You're a technical analyst in the GIS department of your local city. You have plenty of experience using FME Desktop, and your department has just purchased FME Server.

Today's task for you is to use two datasets - cycle paths and drinking fountains - to figure out which drinking fountains are close (within 20 metres) of a cycle route. The output is to be written as a KML dataset.

So far you have created the workspace and published it to FME Server along with a set of data. However, it would be better practice to upload the source data to the FME Server Resources file system. That way the data could be used not only for this project, but any other that wished to use it.

We could also ensure that the output data is written to the resources folders too.

1) Open FME Server Web Interface
Open and log in to the FME Server web interface. Choose Manage > Resources on the menubar to navigate to the resources management pages.

2) Create Folder
Most data should go under the Data folder, so double-click on Data in the dialog to open that folder. To avoid mixing datasets our data should go into its own subfolder. So click on the New Folder button and create a folder called Cycling:

Next double-click on Cycling and within that folder create another new one called Output.

3) Upload Cycle Path Data
Now, within the cycling folder, click the upload button and upload the five files for the cycling dataset:

Also upload into that folder, the source data for the drinking fountains:

So we now have both source datasets and a folder to write the output data to.

4) Run Workspace
Now locate and run the workspace published in exercise 1 (or else open the workspace listed above and publish it to FME Server).

In the published parameters for the workspace be sure to click the browse button, navigate to the resources folder Cycling, and select the appropriate files:

Click Run Workspace to finish running the workspace.

5) Open Workspace for Editing
Although the workspace ran correctly, and used the data in the resources folder, that's only because we selected that data at run time. It is not a permanent feature of the workspace.

For example, if I downloaded the workspace into FME Workbench, it would point to the original (local) data files, not the resources folder.

It would be much better if the workspace was programmed to look into the resources folders automatically.

So, start FME Workbench and open the workspace from exercise 1 (or the begin workspace listed above).

6) Delete Published Parameters
If we do set the workspace to read from the resources folders, we don't want to give users the chance to change that. So in the Navigator window locate the three parameters for source and destination datasets and delete them:

7) Set Source/Destination Parameters
Now, in turn, double-click the source and destination dataset parameters and change them to:

The result will look like this:

Save the workspace and publish it back to FME Server.

8) Re-Run Workspace
Now run the workspace on FME Server. Be sure to use the Job Submitter service (not Data Download) so the output is written to the required file. This time you will not be prompted with a parameter to select the source (or destination) datasets, but they will be used in the resources folders just the same.