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The Clipper can subset a raster by geospatial extents, while the RasterSubsetter can both subset and pad a raster by number of pixels, but is there a simple way to pad a raster to a given polygon/geospatial extent?My two ideas are to eitherUse the RasterSubsetter to pad the raster by a large amount of pixels and then the Clipper to bring it back to size.OrRasterize the polygon to the same resolution as the image with a background/NoData value and mosaic the two together.Neither seem particularly efficient. 

Hi there!I get tons of these messages from some workspaces created with FME 2020 (in Norway) and now  migrated to FME 2024: The Startup Python Script changed the current FME process locale from 'Norwegian Bokmål_Norway.utf8' to 'C' and FME has restored it back to 'Norwegian Bokmål_Norway.utf8'. It is undefined behavior to change locale and doing so may cause unexpected errors. For more information, visit http://fme.ly/PythonLocaleErrorI have read the post http://fme.ly/PythonLocaleError carefully, but it does not give me anything. I have nothing such as import arcpy or locale.setlocale() in my Python-code. The example message above is particulary strange, I don’t even have a Python Startup Script. So something is absolutely confusing here.No Startup ScriptAnother example:PythonFactory script changed the current FME process locale from 'Norwegian Bokmål_Norway.utf8' to 'C' and FME has restored it back to 'Norwegian Bokmål_Norway.utf8'. It is undefined behavior to change locale and doing

Before I file a bug report, I thought I would post here.  I used to be able to right-click in the Data Preview and get the ‘Zoom to Selected Feature’ for the CAD geometry.  The last few versions of FME have not had that available.  What gives?Please see the attached.Currently using the latest build:  FME(R) 2025.2.2.0 (20260106 - Build 25827 - WIN64)

Hi everyone I have been having some issues with the new ArcGIS feature service writer. When using this writer in combination with a change detector, it doesn't seem to update or insert any of my changed records and i have been getting weird behaviour all over the place. Let me preface this by saying that everything works as expected on the old portal feature service writer, it's when switching to the new feature service writer that weird things start to happen.  Under the advanced parameters I have enabled the following fields to adress the first problem I encountered (namely that the writer no longer seems to care that global id is a read only field and skips it for writing):  Afterwards, I ran into the next set of errors:All global id's for the update actions are filled and added as an attribute. I don't really get what i am doing wrong, but furthermore I really don't understand why the behaviour seems to be so different in the new arcgis feature servicewriter. Why do i have to jump

I have a csv spreadsheet of arcgis server feaureservice urls with the featureclass, name attribute , and projection attribute. This list is long and has multiple servers and I want to pass this list into my workspace and have the FeatureReader transformer read the url and featureservice with a spatial filter for my area of interest (AOI) and then clip out the data I need inside the AOI and only keep the attribute name field in the result, run some additional analysis, then write out the clipped results to a GDB, then move to the next record url in the spreadsheet.. My plan is to reproject the AOI to each projection listed in the csv and then pass the AOI as the creator to the FeatureReader transformer to only read based on the spatial filter. This works great if I do separate feature readers for each URL but that makes for a gigantic workspace and isn’t very dynamic as the spreadsheet and AOI changes frequently. Is there a way to pass a csv list to the FeatureReader in this way and acc

I am encountering an error in FME Workbench when closing the GENERIC Reader. During execution, the translation fails with a transcoding error related to a binary string, and the program terminates unexpectedly. The error message indicates that FME is unable to transcode a binary string containing non-UTF characters (apparently related to a shapefile) into another encoding. As a result, the translation process stops with a “Translation FAILED” message. This issue occurs consistently and prevents successful completion of the workspace. Any guidance on how to handle encoding or binary data in this scenario would be appreciated. Menssage Log:NullAttributeMapperFactory (NullAttributeMapperFactory): Transcoding the binary string '1e\xA8\x83\x16\x00\xE8\xBB\xE9\x96\x1DfH\xC0 -\xB12\x1A9:\xC0\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x001\x01\x00\x00\x00\x09\x00\x00\x00shapefile' to another encoding can not be doneOGCGEOPACKAGE writer: Committing transaction of 1451 features to feature types 'AREA_IMOVEL_1'...Closi

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We have a workbench that runs daily via windows task scheduler which reads data from an Oracle database and ArcGIS Online and then writes to SQL Server. The process has run for some time but the other day there were some issues with the output dataset. On viewing the log file, it appeared that only 2000 of aprximately 50,000 records were read from AGOL. However, there were no error messages to say that it han’t read the whole file. Is there an easy way to build something into the workbench to sent a notification email to check that the whole file has been read in to prevent this issue happening again? Thanks

Hello, thereI would like to prepend one dataset with other datasets and return other datasets as output. Please refer to the screenshot below, this should be done with only one workbench. Highly appreciate your thoughts.  

Good morning.After an upgrade from FME 2024 to FME 2025.1, there is a workspace using the SharepointOnlineConnector that is throwing this error:176 2025-12-18 07:15:19 | Message Type: fme::internal::_v0::py::Exception 177 2025-12-18 07:15:19 | Python Exception <ValueError>: unknown locale: en-US 178 2025-12-18 07:15:19 | PythonFactory failed to load python symbol `fmepy_microsoft_sharepoint.connector.SharepointOnlineConnector'. An outdated FME packaged transformer may be in use. Please check Utilities > FME Options > FME Packages to confirm that all FME Packages are up to date Other workspaces using the same connector are working fine.I have tried to do a clean removal following these steps: https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/31697273147533-Introduction-to-FME-Packages#h_01JDX0A9AV157VR7QHVRZ7G03WBut the error persists. The package in FME Form and Flow is updated to the last version available: safe.microsoft-sharepoint [1.9.1].As the locale error happens be

Hello everyoneIn 2025.1 FME Form I can use the Civil 3d reader, to read extended data from a dwg file just fine. Within the reader I just have to make sure the option for  “Civil 3D and CAD entities” is on and leave the other settings as default.The challenge comes on writing extended data. I can write ‘object data’ just fine but I cannot figure out how to write ‘extended data’. The picture below shows where I want to be able to write data to within the Civil 3D interface, from FME. Any insights would be valuable.Thank you

Hi,I have 79 single-band rasters, each a step in a time series, with Int8 values that reprepresent a risk class. I want to get the max value for each cell and use a RasterMosaicker to achieve that. Then I use a RasterToPolygonCoercer to convert to polygons for further analysis. My problem is that converting the raster from the RasterMosaicker is extremely slow and performance demanding compared to converting the individual raster I have before the mosaicker (the timesteps are converted in a matter of seconds whereas the mosaicked raster takes in the range of an hour or more). This is an example of my workspace:Why is it so much slower to convert the mosaicked raster? As far as I can see they have the same properties and dimensions. It does have more data but not by much and still most of the cells are nodata. Is there a faster way to achieve the same thing or am I missing something? Thanks! 

Hello Forum, I have two polygon datasets read into a FME Form workspace: Dataset 1: Super Output Area (SOAs): This is where the entire authority area is divided into 165 SOAs. No part of our authority area is not covered by a SOA. Dataset 2: Air Quality Focus Areas (AQFAs): These are specific areas for a particular purpose. Only selected parts of the authority area are covered by an AQFA.  Datasets 1 and 2 are entirely different and do not share boundaries or nest etc. If that happens anywhere it is entirely coincidental. I need to know what percentage of each SOA intersects (overlaps) with an AQFA area. Some SOAs are going to be fully outside an AQFA. Some SOAs will be partially within an AQFA. Some SOAs will be fully within an AQFA. I want to know what percentage of each SOAs is within an AQFA. The results would be added as a new attribute to the SOA dataset as a percentage value (0-100). I know that using AreaOnAreaOverlayer I can chop up the SOAs where they intersect with AQFAs. Bu

EDIT - Solved, see comment below regarding using the term “Bearer”.Hi,I am delving into the world of Flow Hosted. I am undertaking a Proof of Concept to discover the pros and cons. Concept: I’ve bult a Flow app (note: Flow, not Flow Hosted) to drop a random file into an Azure BLOb storage. I then have a workbench to monitor the BLOb, and when a new file is detected I want to start my currently “paused” Flow Hosted Instance to fire-up and inspect the newly arrived data and report back to say it has found it!It seems that my best approach is to use HTTPCaller in my workbench to use the PUT method and the details copied across from here: FME Flow Hosted API (I can launch the instance from the API page so I know it works using PUT/instances/{instance_id}/action/start) but I am struggling to get the HTTPCaller configured so that it will start the paused instance.I need some help configuring this transformer please. This is how I have it set up, the Request URL features the api.fmecloud link

With the new spatial definition option in the FeatureWriter, it appears that Attribute Definition cannot be reverted to Automatic after first setting the Spatial Definition? In my case the format is set to PostGIS. Is this expected behavior? Am currently running FME Form 2025.1.1.0, Build 25623.

Hi, has anyone encountered this issue with 2025.1? Or am I doing something wrong? 

Hi There,I am using a Text-FeatureReader to process .csv for input into a geocoder.  The problem is that these user-created csv contains Line Breaks and the addresses candidates cannot be read into the geocoder or even the Text-FeatureReader (please see attached grapic)...  I have a StringReplacer ready to fix the issue downstream but the problem is that the TextReader can not read and pass along the Line Break data (it goes missing) and I do not see any settings within the Text-FeatureReader itself to handle the string replacement.  --FYI I am using a Text-FeatureReader instead of a CSV-Reader because the data schema is always unknown.  Any help would be super appreciated.  Thank you!.

Reading Utility Network Data in a FeatureReader with an SDE connection with resolve domains and resolve subtypes ticked.Domains can be applied different on each field dependent on subtype, but it looks like only those fields that are set to domains on the Unknown subtype are exposed on the reader. Subtypes that have domain fields applied to other fields, have these attributes resolved but they remain unexposed. Is this a known issue?

I am trying to create a webservice to access Sharepoint. FME has been registered in Azure but when I try to set up the connection the conditional access policy blocks my connection.It looks like it has something to do with the way the http user client provides info to Azure. With the FME default http user agent you just get a blocking error, with the system default http user agent you get this: It looks like the http User agent does not provide the device ID (apparaat-id): Not available (niet beschikbaar). The conditional access policy demands a registrered device so it blocks this connection.I can make a Azure connection directly from Chrome or Edge in other apps. what is the way to a solution for this problem? 

I need to assign a z-value to 2d points snapped along a 3d line.My steps  anchoredsnapper to snap the 2d points to 3d lineChopper to extract the vertex of  3d line create vertex of 3d lineNeighborFinder to find the closed vetex (of 3d line) to my 2d points   but now the question is how can be sure that the nearest vertex belong to the lines where my points are snapped ?  In red a point without z value but if I increase the maximun distance of NeighborFinder the risk is to assign the wrong z value (I mean the z value of the other line) So at the end my goal is to assign the z value to the points starting from the line where these points are snapped  (sorry for bad explanation...) thx for support Francesco

Hi everyone,I’m working with the JSONUpdater transformer in FME and need to add a key called layerDefinition to my JSON. The goal is to have:"layerDefinition": {}as an actual empty object, not:"layerDefinition": "{}" // stringor"layerDefinition": nullHere’s what I tried:Value Type = Plain Text, Value = {} → Result is "{}" (string). Value Type = JSON/XQuery, Value = {} → Result is null. Value Type = JSON/XQuery, Value = json:object() or map {} → The key doesn’t appear at all in the output.My JSON path is correct (json["operationalLayers"][0]), and the update type is Insert into Object.Question:Is there a way in FME to insert an empty JSON object using JSONUpdater without resorting to a string or null? Or is the only workaround to use AttributeCreator + JSONFragmenter or JSONTemplater?Any advice or examples would be greatly appreciated!

I’m using FME 2024 without any issues related to fanout. However, after installing the 2025 version, I’m facing a problem where the fanout is not working as expected. This seems to be a software bug.I am using a Creator to write shapefiles with folder fanout. Based on an attribute value, the data should be written into separate folders. But currently, it is writing only to one folder ("Low"), while the other two folders ("Medium" and "High") remain empty. Attached test1 fmw file.The Shapefile Writer is skipping features and showing the following warning message:“Shapefile writer: Ignoring feature with unexpected feature type 'High_priority_data'... Last line repeated 19 times ...”In FME 2024, this workflow works perfectly and writes to all the folders as expected. I believe others may also be experiencing the same issue in the 2025 version.

We have FME Form/Workbench installed on some of our Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) machines, and it works fine overall. There is this recurring issue where the Connection Storage access is lost between each session. This is disruptive, and not always apparent, which wastes time and effort troubleshooting. In 2025.1.2.0, navigating to Web Connections under FME Options shows this each time:And navigating to the Workspace Defaults section yields:My connection storage is a Shared Database, which I thought was part of the problem, but I have more recently learned that a colleague of mine is using the default Personal Database connection storage and is also having the same failure to decrypt data between AVD sessions.I’ve searched around the Community and the web some, and am familiar with Changes to Connection Storage in FME Form 2024 – FME Support Center and the list of known issues, but was unable to find anything related to this. Has anyone else run into recurring connection decryption fail

Okay, hear me out 😄In december we’ll be doing a webinar about Best Practices, but because it’s a bit of a tradition to make the last webinar of the year a fun one we’re going to call it the Worst (Best) Practices webinar. So we’re looking for workspaces that are complex, undocumented, badly designed with renamed transformers.Way back in the day the training materials included the Chamber of Workspace Horrors Powerpoint, that’s the kind of stuff I’m looking for.Feel free to reach out to me privately, anonimity is guaranteed 😃(Normally we do our webinars in Dutch, but depending on the response we can also do this one in English, so if you’re interested in that also please let us know!!!)

Goodmorning! I want to write a dataset with the postgis writer to GeoServer, but the result gives errors.  Process: A reader of municipal boundaries, and a reader with fire hydrants, the fire hydrants gets clipped on the boundaries layer, and then i want to write it to Geoserver. The postGIS writer says its succesfull, but when i inspect the layer in QGIS, there is no data, and i get the error: there is no item in geometry_colums. What have i done wrong in the postGIS writer? Can anyone help me?  Thanks in advance!