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Hi All,I am currently working an automation process to convert XYZ files into LAS format for use in ArcGIS. I have successfully generated the point cloud and exported it to LAS; however, the classification information is not being retained.The custom classifications are based on codes contained in the original XYZ files as text, and these values are stored in a table, an example of which is shown below:  How can I convert the XYZ files to LAS while preserving the Feature attribute as the classification?Attached fmwt fileThanks :) 

Hi everyone! 👋We’re always inspired by the creativity in this community. Last year’s “create your own action figure” trend was such a hit, and we love seeing how you all bring personality and humour into your work. So this week, we’re leaning into that same spirit - with a fun new twist.This week's Question of the Week: If you were an FME caricature, what would you look like?Use your favourite AI tool to generate a caricature of you based on your role, tools, and day-to-day work - then share the result in the comments below!Here’s a starter prompt but feel free to customize it to better match your role, personality, or style: “Create a caricature of me based on my job and everything you know about me. I work as a [your role], and my day-to-day involves [key tools, tasks, or themes]. Include visual elements that represent my work, personality, and environment.”Once you’ve created it, share your image in the comments. Have fun with it and get creative!💡 New to the Question of the Week?

Hi everyone! 👋We’re excited to kick off a new series of “Community 101” posts here in the FME Community! Over the next few weeks, we’ll be sharing quick, bite-sized insights about the community - things you might not know but that can help you get more value, faster, whether you’re just joining us or have been around for a while.Each post will highlight one feature, space, or opportunity in the community, along with links and tips so you can dive deeper when you’re ready. Keep an eye out for posts in the Question of the Week forum! 🎉

This seems pretty basic so it’s probably a configuration that I’m missing, but I’m using FME Form v2025.1.1.0 and I have a half dozen Loggers set up to capture features that are repaired or failed in GeometryValidators that precede them.  When I run the workbench I have ‘Enable Record Counting’ set so I can see the counts going to the Loggers, but none of the messages I would expect are getting written to either the Translation Log window in FME Form nor to the log file on disk.  I’ve set the Navigator > Workspace Parameters > Log and Troubleshoot > Max Features to Log to -1 to log everything, and I’ve confirmed that the ‘Severity Level’ in each Logger is ‘Information’.  I’ve tried all 3 settings for ‘Feature Logging’ of ‘Log Only’, ‘Log and Record’ and ‘Message Only’ in various combinations of the Loggers and I’ve confirmed that the ‘Max Messages to Log’ for each Logger is larger than the number of features being routed to them. The expression in each Logger is pretty simple,

Is there any way possible to send an HTTP Response after receiving a webhook trigger in FME Flow Hosted Automations? I am attempting to set up an automation that runs in response to webhooks coming from Monday.com, however before I can start configuring the actual webhooks, monday.com requires verification that I have control of the endpoint. I need to do this by having the platform send a JSON challenge to the endpoint URL, which must then be responded to with an identical JSON POST body. I believe it must also be returned with a status of 200. Documentation on setting up monday.com webhooks here. I have tried to accomplish this by adding a workspace after the webhook trigger to pull the IP address that the challenge request was sent from from the HTTP headers, and then using an HTTPCaller to send a POST request with the JSON challenge body to that IP address, but this is not working - the request just times out.

Hi there,In Esri ArcGIS Connector safe.esri-agol version 3.17.0 a number of changes were made to the way the Esri writer handles global IDs.  Some of these changes resulted in previously published workspaces no longer functioning after the package on Flow was updated.This is an admin nightmare, as unless we prevent all publishers from uploading packages, we cannot prevent them from deploying a new version of a package that may break existing workflows.I have two suggestions:Please put the latest changes of the package at the top of the description in the FME Form Dialog box. Currently the user has to click a link to go to the item in the Hub and then find the version in the History. Please clearly indicate any changes that are more than bug fixes, and that may impact previously published workspaces.Thanks,Marc

Hello,My team has developed a workspace for data collection of publicly available GIS-data. The workspace uses HTTP-callers to download the data from different URL:s, and then the data is clipped from a predefined area of interest. The schemas and the features area separated and the rejoined later in the workspace. The output is written to an ESRI Geodatabase. Everything is working fine using FME Flow 2023.2.2.0 - Build 23781, but when I tried upgrading to FME 2025, I get an error:“Esri Geodatabase Writer: Feature Type Definition 'd_y_n' was requested, but not defined. Please visit https://www.safe.com/support”Does anyone have any insights into this issue?Thanks in advance /Ville

Good afternoon fellow FME enthousiasts,I'm struggling with the following. I'm trying to set up the System Email settings on our FME Flow to allow users to request a password reset. It all seems pretty straightforward but can't get it to work. Maybe i'm missing something though (it is friday afternoon after all). I've set it up as follows: But when i validate it I get the error:“Due to a configuration change made by your administrator or because you moved to a new location you must use multi factor authentication to access…...” Emails through emailers in workspaces ran on flow work like a charm, but this one keeps evading me. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi I am using projectwise wgs connector to upload a file into pw. I was wondering if their a way to uprev the version metadata attribute within pw. When the file is uploaded to pw.

I’m working in an FME Form workbench reading in CSV files that reflect database updates and then using them to update a central XLSX file. However, when the CSV reader is pulling in a column with values of either ‘TRUE’ or ‘FALSE’, it is automatically converting them to ‘true’ or ‘false’.Has anyone ever noticed this with a CSV reader?Unfortunately the domain I am describing with this data has capitalized values, so reporting the codes as lower case somewhat defeats the purpose. I know the parameter for Case Sensitive Field Names would resolve the issue if i were seeing this in the attribute names but unfortunately i haven’t been able to find a similar parameter for the data itself.Is this just an inherent setting to the CSV reader format?

Because it would be nice if FME Flow could connect to Autodesk Construction Cloud without Re-authenticating every week we tried to implement Autodesk Secure Service Account in FME Flow.https://aps.autodesk.com/blog/introducing-secure-service-accounts-ssa-now-public-betaIt was pretty complex and requires the PyJWT library installed onto FME Flow. Also the current Autodesk Docs connector will not work with the new WebConnection so all calls need to be made with HTTPCallers:Folder contents: GET: https://developer.api.autodesk.com/data/v1/projects/@Value(project)/folders/@Value(folder)/contents File url in the result (GET): json["relationships"]["tip"]["links"]["related"]["href"] Last version storage url (GET): json["data"]["relationships"]["storage"]["meta"]["link"]["href"] You need rewrite this url because it must end with /signeds3download Download url (GET): json["url"]  The webconnection will store the credentials and hold the token:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" stan

Hi there,I am assessing a dataset for changes that took place since 2012. This data contains these two fields of interest:change_date reason_for_changechange_date contains multiple dates that a separated by a comma and reason_for_change contains strings of change types separated by a comma.An example of the data structure is Feature 1:change_date: 2016-10-20reason_for_change: New Feature 2:change_date: 2009-06-15, 2013-09-04, 2016-10-05reason_for_change: New, Attributes, Modified Feature 3:change_date: 2010-09-11, 2014-04-09reason_for_change: New, Attributes Is it possible within FME to pair each individual reason for change to a change date and then test if it matches the follow conditions of reason_for_change = New or Modified and change date greater than 2012-12-31?Using the three examples above, feature 1 and 2 should be highlighted as a change since feature 1 is new in 2016 and feature 2 had it’s geometry modified in 2016.So far I have used a Attribute Splitter on each field to sp

So not specifically about FME, but very useful nonetheless:https://thecodingkitty.com/videosShort videos explaining IT concepts, with cats 😺. A lot of them are quite relevant to FME Flow.

I am in the process of moving my FME Desktop 2021 workspaces into FME Form 2025. I know I can open the FME 2021 workspaces in FME Form 2025. As I get farther along in this process, is there anything I need to be aware of? example, is it best to just rebuild my FME 2021 workspaces in FME Form 2025 instead of just opening and saving the FME 2021 workspaces in FME Form 2025?I have run a few FME 2021 workspaces in FME Form 2025 with no issues. But wanted to reach out to the FME community to see what their experience has been in bringing in older FME workspaces into new versions of FME.

Hi everyone,after using IF clauses in my workspace, I started getting this warning that immediately terminates my translation.Could not load module 'C:\Program Files\FME\plugins\if_func.dll' : 'The specified module could not be found'. I tried reinstalling the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015–2022 Redistributables for both x64 and x86  as I saw here on another thread, but that didn’t work. Is there any other solution? Thanks in advance.

I have a folder with hundreds of DWG files. We are moving away from CAD software and so wanted to convert our existing DWGs into SVGs for future compatability with new apps

Dear Community,i am experiencing a strange behavior from our FME Server when uploading/publishing a FME Desktop workspace in FME Server.Previously, it was possible to publish workspaces from FME Desktop to FME Server.Recently, publishing from FME Desktop is no longer possible, nor is it possible to upload workspaces to FME Server via the Web UI.I only receive very little information about the error in FME Desktop ,also with the debug logging.The following excerpt from the log:Successfully retrieved service properties.Retrieving service parameters for ‘geodatabase_sde2none.fmw’...No service parameters found.Uploading as ‘geodatabase_sde2none.fmw’...Publish failed - FME Flow encountered an error.When I upload a workspace in FME Server via Web UI, I get the following messages in the network console of the Browser:Get Call <FME-Server-URL>/repositories/{repository}/items/{item}returns a 404 Not Found status code and {"reason": "missing","what": "geodatabase_sde2none.fmw","message": "

Hi , I am working a lot of the DWG files and I had somebody did the work. So when I  received the DWG files and review them.  I have ArcGIS Pro and I looked at them and I was not sure about the  coordinate system there… so I pulled the file in FME Data Inspector and found them that they are not in the right place I am in Colorado…Question first is : What does the red symbol mean here ?Black square with blue point is where the DWG is. The record information shows the coordinate system is Unknown.