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Dear all, Has anyone tried versioning FME workspaces with a versioning software such as TFS? If yes, how did it go? Did you experience any issue? Thanks in advance, Maryse

Hi all, Am I right or since FME2016, we cannot anymore create "Named Database Connections" using FME2015 naming convention? I remember that the connection name was automatically define as: user@server:port/database So now on fresh install of FME2016, I cannot set my previous define named connections because chars : and / are no more allowed. So I need to adapt all my scripts or there is a magic trick somewhere? Thanks for any infos and best regards. Rémi

I have an issue where a dynamic workspace working with hundreds of data sets needs to be able to expose fields if they are DateTime. Due to the sheer number of datasets and fields I don't really wish to hard-code this into the workspace. I was hoping there was a way to expose fields when they are a particular datatype, in this case DateTime. The reason that I need to expose them is due to json not having the ability to write out DateTime fields correctly, they need to be converted to strings using the dateformatter. The workspace is dynamic and may open hundreds of datatypes depending on the parameters coming in. I don't want to have to hard code but I am thinking I might need to expose all the relevant fields within the FeatureReader, I am using FME 2015.1. The date formater works fine but the attributes must be exposed to be able to select them within the transformer. Thanks in advance!

Hello, I need to analyse a number of polygons which represent buildings, the data i need is the inner corner of every point and the length of every segment. I'm using the polylineanalyzer to get this data and this works as long as the polygon is a solitary object. If another polygon is adjacent to the one being examined it seems that the common lines are being kept out of the examination in the polylineanalyzer. The number of lines which flow out of the polylineanalyzer are less than the total number of polygonsegments. Has anyone an idea how to bypass this? best regards & thanks

I have selected certain features from a table based on a certain attribute value. From another table I have done a selection as well to get only one specific feature. Now I would like to add the attributes and their value of the feature of the second table to all the selected features of the first table. I can not use the Featuremerger because the features of both tables don't have any attributes in common.

So i have a workspace that - imports all ascii grid files in a directory - does a raster to point conversion (RasterCellCoercer) - offsets points by half cell size - so point at cell center rather than lower left corner (OffSetter) - adds XYZ attributes (AttributeCreator) - Finally writes to MapInfo Tab filesby default FME seems to import all my ascii files and hold everything in memory before committing the outputs. so my model is a RAM hog. How can i adapt the model so each ascii tile goes through the process one after another which should need significantly less RAM.

Hello, I hope someone can help me with this (i think simple) question. For my study I need to Data Interoperability extension in ArcGIS. The objective is to create a 5 kilometer or 5000 meters buffer around a cycle route in Europe. I must create this buffer with a spatial ETL tool in the FME workbench. In the workbench I cannot find where I can set the unit settings to meters or kilometers. Where can I set the unit settings to meter or Kilometer? Thanks in advance.

Does anyone know what are the Named Web Service Connectios: Google Ad Exchange Google AdSense Google Calendar Google Drive Google Gmail Microsoft OneDrive at http://blog.safe.com/2015/01/whats-great-fme-2015/... for? I cannot find any reader/writer or transformer. Or are they there for FME Server notification?

Hello, i am trying to dig the basics behind Looping with blocking transformers since I would like to use it in the future. My simple scenario: I've got a point that I buffer with various distances. The first distance is 10 m, and then, step by step, I increase the distance by 5 m (thus 10 , 15, 20, etc.). If the value reaches 100 m the process stops. If I enter the value 17 as the maximum number of iterations 1 features leaves the INCOMPLETE port, with the attribute BUFFERBREITE having the correct value 95 m. As of 18 or further beyond, the ports is empty. This seems to be correct since as of 18 the condition of 100 m is met. Some things I don't understand: 1. Unlike with Looping throught non-blocking transformers the Output port "Passed" does not appear in the custom transformer (see pic. above "Tester"). There is only the INCOMPLETE Output. 2. The Feature passing through the INCOMPLETE port carries the correct Attribute value BUFFERBREITE=95m. However, if I measure the radius it is a

Hi, Last week I uploaded a custom transformer to hub.safe.com (https://hub.safe.com/transformers/naturalsorter). The NaturalSorter allows you to sort features based on an attribute in a human way (1, 3a, 3b, 10 instead of 1, 10, 3a, 3b). I was wondering what the usual workflow is after a custom transformer is uploaded. It would be nice for example if other people could test it and provide feedback (even though I tested it myself). Is there an automatic way implemented for other users to test, validate and provide feedback? And if not, is it ok if I ask feedback in this way? Thanks for the answers!

I have several custom transformers where I need to temporarily expose the fme_feature_type. To keep workspaces that use them clean I would like to unexpose it, but only if it is not already exposed in the main canvas. Ie. if the main canvas has the fme_feature_type exposed, then it stays exposed after the custom transformer, if it's hidden, then it is still hidden after the custom transformer.

Hi, I'm having 2 lists: _listold (with 10 coordinates present (before)) & _listnew (with 4 coordinates (after). I want to merge those 2 lists into 1 list but it should merge on the index in order except for the last index, last index of first list should be merged with last index of second list. Afterwards I want to explode the list, aggregate and pivot to get something like this: beforeafter00112234567893I've taken a look at the ListMerger and it merges the 2 lists but how I want, but I have no idea how to modify the python logic behind it (python is still Japanese to me :)) Anyone an idea how to get this part?

Anyone using ESDAT lab results to automate to iVAULT web GIS?

Within a series of xml files read into a workspace each xml file contains an attribute 'Code' that will contain a single value from a restricted set of values. Within the same xml files, depending upon the Code value will be a series of attributes in which the attribute name of each will be prefixed by the Code value of the feature. So I may have a feature with a Code value of 'Fd_I' and a series of attributes with name like 'Fd_I_Monument Depth', 'Fd_I_Monument Condition', etc. When processing the attributes within these xml files I need to concatenate some of the values from these related attributes base upon the values they contain. I set up an Attribute Creator to create a temp attribute for each of the related attributes, in each case setting up conditional tests that would check for the existence of the related attributes and its value. So for example I would have a check in place like '@Value(Code)_Monument Depth NOT ATTRIBUTE IS MISSING AND ...'. Unfortunately this is throwing

I saved my workbench yesterday and today I reopened it. The restore workbench window popped up, so I thought something went wrong with saving, I pressed OK. However, my workbench was missing about 90% of the transformers, no connections whatsoever, only a few transformers, bookmarks and inspectors made it through. Is there any way to undo the restore? Or is there any backup location? There's weeks work in this workbench and I absolutely cannot afford to lose it. Thanks in advance, Pim

I am receiving the following error when i try and set up a Dynamic CSV output for my workspace. MULTI_WRITER: Error fetching dynamic schema definitions from reader 'GEODATABASE_FILE_1' My workspace uses a feature reader to read in a GDB, then a spatial relator. The Desired output is a pivoted table 'flagging' which constraints my data intersects with. I can get this initially but i want to do some further transformation and map schema dynamically based on a look up table that will be changing often.

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Hi all, I am developing a C++ plugin with a new IFMEDevFactory. The "processClause" method of the factory gets an attribute (TEXT_OR_ATTR-type) as an encoded string: @EvaluateExpression(FDIV,STRING,<at>Value<openparen>mypath<closeparen>,MyModule) How do I evaluate this to resolve the real "mypath" value? Thanks in advance!

Hi I am having issues separating this field in FME: I would like to have the output in new attributes ie so it gets split up but stays in the row:240L With Pod 180L Residual 1 1 Any ideas? Regards

I've designed a work flow that makes use of a control bench that subsequently uses the FMEServerJobSubmitter within it multiple times. I've set the wait for completion parameter properly everywhere, and fully qualified server URLs are being used so that jobs run synchronously. When I schedule the one control bench three times (each scheduled job processes a different data set) 00:02, 00:03, 00:04 respectively, I would expect each engine to host an iteration of the control bench. However, at any given time, only one to two engines are being utilized while the third sits dormant. Any ideas or suggestions?

I'm reading in a shape file of points and an ECW image. I then create buffers around each point and clip the ECW using those buffers. I then write the clipped rasters out as individual ECW images. I'd like the ECW files to be named using an attribute from the shapefile (e.g. ID). When I set the fanout options and choose the attribute in the writer the transformation fails with the following error: ECW writer: ECW driver does not support creating ECW files with an extension other than .ecw How can this be done?

I need to create an alias on a couple attributes in my workspace. They do not have aliases when they are read in but they need to have them when they are written to a different layer. I am reading and writing into a Esri Geodatabase (ArcSDE Geodb). I am pretty sure I can do this with the AttributeManager but am unsure how.

It seems I have a misconception on how FME should access external resources like databases and CSV files. We have a default setup meaning the FME services run as Local System. It doesn't appear there is a way to assign permissions at the workspace level. For instance, Workspace1 is run by domain account X, Workspace2 run by domain account Y, etc. Changing the services to run as a domain account wouldn't provide separate Workspace security to file shares and databases. How should we provide access to external resources like a CSV on a network share or a database? Is the standard to copy files to the FME server and use SQL Authentication? Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Hello, I'm creating a workspace where I'm fetching zipped shapefiles from an external http resource. My goal is to run this workspace automatically on a daily basis and I'm looking for a robust solution. I know that the source is auto generated and normally contains approximately 3.000 features, but if it for some reason out of my control only contains 500 features during processing (which indicates malfunction at the creation of my source) I don't want to overwrite the existing destination shape file. So, how can I halt a translation if the number of features is below threshold X?

I have created a custom looper transformer and embedded the saved FMX file. I may be (probably) doing something wrong or missing one key terminator of the looper but if I set the MAX ITERATIONS manually, the results work perfect. For example, I am running a loop that calculates the cumulative effect of the data monthly meaning that I send the results of the sample out as well as loop them back in. Again, I have this part working perfect but I can't stop the machine at the end programmatically. Either skynet is learning or I screwed up. I can set the MAX iterations via a published parameter and it does work as expected, but when I hand this over to a less diligent client I foresee trouble. If they want to run it iteratively for 3 years (of the dataset), they have to manually enter a max iteration count of 36 (it's setup in months right now.) I do have a calculated max column so if I could somehow set this via an attribute, all would be well. Any thoughts? FME 2016.0.1 Build 16174. I hav