Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation Parameters
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Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they? Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality. You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
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Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation Parameters
- 1. Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation Parameters
- 2. Bailey Knapp FME Flow Technical Support Specialist Safe Software Tim Shin FME Flow Technical Support Specialist Safe Software Kate Brillinger FME Flow Technical Support Team Lead Safe Software
- 3. Welcome to Livestorm. A few ways to engage with us during the webinar: Audio issues? Click this for 4 simple troubleshooting steps.
- 4. Poll: Have you ever used FME Flow Automations?
- 5. Automation Webinar Series ● May 29: Optimizing FME Workflows with Parameters ● June 5: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FME ● Today! Exploring Attributes & Automation Parameters
- 6. Agenda 1 What are Output Attributes & Automation Parameters? 2 Demo: Build Automation using Attributes & Parameters 3 Bonus: Intro to Split-Merge Block functionality 4 Using Attributes and Parameters in an Automation App 5 Q&A Agenda
- 7. Automating processes saves time & money, improves data quality, helps businesses scale and so much more.
- 8. 1 What are Output Attributes and Automation Parameters?
- 9. FME Flow Automations allow you to build complex enterprise integration workflows by sending JSON-formatted messages between components (Triggers & Actions). Output Attributes and Automation Parameters store the JSON key-value pairs in a user-friendly format so they can be used downstream in the workflow. Resource: Working with Output Attributes in Workflows What are Output Attributes and Automation Parameters?
- 10. Event Attributes What: predefined output attributes specific to the trigger, internal and external action type. Why: to create dynamic workflows that process event information in real-time. What are Output Attributes and Automation Parameters?
- 11. Custom Attributes What: output attributes that can be defined on a component by the user building the automation. Why: when the same action is present more than once in a workflow to prevent overwriting certain attributes or use attributes from multiple events in the same downstream parameter. What are Output Attributes and Automation Parameters?
- 12. Manual Parameters What: output attributes that can be defined manually through the editor, or imported from a JSON file. They are only present when a Manual Trigger is used Why: allows users to create output parameters that allow for different types of user inputs at workspace runtime Resources: Manual Trigger and Manual Parameters Editor What are Output Attributes and Automation Parameters?
- 13. Automation Writer Attributes What: attributes that store attribute values from each feature processed by a workspace. They are present on the Run Workspace Action only when there is an Automation Writer in your workspace Why: Enhance Automations functionality by orchestrating data-driven workflows. What are Output Attributes and Automation Parameters?
- 14. Deployment Parameters What: parameters that are created in FME Form or Flow and stored in FME Flow. They provide a way to define and reuse text string, database connections and web connection parameters in workspaces shared between FME Flow instances Why: allows workspaces that are uploaded to multiple FME Flow environments to run without having to update parameter values What are Output Attributes and Automation Parameters?
- 15. Automation Parameters What: text values defined by the user building the Automation for use at the Automation level without ties to a specific component. Why: reduce maintenance efforts by enabling you to reference the same value in multiple places. What are Output Attributes and Automation Parameters?
- 16. For ultimate flexibility use attributes and parameters to create dynamic Automation workflows. What are Output Attributes and Automation Parameters?
- 17. 2 Demo: Build Automation using Attributes & Parameters
- 18. Goal Block Key Result Breakdown a State into Counties & Blocks for processing and send a single email at the end Using Attributes and Parameters in an Automation There are many attribute and parameter types, and it’s confusing to know when to use them. Use Output Attributes and Automation Parameters to pass information between workspaces and send messages downstream. Using Output Attributes, Automation Parameters and the Split-Merge Block allows you to pass event, feature attribute, or user-defined information throughout an Automation, and send a single email at the end Demo: Build Automation using Attributes & Parameters
- 19. Step One: Manual Trigger Parameters ● Provide a user-defined JSON message at Automation runtime ● Create attributes from the JSON key-value pairs {“state”:“Hawaii”} Note: This also applies to the Webhook Trigger Resource: Run an Automation using the Manual Trigger Demo: Build Automation using Attributes & Parameters
- 20. Step Two: Run Workspaces using Automation Writer Attributes ● Create additional output port per Automation Writer Feature Type ● Use the Automation Writer to parse attributes out of a workspace downstream in an Automation workflow ● Trigger one downstream event for every feature that enters the Automation Writer Resource: Building Integrations with the FME Flow Automation Writer Demo: Build Automation using Attributes & Parameters
- 21. Tip To use Attributes and Parameters in a Workspace Action, the Workspace must contain Published Parameters! Demo: Build Automation using Attributes & Parameters
- 22. Demo Demo: Build Automation using Attributes & Parameters
- 23. Key Takeaways ● Manual triggers can be used to pass in user-defined messages at runtime as manual parameters ● Automation Writers allow us to pass data downstream from one workspace to create data-driven workflows ● Every feature that gets passed into an automation writer is submitted as a downstream event. ○ 1 feature equals 1 event Demo: Build Automation using Attributes & Parameters
- 24. Poll: How can we consolidate workspace actions?
- 26. ● Split-Merge Blocks will output one event attribute per input ● Compatible with Automation writers ● Event attributes aren’t aggregated, you’ll only receive information from the very last job Resource: Job Orchestration with Automations Step Three: Rethinking Attributes with the Split-Merge Block Intro to the Split-Merge Block Functionality
- 27. Step Four: Automation Parameters and Email Recipients ● Automation Parameters can be used anywhere in an Automation! ● Great for repeatedly-used parameters (i.e: Email recipients, file paths) ● One single parameter to manage our Email To recipients Resource: Send email from Automations Intro to the Split-Merge Block Functionality
- 28. Custom Email Subject & Body using Event Attributes ● Multiple attributes can be used in a single parameter ● Concatenate key values together or build custom text bodies Intro to the Split-Merge Block Functionality
- 29. Demo Intro to the Split-Merge Block Functionality
- 30. Key Takeaways ● Split-Merge Block allows you to output a single message for the final job in the block ● With Automation Parameters you can edit a single value and have it update everywhere that it’s used in your automations. ● Use the Text Editor to add multiple attributes in a single parameter value. Intro to the Split-Merge Block Functionality
- 31. 4 Using Attributes and Parameters in Automation Apps
- 32. Automation Apps ● Allow users to run Automations that originate from a Manual Trigger as "apps" from a web browser ● Apps are shared as URLs, and may be presented through customizable web pages ● Manual Parameters allow for user input into the Automation from the App Using Attributes and Parameters in Automation Apps
- 33. Allow multiple users to pass parameters and run automation Goal Block Key Manual Parameters in an Automation App Result Difficulty configuring and customizing workflow parameters Leverage Manual Parameters and Automation Apps Users can trigger Automations with custom parameters taken as inputs Using Attributes and Parameters in Automation Apps
- 34. Demo Using Attributes and Parameters in Automation Apps
- 35. Key Takeaways ● Manual Parameters send values that can be used as input throughout the automation ● Automation Apps pass Manual Parameters to the automation triggered from the app Using Attributes and Parameters in Automation Apps
- 36. 6 Resources
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