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Currently unable to use Feature Reader (version 15) with: Spatial Filter = "Initiator is OGC-Within Result" My initiator is a points layer and the Result layer is a polygon layer, both in the same coordinate system. It gives me a _reader_error of <missing> with no further explanation. This was upgraded from FME 2022.2 Feature Reader Version(13). No changes to any settings. When I copy/paste the version 13 Feature Reader from FME 2022 back into this 2024 workspaces and run it, it works just fine. Has functionality changed? If so, can someone point me to the doc that explains it?Or is this a bug?

Hello I have to change the value of a deployment parameter. Is there a way to find out, in which other workspaces this deployment parameters is being used? Thanks, Vera

Hi I was particualrly interested in an item that is mentioned in the FME Form Change log for FME 2025.0.2 - “Add support to read workspace parameters.” https://fme.safe.com/changelog/?_change_log_product=FMEFORM&_change_log_version=2022000001%2C2025000200 I was wondering if it is possible to obtain a detailed description of what this change is? It may well address a topic that I have been interested in for some time. Regards Jamie

Hi there, Input data: list with numerous entries, sorted, with changing name excerpt: name from to 947606 2041.020 2045.574 947606 2045.574 2055.574 947606 2055.574 2065.574 947606 2065.574 2079.880 947606 2079.880 2083.168 947606 2083.168 2089.880 947606 2089.880 2099.880 list with ‘exceptions’ excerpt: name from to 947606 108.459 108.747 947606 2070.204 2074.543 947606 6071.987 6100 Goal:I need to find ‘matching’ rows, where from(1) <= from(2) AND to(1) >= to(2) [colored lines]. What I already tried:I already attached the second list as an list attribute to every single line to the first list (FeatureMerger) and than tried to find the matching line with two ListSearchers. This is limited as the ListSearcher only finds “First ...”. Can somebody help?

Hi all, I’m running a workflow that reads a licensed FGDB layer, it’s setup within a custom transformer to take advantage of parallel processing. The problem is I’m getting the following error when the PC spins up 16 instances. 025-06-03 22:38:47| 0.3| 0.0|INFORM|2> Opening the Esri Geodatabase reader2025-06-03 22:39:48| 0.4| 0.1|INFORM|2> The ArcObjects license 'Advanced' is being selected from the ESRILicenseInfo ArcObjects call2025-06-03 22:39:48| 0.4| 0.0|INFORM|2> The Esri Product license used by this machine does not include licenses for the 'Advanced' licensing level2025-06-03 22:40:48| 0.5| 0.1|INFORM|2> The ArcObjects license 'Advanced' is being selected from the ESRILicenseInfo ArcObjects call2025-06-03 22:40:48| 0.5| 0.0|INFORM|2> The Esri Product license used by this machine does not include licenses for the 'Advanced' licensing level2025-06-03 22:40:48| 0.5| 0.0|ERROR |2> Unable to perform any licensing related tasks. Please check your Esri ArcGIS Compatibility workspace p

I’ve reached the workflow stage, but I can’t proceed further. I’m trying to extract multiple tables from a PDF file. I’ve been following https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407564475277-Extracting-Text-and-Tabular-Data-from-PDF#h_01HW3Z9Z37Q33NQQ7R0XBGEVB0, but the structure of my PDF is quite different. I only want to extract the tables—nothing else. In my case, the table has titles on the right and content on the left. I used the StringSearcher to extract the titles, since they are easier to identify (usually one word). The challenge now is that I can’t extract or separate the content, as it’s made up of long sentences that are mixed with the titles. I'm looking for a solution to: Separate the content from the titles Structure the extracted data into table as the source data

I want to run a batch process to load a series of file-based datasets in a folder, do some simple transformations and export each to a database table. The workspace in the image below is run by a workspace runner. The complication is that each source has some standard columns and an unknown quantity of additional columns, which need to be loaded into the database as a new table. If I configure the workspace with one source file, the schema config will not be correct for another file. How can I set the schema definition to be dynamic? I’ve been researching the subject but have not found the answer.

I upgraded a workspace with a dynamic writer from FME 2022 to FME 2024. When inspecting the schema before writing there is fme_date and fme_datetime time fields. When writing to geodatabase it created dateonly fields from the fme_date fields when using FME 2024. When writing to SDE we get a ORA-210 / ORA-308 (invalid field type). What is the solution to this problem? I posted this before as addition to another forum topic. However someone from FME suggested to make a new topic.

So I was testing the 2025.1 Beta and was curious to try the new DocumentPDFStyler after seeing it mentioned in Seattle a few weeks ago at The Peak of Data and AI 2025. This caught my eye and I cannot find anything about this new “Safeguard”. What is it and why are the run icons disabled and not the same as other transformers (ex: Run from this, run to this...)?

Hello, I have an AGOL Hosted Feature Layer that contains Fire Hydrants. There are 5,000 points. I want to update from a File Geodatabase with new Fire Hydrants. There are 5,004 points (meaning there are 4 new hydrants that do not exist in the Hosted Feature Layer). In the AGOL Feature Service Writer (highlighted in blue in the screenshot), to update this Hosted Feature Layer, would I use INSERT in Writer Mode? I want to upload only the 4 new Fire Hydrants to the Hosted Feature Layer from the Fire Geodatabase, thus preserving the existing records in the Hosted Feature Layer. Would I use Truncate Yes or No?

Can you help us complete this list of URLs used by FME? Some of our users work in environments with limited access to the internet and need to request access to specific URLs via a proxy . We are building a list of URLs used by FME and we are asking you for more input. Below are URLs we know FME may access in typical use. Are there other URLs you think we should add to the list? We will edit this list as answers come in. Of course, there is a multitude of web services you can connect to with FME using Web Connections and the HttpCaller transformer, and we don't want to add them all here. We are looking for URLs used by FME Workbench, standard FME readers and writers, and FME transformers. Please note: You can, of course, run FME without any internet access at all but you won't be able to use the FME Hub or access resources on the web.Workbench Startup www.safe.com/ * fmestartup.safe.com/ Help and docs: docs.safe.com/ FME Hub hub.safe.com:443** fmehubproductionopsworks-appstorage-c2mc05

I don’t know if this is a bug in build 25220, or if it’s the intended behavior. But it’s very different from past versions, and will likely cause issues in our workflows. When the ‘Merge Attributes’ option is unchecked, no Candidate attributes are carried forward in the Passed port as a shown in this screenshot. The Candidate attributes are only carried forward in the Failed port. If the ‘Merge Attributes’ is checked, the attributes are passed: However, the issue is that there is no configuration in the ‘Merge Attributes’ section that will only pass the original attributes from the Candidate. You are forced to either merge the Filter attributes, create a prefix on the Filter attributes (and likely have to remove in bulk post-SpatialFilter), or simply use the Filter attributes. No option will spatially filter the Candidates without altering the schema. I’ve found this behavior in many transformers that have the ‘Merge Attributes’ option, including SpatialFilter, SpatialRelator, PointOnA

Hello, have bumped into the problem of generic reader not being able to read a GML and have read the literature on how to circumvent this by adding a separate reader as a resource to make the generic reader understand my GML’s. But I cannot get it to work the reader just runs and doesn't find data, no error or warning, Total Features Read 0., So my GML is pretty straight forward as there is no problem getting FME to read it with a OGC GML reader without needing to set XSD schemas and so forth, just reads it in by default. I have tried various settings in a GML reader that have all worked and then copied that workflow when I add the reader as a resource without any luck. Have I overseen some step here or any ideas what I might be doing wrong? Send hilfen, Hlynur

I have a MapInfo table which I want to modify by inserting and/or deleting records. I would like to modify the MapInfo table in place. I think that I can use the Precisely MapInfo Extended TAB Writer Feature Type Parameters? https://docs.safe.com/fme/2022.1/html/FME_Desktop_Documentation/FME_ReadersWriters/mapinfo_extended/mapinfo_extended-ft-param-w.htm My software is FME Desktop FME(R) 2022.1.3.0 (20220928 - Build 22630 - WIN64) But how do I build a workspace that performs this task? How do I build a Writer transformer that recognises an existing MapInfo table?

I have a word template with me and I would like to use that template to create a new document along with the custom content dynamically. Cheers, Srikanth

I need to get from an Excel configuration file a parameter for the Buffer distance of a Bufferer transformer. What’s the best way to do this in order for the parameter to be accessible by the Bufferer transformer ? I have tried the VariableSetter and VariableRetriever transformers but what I don’t like about it is that I give the value to every feature that passes through VariableRetriever. Plus the VariableSetter/Retriever method doesn’t work well with cache.

We need a way to detect/test for Arcs in our Esri SDE database. We manage a large road line segment. The system that uses this data does not accept Arcs, just polylines. Previously, we edited our data in ArcMap, then run a nightly job to check our data in FME. Using the PathSplitter, followed by the GeometryFilter we could then find any Arcs that had been introduced into our data. Now that we are editing our data within ArcGIS Pro, it seems that Arcs show up as an Arc within Pro, but in FME, the segments show up as Lines and are not flagged with the workflow, mentioned above, using PathSplitter and GeometryFilter. How can we filter/test to find the Arcs in our data? UsingFME 2024.1ArcPro 3.2.3ESRI SQL SDE 10.9.1 Example Arc attached in FGDB. Then the Feature is opened in ArcPro, and an edit session is started to ‘Edit Vertices’, we can see that there is a verity that controls the curve of the line.

Hello, I am having difficulties creating a spreadsheet with 2 sheets. In the screenshots included I have 2 Excel Writers. I have chosen Fanout Dataset since I want the file name to include a timestamp. The workspace runs successfully. But only a single sheet in the spreadsheet is written. Daily Totals is included as a sheet in the spreadsheet, and Running Total is not. What do I need to do in order to include both sheets: Daily Totals and Running Total (seen as two Writers in the screenshots below). When I do not choose Fanout Dataset, the two sheets are written to the spreadsheet, but the file name has no timestamp. When I use Fanout Dataset one sheet is written to the spreadsheet and the file name has the timestamp. My workspace includes the DateTimeStamper Transformer that creates the _timestamp attribute. .

I am trying to create a webservice to access Sharepoint. FME has been registered in Azure but when I try to set up the connection the conditional access policy blocks my connection. It looks like it has something to do with the way the http user client provides info to Azure. With the FME default http user agent you just get a blocking error, with the system default http user agent you get this: It looks like the http User agent does not provide the device ID (apparaat-id): Not available (niet beschikbaar). The conditional access policy demands a registrered device so it blocks this connection. I can make a Azure connection directly from Chrome or Edge in other apps. what is the way to a solution for this problem?

I have 7 features, which each represents a route with unique trip_id. Each of these features have a list, containing buss_stop_id along the route and element index, as well as next sequence value. I want to add, either in the list or in the features after list exploder, the value for the buss_stop_id for the next one. I played around with list builder and exploader for a long time and cant figure it out. Tried some ugly solution @Value(_list{@Value(_list{0}.next_sequence)}.buss_stop_id) but did not worka s intended So in my example I want the end result to be something like next_buss_stop_id an attribute in _list{1} which is the buss_stop_id from _list{2} Meaning _list{2} = buss_stop_id = 363, next_buss_stop_id 364

I’m seeking other users experience with Background Maps in FME Workbench/Form. I use OpenStreetMap.org tiles (and sometimes MapBox tiles) as background maps when following data through a workspace. But more often than not maps take more than 30 seconds to appear, or not all. I originally assumed it was my organisations VPN, or security software agents, or network bottlenecks, but my independent tests on other external systems ruled these out. So I explored other possibilities. Here is a view of network traffic on my machine with a map at the town level. Not much happening. But look what happens when I then Zoom to Extents so the maps scales to all of Australia. Look at the spike in network traffic - some 6MB to draw a map? From what I can estimate FME is requesting hundreds and possibly thousands of map tiles for any given zoom request. What happens next is that OSM will either block or possibly throttle my IP for a period of time. Mapbox seems to perform better, but looking at my stat

Hi, I am getting this error: An error occurred while attempting to insert a row into the table ‘ABC’ using a cursor. The error number from ArcObjects is: '-2147217323'. The error message from ArcObjects is: {The cursor has been invalidated by an edit operation.} I am experiencing an issue when trying to insert features into a feature class stored in an enterprise geodatabase. Specifically, I am both reading from and writing to the same dataset. I haven't encountered this problem before, but it began after I set the Feature Operations to "Upsert" while updating existing records and inserting new records that are not yet present in the database. I suspect that performing inserts and updates simultaneously may be causing a disruption with the cursor. I also attempted to use the Feature holder, but I received the same error. This disruption is affecting the automated process. Does anyone know what might be causing this error or how to fix it? I would greatly appreciate any assistance! Than

In FME Form 2023.2, we used a dynamic JSON writer setup that wrote a separate file per input SQL file. Each input could have a different schema, and the setup dynamically handled this just fine using: fme_feature_type set from fme_basename (filename sans .sql) JSON writer with Schema from Schema Feature This worked perfectly — each JSON file had its full dynamic schema. After upgrading to FME 2025.0, only the first JSON file is written with its full schema. All subsequent files contain only the subset of fields shared with the first file. Unique fields in later inputs are silently dropped. Example: A.sql has fields: ID, APR_KG B.sql has fields: ID, MAY_KG Result in 2025.0: A.json: includes ID, APR_KG B.json: includes only ID — MAY_KG is missing Nothing changed in the workspace. This appears to be a regression in how dynamic schemas are handled across multiple feature types or files in newer versions. Can Safe confirm whether this change is intentional?

Why does FME Flow (or FME Desktop) store files in the My Documents folder?Why not use AppData\Roaming or AppData\Local?

My company does SSL inspection/interception which is causing errors when trying to view background maps in FME Form. I have seen ways to fix this for the FME Flow (Server) side, but is there any way to change any configurations for FME Form to handle this? The CA certificate for our authority is in the Trusted Root Certification Authorities certificate store on machines so I’m not sure why it isn’t trusted if FME is using the machine’s certificate store for trust. Below is an example of error seeing from FME Flow 2025.0.1 (but have seen on previous versions as well). Stadia Maps Reader: Failed to load 'https://tiles.stadiamaps.com/tiles/alidade_smooth/5/19/14.png'. Error: 'HTTPSConnectionPool(host='tiles.stadiamaps.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /tiles/alidade_smooth/5/19/14.png (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: Missing Authority Key Identifier (_ssl.c:1018)')))'Python Exception <FMEException>: