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Hello FME Community! This week’s Question of the Week comes straight from our product team: If FME were available in your preferred language, which one would make the biggest difference for you or your team?Please share your answer in the comments below.New to the Question of the Week? Every week, we’ll post a simple but thought-provoking question that could be about your FME journey, the power of spatial data, FME innovation, or the future of FME.Each weekly question you answer earns you an entry in our monthly draw for exclusive Safe swag ($50 value) and points toward badges! Answer our October Questions of the Week by October 31, 2025 at 5:00 pm PDT to be entered in this month’s draw.Answer your first question and you’ll get the Socializer (Ice Breaker) badge. Answer five questions and you’ll get the Socializer (Talker) badge.

Goal: Use the KLIC Transformer output to produce a FileGDB. I have used Esri Geodatabase (File Geodb Open API) as the writer. What the workspace does: Reads raw KLIC output, Builds dynamic layer name, GeometryValidator → GeometryCoercer, AttributeKeeper keeps only required attributes, (Latest attempt) GeometryFilter to keep only Line geometry to avoid mixed-geometry, FileGDB FeatureWriter with Feature Class or Table Name = dynamic layer name, Dynamic Schema Definition = OFF, Table Handling = Create If Needed (sometimes Overwrite If Exists while testing), No dynamic schema port connected. What happens: Translation reports success, In the output GDB, I get only one feature class (the first encountered). For all other values in the dynamic layer name field, the writer logs warnings and doesn’t create those classes.What I’ve tried: Narrowed the schema with AttributeKeeper. Verified in an Inspector that dynamic layer name field has many correct, distinct values (not just one). Deleted the o

Hello,I’m converting DWG to DWG using FME and I’m wondering if it’s possible to style the XREF data within the DWG. Specifically, I’d like to set it to True Colors with certain grey values.Any guidance on how to achieve this would be greatly appreciated.Thank you in advance!

Is there any chance of getting a search bar added to the forums?  The forums are very useful, but would be even better if we could search on previously written topics

Hello, I would like to send notification to the InspectedBy field value on an Inspection when the Inspection is Completed but a Required field on the Inspection has not been populated using FME Workbench. I am new to FME and learning. Could anyone please give sample of FME Form Workspace for this please. ThanksAnita

Hi,I would like to convert an image symbol from Esri CIM JSON to AutoCAD DWG format. The JSON file looks like this: {  "type": "CIMPointSymbol",  "symbolLayers": [    {      "type": "CIMCharacterMarker",      "enable": true,      "anchorPoint": {        "x": 0,        "y": 0,        "z": 0      },      "anchorPointUnits": "Relative",      "dominantSizeAxis3D": "Y",      "offsetX": -3.3333333333333335,      "size": 5.555555555555556,      "billboardMode3D": "FaceNearPlane",      "characterIndex": 85,      "fontFamilyName": "Tahoma",      "fontStyleName": "Regular",      "fontType": "TTOpenType",      "scaleX": 1,      "symbol": {        "type": "CIMPolygonSymbol",        "symbolLayers": [          {            "type": "CIMSolidStroke",            "enable": true,            "capStyle": "Round",            "joinStyle": "Round",            "lineStyle3D": "Strip",            "miterLimit": 4,            "width": 0,            "height3D": 1,            "anchor3D": "Center"::],  "haloSize": 1,

Hello FME Community,I'm looking for a way to configure the system's SMTP mail server settings directly during the FME Flow installation process, rather than after.Our goal is to fully automate the deployment of FME Flow using scripts (e.g., for Windows Server), and we want the instance to be fully configured and ready to go once the installation is complete, without needing to manually log in to the web interface.I  know how to configure the mail server post-install via the Web UI.My Question:Is there a supported method to pass the SMTP parameters (host, port, credentials, etc.) directly to the installer, config file, or command line parameters?Thanks in advance for any insights!

I was hoping someone who understands how FeatureHolder works can let me know if I can use it successfully to help with an issue I am having. I have some workspaces on flow that had been working as expected for well over a year but recently I have had two separate ones glitch on me in the span of a few weeks.I am not 100% sure what went wrong but from looking at the log, the portal feature service reader did not read in all of the records from the table. Looking through the log, I see a line that indicates the metadata fme is accessing lists the correct number of records in the table. However, the summary shows that for that run, it actually read in less than that number.I have not yet identified what caused the reader to behave this way in these two instances. My question is:If I put a feature holder right after the reader, will that solve this problem? Will it make the workspace wait until all of the records are read in? (i.e. the number read in matches the number it was given by the

We have multiple workspaces that write to ArcGIS Online with multipart geometries. The old ARCGISONLINEFEATURES writer works and correctly writes the geometries. The new (2025) Esri ArcGIS Feature Service Writer returns an error rejecting the features and the following warning:ArcGISFeatureServiceWriter: INSERT error for a feature in Project Stats by State. The error code from the server was '1000' and the message was 'Adding/updating geometries that result in SQL GeometryCollections is currently not supported (SQL Server performance).' Using a Deaggregator seems to fix this in most cases. However, we want to retain the multipart geometries. In other cases, I see a similar warning and the following error after using a Deaggregator:ArcGISFeatureServiceWriter: INSERT error for a feature in Terracon Offices Closest Areas. The error code from the server was '1000' and the message was 'Data is Null. This method or property cannot be called on Null values.' I’ve tried a NullAttributeMapper a

Yesterday, after completing a first draft workspace, I showed my canvas to a colleague and they commented on how bizarre 🤢 my transformers appeared.I’d been painstakingly aligning my transformers by port - so that the output of a transformer would lead directly into the input of the following transformer. This creates flat, linear connections … but the transformers themselves don’t necessarily align. What’s your preference?  Check out your options here:  Arranging Objects on the Canvas

Blogger Tiana Warner just posted a new article to the FME Blog.Title: 5 WAYS FME’S NEW ARCGIS CONNECTOR STREAMLINES DATA MANAGEMENT AND PUBLISHINGSummary: Introduction: Key takeaways:Would you like to know more? Click here to read this new article!

GIS (StackExchange) user Lay just made a new post with the tags: fme-form, autocad, dwg, autocad-xref-status, fme-reader.Would you like to know more? Click here to find out more details!StackExchange content licensed as: CC BY-SA 4.0

Just upgraded from 2022 to the latest version for Flow and Form. Whenever I publish a workbench the publication works then shortly after the log gets the message “The web connection 'FME Account' could not be loaded”We don’t have a Web connection “FME Account “ and the task has completed anyway. Any ideas where this is coming from?  

Hello FME Community! I’m excited to introduce myself as the newest member of the Safe Community team. I’m based in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia, and I’m really looking forward to learning more about FME and contributing to this amazing community. Outside of work, you’ll often find me outdoors, making the most of everything BC has to offer. I’m thrilled to be here and can’t wait to connect with you all!This week’s Question of the Week is: If you could teleport anywhere for lunch today, where would you go?Please share your answer in the comments below.New to the Question of the Week? Every week, we’ll post a simple but thought-provoking question that could be about your FME journey, the power of spatial data, FME innovation, or the future of FME.Each weekly question you answer earns you an entry in our monthly draw for exclusive Safe swag ($50 value) and points toward badges! Answer our October Questions of the Week by October 31, 2025 at 5:00 pm PDT to be entered in this month’

Would be great to be about to output Dynamic blocks to AutoCAD, things likeVisible states and Flip setting would be great, Distances for stretch, rotation and Alignment parameters might be a bit harder to achieve.

Hello community,i am using an Feature Writer to write Feature classes in an Feature Dataset in an EGDB.I found out that i need to enter the Feature Dataset Name/Feature Class Name hardcoded. For Example: FeatureDatasetName/FeatureClassName descriped in the following picture: SDE Feature Writer with hardcoded (static) Feature Dataset and Featureclass NameAn dynamically generated Value like “@Value(FD_Name)/FCName” or even the whole value @Value(FD_name_and_FC_Name) is not working as Feature Class.How i found that out? The Features get inserted in the Feature Class, even if i set Table Handling to drop and create. When i use the hardcoded (static) Feature Dataset and Featreclass Name the Table got dropped and created new, so it was working as expected.SDE Feature Writer with dynamic/Attributvalue Feature Dataset and Feature class NameWhen i use log level debug and use the dynamically (attribut value) Feature Dataset and Feature class Name, i get the following error Message which i dont g

I am trying to automate the conversation of a large series of CAD drawings to save the data to be used in ArcGIS Floor Aware apps.One of the criteria is to have levels / floors in a building sorted in vertical order, with the ground floor as 0 and increasing by one for each floor above the ground and decrease by one for each floor below the ground.Unfortunately my data has inconsistent naming for floors. With some having a Lower Ground (LG) and or basement (B). There are also some that have a messanine (M) between Ground (G) and Level 1 (L1). To top it off there is a Roof (R) in some.So my problem is that I need to sort the list of floors in such a way that I can get the vertical order, both positive and negative,  centred around Ground as 0 where it exists. Does anyone have suggestions on how to tackle this?Here are a couple of examples and the vertical order needed.   B, G, M, L1, L2, R => -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4B, LG, G, L1, L2, L3 => -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3LG, L1, L2, R => -1, 0, 1,

I have a folder of old aerial imagery tiles with .txg georeference file. Inside .txg file, there are coordinates of the four corner. I can manually copy those corner coordinates into the RasterGeoreferencer transformer, but is there any way to automate this process and mosaic all tiles into one raster?