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I’m a newby to FME.I’m about to write workspaces to refresh a list of AGOL feature services.  So far I’ve written a simple one that works on a small service.I’ve got a few questions.When I search for potential pitfalls in this forum, they are 5+ years ago and relate to AGOL time outs and also issues updating large datasets.  .  I’m on the latest release of Form & will use Flow (Hosted).  Are these issues still relevant these days ?My largest dataset is our Cadastre being about 140K features.  Am I safe to use the Writer ? I am doing truncate & inserts.  One might argue that I could use ChangeDetector beforehand, however, I reckon the processing required to compare 140K features would be greater than a simple truncate & insert. (am I right?) If an error is encountered, I would like to quickly restore the destination feature service back to what it was. Any tips on the best approach to doing that ?  My idea is to copy the destination service elsewhere in AGOL before commencin

I have an FME workbench that runs every 10 minutes that reads from an ESRI Feature class in a SQL database. Once in a blue moon I get the following warnings.Unable to retrieve feature from table/feature class 'xxx'. This feature, and any other feature from 'xxx' that cannot be read, will be skipped. The error number from ArcObjects is: '-2147154945'Unable to retrieve feature from table/feature class 'xxx'. Aborting reading from table 'xxx'. The error number from ArcObjects is: '-2147216010' Yet the next run 10 minutes later has no problems. When this occurs I want the workbench to stop rather than proceeding with the incomplete data set. Is there a way to force a termination when this happens?

HiWe need to allow users create a zipped shapefile with a single feature. The shapefile needs to be named as the reference for that feature (an attribute in the table)I can create a zipfile by clicking the zip icon in the dataset field of the writer. However, this just creates a zipfile which is named after the folder it is saved in.Is there a way to name the zipfile using an attribute? Or is there a way to automatically rename the zipfile? Thanks 

I have a shapefile with sub areas and I want to create an FME workbench to assign the areas to 3 operators with the condition that the operators don't work on areas close to each other. which FME transformers can I use as I want the output to be 2 shapefiles one with a list of areas that can be assigned to the operators at a particular time and another one with a list of areas that cant be assigned at that time.

Hiyas,I’m having an issue where I try to import data from a excel spreadsheet into a Choice user parameter.I only ever get the first row to import, even though it displays all data.Choice → Choice Configuration → Dropdown → Import from datasetDataset = My excel fileFormat = Microsoft excelParameters shows the valuesNextImport Mode - Import from: Attribute namesNext Import then results in only the heading being imported; Am I missing something really obvious? Thanks,

 Dear FME community.I hoop you will help me with the question I have. It seems simple question, but I could not solve it. I want to find out overlapping pipelines in the same dataset with different owners. I want to have list of the piplines who overlap with each other and who have different owners.I used line on overlay transformer but I could not get what the result I wanted. Any help is apricated and thank you in advance 

At the FME Flow (we’re looking at 2022.2 specifically) level, many people will be familiar with the ability to set time outs for queuing and running  Through the API you can also specify these by using the Job Directives: https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME-Flow/ReferenceManual/Job_Directives.htmThe scenario that we’re facing is there is an external process (not FME) that is setup to call a bunch of different workspaces depending on what is passed through. This is a process not managed/administrated by us. Depending on the workspace called, we want to specify the running expiry at the workbench level, of course this could be doing with logic in the external process using tm_ttl/tm_ttc, but that would mean needing to release updated code each time we want to change this.We’ve tried specifying tm_ttc as a workspace parameter (both published and private) but FME Flow doesn’t acknowledge it. Talking with @todd_davis we’re both sure you used to be able to do this (specific run time limits at

Hi all,Using FME(R) 2023.2.1.0 (20240104 - Build 23774 - WIN64) and tested in 2024 also.When I write a KML that includes multipolygons (aka nested donuts, aka inner rings) the records display correctly in FME Inspector (correct outline and fill) but when opened in Google Earth the fill is missing for records that have polygons within polygons (ie a donut hole has polygons within it). Simple polygons and simple donuts have correct fill.I’ve tried reversing the orientation with Orientor.Also tried playing around with the DonutHoleExtractor without luck.Any good ideas for a fix?

Hi All,I have a json templater which i’m using to create a json that has ‘firstname’ and ‘lastname’ - there’s 3 rows of data.I created the following in the root template but it outputs the 3 separately:{       "firstName" : fme:get-attribute("first_name"),       "lastName" : fme:get-attribute("last_name")} I then tried creating a sub template -with the following settings: Here is the output I get:{ "firstName" : "first2", "lastName" : "Last1" }{ "firstName" : "first2", "lastName" : "Last2" }{ "firstName" : "first3", "lastName" : "Last3" } I can see that it’s missing an extra set of curly brackets, and when trying to run this result through a JSON validator it fails and gives this message:  “Unexpected non-whitespace characters were found after the JSON text” I’ve looked at the JSON templater documentation and the exercise but I can’t seem to get this working.Any help would be greatly appreciated Many thanks, Sam

So this is going to be a dumb (yes, really their are dumb questions) but I can't for the life of me find a way to simply "print" or export my workspace to PDF for documentation purposes.   Sure, there are screenshots but a screenshot of a massive workbench is illegible.  When I go to "print" it will let me choose a paper size... but all I want is the ability to a) choose a custom size  or b) "print" or export the entire workbench at (say 300 dpi) or something of that nature.  Currently the "best" I can do when using Adobe to "print to PDF" is 47 ANSI E sized pages on export! Seriously, there has to be a better way????  Any ideas or suggestions? Note, I've tried programs like "snagit" to do a rolling screencapture but that doesn't work either.     Matt

I  have an “Extras” attribute that is XML-like with different number of attributes in different order within the attribute value.. When I use the , XMLXQueryExtractor* and configure a  query, it only returns rows that has one tag only called <PAGE_TITLE>, like below.  The query returns this query result in the list attribute. THe resr of the rows are rejected as invalid XML Queries.For the other failed queries, they have multiple tags, as shown below.What I’d like to do is aplit the tags into field::values regardless of number. This attribute value:<PAGE_LINKS>https://p3tips.com/community/</PAGE_LINKS><PAGE_PRECISEPUBTIMESTAMP>20240905151800</PAGE_PRECISEPUBTIMESTAMP><PAGE_TITLE>Lynchburg Police searching for suspect after armed robbery at Family Dollar</PAGE_TITLE> Woud look like below with all the attributes in the Extras value split into however many tagged attributes.PAGE_LINKS PAGE_PRECISEPUBTIMESTAMP PAGE_TITLE https://p3tips.com/com

Hi, I’m finding XMLFragmenter removes geometry, is this expected?Data Interoperability in Pro 3.3, so FME 2024.0.1.0 build 24202.Thanks.

Hello, anyone knows how to split a DWG into tiles? i can make it happen with tiler however i cannot split it or simply chhose the tile i want to export  

Hi everyone,I have a workflow that exports data from Oracle to another formats, like Shp, GML... using dynamic readers and writers. This workflow recive some parameters, like table name, that is used to read de Oracle table and to write the file name. The question is about GML file and date values. When the Oracle table has datetime attribute, FME exports as text, by default. I've achived that FME exports GML with attribute as date type, but this attribute has null value, beacause the format of date is wrong. That is, the exported date value is "19630904000000" but it shoud be "1963-09-04".As I said, I use dynamic readers and writers, beacuse I don't know what table will be exported and I can’t see the table structure, neither, when data goes out by Generic port of Reader. So I can't use StringReplacer and DateTimeConverter, because I would need to know the name of attibute. Anyone has any idea how to modify the format of the date?

Hi,I have the values of an attribute which corresponds to the names of sheets of an excel file. In other words, the attribute of interest has the values attrib1, attrib2, ..., attribn that also corresponds to the sheet tab names of another excel file.What I would like to do is to be able to dynamically read the sheet tab names of the excel file based on the values attrib1, attrib2, ... attribn that varies per feature. Those values are unique per feature so I won't need to read the same excel sheet twice.Any ideas?Thanks

we are having a DEM of cartosat satellite but we can't convert it to footprint as it only contains terrain data. but a problem statement given by isro in SIH they mentioned to create a LOD1 model using cartosat1 or cartosat2/3 data

Hi,I have a deployment parameter (Text) that is pointing to an SDE file on FME flow in my shared resources. When I try to set a local value in form, it ignores this value and throws an error saying it can’t access the share resources file path. I’ve tried creating a deployment parameter that is  type: database connection, but this doesn’t work either. Here’s the error:This was working a week ago and now it refuses to acknowledge the local value. Many thanks, Sam

Hello, any help would be greatly appreciated with this idea I have: I am trying to figure out the least convoluted way to take my current data and get it into the format ArcPro likes it to be in to take full advantage of the Time Slider. My ultimate goal is to use the time slider in arcpro and the user can slide the time to show how a floor was occupied throughout time.So, I have a large amount of motion detectors. The data is fed to me like so:SensorName Timestamp SensorStatus 1 12:00 1/1/2024 On 2 12:05 1/1/2024 On 1 12:06 1/1/2024 Off 2 12:10 1/1/2024 Off Then Sensor 1 could be triggered again and so forth Arc seems to want the start and end times in the same row. like so:SensorName Start End 1 12:00 1/1/2024 12:06 1/1/2024 2 12:05 1/1/2024 12:10 1/1/2024  It needs to organize 100s of results from numerous sensors and get the start/stop times on the same row, for the correct sensor, for the correct period of time. 

Y’all.I’m trying to create a connection to a customer Sharepoint for the first time. And I’m confused.I got something to work in 2020.2, but would rather it ran in 2022.2 (same as our servers). But I’ve also tried it in 2024.1There seems to be two web service templates, (Template) and (safe.microsoft-sharepoint).According to this article they are each designated for use with Sharepoint List r/w and SharepointOnlineConnector respectively.But apparently I can’t create a new web service based on the latter in 2022.2, and the latter isn’t even available in 2020.2So when did this change, i.e. in which FME version ?CheersLars I.

I am attempting to write out data using a schema scanner and dynamic featurewriter.It is simply not working. I always get "Unknown feature type 'BOUNDS' passed to the JSON writer.It doesn't matter what I do, always the same.BOUNDS is my fme_feature_type and fme_feature_type_name.I will eventually use group by attribute but it doesn't even work with just one typeI believe I am following the standard practice but I have always been stumped when trying to write dynamically.  Please could someone outline the boiler plate method (with the steps ordered) to use a SchemaScanner and Dynamic FeatureWriter in the scenario where one would need to create or overwrite fme_feature_type and fme_feature_type_name or use a custom names for these. As I understand it, I should only need to make sure I have an attribute on the data with the same name as the Schema Definition Name.THANKS! NOTE below, feature_type_name is not available to choose, in this iteration  

I want to display a list of tables/views that a specific ROLE has access to. I can do this in SQL with the command SHOW GRANTS TO ROLE TESTROLE. However, putting this SHOW command directly into a Snowflake Reader WHERE Clause generates an error (syntax error line 1 at position 270 unexpected 'GRANTS'.) and returns nothing in a SQL Executor transformer.  Is anyone please able to advise either what the correct syntax is or if there is another approach/transformer that should be used? Thanks. 

Hi All,Novice, here.   I am trying to work with two different layers where I want one set of data to overlie another set of data.  I don’t know how to move the lines, adjusting them so they will match the sister layer.  I have tried Neighborfinder, anchored snapper, was looking at affiner, orientator and geometry coercer, and any other transformer I thought might work.  I suspect there are many steps involved in this process, but I really don’t know where to begin.    Below is an example of my data set.  I would like the black lines to match the red lines.  Is this doable in FME? Please let me know if more information needs to be provided.   Thanks for any help.  It is greatly appreciated! Version: ME(R) 2023.1.0.0 (20230825 - Build 23619 - WIN64)   

Path issues while attempting load Python module. FME Pip installed Pypdf. It got installed to: C:\Users\james.hawks\Documents\FME\Plugins\Python\python39\pypdf But workbench cant see that for unknown reasons.  Python Exception <ModuleNotFoundError>: No module named 'PyPDF'

Hi,I have a FME workbench and in the Fanout Expression, i have to manually amend the date (YYYY-MM) in the file name each month from 2024-06 to 2024-07 when running at the start of the month for the previous months data.E.g. the fanout expression will look like this:R@Value(ba_id)-2024-06-filename.xlsx So at the 01st August I would amend the above filename date to 2024-07. Is there a way to automate or code the date so I don’t have to manually change from 2024-06 to 2024-07 etc.

I have a LOD 0(BUILDING FOOTPRINT) file and a LOD 3 Building 3d model file. Lod 0 is in shapefile format and Lod 3 is in gdb format. The gdb file have no attribute value and lod 0 have. so i want to add its attribute to gdb. How to do it?