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I'm working on a workflow to convert a DWG file to KML file. I noticed that DWG files may contain Autodesk (ACAD) and/or Civil3D type features, so I added both Readers to my workspace to handle both. Features coming from the Civil3D Reader do not convert to KML well. See attached screenshots. I want to replicate how the Civil3D 2 KML looks. This was performed using the Civil3D Export To KML tool. The FME conversion looks very different. I tried toggling the Explode Blocks To Entities in the Civil3D Entities setting, but it didn't seem to make a difference.  Overall, I want my FME conversion tool to produce a KML that looks just like the drawing does in Civil3D. I'm looking into ways to Explode or Drop the drawing so that it breaks down to simple linework if that makes sense. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Has safe adopted the standard for related tables in geopackage (writing/reading)?If so, how do I go about it?

Environment - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Docker Host, running FME Server 2018.1.1-20190122 images I am receiving an error - There was an error submitting the job - when trying to run a workspace within FME Sever. Digging through the FME Server logs I find the following error within the Resources > Logs > tomcat > fmeserverweb > localhost current log.07-Mar-2019 09:05:10.300 SEVERE [http-nio-8080-exec-1] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke Servlet.service() for servlet [JobRunnerForm] in context with path [/fmeserver] threw exception java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused (Connection refused)    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)    at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:350)    at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:206)    at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:188)    at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:3

I really try to keep things nice and organized, but apparently all it takes is opening one bookmark and all heck breaks loose!!! This happens all the time and it's really straining my relationship with FME. I was working on another part of the workspace before noticing the chaos. I can't just hit undo. If anybody has any tips, it would be much appreciated. With Dynamo, I don't have this problem. Devs, are you listening?

When writing to a csv file with the following settingsIf writing a value such as 18" pipe the field is written to the csv file as18" pipeThis is different behaviour to the 2015 writer where this would be represented as"18"" pipe"It looks like the 2019 writer doesn't consider the presence of a single quote character to warrant the field value to be quoted (although i would consider it to be an unsafe character)Is this expected? 

Following some helpful advice from Shannon in the FME Customer Success team, in place of a jobs board on the FME site I was advised to post a current position we are recruiting for here. We are looking for a seasoned FME Professional with Desktop and Cloud skills to support a team of geoscientists and help mentor 5 or so other FME users within the office. The role within Landmark Halliburton is to continue to develop our suite of geoscience products which include a range of 2D and 3D continental and global scale geological representations of the Earth - see Exploration Insights for more information.Within the role you will be working on further innovations to the product range and helping to shape the direction of product delivery. If you have OL3 and GeoServer experience as well that would be a fantastic bonus.If you are interested please apply through:this linkThe role is permanent and based in the Oxford office in the UK, the salary range will be between £50 - 70k depending on exper

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Hi Community, does anybody know a way to force FeatureWriter to wait for completion of a writing task of a feature type before the next writing is triggered? I'm trying to delete features on a database (Oracle Non Spatial) with constraints on the affected tables. So I must enforce a specific delete order. Currently I use a rather complex mechanism with mutiple FeatureWriter transformers in chain and would like to tie them down into one FetureWriter.  If a FeatureWriter could be configured in that way it would also be great to do the action within a single transaction. Is this possible too?

We have an automation that runs and outputs a report result as a HMTL page using the data streaming service. Our testing did not have any issues, but in our production system, it appears if the job is queued, the web client times out, although eventually the job completes on server. If there are not jobs in the queue, or the job is a quick job it completes without error. Does anyone have any ideas on why this is occurring?FME server 2019 with 3 engines.

I want to simply add a folder with 3 subfolders to an S3 bucket. I'm using the S3Connector transformer and it seems you need a file to Upload to an S3 folder to create a folder, whereas, it seems to me that you can't only add a folder w/o having a file to upload it. I tried adding a csv file to each subfolder to setup my folder structure in S3 and that works to get the main folder w/ 3 subfolders each containing an empty csv file. I then added 3 more S3Connector transformers w/ the Delete option to remove the csv files from each subfolder thinking then I would have the desired folder setup without any files in them. This doesn't work because when you delete the only csv file from the subfolder, it also removes subfolder leaving nothing left in S3. Is there a way to create the desired s3 folder structure without adding a file? Or is it possible to delete the file from the subfolder without removing the subfolder?

What is the FME syntax required to assign a <null> value? Inputting <null> seems to return the string '<null>' and not a bonefide <null> (greyed out FME version). Some fields offer <null> in the drop down, but some do not and require the user to input, such as...Thank you.TylerFME WorkBench 2021.0

Hello,In one field, I want to keep all string values matching the regex:\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}and relegate all strings NOT matching that string to:<null> See following image for my attempt where I developed ^(?!\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}).* as the negation of \\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2} and set replacement to <null>. This did not work. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!Tyler

Hi,I am translating a DGN file to File GDB using dynamic schema.In DGN reader, i can see so many extra attributes like attribute.color, attribute.length etc. I want to ignore those attributes in file GDB writer.I am using attribute keeper but it is not working in case of Dynamic Schema, Please guide.Thanks in advance.

The workbench is checking where lines, points and polygons intersect with 2 other datasets (one a polygon dataset, the other a line). The workbench worked when initially built but after saving and coming back it no longer runs with the following message being displayed.  Starting translation...Too many recursive macro substitutions -- line currently is: `OS_MASTERMAP_WATER_NETWORK_GML_2_DATASET "$(SourceDataset_OS_MASTERMAP_WATER_NETWORK_GML_2)"'Program TerminatingTranslation FAILED. I've attached an image of what the workbench is looking to do. Inputs are mid/mif and gz. Outputs are xls and geodatabase. Any idea why this might be happening and how to fix would be greatly appreciated.

I am trying to create a new attribute for each element in a list. The tables below show the desired outcome. Here is an explanation.For every item in the MASTER list I am loading its corresponding detail list and saving it as a parameter. I want to take the corresponding list and transform it to the example below. I could accomplish this with a database view or query, but would like to be able to do it in FME. I can assume that all ITEM_NAME values are known, which means all the possible attributes that I need to add could be added ahead of time if needed. Note that for every record in the master list, it won't have all of the possible ITEM_NAME values. My process right now is very brute force, and I am thinking there may be a transformer I haven't found that does this or a variation of this easily.  MASTER ListIDNAME1Bill2Sally DETAIL ListMASTER_IDDETAIL_IDITEM_NAMETYPECOLOR1AShirtLongRed1BPantsJeansBlue2CShirtShortGreen2DPantsDressPurple2EHatBaseballRedTransformed Mas

To transform a 3d model into a straight line, need matrices and quaternions? Who has a good method, I hope to explain, thank you

Is there an easy way to remove accents from characters that are contained in an attribute?

The Scaler transformer looks to be the sort of thing I need, but seems to scale the entire feature, rather than just the top face. I seem to remember, years back, a tutorial where 3D features were deconstructed, altered, and re-combined again, so maybe there's a solution that works like that? Thanks.

I'm trying to create a conditional parameter value in a WorkspaceRunner, based on an attribute value. I can do this, as the WorkspaceRunner is allowing me to fill in conditional values for the parameters, however, every time I click OK and reopen my WorkspaceRunner, all these conditional values are reset and again replaced by their hard coded values, as read from the model that the WorkspaceRunner is calling.Is there a reason for this behaviour or is this just a bug?I'm using FME 2018.1 build 18547 WIN64.

Hello,I would like to make an FME Server app which allows the user to download data from Resources folder from FME Server (these files are html files generated by another automation).Now, in my workspace I am using "Directory and Files pathnames" to get the path to all these .html files located in different folders. I am blocked now because I have no idea how to continue my workspace to download the files. Any ideas? Thank youNicu

So, I'm looking at this question on StackExchange.The user has color blindness and has trouble reading error messages in the FME log, because they are colored red.I've filed an enhancement request and we'll work on adding those to our special color blindness theme.But, in the meantime I was wondering if we could do something else to help. They don't want to have to copy/paste the log to check for errors. So I was thinking perhaps a shutdown python script that automatically extracted error messages? Or even a script that just popped up a dialog saying "there has been an error"?Any thoughts? My Python skills are pretty limited. And yes, I just tweeted recently how I never needed them, because of FME. Ironic (or perhaps moronic) is the word you're looking for!NB: I'll treat it as a challenge and award extra reputation points for really good solutions.

Hi,I created a FME workspace in which I connect to a web service published on AGOL. The service consists of a point feature layer (inventory layer) and a linked table (inspection table), used with the Field Maps application to perform regular inspections. The main objectives are among others:Extract the weekly inspection results in Excel formatArchive inspection data as an existing file Geodatabase, but keeping only inspection table results for all subsequent inspectionsThen truncate the inspection table in AGOL.The first goal has been successfully achieved, unfortunately I am struggling to complete the next steps of copying the data from the inspection table to the File Geodatabase and then truncating the results from the inspection table after the execution of the first step.Could someone show me how to implement the steps to copy data from inspection table to file geodatabase and delete data from table in AGOL?Thank you for your help!Regards,

Attribute Splitter and List Exploder? or is there a better way?

I have a 2016 workspace that I'm upgrading to 2021.2.5. The basic workflow is SQLExecutor -> GeometryReplacer -> Clipper with an AOI -> FileGDB.What comes out of the DB is the geodb_type which helps to determine features get routed either the polyline or annotation feature class. GeometryReplacer is used to convert from WKT so that features can be clipped with the AOI. From SQLExecutor, geodb_type has values (geodb_polyline, geodb_arc, geodb_annotation), but when it comes out of GeometryReplacer, geodb_type values are all missing. So after clipping, everything gets routed to the polyline fc, which will produce this error: "Cannot write a non-linear feature to a polyline feature class." [geometryreplacer_geodb_type.png] My workaround is to use GeometryFilter to route the features + a new AttributeCreator to hard-code geodb_type values to ensure the right features are created in FileGDB, rather than rely on geodb_type values. [geometryfilter.png] I've tried to

I have a list of codes (over 100) in a CSV and want to use a test for each code in a TestFilter. Is there a way to load them all at the same time rather than cutting and pasting individually?