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Hi,  (currently running FME server 2011 with an oracle repository DB)  Can any one point me to some metadata around the repository schema, in particular information on the column descriptions, i'd like to generate some reports against the database - but without geussing what the data columns represent.  I'm strugelling a little to understand the timestamps in the job tables in particular.  i.e when is a job submitted , queued, started, finished and deliverd.  I had assumed it was this order, but the time stamps don't seem to match this assumption.  Also, anyone got any suggestions for other useful reports to run against the repository information?  job duration, workbench failure (as opposed to job status), log path are all useful things i've extracted to date, which allow for useful incident managment and proactive capacity mamangement.  The idea that led to this question was trying to get an understanding on how hard the engines were being run - i.e when were jobs sta

Hi All,  Is there any python code to include in Shutdown python script area of workbench to terminate the fme.exe.  This is required so that, when fme.exe is not exited after translation is successful message.  

Why does Fme workbench  is still running after Translation was successful message is displayed in the translation log window ? 

Hi David ,  Thanks for your reply.  But my issue is the Fme.exe is not terminating after i get  "Translation was successful"  message in my workbench screen. I checked the task manager and  fme.exe was still available over there.  Inorder to exit it, i need to abort the operation. Can u suggest me any fix for this ?  Thanks, Srini

Hi there, I am trying to migrate Oracle dump datas into gdb. The reader reads every column except raw format type and giving a warning "skipping column". Has anybody have any idea?

Hello everyone!  To Run my FME Server Workspace i used the "Developer Information"-Button and copied the HTML Code to my FME Server in the ROOT-Folder.  When i open the HTML Page via Browser the DataUpload-Page appears and i can search for Data to upload.  If i then click the "RUN" Button to run the workspace i always get "HTTP Status 401" Error: This request requires HTTP authentication ().  Any Ideas? I already activated integrated authentication in IE-Options.  Thanks in Advance!  Ulf

Hi FMEers,  I am trying to wite out a KML from a single csv file using one of the fields as a fanout. There does not appear to be an option to use Fanout Dataset for OGCKML...am I missing something?  As an alternative I was trying to fan out feature types in a single KML output file using one of teh csv file attributes as the fanout. There translation completes but complaind that the fanout attribute didn't exist or had no value...but this is not the case and the translation succends if I remove the fanout by Attribute in the Feature Type?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks, Mike

Hi dears,  when will be released the final version of FME 2013 SP?  Thanks in advance.  Kind Reagards.  Ramon Rocha.

Has anyone been able to link (not import) via SQL a choice/alias list to a published parameter to dynamically update the list based on the linked table at runtime.  I.e. the goal is not have to continually import / update choices each time the workbench is executed.   

My company has just upgraded to FME Workbench 2011 from 2007. Can someone tell me where to find the manual for FME Workbench 2011?

I have a workspace that compares a PATH HIERARCHY data set attribute of video file names to a GeoMedia Feature data set attribute of sewer segment names and does a feature merger on the two datasets when there is a match.  Sewers are usually videod from upstream to downstream and the video files are named according to the direction in which the camera was travelling.  My workspace gets quite a few matches BUT...there are occasions where the videos are named from downstream to upstream which causes my feature merger to send that video name to the incomplete branch.  I would like to parse the video name attribute and use the result to create a new attribute that is the reverse.  So 'MH07-121 to MH07-122' would become 'MH07-122 to MH07-121' in the new attribute.   Could someone please suggest an approach that would accomplish this for me?   Thanks.

Hello everyone,  Is there a way to sort a list using only a part of the attributes in a list--specifically a number?  What I need to do is re-order attributes according to an ID number from lowest to highest. Here is what the attributes look like:  34N27W_100700      34N28W_700700        35N27W_100100     35N28W_700100  These need to be placed in fields according to the order of the last six numbers only.  35N27W_100100      34N27W_100700         35N28W_700100    34N28W_700700  If I create a list out of these attributes, I can only sort alphabetically, which produces the wrong order.   I have tried separating the numbers into a list that I can sort but then the rest of the ID gets lost and I'm having trouble matching it up again. Does anyone have any ideas about how I can make this happen?  Thanks! 

Hello,  I have a workspace that updates an existing excel template.  When publishing it to a data download service, it writes the excel file, but doesnt use the file specified in the writer.  I know this is because the data download writes to a temp location, not the writer output folder - is there anyway to force it to use a template?  Owen

i am looking to trigger a second workbench file after completing the writing of a primary one.   Does anyone have examples for calling an fmw file from a shutdown script?    This is a workaround to be able to trigger a SQL script upon completion of writing to a Postgres/PostGIS table.     

I have several areas that have common boundaries and a common attribute.  I would like to dissolve the lines that touch to make one larger area.  I tried the amalgamator, but that didn't work, I have also tried the aggregator, but that isn't working either.  The data is an access workspace for a geomedia layer.  Any suggestions would be helpful.  Thank you.

Hi,  I'm importing configuration values for a "Choice or Text" published parameter. The imported values are coming from a database and the list is fairly long.    I'd like the imported values to be sorted alphabetically but can't figure out a way to do it automatically. I tried adding an "order by" statement to the where clause, e.g. 1=1 order by column_name but it had no effect.    I know that I could manually edit the .fmw file with a text editor but my list of imported values is long and will likely need to be updated on a fairly regular basis.    Anyone have any thoughts on this?    thanks,  Nic

Hi Everyone,  I just had a question regarding exporting ArcGIS Metadata using a List. We recently found this wonderful article on how to pass a list of layers to a FME Reader (http://fmepedia.safe.com/articles/How_To/Pass-a-List-of-Tables-or-Layers-to-an-FME-Reader-using-Python-Scripted-Parameters) and it works amazing, the trouble is that the metadata is not brought along with it.  The location where you normally would set metadata to come accross is where this python script needs to go.  Any help would be greatly appreciated  Thanks!   

I am creating a extract process and I am needing to populate a existing template from Excel with data. The main issue is the template has 4 header rows, so I need to start writing data on Row 5.  Has anyone had sucess in working with custom formats for Excel like this?

Hey FME'rs  I'm struggling a little bit with using trying to build in a variable reader schema. I've built the workbench where it prompts the user for the source shape file. I received a sample of the schema but there is a good chance of a different shapefile schema being input.   I have tried working with the knowledge base but I'm coming up short. The output is a known schema I've created after the analysis.   Does anyone have any ideas?

Hi,  I want to call same workbench again based on some feature at shutdown. I achieved this through a python shutdown script but the problem is i also want to set the user parameter for the next run. I tried but each time the workbench runs again, i takes the default value of parameter. Is there any way to set the parameter at shutdown so that next time when workbench runs it picks the value i set ? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. 

The subject sort of says it all. I'm trying to setup a workbench process anyone in our team can run, or that I can work out how to automate.  Basically I'm retreiving data from an XML feed that takes 2 querystring variables, one has to be the current date in the format (dd/mm/YY), the other I can make static as the number of days history of events to be retrieved.  I would be grateful if anyone can advise hoe I can do this in Workbench, or if there's a method for doing it in Python (bearing in mind I'm a newbie @ Python).   Thanks.

Hi FME user,  I created a workbench FMW (script) in FME Desktop. The purpose of this script is to translate Oracle data to KMZ.  The tool is then delivered to my client in the FME format (FME Desktop, Save the file as: FME instead of fmw). This file is then used with FME Quick Translator.  My client asked if it was possible to change the name of the prompt window FME Quick Translator.  The pop-up window with the user settings is called fmequicktranslator and I wonder if it is possible to change the name to something else?  an idea?  

I don't think that it is possible right now but with the new AttributeCreator adding the TestFilter and StringConcatenator, It would be cool that we can save our conditional values for an attribute or all of them. I have made a list of filters and concatenate strings into it, but if I would like to reuse it into an other workbench or just to be sure that all the work I have done into this transformer is saved (I have made an invalid test into the AC and all my work was gone after running my workbench! Hopefully i had the undo button!), I would like to have a file that I could select to load all my parameters rapidly. That was my suggestion of the day. Thank you.

I want to ask the community about "expected behaviour" of something.    I use AttributeCreator to create Failed_Reason - it contains a value "1" (number one).    So at this point @Value(Failed_Reason) = 1.    This goes into a customTransformer. The customTransformer has a PublicParameter which points to Failed_Reason as an attribute using the "Attribute" type.    Here's where things get confusing.    Inside the customTransformer, if I use the ParameterFetcher, to return $(Parameter) I get "Failed_Reason" as a text string! Not 1.    I get the same result if I pull it directly into a StringConcatenator for instance.  So $(Parameter) = "Failed_Reason" (utf-8)    On the other hand, if I put the parameter into a 2DPointReplacer, it works.    But it gets worse!  If I place an empty "attributeKeeper" before the 2DPointReplacer (so all attributes are now removed), it stops working. Why? Well, because the attributeKeeper is remov

I have three writers (CSV, Shape, MITAB) that I want to output to the same directory.  However, I want that directory to be specified within the workspace at runtime based on the fme_basename of the input.  So for example: Inputs:   random_dataset_1.csv   random_dataset_2.xls  Outputs:   c:\\outputs\\random_dataset_1\\bad_data.shp   c:\\outputs\\random_dataset_1\\bad_data.TAB   c:\\outputs\\random_dataset_1\\bad_data.csv    c:\\outputs\\random_dataset_2\\bad_data.shp   c:\\outputs\\random_dataset_2\\bad_data.TAB   c:\\outputs\\random_dataset_2\\bad_data.csv  How can I do this? There isn't a "parameterWriter". I think I saw someone about using special fme_ attributes, but I can't recall what nor find them. Thanks.