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Creating and organizing workspaces. How to use Workbench.

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Error: “the number of points is less than required for feature”,

Error: “the number of points is less than required for feature”, We are extracting data from CAD files. The destination is layers stored in ESRI file Geodatabase. Copying the features from the generated layers to other enterprise geodatabse layers result in the error below: CAD file: http://www.mediafire.com/download/ii2dszjoo4zoij4/AsSamou_Hebron_MasterPlan_05_X_03.dwg Workbench Extracting the Roads polygon (Roads = Boundary – Landuses) What might be the issue here? Thank you Best Jamal

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20 days ago

fmeContributor

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Generate measures on polylines with no measures attached in either coordinates or attribute table.

I tried generating measures on street segments but the measuregenerator is not calculating it right. It starts every segment from 0 instead of calculating from the end log. Any ideas how to resolve or calculate measures on segments with no measures? Thanks in advance!

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25 days ago

lifalin2016Contributor

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Connecting multiple points by shortest lines possible ?

I have a large number of points, which I would like to join by simple lines (point-to-point), minimizing the overall summed length of the generated lines. There's no preferred path, but all points must be connected to each other by a single network of lines.My output just needs to be a set of simple lines.Do anyone have an idea on how to accomplish that, other than grinding it out in a PythonCaller ?CheersLars I

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25 days ago

deanhowellEnthusiast

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Workbench Content Summary

Hello, we have inherited a range of very large workbenches and was wondering if there is a way to get a summary report of the major components like parameters, database connections, inputs, outputs and names of bookmarks.

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26 days ago

fme_can_do_itSupporter

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Copy coordinates from a list in a Lat/Long column

I had a pair of coordinates stored in a single column named "geometry." I used the Attribute Splitter to separate these coordinates and then exploded the list. Now, I have each latitude and longitude in the same column. Is there a way to copy these latitude and longitude values into separate columns labeled "Latitude" and "Longitude" while maintaining the same order?

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26 days ago

ebygommSupporter

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Directory and File Pathnames - Path Filter now case sensitive?

In 2024.1 it appears that a Directory and File Pathnames reader with a Path Filter set to *.tab only reads tab files with a lowercase extension.In 2021.2 both .tab and .TAB files are readA MapInfo TAB file reader pointing at a folder path such as "E:\Mapinfo\**\*.tab" still reads both .TAB and .tab filesIs this expected behaviour?

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27 days ago

ebygommSupporter

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ArcsGIS Portal Feature Service connection - Proxy issues

Using the Httpcaller i can successfully make a rest api call to retrieve a token for an ArcGIS Portal Featureservice. A proxy server is set up but is not used for this url so the call bypasses the proxy. However, I can only set up and use an ArcGIS Portal Feature Service connection if there is no proxy set up at all. If the proxy is enabled, the connection tries to use the proxy even though the base url is on the exception list.

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28 days ago

r7Contributor

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Problem reading and writing from file geodatabases frrom ArcGIS 10.8 in a FME Flow Worspace

I have ArcGIS 10.8 with 64bit Background processing installed and am using the latest version of FME Form (FME(R) 2024.1.3.0 (20240927 - Build 24627 - WIN64))I want to read data from an ESRI File Geodatabase with the Esri Geodatabase reader and writer and am having sporadic compatabilty problems. At the moment I cannot read from the geodatabase but I can write to it. Other times, I can’t write to it either.I have set the translation parameter to ESRI ArcMAP.I have also reinstalled ArcGIS 10.8 and this morning I updated FME Form.I have also realised, that after the problem arises, if I restart FME I can write to the File Geodatabase again.Why am I still having problems?

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28 days ago

lifalin2016Contributor

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Bug in FME ? - "SQL to run after write" triggered even after a Terminator is activated

I would assume (dangerous in this case), that a Terminator would halt processing completely.I have a workspace, that imports from a WFS. It errs because the provider made a breaking change by removing a column in the read dataset. This issues a rejected feature, which triggers a Terminator.But even then, the postprocess action of my SQL writer is triggered.Why does this happen ?If a terminator is called, it indicates that the workspace has failed. And then triggering postprocessing is a dangerous action, as this usually requires the writing to have been completed without errors.Is this not a bug ?Using FME 2022.2.6 on FME Server/Flow.Cheers

FME Server: aborted job keeps running on engine

Whenever we cancel a running job (in our case: using the REST API), the job is cancelled successfully on the FME Server core (the job reports itself as aborted when we fetch the status), but the engine on which the job is running (on a different physical machine than the Server core) just keeps on going: the job simply runs until the end of the translation. This is not what I expected, but since I don't see any errors in the server logs e.g. about communication issues with the engine, I started to wonder.Is this intended behaviour? If so, are there ways to actually stop the job process on the engine as well? If not, any suggestions on how to fix this?

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1 month ago

lifalin2016Contributor

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Why can't ones own reply to a topic be marked as best answer ?

In the olden days, you could mark your own reply as best answer, if you figured it out yourself.This is no longer possible.Why ?

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1 month ago

rzel24Contributor

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FTPCaller in FME Flow

Hello,We are using FTPCaller to connect to our SFTP Server via OpenSSH Agent as per the instructions in this article:https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407554321805-Using-a-Private-SSH-key-with-FTPCaller-to-Authenticate-an-SFTP-Connection-for-FME-Form-and-FME-Flow-on-Windows-Systems The authentication is not a problem and we are able to log into the SFTP server, but we are having problems downloading files with spaces in their names, we are trying to download a file named:LB Daily Course Raitings_202409130404.csv the URL set up in the FTPCaller is:sftp://sftpip:2222/Test_Folder/LB Daily Course Raitings_202409130404.csvWe keep getting the error that the file does not exists, we know the issue is dealing with the spaces, and have tried downloading a files without spaces and it works fine. We’ve also tried all sorts of scape options to cancel the spaces in the URL but we get the same error indicating the file does not exists.We’ve also tried to use LB*.csv as the name but same e

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1 month ago

larueContributor

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Inconsistent Format When Writing To Excel

Hello,I am struggling with a similar problem as this post (I think?). One of my attributes in the Workspace contains a 0 or 1 that is used as a Boolean. The value has been assigned the datatype ‘buffer’ in AttributeCreator and ‘string’ in the FeatureWriter, which outputs an Excel file. I am using a template, where the cell format is set to ‘General’.For some reason, the Excel file that is generated will give me inconsistent formatting of the attribute value: What is going on here??? As you can see, even though they all should be interpreted as strings, some of the values become numbers. The formula bar does not show anything different. I started using the Excel template in hopes of making the data format consistently, but even when I changed the cell format to ‘Text’ it still gave me issues when being read by Python. I would like to solve this issue before reverting to a Yes/No or True/False format. What could be causing this? Any insight is appreciated. -Thanks

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1 month ago

vxn43Supporter

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Writing to spreadsheet question

Hello, All my data is in Excel spreadsheets. All the schemas are the same.I have two readers:The Updates Reader includes the 3 records that have been changed. These 3 records already exist in the Address Reader spreadsheet.The Address Reader is the original spreadsheet that includes these 3 records before they were updated. I would like these updates written to the Addresses Writer which creates a new excel spreadsheet with the 3 records updated but no new records added. In my workbench here, I run it, and the results are the 3 records are added to the 95,393 thus the new spreadsheet has 95,396 records in it. Having the 3 records added results in having 6 duplicate records whereas previously there were no duplicate records. I need the Addresses output to be 95,393 records with the 3 records I mention previously updated. I have tried changing all the parameters in the Writer with no success. The results are always the same, 95,396.I know I can use FeatureJoiner/FeatureMerger, but is the

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1 month ago

gisgeekContributor

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Scraping data from a map

Hi there I would like to scrape the data from this page. So want the lat/longs of the pins on the map and the background water outage data. I can't find an easy way to scrape the data and am just going around in circles trying to extract the data. https://www.ccc.govt.nz/services/water-and-drainage/water-supply/maintenance-and-repairs/water-status-map/#12

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1 month ago

fmebeginnerContributor

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Adding dynamic date string suffix using BulkAttributeRenamer

Hello, I’m trying to dynamically add a suffix to selected attributes using BulkAttributeRenamer. I want the suffix to be the day the script is run and expressed in YearMonthDay.Example: the attribute is “addresses_count_“ and using the BulkAttributeRenamer and running the script on the 24.10.2024 I want it to be “addresses_count_20241024”.I tried using UserParameters. The first parameter I made was a Text Type Parameter where before the script is run the User needs to input by hand the Date. It has a few flaws. For example, the user may enter the wrong date, the date is not entered automatically by the script and will not always be processed correctly by BulkAttributeRenamer.The second UserParameters I made and think it is the right way to do it is a Scripted Type Parameter. Below you can see what I made.I have not been able to get this to work using the BulkAttributeRenamer. Even when I select the string to be a UserParameter it doesn't seem to add and generate a correct date string.

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1 month ago

tvaContributor

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Get authentication token via JWK/JWT

I need to connect to an api that requires a bearer token in the header for authentication.This token should be generated with a jwk. Example to request a token (there are public available examples from the service, so no secrets from my side):POST /op/v1/token HTTP/1.1Host: authenticatie.vlaanderen.beContent-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded grant_type=client_credentials& audience=8ed36a78-8443-11ec-b334-83e86b606670& audience=9e6a512c-8443-11ec-ae2c-8700eb2a0cde& scope=org_api_appread%20org_api_appwrite& client_assertion_type=urn%3Aietf%3Aparams%3Aoauth%3Aclient-assertion-type%3Ajwt-bearer& client_assertion=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpc3MiOiIyODM1ODgxNC01YzIwLTRjMTMtYmJmZi1kYjVkZDhjNGFlOTMiLCJzdWIiOiIyODM1ODgxNC01YzIwLTRjMTMtYmJmZi1kYjVkZDhjNGFlOTMiLCJhdWQiOiJodHRwczovL2F1dGhlbnRpY2F0aWUudmxhYW5kZXJlbi5iZS9vcCIsImV4cCI6MTU5MjIwODA2MCwianRpIjoiRGt6bmpzdTQzZHprZDN6amQ1IiwiaWF0IjoxNTkyMjA4MDAwfQ.3dPodaVhJ2d3cXWn0v2YGeZqs5XScJF2lm4MaweDnf4 the

Open multiple tabs in workbench

Hi FME users, I have only been using FME for a short while, so please bear with me if this question is very basic. I remember seeing in several example screenshots of the workbench having multiple tabs open rather than just the default "Start" and "Main" tabs. I can imagine it would be very usefull to be able to toggle between different workspaces in the same workbench but couldn't find how to do this. Could anyone please share any experience on this?

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1 month ago

vkiContributor

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Error connecting to Oracle-DB, but only on FME Form (FME Flow ok)

We recently updated to 2024.1 (FME Form and Flow).We have some jobs, that run daily on FME Flow, that read features from an Oracle-db and write to a PostGIS-DB.I downloaded one of the workspaces to FME Form to change something. But in FMEForm I cannot connect to the Oracel-DB anymore. I get this error:Error connecting to Oracle database: message was `OCI_INVALID_HANDLE'. (serverType=`ORACLE_NONSPATIAL', serverName=`xy', userName=`xy', password=`***', dbname=`')I uploaded the workspace again to FME Flow and there it ran successfully.Any ideas, what could be the problem? Thanks in advance.Vera

WorkspaceRunner tutorial update

Hi folks, I think this very useful article on the WorkspaceRunner could use some love:https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/1469/batch-processing-using-the-workspacerunner-1.html"Article created with FME Desktop 2013"I believe FME has evolved somewhat since those screenshots were made :-)

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1 month ago

scarterContributor

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Snap a point to nearest line based on shred attribute value

Hello Forum, I need to create a point layer of middle points of streets. I have a street network (lines) where each object is attributed with the name of the street. I tried coordinateExtractor, which does produces points on the line. However, in the vast majority of cases it selects the starting point. But I need the middle point of each line. So, I then used CentrePointReplacer to create the centre point of the each street’s bounding box. This works but it finds, unsurprisingly, the centre point of the bounding box. These bounding box centre points -unless rarely through extreme coincidence- are not actually on the street itself. I need them to be on the street. So, I now need to snap that point to the nearest street using the shared attribute value. For example, it look at the point record for Acacia Avenue in the bounding box centre points dataset and then snap to the nearest location in the street network where street name equals Acacia Avenue. I’ve looked at NeighborFinder and An

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1 month ago

checcosisaniContributor

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Web scraping

Hican you hlep me to understand if I can extract info from this webpage https://viabilita.autostrade.it/it/viabilita/previsioniWhat I need is the info in the blue boxthxFrancesco

Aggregator transformer issues when concatenating attributes with null or missing values

I'm using an Aggregator transformer to group by an attribute and concatenate many attribute accordingly. I'm having a problem with the attribute column containing missing or null values. The Aggregator will populate the attribute containing missing or null values with the separator character when it should stay empty or null. Is this a bug? I've replicated the problem in the screenshot below

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1 month ago

peteratqfesContributor

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What is the most efficient way to find intersecting polygons for a bunch of points?

Hi I’ve got a bunch of points (1 to maybe 40+) that are changing regularly (live data), and I want to find out which polygons those points are intersecting. They are big polygons with lots of vertices. What is the most efficient and/or fastest way to do that?Should I:Have a SQL Spatial Reader and read all those polygons and use a PointOnArea Overlayer transformer. Use a FeatureReader with a Spatial Filter Initiator OGC Intersection and use a PointOnArea Overlayer. Should I use a SQLExecutor and rely on the database?I’ve tried the first two and I’m not sure which is best.Thanks

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1 month ago

kanteyemaodoContributor

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points isolés fme | Isolate Points in FME

j’ai deux couchesUne couche de points (ponctuel) et couche de lignes (linéaires).je veux vérifier les points isolés ou non connectés de ma couche ligne.solution svp.en pièce jointe les supports (points) à vérifier qui ne sont pas connectés aux lignes (tronçon). I have two layersA layer of points (point) and layer of lines (linear).I want to check isolated or unconnected points of my line layer.solution please.attached the supports (points) to check which are not connected to the lines (section).

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