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I am trying to run my workspace on the command line, using a command file.fme COMMAND_FILE C:\Projects\330004063_Test\cmd_file.txtIt takes a bit, not as long as I would have expected, considering the test run of the workspace in the workbench, but then I get the following three lines, and everything is over.Reading...Emptying factory pipelineTranslation was SUCCESSFUL with 2 warning(s) (0 feature(s) output)The content of the command file looks like this:C:\Projects\330004063_Test\fme\figuring_things_out.fmw --DestDataset_OGCGEOPACKAGE "C:\Projects\330004063_Test\output\roads_test1.gpkg" --SourceDataset_SHAPEFILE_4 "C:\Projects\330004063_Test\input\KTM_Baseline2019Roads_EW50.shp" When I run the workspace in the workbench it takes 7.5 seconds to run through the data and is producing the expected geopackage, containing 11.433 features.The command line run does not seem to process anything. At least there is no verbose handling of the processing. It also does not produce the expected test1

Ok soooo, for the longest time I’ve been a bit annoyed at the Terminator for it’s seemingly inconsistent behaviour about when it chooses to report it’s error message in the status result of an FME Server job and when we get the generic - “An error has occurred. Check the logfile above for details”.Anyway it has gotten to the point that I’d like to actually figure this out and I’ve at least found a couple of workarounds which are working for me. Looking at the solutions it is kind of obvious and I’m not sure why I didn't think of it sooner. Anyway I thought I’d share my findings - probably other know about it but I couldn’t find anything clear on the community or in the documentation.1. Use a FeautreHolder, then into the Terminator,2.  User a sampler set to sample last 1 feature and feed that into the Terminator (probably better for memory).The workarounds aren’t great because they don’t halt the translation as soon as possible - but at least the status message is there. Anyway, just wa

What exactly does those FEATUREs stand for in a FME Form concurrent license file (safe.lic)? Where do I find a description / explanation?FEATURE FME ...FEATURE FME_GUI ...FEATURE national ...FEATURE basic_raster ...FEATURE segy_reading ...FEATURE segy_writing ...FEATURE smallworld ...FEATURE fmeobjects_reproject ...FEATURE ssis_extension ...FEATURE spatialbiz … Thanks.

Hello there,I got 3 tables. There is one table with polygones (A) and two with lines (B and C).The lines in table B are going through my polygones. With the LineOnAreaOverlayer I cut the polyonges (A) in two. Now I need to know which part of the cuttet polyone is further away from my lines out of table C (in a max distance around the lines in C from ± 10 meters).For each cuttet polygone couple I need the furthes away one from the lines out of C.So along my C Lines are a lot of cutted polygone pairs. For each pair I need just the polygone which is further away.Any ideas?I tried the NeighborFinder alrdy, but dont geht my result. Thanks a lot!!!

I’ve been trying to write a DWG that includes a thumbnail preview.Selecting Write Thumbnail Image hasn’t made any difference to the files in windows explorer.Is there a tick to making this feature work?I’ve also looked at other options to generate thumbnail images using tools like the image rasteriser or MapnikRasteriser, but they’ve struggled to generate a good representation of the DWG vector content.Any ideas on an easy workflow to generate thumbnails for DWG content?I’d love to just pull an image from the 2D graphics preview within FME...

I have a workspace that sends data to a url through the HTTP Caller transformer. I want to terminate the workspace if a NULL value exists in a field that is in a table on a SQL database before the data is sent. What is the best way to do this? Do I still need the Creator transformer if I use a Tester? 

I have a table where I have emergency meeting points. Each building has a meeting point, some buildings have many points, here is an example:Building Meet_Points 123 11,12,13 124 16  I would like the table to look like this:Building Meet_Points 123 11 123 12 123 13 124 16  How would I separate those meet points, and make numerous rows of the same building that has each meet point and all the other attributes carry over to the newly made rows and are the same?

Hello forum, This is probably a very silly question, but where do custom transformers (ones downloaded from the Hub) get installed? I ask this because I have downloaded the What3WordsEncoder and What3WordsDencoder transformers from https://hub.safe.com/publishers/safe-lab/transformers/what3wordsencoder and https://hub.safe.com/publishers/safe-lab/transformers/what3wordsdecoder.I’ve transferred the files to the server hosting FME Form, I’ve gone to the folder they’re stored in within  in File Explorer, right-clicked and selected Install. A message appeared saying it installed.  But now if I search in the Transformer Gallery in FME Form they are not found. So, can I instead browse to them? If so, where do they get installed? Thanks,Stuart 

Hello, I have the following JSON file (sample) where by te attributes names are under “Channels” while the data values are under records. This JSON come to me as a API call and have no way of modifying the source. Using FME 2019 {  "deviceID": 12345,  "channels": [    "RecordTime",    "Status",    "Current Total Average Main",    "Current Total Average Load1",    "Voltage Total Average Total",    "PhaseAngle Total Average Main",    "PhaseAngle Total Average Load1",    "Voltage Total Instantaneous Total",    "Current Total Instantaneous Main",    "Current Total Instantaneous Load1",    "PhaseAngle Total Instantaneous Main",    "PhaseAngle Total Instantaneous Load1",    "ModemSignalStrength Total Average Total"  ],  "records": [    {      "recordingTime": "2002-03-03T00:00:00",      "status": "None",      "values": [        2.781,        0,        237.95,        37.4,        0,        238.27,        2.804,        0,        37.66,        0,        14.82      ]    },    {      "recordingTi

I read two obj models, but one of them has a texture displayed as a blend with the other model

I’m trying to create a new value based on the first letter of each word in a string. I tested the regex ‘\b(\w)’ and the returned value is correct, but when I used that regex in the @SubstringRegularExpression(), it only returned the first letter of the first word.@SubstringRegularExpression(@Value(ID),\b(\w)) where ID is “MARKHAM RD/ORANGE BLVD, SANDFORD”. You can see in the regex editor, it is correct. This is the result of the substring 

Is it possible to create features with a null polygon geometry and write to an ESRI file geodatabase?I have some features with known geometry which I write successfully.I would also like to write features with no geometry to the same table and update their geometry by manual editing later.I have tried modifying fme_geometry{0} and fme_geometry but nothing seems to work.I usually get an error like  “can’t write features to and area feature type” I have read through similar questions but don’t seem to have a complete response. It appears it is possible to create a valid null geometry. Thanks go any help.

I am running a call to an Oracle DB based upon an input ID as a feature attribute value coming in from a CSV. There are upwards of 2000 ID’s to process. Initially, that call was running on a per-feature basis; I am now trying to make this more performant by using the IN statement e.g. WHERE ID IN (‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’). I am doing this by aggregating incoming ID’s into one attribute value. Where this falls flat is that there appears to be a limit on items that Oracle can cope with in an ‘IN’ statement, so I figured I would chunk it up into more manageable numbers. My first thought was to create a looping transformer. My conception of this would be that a Counter would increment a Sampler to take the first 500 records (X), then the X+1 group of 500 (e.g. values 501 to 1001), X=2 and so on, until the _matched_records result coming out of SQL Executor was 0, at which point a tester in line would fail. However, Sampler doesn’t support that kind of expression building (as far as I can see). Any id

My workspace is not keeping my user parameters settings. It creates extra blank parameters when I close the User Parameter Editor window, and then my choices become useless at runtime. I’m also not able to delete these extra blank parameters. Downgrading to the stable version of FME Form but wanted to note the bug here.

When using Manual Attribute Definition in the XLSX Writer or FeatureWriter, is there a way to copy the Column Formatting between attributes? I have noticed that if I manually add a new attribute beneath one already formatted it copies the Formatting of the one above. But I was hoping there would be an easy way to set one, and then have it applied to all attributes.

Hi, I am looking into a way to setup the HTTP Caller to Update a record in Salesforce, the writer is not suiltable as this is best for bulk, my JSON has the case ID and teh name of the field that nneds updating.I’m not sure how to setup for updating and not sure how to ensure refresh token works?I have followed this guide, https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407494166029-Connecting-to-Salesforce-in-FMEbut it doesn’t connect, coming up with a network error?

I have been trying to set up a batch process to create dwg files, adding a template based on the respective input file.  I have tried to follow the advice from the links below, but am missing something or what I am doing isn’t quite the same.  At any rate, my workspace fails after trying numerous different configurations.  Published ParametersBatch processing I have attached the two Workspaces.  The goal is to apply a CAD template to it’s respective output file, with the inputs controlled by the WorkspaceRunner parameters. The Workspace that outputs dwgs takes inputs from three sources:  Two different folders of CAD files (one of which also happens to be same as the template but used for a different purpose), and a spreadsheet .  Any insight is appreciated. Thanks.

My dataset contains some river basins polygons, with 1 forestry polygon falling into each one. Each river basin also contains multiple habitat polygons. I am trying to measure the distance (edge to edge) between the forestry polygon and each of the habitat polygons falling within the same river basin. I’ve done some spatial joins to associate each forestry polygon and each habitat polygon to it’s respective river basin, but I’m unsure how to measure the distances between them, while grouping by river_basin_id. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I’m working on an upload process via REST call and I want to use FME to do the upload.For the API I need to provide a list of file names in advance. I want this to just work and I want to be able to use FME’s multiple file picker to allow the user to pick folders, multipler files or just a single file. etc.Does anyone have a good/robust method for getting a full list of the files (and filenames) that this input could be.My initial plan is to split up the input parameter into a list and then figure out what are folders and what are files and for folders I would use a PATH reader to get the files.I guess I need a “MultiFilePathResolver” kind of thing. 

Hi everybody!I have a point layer and a line layer. The line layer consists of connected lines, and at the lines endpoints there is a point from the point layer in the exact same location. I moved the points in the z-direction because their height had to be corrected (new z-values were derieved from a point cloud). Now i also want to move the corresponding line endpoints in z-direction as well so that they again match the points in x, y and z. I guess the AnchoredSnapper with Group Processing could do the job but don’t know how to prepare the data for that. Can anyone help me with this? red: original position of points and lines; green: points moved in z-direction due to height correctionQuestion: How can I make the lines follow the points in z-direction? I am grateful for any advice!

One of my clients is using FME on Linux with only the command line interface and is having some trouble importing database connections. Specifically: they don’t know how to do it on the command line.I can’t find much in the way of documentation for this. I suspect that if it is at all possible it may be through the APPLY_SETTINGS command, but other than that I can see that that exists, I can’t find any indication anywhere on what those settings may be and how to set them.Any clues? Anybody with an old manual somewhere? I do have old installation cd’s and dvd’s going back to FME 2005, but I don’t think I have a computer with a cd or dvd drive anymore 😅 Hoping one of the other long-time users has something stashed away...

Hello forum, I am working on a new API integration. I’ll be using HTTPCaller. The provider has said that their authentication method is ‘bearer token’ However the options in HTTPCaller are Basic, Digest, NTLM, Web Connection, Single Sign-On. Is one of the those options equivalent to bearer token? Thanks,Stuart

Hi, as a newbie in FME, I am using a FME ISO8211 reader to expose some of the attributes for further transformers. However, if all records have to be read, a message “Message #706501 is not present in the message file: Parameters are >< and FME HOME is >C:\Program Files\FME\<” was prompted and the whole process was halted. The FME version I am using is FME2018. Thank you for the kind response!

I have a complicated collection of features stored in mongo db, where a given feature may have multiple unique geometries stored as individual arrays. I would like to use the “Put” Operation in the writer to replace specific features. However when I write to mongo I get two different results (see screenshots of dummy feature with just one example geometry).location.coordinates{} attribute type set to stringlocation.coordinates{} attribute type set to doubleThe desired outcome would look like this:Referencing other community posts on related matters:After reviewing those other community posts I think I am going to need an alternative method to what I had started to develop. But I wanted to see if anyone had any ideas or experience with mongo writers to say otherwise.Thanks

Dear, I want to link all the lightposts to the nearby road segment. I used a buffer around the road segments and then Neigborfinder to do this. Now I am afraid that some lightposts are not linked to the roadsegment but I am not eager to increase the buffer or neigborfinder because maybe lightposts that should not be linked will be included. Is there maybe another way to bypass this? Or some tips you could give me?