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Hi. I have the JSON data below and I have managed to expose attributes from this using the JSONFragmenter but am stuck with trying the extract the thirdparty.names from this record. As there are multiple names in this nested array I need to extract them either as a comma separated attribute. i.e. Leicestershire County Council, Mr J Tomms. Or as a list that I can work from. I cant seem to expose this attribute due to it’s nesting. Any help with the correct transformer and configuration would be great. Currently using FME Form 2023.2.2 but can update to 2024 if it is easier.           {            "_index" : "xxx",            "_type" : "_doc",            "_id" : "667951b042fcaa46307d1935",            "_score" : null,            "_source" : {               "coi_num" : 68902,               "engagement" : {                  "mail" : "Bob@home.com",                  "objectguid" : "8dc75819103e

Hi,I have some utility pipes that have been modelled by a sub contractor. When I bring them into FME they are surfaces. This doesn’t surprise me, though they area actually shapes. Can anyone thing of a way to build these surfaces into solids? Say I have a cylinder for a pipe. It comes in as a surface but should topologically be a shape. I wish to convert itI also wish to find the centre line of these solids, and their diameters which I haven’t been able to do eitherAny help would be appreciated. I have the 2023 versionThanks

Hi! Sorry for my english. I have a problem with  "collapsed parameter/option" on the “user parameters manager” or “FME options” for exemple. All the options that can be collapsed doesn’t display very well and sometime I don’t see there are a suite. For exemple, if I don’t scroll, I don’t see that “Number configuration” had an option “Numeric precision”. Is it possible to had something like a button  or an other way to open an other windows?Thanks !

Hi i am trying to read lots of excel using the feature reader transformer,  passing in the locations form a directory path reader. all the excel have different tab names but the data always start on row 10. As the dataset is a file path the option for telling it to start on row 10 are blanked out. anyone know how i get around this?Many thanks,Andy  

So I have a workspace that reads a DWG, and writes another one after setting viewport attributes according to this article: https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407658483341-Working-with-AutoCAD-LayoutsHowever, even though I’ve set autocad_viewport_view_center_x, autocad_viewport_view_center_y, autocad_viewport_center_point_x and autocad_viewport_center_point_y to display the view at the center of the page, I keep getting the viewport centered at 0, 0 in paper space, so my viewport content is centered close to the lower left corner of the page on output.  I have quintuple-checked that all the required viewport attributes are set correctly.  It seems like the writer is simply ignoring my viewport center settings.I’ve been banging on this for

I have an SDE file I created in ArcPro that works in ArcPro, but whenever I try to add it as a reader in FME (Data Interoperability, ArcPro version 3.2.1) I get a simple error of “MULTI_READER reader: GEODATABASE_SDE reader: An unknown expectation occurred.I tested other SDE connections and they work fine in FME and ArcPro. I have tried generating a new SDE file and connecting with an embedded connection and an database connection in FME. Any other ideas on how to get this connection working? Also, it was working until this past weekend. This is a new issue we have not had before. 

Hallo FME community, I am new to this FME software and got a task.  I have 100 city folders with single .jpg and .jgw file inside each folders. .jgw has x and y coordinates of a reference system. Can anyone tell me workflow with necessary transformers to select each jpg with their .jgw and create their own destination folder and save the Geotiffs in individual folders. 

I am working on a process to read in dwg files, parse the text and assign metadata attributes.  I have one file that I am using that had missing xrefs.  Using RealDwg Reader, it worked fine.  But, when I bound the xrefs, it gave me the following error after reading in most of the file: AutoCAD Reader: An error occurred for dataset '<filepath>\FIRESPRINKLER.dwg', in function RealDWGReader::processDimBlockCommon: 'eNullObjectId' I purged and also made a .dxf file, but still got the error.  I am using FME 2023.2.4Using the regular AutoCAD dwg/dxf Reader, it worked no problem.  I suspect there is some entity in the CAD file that the RealDwg Reader did not like, but after multiple purges and audits, I can’t find anything to delete.  If I am going to publish this Workspace, I need to know if there are things to look for that would help choose the correct reader.  The file is in AutoCAD version 2018.Questions: Is this error related

Surely there’s a better way than this???I have a json file with lots of attributes hidden in lists. So I use 5 ListExploders to expose those attributes.The ultimate goal is to then combine all of those attribute fields into one massive table, using the unique identifier field of “NODE_ID”.As you can see in the screenshot the Node list then feeds into AttributeFilter to reduce the number of features a little.So far so good… but this is where it goes a bit mad. I then need to combine all of those 5 exposed lists into one table. FeatureJoiners are then used to try to merge the datasets together.Those in the left hand bookmark are joined using an inner join to

I’ve got an FME workbench that picks up 2 seperate SQL tables in the two readers and the data is sorted and the filtered. It then needs to be output to an Excel template containing 2 tab sheets and save the data from each SQL table onto the separate sheets.Test copy of workbench looks like this:This first attempt only outputted the data from the first reader onto both tab sheets in excel.Then did this:So this did pick up both readers but instead of saving the one excel template with the data outputted to both tab sheets, it created to excel files with the data being populated on the tab sheet.Essentially I want to pick up both sql readers, sort them and

This script works, but leaves out the geometry and original attributes.  My hunch is there’s something wrong with the close(self) function, but I’m stumped.  The code takes a feature id number and list of nearby ids from a NeighborFinder list, where it matches them up and assigns a _group_id attribute to  use with the Aggregator.  Really, it should be part of NeighborFinder.  The way I had been grouping features is to use two or more AttributeCreators and assign a common Id from the feature and id list.  It’s a hassle because you end up with duplicate features.  Very inelegent. I have seen a few posts on missing attributes, but I can’t see how they apply to my code: import fmeimport fmeobjectsfrom collections import defaultdictclass FeatureProcessor(object): def __init__(self): self.og_ids = [] self.closest = [] self.lines = []

I was installing a Python module and pipeline (spaCy and en_core_web_sm.whl) into FME2023.2.4.  spaCy installed fine, but pip would not install the pipeline and I got this message: Since then, my FME 2023.2.4 will not work, at all.  No translations will work.  I made a blank Workspace with just a Creator and still immediately got:  “Error running translation”.What’s going on?  Did I break it?  Do I need to reinstall? My FME2023.2 works fine with the same Workspace.Any help is appreciated.

FME(R) 2023.1.1.0 (20230928 - Build 23631 - WIN64) FME FormHello,I have a set of QAQC workspaces that I’m trying to run in sequence with workspace runners. I have a parent workspace that, using scripted parameters, generates a bunch of output file names where I’ll write the results of the various workspaces, and runs workspace 1, then workspace 2 then workspace 3. I only want to run workspace 3 if my tests ‘Pass’ in workspace 2. So I write out a CSV file called _qaqc_status.csv in workspace 2 with ‘Pass’ or ‘Fail’ as the only attribute; the file location is in with the data and is variable.The problem comes when trying to read the parameterized file name ($(QAQC_STATUS_CSV)) with a FeatureReader; I get  the following error message   Worker 27572 > CSV reader: Failed to open file '' for reading. Etc, etc.and my CSV doesn’t show up on the output ports. If I hard code the FeatureReader dataset to an existing csv it works fine.Any he

I am trying to join a SharePoint table with no geometry to a set of polygons (about 2000 rows). The table has unique project titles for for each polygon that I want to use as a join field; but the polygons themselves are stored as fgdb files deeper within the SharePoint file structure and they are a non-standardized legacy dataset that I am trying to aggregate (hence why I am transferring them all over to SharePoint as the first step).  When writing the fgdb’s I am also exposing the file path as the fme dataset field, so the unique project id’s in the table are a part of that file path. I am trying to use the string replacer to replace all the characters leading up to, and after, the project title with nothing so that only the project title is exposed. Sadly I can’t just count the characters as there are different folders within the file path with different names and character lengths so now I am trying to come up with a more complicated regex expression

Hi, I have a geojson including an attribute with datestamp values. An example value is 202410231836 (year, month, date, hours, minutes - yyyy mm dd hh mm). These are important as I’m running testFilters with it.  However I would also like to create a parallel attribute showing an easy to read UK date value from it. So, 202410231836 would convert to ‘31/10/2024 18:36’.I’ve been looking at DateTimeConverter transformer but couldn't work out what import format to use and what output format to pick - assuing that DateTimeConverter is the one to use.Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks,Stuart 

Hello Forum, I have a workspace which reads in a tab file with a start_date attribute and end_date attribute. These are populated with datestamp values (e.g.: 202410281200). That reader flows to a TestFilter which determines if today is before the start date. If so, these records go to a new output writer for sites not yet started. If today is beyond the start date. These then go on to a second testFilter, which determines if the end date has been reached or not. If the end_date has been reached, then this goes to an output writer for historic sites If the end_date has not yet been reached, then this goes to a output writer for live sites. These test Filters are doing exactly what I want them to do.

I need to select the lines that fall entirely within a specific polygon and update their data with the respective polygon name. I attempted to use a spatial filter, but it didn't work as expected. When a line intersects two polygons, the filter selects and attributes the line to only one of the polygons, which is causing issues. I also tried using the NeighborFinder without success. I've attached a screenshot to illustrate a line segment that should not be selected within this polygon.

Hello,I have a script which is written like this:import osparent = os.path.abspath('..')file= os.path.abspath('../file_08-06-2024.xls')return fileI would like to replace the date with an attribute defined in a attributeCreator transformer which could change and i write this :file=os.path.abspath('../file_$(date).xls')When i run, it doesn't work. Can you help me ?Thank you.

Hi,A very random question. My son has recently started to like making mazes out of Lego for marbles. I was wondering if there was a way in FME I could perhaps randomly generate a maze?I know there are a bunch of generators on the internet, however they do not account for a cell size of 2x2, to accommodate a marble, or a wall thickness of 1. I see there is a generator on FME Hub, but it also doesn’t work because it calls a webpage that doesn’t exist anymore. So I thought perhaps I might have a go but I can’t work out a way to use any maze generation algorithms. I don’t know python, but I’m reasonably handy at desktopIf anything glaringly obvious comes to mind I’d love to hear itThanks

I have a workspace in FME Form 2021. It includes a writer for Automation. This writer creates the keys in the Automation I have created in FME Flow 2021. These keys are based on 4 Attributes I created and renamed in my workspace. When I change the attribute names, run the workspace, and upload it to FME Flow, they are reflected in the writer but are not written to the Automation I created that includes this workspace in FME Flow. The Automation still includes the old key names. ...but...after I run/upload the workspace as explained in the above paragraph, then delete the writer and re-add it into the workspace then run it/upload it again, this then it updates the keys in my Automation.  Has anyone else encountered a situation like this?  

Hello,I was hoping to get your input into how to speed up the following workflow:Read an Excel File with several sheets from a Network Share → Output each sheet to a different output port → Create a CSV file for each output port in a network share.I already have the above working, the problem is that CSV writer is taking  a loooong time writing the files. My connection to the network is pretty good so it is not a matter of latency between my PC and the network share (at least I don’t think so).Does anyone have any idea on how to improve the writing speed of the CSV files or what to do improve the overall time it takes for the workflow to complete?.Thanks in advance.RZ.-

Hi forum, I’m trying to do something I successfully used many times before. But for some reason it’s not working this time. I’ve delved into it and done research but I can’t work it out. It’s a really simple thing.  I just need to read in three csv files with identical schemas into one FeatureReader. I have a Creator, connected to a FeatureReader. In the FeatureReader I’ve selected CSV as the format. In Dataset I selected the three dots (…), browsed to the data source location and then selected the three files. So, now in Dataset I have this: "E:\FME temp source data\Scratch\TestPoints\one.csv","E:\FME temp source data\Scratch\TestPoints\three.csv","E:\FME temp source data\Scratch\TestPoints\two.csv"   In FeatureReader I have ‘One per feature type’ selected in Output ports. But, when this is read in, only one output port is created in the FeatureRader. That one output port is cal

I’m trying to connect to our SAP Datasphere but can’t establish a working connection. The settings and parameters are similar to the ones i used with were i could get a connection. There is a Proxy Server involved.Any ideas what i have to do different to get working Database connection?Not shown in the screenshot is the parameter proxyPassword 

I am trying to clip a ECW raster by a rectangle polygon but the inside output is incomplete. Only a small slice of the ECW is in the output as you can see below.Is there something I am doing wrong? FME 2023.2Thank you for your help 

I have a large Workspace that processes multiple .dwg files along with a single Excel and .dbf file to generate one Excel file with multiple sheets. This works fine when I have feature caching on, but obviously takes a long time.  When I try to run it without feature caching, the feature output is a fraction of what it should be, but still gets data from all the multiple dwg files selected, as opposed to grabbing from one file. The only thing that comes to mind is that without feature caching, it does not wait until all features are processed.  So, what am I missing?  Is there a ‘WaitUntilAllFeaturesAreProcessed’ transformer or setting? Or, should my approach be some flavor of batch processing?  I haven’t seen anything in this forum that matches my situation. Any insight is appreciated. Thanks,-Loren