Sisyphean data tasks? Automate! or How I stop

working and learned to love FME.Michael Baer - St. Louis County

GIS Service Center

What do I do?

• Systems• People• Online

Parcel layer creation workspace.

What author is up to at 1 AM on a Saturday.

Automate

No ServerNo Cloud

IT Budget will not let me get FME Server. IT Policy will not let me get FME Cloud.

But how?

.bat file and windows task manager

What your .bat file should look like.

Task Scheduler doing lots of work for me.

What went wrong.

• SDE connection strings need to be stored on a local drive.

• All of your readers and writers need to be using the same credentials as are used for the scheduler.

• FME needs to be installed on a local drive on the machine.

Thank you!

ContactMichael Baer

St. Louis County GIS Service Center

mbaer@stlouisco.com