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As I understand things, currently one can only use the Esri enterprise geodatabase formats on a Windows host. When moving to kubernetes it is then needed to use queue control to direct those jobs to Windows VMs, which is not ideal.When can we expect those drivers to also work on Linux? And is the problem on the Esri side or the Safe Software side?

I create a simple FME Flow App - the user enters a word to search content. The FME workspace put the results into a html file under Resources/Data. I want put a link to this html file on the Flow App page to allow the user to click the link and open the html file in the browser to see the content. Can this be done?

My long time transformer friend FMEFlowLogFileRetriever is not avaliable in FME 2025. The error asked me to use HTTPCaller to retrieve the job log file. So I used this rest point in the HTTPCaller’s Request URL with GET - https://my-fme-flow-hostname/fmerest/v3/transformations/jobs/@Value(jobid)/log. I tried the Basic and Web Connection authentications, but both gives the error “HTTPCaller (HTTPFactory): An error occurred while accessing the URL 'https://my-fme-flow-hostname/fmerest/v3/transformations/jobs/98/log'”. I have no problem publishing using the same Web Connection for the authentication, so don’t understand what the issue is. The jobid = 98 was run successfully on the FME Flow.

I’m having an issue where the FME Workbench application is not loading correctly. I have added an image below, the bottom of the application is all white and just above that is a portion that hasn’t rendered correctly. I cannot get it to load things from the history, even though it acts like it has loaded. It feels like a rendering issue.Anyone else ever have this issue. Do I just need to reinstall it?

Hi everyone,I’m new to the FME world and trying to implement one of the automation workflows for Survey123 Report Generation and I’m wondering if anyone has run into this similar issue.I’ve followed the workflow here: https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407476227725-Emailing-a-Survey123-Report-using-FME-Flow but I’m having issues on Part 2, Step 4: Run the workspace.I can run the workspace but it’s failing on the Survey123ReportGetter transformer. It’s a general error stating ‘ArcGIS Online report job failed or returned an unknown status’. I can see in Survey123 within ArcGIS Online that the report has indeed kicked off and is generated, but my belief is that it is taking too much time to return that info back to FME so FME says its a failure. Currently in my workbench, that failure is occuring within a minute and I know that the Survey123 report process can take a little bit more time than that.Has anyone seen if there is a way to let this Survey123ReportGetter transformer pr

I am logging in  FME FLOW on our local FME Server (v25.2.1) using my AD Credentials that I manually enter.  When I get logged in, I try to open several workbenches that I had previously uploaded and to which I had full access. However, I get a popup message “Unauthorized request by user (myaccountname) due to lack of proper permissions or the object does not exist.”I contacted the local FME administrator who advised that my account had full permissions to the workbenches I was trying to access.  He advised I log off and back in several times, the implication that he was reviewing or changing something on his end.  And always the same resulting error message.The administrator is adamant that I should be able to access the workbenches, however, I cannot.I had asked that the issue be escalated but the administrator was unsure where to escalate the issue.I am looking for any advice on the issue.Thanks in advance

Hi,In a workbench, I created a Custom Transformer to loop batch of features.It is a workaround to prevent machine reboot on large feature datasets processing. At least, writing-along features in the Output to .csv. file help to recover features processed in PythonCaller and it is easier to resume for the remaining features… Here is the workbench, with Inputs:batch = 10counter = 54000 (total of features)loop = 0 (to keep track of iteration)offset = 0The Tester_counter transformer filter out batches 10 features at each iteration, sent to PythonCaller. At the end of processing the Tester_Loop tests if there is remaining features to process. Anything processed is sent to the Output and written in a .csv Writer transformer in the ‘Main’ workbench, whereas ‘failed’ remaining features from Tester_counter have their attributes incremented for variables loop and offset for the next iteration.However, when running the workbench, the output .csv file is created but kept empty. Also, each iteratio

Hi.This may be a simple or a complex question, I’m not sure which.I’m attempting to use a dynamic expression, that I construct dynamically from values read from a file or table, and evaluate it on all relevant feature read from a database or file. Including AND/OR etc.How can this be achieved in Workbench ?I’ve tried to utilize ExpressionEvaluator with the expression @Value(@Value(expr)), but it doesn’t return any value in the “_result” variable.What am I doing wrong, and is it even feasable ?Are there better ways to achieve this ?Using 2025.2.4Cheers

Hi there,We recently installed ArcPro 3.3 with the data interoperability extension FME version 2024.0.1.0.I have succesfully used WorkspaceRunner in the previous version of ArcGIS PRO 2.8.But now, when I use the WorkspaceRunner transformer to run a simple workspace the transformer fails to read the published parameter, it says "Specified workspace has no parameters or could not be read". The workspace I am loading into workspacerunner does have a published user parameter. Does this happen because of the new version of ArcGIS? Anyone else have this experience? Thanks, Winonah

Has anyone else run into issues with how things are displayed in FME Flow 2025.2.1 Examples: Engine Assignment Rules - we have two hosts which differ in name by suffix only. The way engines are displayed on the Engine Assignment Rules tab means you can’t quickly tell which engines are assigned as the critical bit is displayed as … (the full names are available on mouseover) The hostnames displayed in No proxy also have their urls partially replaced with …. so there appears to be no way to actually check via the user interface what values are entered here. In 2024.1 these values were displayed in full 

I have an automation that trigger an HTTP Request to get informations on a job :host.com/fmeapiv4/jobs/{user.id} The HTTP request is send and I get my response : {"id":122,"engineHost":"localhost","engineName":"localhost_Engine1",... ,"elapsedTime":29176,"cpuTime":7687,"cpuPercent":26.346997532218264,"peakMemoryUsage":186314752,"lineCount":2439,"warningCount":27,"errorCount":0,"remoteEngineName":"","remoteEngineJobLogUrl":""}I would like to send an other http request based on the content of the body response :host.com/fmeapiv4/accounts/{runtimeUserID} The runtimeUserID key is a key in the http.body attribute which is a JSON value.I cannot extract some portions of this JSONI have try to get other keygs but it always failed :{http.body}.{runtimeUserID} {http.body.runtimeUserID} {runtimeUserID}and lots of combinations…Is it possible and if so, how to achieve this ?Thank you

Hello all!I have a question regarding accessing data in an Enterprise Geodatabase in a branch-versioned Feature Service scenario:Using FME’s Esri Geodatabase (ArcSDE Geodb) Reader, can I read branch-versioned feature classes directly from my Enterprise Geodatabase (SDE connection) now that I have published a branch-versioned Feature Service? If I point it to the “sde.DEFAULT” version, will it access the features correctly?I would like to perform some heavy geoprocessing tasks, and my Feature Service performance isn’t keeping up, so the Esri ArcGIS Connector is a no-go. My Enterprise Geodatabase, on the other hand, is robust and more than capable of handling these tasks (e.g., DatabaseJoiners, FeatureReaders, FeatureMergers, etc.). Thanks. 

Is there any way to cancel a system restore, it appears to be hung at  Unzipping migration package stage for 1.5 hours now.  I think the file system/network glitched during the process.  There is no cancel in the UI, no jobs running.  

I have a donut geometry (see WKT below) which I am trying to validate. Using the GeometryValidator only looking for self intersections I get an error on the start/end point of the outer ring: Error report:Coordinates from the inspector: I would expect this to not be reported as a self intersection since polygons normally require intersection at exactly that point.  Why is FME reporting this? I have tried using both FME Desktop 2021.2 and 2022 beta. Geometry WKT: POLYGON Z ((558000 6142955.0838 0,558000 6142917.0404 0,557997.11 6142919.37 0,557989.1699999999 6142921.13 0,557985.12 6142922 0,557980.8300000001 6142923.23 0,557976.28 6142926.07 0,557969.0900000001 6142930.65 0,557964.65 6142933.45 0,557957.52 6142934.96 0,557954.37 6142937.05 0,557952.6699999999 6142938.1 0,557951.45 6142938.28 0,557950.3 6142937.8 0,557949 6142936.3 0,557948.13 6142930.34 0,557949.23 6142924.47 0,557953.26 6142917.84 0,557961.4 6142913.23 0,557968.81 6142907.49 0,557974.75 6142903.11 0,557980.95 6142900.5

I am loading a small raster/tiff into CesiumJS via ion for a limited area of interest, which works, but I am getting a sharp “cliff” between this raster and the surrounding Cesium-terrain (I assume it is the Ellipsoid, it sits at roughly 35m above MSL). My initial idea was to see if I can “lift” the surrounding terrain up to the level of my custom raster-tif, but I guess that’s not possible, so my second idea is to expand my raster to continue outward at a set height (say 80m) for a few hundred meters instead to better mask the impression of the vertical cliff, and maybe have it ramp downhill until it meets the default terrain. However, I have no idea how to do this in FME, and ChatGPT is hallucinating around FME as per usual :)Does anyone have an idea of a solution for this? Ultimately, I just want something nicer than the sharp cliff a la Grand Canyon into something that is not too distracting for users. I’ll include a screenshot of my Cesium-app the way it looks in the browser, as w

I am working on a project creating building footprints from a lidar point cloud. However, the original lidar point cloud being used has some portions of buildings classified with “unassigned” values which has created incomplete building footprints. Are there any suggestions how I could identify these “unassigned” building values to fix the building footprint?

Hello everyone,I am seeking confirmation on whether GeometryValidator supports 3D geometry validation (such as solids, meshes, point clouds, etc.) in version 2025.0I noticed that GeometryValidator includes an issue type called “Self-Intersection in 2D”, which suggests that this one specifically built for 2D geometry. However, I would like to understand whether the other issue types - such as Missing Vertex Normals, Missing Texture Coordinates, Invalid Solid Boundaries, Invalid Solid Voids, Contains Non-Planar Surfaces, Invalid Area Orientation, Surface Orientation, and others - are applicable to and capable of validating 3D data.Could you please clarify which of these validations support 3D geometries?Thanks in advanced!

Hi.I'm looking for a way to compute the average while excluding outliers. This average is based on 5 attribute values for each record. To expand, i am QCing pole counts within permits. Each permit is a record. There are a bit over 10k records. I have 5 attributes, with pole counts, each coming from a different source.Example:permit a, pole counts = 1, 4, 5, 28, 6permit b, pole counts = 2, 10, 14, 80, 12Manually, for permit a, i'd exclude 1 and 28 and my avg would be 5. For permit b, i'd exclude 2 and 80 and my avg would be 12. The final goal for this exercise is to pick the value closest to the average computed without outliers. Pls help. Thank you.

Hello I’m experiencing some issues using Dissolver. I want to take a polygon dataset which contains 160,455 independent polygons objects. Some of the polygons overlaps with other polygons. Some are not overlapped by others. I want to merge all of the polygons, whilst dissolving any overlaps, to create just one polygon object. Using Dissolver I am only able to merge polygons where they are overlapping, whilst input polygons that are not overlapped by other are remaining unmerged. This means that I’m getting 80,090 records in the output. But I don’t want that. I want just one polygon object as one record. This diagram illustrates (conceptually) what I have, what I’m getting with Dissolver, and what I require.How do I use Dissolver to do this? Or should I use a different transformer. Thanks,

I am using the AI-assist within FME Workbench very often. last time was yesterday.unfortunately today i am having troubles to see my history and cannot start a new chat.i am getting an unknown error.even when i am logging out and logging in again. we also checked our firewall for any blocked sites and traffic.are there any issues? kind regards.Laurens

I have a workspace that works without issues in FME 2024.2.1. We are planning to upgrade to FME 2025, but I am facing issues. When riunning the workspace in FME 2025, it seems to work fine, but after a while I get lots of a recurring message like this one:2025-06-02 11:38:25| 119.2|  0.2|ERROR |FFS reader: Failed to open file 'D:\FMETemp\wbrun_1748852462857_30000\fmetmp_0\FMETable_1748853274266_18156\FTShim_1019.fts' for reading.  Please ensure that the file exists and you have sufficient privileges to read itThese messages DO NOT appear when running the workspace in FME Form/Flow 2024.2.1I have tried FME Form/Flow 2025.0.2 and FME Form 2025.1 (beta) and all of these fails.I have set my FME_TMP environment variable to D:\FMETempDoes anyone have an idea?

Hi all.I just experimented with a small workflow, that scans a folder for files, and attempts to read those files using the generic format.I tried with CSV and DGN, and both worked well.I then tried with Geopackage, and then it blew up.First because FME’s guess using the extension was wrong, so I had to parametricize the format used.Then it blew up with an internal error message (“Too many recursive macro substitutions”):2026-03-03 15:14:24| 2.6| 0.0|WARN |UniversalReader -- readSchema resulted in 0 schema features being returned2026-03-03 15:14:24| 2.6| 0.0|ERROR |Too many recursive macro substitutions -- line currently is: `SOURCE_READER GENERIC REAL_FORMAT "$(REAL_FORMAT)" EXPOSED_ATTRS "$($(FORMAT_SHORT_NAME)_EXPOSE_FORMAT_ATTRS)"'2026-03-03 15:14:24| 2.6| 0.0|ERROR |class stk::ex::UString<0> __cdecl tabrdr::ClassicTableReader::macroSubstitute(const class stk::ex::UString<0> &,int)(C:\code\fme\foundation\framework\engine\tabrdr\tabrd

I’m using the Esri Reprojector transformer with a feature reader that reads feature classes from an ArcSDE connection. They all share the same coordinate system and I need to transform them. I can do this successfully using three separate transformers but seems a bit silly. I’m assuming there is a way that I only need to use one and feed the three feature classes through it? I’ve tried doing this and adding a FeatureTypeFilter transformer but this returns no values if I click ‘Update’.  

It seems that any file with a # in the filename won't download when using the SharePoint online connector transformer. I want to download using the _fullpath method.  Simply --> if the filename is FOO_1 it works. If it's FOO#1 it doesn't. The rejection code is SHAREPOINT_ERROR , the URL it's trying to DL is:SharepointOnlineConnector: Error making request to https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0//sites/ac[HIDDEN]%20November%20#4.jpg: The resource could not be found.Is there any way to get around this? I have tried the URL ENCODER and STRING REPLACER transformers to try and manually encode the # symbol but it doesn't like this. Presumably because it's trying to encode it "again" I can tell my users to stop using a # symbol in the filename but would rather solve it more elegantly and retain the original name.  Link to transformer:https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Desktop_Documentation/FME_Transformers/Transformers/sharepointonlineconnector-pkg.htm

I’m having an FME workspace that has a custom transformer that is set to parallel running.when running the workspace from FME form there is no issue, everything runs smoothly.If I want to schedule this workspace (due to lack of FME flow) using Windows task scheduler the workspace terminates because none of the cild processes run succesfully.They all crash with the message ‘Access is denied’. This is the commandline for a child process:When not running in parallel, there is no issue.anyone an idea what can cause this issue? it’s really fustrating on how to solve this?