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Does the new Blue Marble intergation allow for Horizontal Time Dependent Positioning (HTDP) reprojections? The blue marble software does allow for this type of transformation and I want to know if FME can take advantage of this if I have Blue Marble installed.

Here's my workflow scenario: 1. Vendor uploads multiple county parcels into FTP server  - file is submited by county 2. Running on a scheduled task, FME unpacks and downloads each county parcel  3. Each zip file is unpacked and stored in a shared folder with county sub folders.  4. New feature classes are added in either in SDE or FGDB 5. Feature classes are added to an existing MXD using a layer file template 6. MXD is saved as MSD (perhaps overwrite an existing one) 7. MSD is then updated into ArcGIS server as a web mapping service  County parcels are in FGDB and SHP. Only the FCs in the FGDB will be merged into a single store for all county FCs delivered. New deliverables are received weekly and updated quarterly.  I'm thinking of using Python in FME for the functionalities that will translate the MXD, MSD, and layer files.  This involves almost 160 county parcels and 4M records that&#

Hi!  When using a workspacerunner on a workspace it will go through the FAILED port if it fails and the SUCCESS port if it succeedes. However what if I have a situation where I want it to write to an output - BUT under certain conditions I also want it to FAIL AFTER writing the file. Can I set the attribute SUCCESS or FAIL on a python-shutdown script, if yes, what is the name of the parameter? 

Hello,  I notice that FME Server displays in the Repositories TAb the Workbench Title and Description etc, is there a way to get these attributes to use in a Python script within the Workbench?  I want to email via FME Server Notifier that the workbench 'its name' is failed or succeeded.  Cheers, 

Hi,  I am creating a data download service with FME Server that should provide an ESRI File Geodatabase and an MXD file. The MXD file should be postprocessed with Python and arcpy in a shutdown script to fit the feature classes, extent and projection of the extracted data. The workspace transfer the MXD is  to the FME Server output location together with the File Geodatabase. This works well in FME Desktop. The MXD is accessed programatically using an output folder published as a parameter. The same method does not work with FME Server. How do I access the MXD file  in the FME Server output location programatically from Python?  Regards, Knut Olav

Apologies if this has been asked before, I have tried searching Google/FMEPedia for it, with no luck.    I'm having trouble getting the "request" string in our emails sent from FME Server 2012.  Our previous FME Server 2010 emails - used the variable %request% - however I'm having no luck using } Below is what I have for our current "success" template: <fmeblock>Your FME translation (job ID {id}) has succeeded. Click on the link below to download the result:

{urlPrefix}{ResultRootDir}/{@getFileName(@zip(OutputLocation))}

</fmeblock><fmeblock>INFO: FME Request Parameters

 : This download file will only be available for 7 days, then it will be deleted.

</fmeblock> <fmeblock>Time Started: {timeStarted} 

Time Finished: {timeFinished}</fmeblock>    Which results in this: Your FME trans

Hi, I want to create a point for each species row 11, need create 3 points with the column name as an attribute   NB the source data has approx 50 columns        OBJECTID * SHAPE * WPT East North Date Azolla_filiculoides Blechnum_minus Carex_breviculmis Carex_geminata Carex_maorica Carex_ressectans Carex_secta Carmichaelia_corrugata Centella_uniflora Cheilanthes_sieberi Cordyline_australis Crassula_colligata_subsp_colligata Dichondra_repens 1 Point 26 2461536 5747297 4/12/2012                           2 Point 27 2461489 5747326 4/12/2012     x                   x 3 Point 28 2461468 5747298 4/12/2012               x           4 Poi

Hi, I'm trying to connect to a database using the ODBC 3.x data reader.  The parameters seem correct and I can see the tables in the Table list.  When I try to add the data I get the error:   ODBC2 Reader: Now reading schema for gistxtaxes Database Generated Error Information: Database Error Message: [DataDirect][ODBC Progress OpenEdge Wire Protocol driver][OPENEDGE]Table/View/Synonym not found (7519) Database SQL Statement Text: SELECT * FROM "gistxtaxes" WHERE 1=0 SQL State: 42S02 Variable Information:  ODBC2 Reader: Failed to get schema for feature type 'gistxtaxes'. Continuing with next feature type in the list    I can connect to the data base and add data in ArcMap using the same connection parameters.  Any idea what's going on?

We have two default subscriptions on FME Server which are email tasks that occur on success or failure of a workspace: EmailJob_Success & EmailJob_Failure. Can these be assigned to specific repositories? What if you have two download portals on the same FME Server, can they have different e-mail templates assigned?

What does it mean when a writer is dynamic and what are the dynamic schema settings doing?   Thank you to anyone can help.

I was wondering I do a lot of ad hoc workbenches to various databases and geodatabases.  Is it currently possible (if not I would like to suggest it as an improvement) save the conection properities for teh databases I frequently.  This would be a huge time saver and save on problems with typos.

How do I change/or add a Palette Name of a raster?

Hello Im trying to View my stored data on Oracle with FME Universal Viewer 32 bits.   I have installed Oracle_Client 11g 32 bits on my PC.  Also I have Win 7 64 bits    When Im Trying to did it, it sent this message:  Error connecting to Oracle database: message was `ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied'. (serverType=`ORACLE8i', serverName=`orcl', userName=`itu', password=`***', dbname=`') Failed to open database with username='itu', retrying using uppercase username Environment variable ORACLE_HOME is not set.           

Is there a known issue concerning FME (in my case 2011SP4 and 2012SP3 aswell) about not being able to truncate Oracle base, stating: Truncating table `EESTITOPO.HYB_VOOLUVEED_75T_J'... Failed to truncate table `EESTITOPO.HYB_VOOLUVEED_75T_J'. Table may not exist  However, when truncate is defined in the "SQL To Execute Before Translation" under advanced writer properties, then truncate operation succeeds.   Thank you, Raivo Alla Estonian Land Board

??Windows?????????:               fme.exe wb-xlate-1353554731187_5952           --SourceDataset_MapGis6x """""C:\\Documents and Settings\\Administrator\\My Documents\\1.WT"" ""C:\\Documents and Settings\\Administrator\\My Documents\\1.WP"""""           --DestDataset_MapGis6x "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Administrator\\My Documents"           ???? ... Feature Manipulation Engine 2012 SP2 (20120417 - Build 12238 - WIN32) FME_HOME is 'C:\\Program Files\\FME\\' FME Desktop Professional Edition (floating) Permanent License. Machine host name is: fangjun START - ProcessID: 904, peak process memory usage: 26024 kB, current process memory usage: 26020 kB FME Configuration: Command line arguments are `C:\\Program Files\\FME\\fme.exe' `C:\\DOCUME~1\\ADMINI~1\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\wb-xlate-1353554731187_5952' `LOG_STANDARDOUT' `YES' `LogCount' `C:\\DOCUME~1\\ADMINI~

Hi, is there any way we can bring in an input file based on today's date? For example, if we save a file from a database every day, and today's file is called  "20121114_Switch_Data.xlsx" can we have a default input (reader) to prepend today's date and grab the latest file?

Hi,  I'm trying to debug a workbench and was and was wondering if it's possible to see the flow of one particular record. About 85k records (all with a unique ID) go into the workbench and flow through a network of transformers before all coming out via a single writer. I have identified several features that have been processed incorrectly but in order to work out what went wrong I need to work out the path they took through the transformers.  Any suggestions on how to achieve this? Thanks

What is the best way to specify the output attribute name on a custom transformer?  I can add a paramter , but the logical transformer (AttributeCreator) let's me link the value of an attribute easily enough, but not it's name.

I am reprojecting Rasters,  63 of them. They are all pretty much the same size 1.1GB.  It took 2h to reproject the first one.  now we are at # 32 and it's taking around 4h.  Is there a way of doing a memory dump or starting fresh after each raster when doing batch reprojection?  Thank you.  Dominic

How do I specify what type of number I want for arithmetic operations? For example, when use the Attribute Creator and then the Arithmetic Editor to divide two numbers that are integers, the result is a rounded/truncated integer, but I want a number that is 3 decimal places...

Dear Team,  I have installed the FME server 2012 on 2 servers.  Now I would like to configure FME core server failure. I did the config changes in process monitor.txt but didn't work.  Could you please help me out with this /  Thanks a bunch in advance

I am using FME to produce a number of .xls files and need to rename those files by adding the current date (and time hopefully) to the file name at the end of the process using a shutdown python script. I have cobbled below together from information I have found online but it won't work and I don't have python knowledge to fix it.   import os, datetime path='C:\\FME' to_ext='*.xls' for file_name in os.listdir(path):             root, ext = os.path.splitext(file_name)             t = os.path.getmtime(file_name)             v = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(t)             x = v.strftime( ' %d-%m-%Y')                   os.rename(os.path.join(path, file_name), os.path.join(path, root+x+to_ext))      I would appreciate any help.    Thanks

In FME Server 2011 SP2, how do I configure the data download URL sent to the requester in the email, to show/use a preconfigured name in the URL versus the actual server name and port? For instance the download URL may look like this: http://myrealservername:80/fmedatadownloadresults/FME_7F685958_1352851611722_5036.zip. How do I configure it so that I can alias the server name and port for something other than the actual server name? Also is there a way to allow the user to name their FME results so it's not a long list of numbers/characters for their zip file (which would also make it easier to find specific log files when debugging workspace results)?  Thanks!

Which FME desktop edition is suitable for Intergraph G/Technology platform?

Is there any class based FME training in the U.S.? More specifically in the west coast?