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Since upgrading to FME Flow 2024.1, we see these warning messages in the log files. Is there a way to get rid of them?

So I made a previous post this week asking about CustomTransformers For most of the time I’ve been working with FME I’ve always seen linked CustomTransformers as tools where Global. That it they should live in Resources>Engine>Transformers on FME Server.I’ve always wanted to keep this clean and so most of the time I try to embed transformers wherever I can.But silly me, I just noticed that when publishing a linked transformer from workbench you’re prompted for a repository to choose…How have I not realised this before. This makes so much sense - it means that I can create linked CustomTransfomer that are project specific and keep them in their respective project.I never got this in I think in part because FME Desktop/Form doesn’t support this. The Transformers always need to be in a known/central location.I created an idea so that the same kind of structure can work with FME form as we can on FME Flow: To me this kind or structure just allows keeping everything together - for exa

I have a first shapefile with points indicating the number of inhabitants. I have a second shapefile with surfaces. I would like to know the number of inhabitants for each surface in FME. What is the process?

Hi FME teachers and users, I have files in (.fme) formats, how convert them to (.fmw) formats?

I have a number of workspaces, lets say 5, but this could expand.Each of these workspaces is like a validation check / test. There is a lot or duplication between the tests and I’m thinking about creating some linked customer transformers in order to not have to make changes 5 times in a row. I know this is usually good practice in programming in general.I’m a little hesitant though because adding linked custom transformers can add complexity (passing attributes 7 parameters etc etc) and makes testing/edits kind of annoying.  I’m interested to hear others experience with working with linked customer transformers -pain points, whats great, when you use them over when you don’t 

Hi! I am currently writing data into an Excel spreadsheet. I have added two feature types that are configured to truncate existing data and overwrite it in the spreadsheet. Now, I need to add another feature type that includes charts and some formulas. These formulas have been set in Excel to sum data from one of the tabs I created in the spreadsheet, and I made a chart based on that data. Is there a way to keep the third tab intact when I overwrite and truncate the data in the first two sheets? Thank you!

Hi everyone,I am new to FME and need some assistance with a project. I am trying to create clusters based on a point layer, using one of the parameters where the total hours equal to 'n' and a spatial parameter. The objective is to find clusters where the total hours equal 'n' and ultimately demarcate boundaries for these clusters to optimal coverage. I have been using the NeighborFinder transformer, but I am having trouble moving forward. Could anyone provide guidance or suggest a better approach to achieve this?Thank you in advance for your help!Sahan

Hi there,Creating many workbenches over the years, and this is very rarely a problem.But it is very rarely a problem because FME automagically selects the postgres writer writes the data using the correct geometry type, not because I have been able to specify.However, here i have a workbench reading in spreadsheet data using a [vertex creator] on the X/Y columns, but when I write the data out to postgis/postgres i find that it arrives there in linestring format. At least, QGIS then sees the layers as linestring!What is super wierd, is that this workbench has been reused for several years, each year with the postgis writer being modified to create a new table for the years data. All previous years it has created point data, this year it has decided on polygon. This happens when i modify the workbench in FME 2022.1.3, or in the current FME 2024.2.3.So, obviously this is unsatisfactory, and I want to be able to tell FME to create that postgres.postgis table with the geometry type of point

Can someone please let me know how I can grab two values from a JSON snippet like below image? Using FME Desktop I am trying to grab two values “portalURL” and "id" from two fragments of "info" and  "events" and assigned them to two User Parameters “PURL” and “PID” Can you please let me know what Translator/former I can use to the task for me?

Hello! I have a problem regarding using a FMEFlowJobSubmitter within a workspace when running on fmeflow using only one engine. When testing the same setup on an old fmeserver i dont have this problem since a “child” engine is created and the procces does not halt. This also works ony my localhost fme flow. However when running on a new fmeflow setup i get the following error:346 2025-2-12 14:53:56 | FMEFlowJobSubmitter_5 (ServerFactory): Reason - 'Error communicating with FME Server host  FME-flow uses a “"FME Engine of a distributed FME Server deployment". Could this cause the issue or is there any other known problems that i can look into? /Fabian 

Hi there,Somehow I've managed to undock the Translation Log window from the bottom pane of FME Workbench and I've been unable to return it to it's original location.Currently, it is locked in the top-left of my screen and shows as a much more compressed version of itself (with no text) - see image.Can anyone enlighten me as to how to restore it?

hello! I am currently working on an API integration project. My task involves reading data stored in an ArcSDE geodatabase, selecting specific data, and posting it to a website. The website accepts data in JSON format, which should follow a specific structure:{  "type": "Feature",  "properties": {    "id": <id>,    "name": <name>  },  "geometry": {    "type": "<geometry_type>",    "coordinates": <coordinates>  }}I read data from ArcSDE geodatabase and the option that converts data into the format above is GeoJSON writer. however, this writer saves the GeoJSON file to a directory, which I do not want. Instead, I need to convert the data into the required JSON format using a transformer, Extract specific parts like geometry and property from the JSON format that can connect with an HTTP caller to POST the data. I'm not sure which transformer would be suitable for generating the desired output. I would greatly appreciate any advice or help! Thanks!

I want to send ~150 users a stock email. No data translation in this one, I just want to read a list and send the email. (also a attachment, with a file that matches mostly matches their email addy but one thing at at time). 

I am building a workspace to do data prep for an AI model training process. This will involve, in this order: Copying a number of image files of type A When copying completed, creating image label .txt files for these when all image copying and label creation complete, copying an exactly equal number of images of type B (from a larger pool than that of the A’s) creating the image label files for these Terminate process when counts match1 and 2 are working fine. I’ve added a counter after stage 2, and I want stage 3 to keep running until the count of type B images copied = count of type A images copied. How might I a) kick off 3. only when 2. is finished and b) stop 3. when count of B = count of A?  

I have been given an xml file which when opened in Notepad++ shows encoding “Windows (CR LF)” “UTF-8” I need to write a new file with the same encoding. My writer has these parameters It writes the file ok but in Notepad++ the file encoding shows “Unix (LF)” UTF-8-BOM”  What writer parameters should I use to get the same output?

I just learned that you can copy & paste Conditional Values from one transformer to another without having to open the "Parameter Condition Definition" windows each time. My question is: When pasting a Conditional Value, you have to select "Paste Conditional", if you select "Paste" it will paste a text equation that fails. I assume this behavior is a bug, can someone confirm this? This is better described in the second observation noted below.The screenshots below show how this works from AttributeCreator to AttributeManager. Observations I had which might be helpful to others are:When copying/pasting you need to select the text first (e.g. "3 Possible Values", not simply the Cell. (Right clicking the cell gives you options to Cut/Copy/Paste/Duplicate the row.) When pasting I noticed that you have to select "Paste Conditional", if you select "Paste" it will paste a text equation and refresh to appear like all is well (

Hello there,i want to mark some points which are already placed at each corner of the building polygons in a DGN(MicroStation) file,i want to mark points which exist within 10m buffer from the road, and also points which at the road facing side of the building not at the back side of the building polygons,when i tried using the buffer it covered all the points including the backside points, if buffer reduced some building points got missedseen the image, the intention is to mark only the blue circled pointslooking for some suggestion, ideas are most welcome thanks. 

I’ve a Microstation DGN file where Building as polygons and each corner of the building polygons have a point, those points have some attributes in the form of MicroStation TAG, i want to check the TAG attribute of the points.Each point will have many attributes like building no, street name, etcif any point in the Building with TAG value ES=1 then the trailing point and successor point must be either ES=1 or ES=6in the below image red point are ES=1 and the orange points are ES=6i want to check the validate this caseany ideas most welcomethanks in advance 

It’s about this error message "No Module named GeoEncoder", how can I solve this error?  

I’m trying to identify the vertex/vertices in a 3D dataset which are at the zmin.The task is very easy but I’m trying to figure out the fastest/cleanest way to do this. The dataset could be quite big and the geometry could be any type (not point cloud or raster).  

Hi,I need your help.I would like to read the data from an excel file that change every week.  Moreover the excelfile have a different name every week.I would like to try to automate the process and as an input i would like to have the directory instead of the file. How can I do that? Thank you for your answer.Pauline 

How to modify Adjacent feature to find a value of two next cells?Thanks 

Hi all,I just wanted to get an idea on how others are working with FME when it comes to inspection.I have FME configured to always open up the FME Data Inspector rather that the Visual Preview in Workbench. Mostly I do this because I like to have a larger window and I’m used to it from the pre visual inspection days.Am I missing out? Any tips on using the Visual Preview? I’m interested to hear from other on how they handle inspection 

Hello , I would like to read all versions name without selecting them in feature reader arcsde esri i need to let feature reader to show me the data from all versions from users ,to know which data that users are currently  working on  .could someone advice me ?thanks in advance 

We have hundreds of mappings we execute via command line.  We have implemented standards regarding the use of source, destination, and logging user parms.We started our 2024 migration and found a bug while trying to pass in our --LOG_FILE parm from the cmnd line (fme ...fmw --LOG_FILE xxx).The workspace will not execute and throws this error:ERROR : Unable to open log file `X:\...\FME\X_\...\Log\mapping_name.log'ERROR : The preceding error has occurred during FME logfile setupFor some reason, in 2024 it is always prefixing the log location with the location of the fme workspace.The only workaround I found to get the log file to write in our desired location was to eliminate the --LOG_FILE parm and use LOG_FILENAME instead.I have opened a ticket with Safe and have not heard anything back.  Having to modify hundreds of workspace executions is a show stopper.