from either the same directory, or from multiple directories.

Click the Browse button and use the file chooser dialog to select files from one directory. Click the OK button to add the filenames to the text field.
To select files from multiple directories, click the button. In the dialog that appears, click the Add Files button. Use the file chooser dialog to navigate to different directories and pick multiple files. When you click the OK button, the filenames are included in the field, separated by commas.

Click the again to see the files in list form.

To remove a file: Highlight the filename in the list and click the Remove button, or edit and delete the filename fom the text field.

Click the Publish button.

Notes:

If you know that any associated files already exist on the FME Server, you may choose to skip this step.
The FME Server does not detect linked custom transformers.

Register Workspace? (optional)

When your workspace has been successfully published to the FME Server, you will have the option to:

Register the workspace with one or more services.
Skip this step without registering the workspace, and close the window.

FME Server supports a number of services. Registering a workspace with a service allows you to view workspace details or configure and run the workspace with the associated service, independent of the FME application.

This pane will list available web services.

You can select one or more services and click Finish.

Note: For information on entering workspace process descriptions, see the Workspace Description paragraph in Workspace Settings.

If you choose to skip this step, click either Finish or Cancel to close the window.