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Hi Guys    I currently have a Dynamic Schema workbench with a custom-built reprojection transformer along with the following transformers that are allowing me to rename the output files and place them in a new relative folder structure: FilenamePartExtractor, StringReplacer and StringConcatenator.    The workbench works correctly on my first lot of files which are quite small in size, but when it comes up against files that are 100MB to 700MB in size, it says "ResourceManager: Optimizing Memory Usage" and stalls, and eventually crashes with a "Fatal Error" and other messages relating to memory.     I have tried writing to a different network drive from the input files, and have also purged my temporary files, but neither has helped.     My custom-built reprojection transformer is very complex and I am guessing that this may be causing the memory problem on the large files, but am wondering if using Dynamic Schema also affects memory.  If so, does anyone have any a

Hi  I have a workspace with Dynamic Schemas which I ran on 5 datasets all which have the same schema.  However, when I tried to run the same workspace on a new set of data which have different schema, it would not work because the Feature Type was still set to one of the previous files.  I cannot work out how to change the Feature Type, or disable it so that it allows for all feature types - otherwise this is defeating the purpose of using Dynamic Schema!  Thanks 

Hi  I am using Dynamic Schema to translate a large number of shapefiles from one coordinate system to another, but keeping the same schema.   I am able to do this successfully however I cannot work out how to suffix each translated shapefile so as to differentiate the translated files from the non-translated files.  I have tried setting the Fanout Parameter to Yes, but it only suffixes the folder with the translated files, not the actual shapefiles themselves.  Does anyone know how to do this?  Thankyou  

I'm using an xml reader to read multiple xml files into fme, each xml file is translated as one feature with a number of attributes. In some of these files there are multiple instances of the same element and these appear to be formulated as a list when inspecting (e.g. displayed as date{0} and date{1}. However if I try and do anything with this list, e.g. explode/concatenate, I just get a no list attributes available message.  I suspect this is something to do with the fact that the attribute is not always a list element as if i read just one file that I know to have multiple instances of the same element I can manipulate lists no problem but I've got no idea how to resolve this.

When I add an ESRI SDE reader, I have to provide a bunch of connection parameters and tell it which features I want on my canvas.  Later, when I right click on a reader feature on my canvas and click "Update..." to pick up recent schema changes, I have to re-enter all the connection parameters and re-pick the feature to update.  How come FME does not pick up the connection parameters from the reader (I can see them listed in the Navigator pane) and assume that the feature I want to update is the one I right-clicked on?  Am I missing something basic?  The same thing happens if I try to use the "Update Feature Types" from the reader menu.  I have to re-populate all my connection parameters.  I am using FME 2013 SP1.  Thanks for any light you can shed on this!  Stuart   

Hi,    I want to know FME standard terminologies about list attribute.  For example, there are some types of list attribute or its expression, how should I call the type name when I need to distinguish them?  _list{} <-- called "simple list", "non-structured list"?  _list{}.name <-- "structured list"?  _list{}.sub{} <-- "multidimentional list", "nested list"?  etc.   If you know related documentations, please let me know URL. Thanks in advance.    Takashi

Oracle/FME family:  I have a gazillion tables with SDO_GEOMETRY fields in a single Oracle instance.   Most of those tables have a complex join to other tables to get interesting information to control the display.  I  have a handful of workspaces to extract this data to FFS, mainly focused on the specific geometry type, that is:   Point, Labels, Lines, Polygon.  Having just read about hadoop, map/reduce, and all that functional architecture, I got it in my head that I needed to map each geometry table to its function i.e. geometry workspace and let FME Server go wild on them.  What I decided to do is launch a workspace for each table and send in the join criteria as parameters for use in an SQLCreator.    So I end up submitting 250+ jobs, each running 1 of 6 workspaces to process a single table.  All processed by 8 engines.  Well, you can imagine what Oracle does in response to this.   It basically locks up.  My question is, what is the right way to scale?    I haven't tried a sing

How can I set a list attribute in Python? I can access the list by something like:  for i in range(0, numberFeatures):             subscript = "lstGrouped(%s).STRATA_UNIT_AREA" % i              oneStrataUnitArea = int(feature.getAttribute(subscript))    ...but when I try to set the attribute, FME makes a new list:    for i in range(0, numberFeatures):             feature.setAttribute("lstGrouped(" + str(i) + ").STRATA_UNIT_AREA",str(oneStrataUnitArea))  I can make a new list and expose it on the canvas, but FME does not treat it as a real list. That is, I can't explode a list that I made in Python.  Thanks

Hi, does anybody know if it is possible to erase the contents of a Feature class without deleting the feature all together?    I'm trying to eleminate having to open GeoMedia and physically select all the features and click delete, this is very combersome.  I want to load the feature in FME and clear the contents so I can re-load/append the new up-to-date version.   

Hello,  I would like to know if there is a way to give a published parameter a default value from an attribute?  Thanks,  Gabriel

I'm relatively new to FME and love it so far but need a little guidance.  I'm developing workspaces using a custom reader that reads an object oriented file.  I never know what features I'm going to receive in the file and want to add some error handling in the begining of the process by testing to see if any features exist - if not, terminate.  I've tried adding a counter and a terminator to the reader but no features exist so I never get a number from the counter.   The workbench continues running since I have other readers (that do have features).   How do I terminate the workspace if a certain reader doesn't contain any features?

Hi all I have a workspace where I'm using information from one set of features (municipalities) to define other datasets to read (f.i. road fences). Each feature has an attribute with the name of the dataset that should be read for this specific feature.  For instance: For the feature with municipality number 501, I want to read corresponding features from the dataset K:\\.....\\0501\\...\\VSI20501.GDD, and for the feature with municipality number 522, I want to read corresponding features from the dataset K:\\.....\\0522\\...\\VSI20522.GDD.  I have been using a sub workspace and WorkspaceRunner to solve this earlier, sending the path for each dataset as a parameter for the sub workspace. But now I would like to have it all in one workspace, and figured the FeatureReader would be a good sollution. However, it is not possible to set the dataset to read in the FeatureReader from an incoming (INITIATOR) attribute.   Could it be possible to set the dataset using a Python script or some

I knew how to do this, now I can't find it. How to publish features types to read, so that they'll be availble in a public fme server workbench?

Hi, I create a fmw that : 1. create a directoy with the same name of zip file, 2. move the zip file to this directory.  this fmw works fine withe if the name of file is note a numeric (like : toto.shp.zip, => OK but with another file that has only numeric name : 1.shp.zip => KO).  With FME Desktop it works fine for both cases. If i run it with FME SERVER, there is an error :    54 WARN 0.2 1.3 2013-08-20 10:49:50 Python Exception : [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '\\\\\\\\1.shp.zip' 55 ERROR 0 1.3 2013-08-20 10:49:50 Error encountered while calling function `processFeature'  No more details for this error.   Any help? Thanks an advance.  Farfar

Hi, I have a model that contains a files that has information about multiple projects. I would like to pass a parameter to allow the user to select on or multiple projects from a list. Any thoughts? guidance? advice? Thank you

I have a public web interface that is inteneded to allow users to extract shapefile data from Oracle SDE via GP key in. I have published parameters and created the interface but I dont know what transformers to use in the workbench to allow the GP clipping. Something about attribute filer I suspect.   http://fmeserver.ncd.noaa.gov/encdirect_extract_approach.html

Hi    In FME workbench, How can I export a list of the writer feature type user attributes' name, type and width , in other words, I need to have a csv file with the schema of the writer feature type.   Thanks, Sami 

Hi If anyone has a few steps I can follow that would be great!  :)

At the moment I am trying to use SherbendGeneralizer to generalize our data set in UK and I have some big performance issues.  So I need an expert advice. Here is my workflow.  Intersect Line(rivers,  approx. 2MB shape file )  and Polygon (Postal code plus Administrative boundaries approx. 55 MB shape file) Perform the SherbendGeneralizer Export generalized layers When I chose a small area then it works fine but when I chose complete country it runs and runs without any output. Even after three days there is not output.  I am using FME (Professional Edition) 2013 (Build 13264, WIN32) and FME (Professional Edition) 2013 (Build 13264, WIN64) on Windows 7.  

Hallo all,  I need to make sure that my procedures (enabling triggers and constrints) are run at the end of my translation. Since I have no idea if any of my writers will be triggerd I cannot use the end sql. After googling I came across the following module (cx_Oracle), but I dont know how to use it with procedures, or if it is at all possible. Any assistance would be helpful.  Itay

Hello, I am in doubt whether the custom transformer I created processes just one feature at a time. It does not have any "group-by" clause active, but still seems to accumulate all the features first and then process them, instead of processing one by one. Is there a way how to check this behavior? Or better, is there a way how to forcingly make it feature-based instead of group-based? Thank you in anticipation,  Jaroslav

A workspace which reads data from or writes data to a mapped network drive does not run on FME Server. The service works just fine in FME Workbench, but fails on FME Server.  Have already tried: - HTML encoding the path - Python escaping the space (replacing each space with "\\t")  Cannot rename the directory due to several other software programs referencing the same path; nor can I copy the files elsewhere, we are talking several gigabytes of data that changes all the time.  Any tips are appreciated!

Hi,  I have just started using FME 2012 (previously used FME 2009 on a pretty basic level) and noticed the new Dynamic Schema option.  I have tried it, but can't find where my output file is going?  I have set the output directory but it is not writing to there...  Thanks,

Hello,  I have been following this guide to chain FME Workbenches in FME Server: http://fmepedia.safe.com/articles/How_To/Chain-Jobs-in-FME-Server but I want to be able to download the resultant files at the end and can't figure out how best to do this.  I can register the Controller workbench in the Job Submitter repository and it works fine but putting it in the data download repository has no effect because there is no files to write to at the end as they are in the second chained workbench I use.  Thanks,  Peter.

Datetime again! This time I am having trouble keeping the time in a datetime format in a custom reader with an earthquake feed. (Very topical in NZ today!)  I can parse the date easily and export the field as datetime, but when I try to use it in ArcMap only the date part is kept.  Debugging so far: I kep the date as a string, saved the feed to a file geodatabase. Converts as expected, then an animated time enabled map works by the hour instead of by the day.  Inspected the feed by opeining a custom reader in another workspace. The field in recognised as a datetime type, and the contents is a standard FME date yyyymmddhhmmss. Seems OK.  Export to a file geodatabase but have to call it a "date", however this is supposed to mean datetime for anything other than dBase stuff like sh**e files. Yep ,works ok.  But the whole point is to be dynamic and use the feed to draw the 'quakes without the static copy.  Where is the setting I have got wrong, or maybe a bug?  I would put up