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Hello.I'm working on FME workbench 2014. I stumbled upon an issue when creating a writer. It seems like I can't put in a name of an user attribute that has more than 10 characters. If I put in a longer name, FME automatically reduces it to 10. Is there a way to fix this?Regards,Bjorn M

Good Morning All, I'm running FME desktop 2015 and have created 10 custom transformers (10 Canvas that i chain together in the main canvas). How do i reorder the canvas or tabs of the work bench . Currently my workbench tab/canvas order Start/Main/CustomerTransformer3/CustomTranformer2/CustomTranformer7 i want it like Start/Main/CustomerTransformer1/CustomTranformer2/CustomTranformer3 etc. Am i missing something simple ? Thanks Steve

Hello, We OCRd an invoice and we want to split it into attributes for further analysis.The input is: Overzicht mobiele bundels Bundel Verbruik / Beschikbaar Eenheid 0498/00.00.00 Mobile Bis Pack 10 / 10000 Minutes Mobile Bis Pack 45 / 2048 Mega Bytes 0498/00.00.01 Mobile Bis Pack 64 / 10000 Minutes Mobile Bis Pack 25 I 10000 SMS Mobile Bis Pack 892 I 2048 Mega Bytes 0498/00.00.02 Mobile Bis Pack 81 I 10000 Minutes Mobile Bis Pack 32 I 10000 SMS Mobile Bis Pack 577 I 2048 Mega Bytes 0498/00.00.03 Mobile Bis Pack 38 / 10000 Minutes Mobile Bis Pack 53 / 10000 SMS Mobile Bis Pack 276 / 2048 Mega Bytes   What I try to achieve (first) then I can split them up further myself Overzicht mobiele bundels Bundel Verbruik / Beschikbaar Eenheid 0498/00.00.00 Mobile Bis Pack 10 / 10000 Minutes 0498/00.00.00 Mobile Bis Pack 45 / 2048 Mega Bytes 0498/00.00.01 Mobile Bis Pack 64 / 10000 Minutes 0498/00.00.01 Mobile Bis Pack 25 I 10000 SMS 04

Hi! I have this project in which there are three shp readers (Feature Merger Requestors) and one excel reader (as Feature Merger Supplier). In this excel there is an attribute in string format, that I want to have it as boolean/logical format on the shp writer. If I specify in the writer the format as "logical", it doesn't transform it, it keeps it as string (or integer, I have tried too). Is there any way to get it? Thanks!Writer Attributes:Result:

I used the sentinel hub dashboard to create a WCS-link. This link works fine in Qgis, however in FME I can not get it to work.I am using FME 2020.0.0.1 When I use the feature reader I can select the coverage (raster band) in the parameters setting, but all other settings I try return an error: Failed to retrieve feature types.<WCS> An error has occured while processing the WCS DescribeCoverage document: 'supportedInterpolations'  When I try to run the workbench I get the following error: <WCS> An error has occured while processing the WCS DescribeCoverage document: 'supportedInterpolations' Does anybody know how I can fix this? 

I am trying to change the name of features being read in and dynamically write them out. I have been looking to replicate https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/77663/rename-featureclass-coming-out-of-feature-reader.html but unfortunately it isnt working for me. Any suggestions for where i am going wrong, below is where i am switching the fme_feature_type to the new name. Thank you very much in advance. 

So I have two database connections in Tools | FME Options | Database Connections.One connection connects to our TEST database, the other to our PRODUCTION database.I am wanting to setup a published parameter so that the user is prompted for it, then they can select either of the two connection files, when they run the workbench. I cannot work out how to create a parameter and reference the database connections. Is this possible?

I have many delimited text files of data for each county and one small delimited file with the column headings. The closest I have found to addressing this is this article https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/4831/attribute-header-mapping.html . However this does not seem to work, I also would think there is an easier way I am missing.

Hi,When you run an FME Server workspace, you can specify a Job Queue. Is it not possible to specify a Job Queue when running the job via the Job Submitter/Data Streaming/etc. URL? Thanks.

Hi.I am trying to run a fme workspace using python 3.7, but I always get: AttributeError: module 'fmeobjects' has no attribute 'FMEWorkspaceRunner' . In the script I added dir(fmeobjects) and I get:['__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__path__', '__spec__'] I have read several treads in the forum but I cannot found any reason why I don't get all the attributes in fmeobjects. Neither how to solve it. Is my script incomplete? Is there a bug somewhere? Any suggestions? My python compiler is Anaconda => Spyder (Python 3.7) My script is:import sys  sys.path.append(r"C:\\Program Files\\FME\\fmeobjects\\python37")  import fmeobjects  print(dir(fmeobjects)) workspace = r"C:\\Users\\Fredr\\OneDrive\\Document

In my FME 2020.0.0.1 workspace I have a separate (external/exported) custom transformer with a loop and it contains a blocking transformer:When I execute my workspace I would expect the Data Inspector window to show up in the end with one result from the workspace and around three results from the custom transformer. I only get the result from the inspector in the workspace.I do however see 1 + 3 FFS files in my C:\\Users\\me\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\wb-inspectors-pMivws folder which I can drag into the Data Inspector window and evaluate (though the three loop inspector results are shown as one combined entry).Why am I only seeing the results from the workspace and not those from within the custom transformer?

I am trying to get two feature types at a time. I am not getting any errors, rather the translation is successful but not getting any output table. Also, I am not getting the "Translation Parameter Values" where I can mention both the user parameter. By clicking Run, it is just directly Running the workspace. @markatsafe @nampreetatsafe

Running some truncate and loads from DB2 to ORACLE.Since the query is basically 'select *', is there any way at all to increase performance of FME selects from DB2?One table of 72k rows takes about 30 seconds. That isn't monstrous but as we get to larger tables the time just increases. The same truncate and load in Informatica takes 4 seconds.Looking for any 'out of the box' ideas here. i would like to use FME because dev time is much faster but i can't justify the 'job run time and resource' usage with multiple tables.I have read most of the suggestions that i have found with general searching. User where statements, order by, select less columns..etc.Also tried odbc connection and straight jdbc string connection but no difference. Thanks.

Hi, Is there a way to get a list of feature type names of all Readers and writers inside workspace? I don't want to read data. Just need to create some sort of report of what feature types do I read and write. And in my workbench there are lots of them, so doing it by hand is gonna be time consuming Regards,Želimir 

Hi FME-community,I'm having problems with the performance of a workspace that straightforward translates a CSV to a Microsoft Acces DB. Somehow the performance is not stable. During the evening it was 30 times slower than during the day, while more memory was available and all other settings did not change. FME Server is deployed on a Azure VM (Windows Server 2016). In the usage notes I read: The performance of this format is dependent on the amount of memory allocated to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).Is this an explanation and how can I solve this?I hope someone has an answer to this.-GeoJanMov

Hi, I have this problem https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/944/remove-the-geometry-type-appended-to-feature-type.html , and the Writer does not support the option of using the Geometry from the schema definition without adding the geometry type to the dynamic name (i.e. "_polygon"). This is a problem since I'm inserting into existing tables with an fixed geometry type. There seems to be no way around it?

The What’s New in FME 2019.2 blog contains some writing about FME AR and underground features.FME ARLoad an AR model in 1:1 scale in addition to the existing “table model mode”. Pick the scale you want from a list, then inspect your data against a real backdrop.See an improved display for underground features (those that are below 0).See improved texture appearance when there is an ambient material property.But I'm not sure how to make this happen? What I tried was to read a cable feature, create a "floor" level with a boundingboxreplacer and an extruder, offsetting the cable to 10 meters below the floor. Looks OK in the inspector but in the app it seems the model is positioned with the lowest part on the detected surface.

So this could be something really basic. I have an FGDB that is created from an ArcSDE Reader. The Feature Class Names are of the format:SDESchema.Feature Class NameHowever, the FGDB Open API Reader instead reads the Schema Feature with the fme_feature_type replacing the "." with a "_" like this:SDESchema_Feature Class NameThe problem comes then when try to use this in a Dynamic Writer, because now the Schema Feature has a fme_feature_type attribute that uses a "_" in place of the "." but the Features themselves are attributed with the original format with the "." qualifier, and the Writer complains that it didn't get a matching Schema definition for the Features it is trying to write, because of the mismatch created by the Reader.One workaround would be to use a StringReplacer on the fme_feature_type attribute to make them match, but I feel I'm missing something obvious?

I already use Readers (ESRI Legacy) to "merge" tables based on a relation condition. This can be done by adding the SDE30_IDs clause to the mapping file. (Since it's not supported in Workbench)Since Readers and FeatureReaders seems to use the same underlying libraries, would it be possible to do the same thing at the FeatureReader level. This would allow flexible and efficient way to retrieve data since a more complex conditional clause could be built along the transformers way.Thanks,Mathieu

I wanted to centralize assignment of Database Connections in my workspace as I have quite a few transformers, readers and writers that use them and want the flexibility of switching this from one central location while testing (dev vs. test vs. production) and am noticing there is no "Connection" or 'Database Connection" type of parameter. I see "Web Connection" but nothing else. Curiously when a SQL reader is added though, a parameter is indeed added to the workspace as you can see below, but it doesn't show what kind it is (2019.1):I will re-purpose one of these and re-link, then delete the redundant ones, but this does feel a bit of a workaround and was expecting to be able to create the user parameter from scratch. Unless of course I'm missing something? Thanks.

Hello FME community, The attached Workbench is based on @david_r  Workbench "Retrieve a value from the Python startup script".I added a Shutdown Python Script to retrieve the initiated global variable in startup and write its value in the Log File. I got the following error on Translation log:PythonFactory failed to load python symbol `FeatureProcessor'Factory proxy not initializedI am using FME2018.1.1.1  WIN64 with 3.6 Python Compatibility.Does anyone have any solution or other potential solutions to pass global variable from startup to Shutdown and write its value in the Log File? Link for @david_r orginal Workbench:https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/58082/passing-parameters-from-a-python-script-tool-to-a.html  

When I run a workspace from FME Desktop the Log Message Filter setting in FME Options/Translation is respected. But it's ignored when I run fme.exe from the command line and pass a Command file. Is there a parameter I can set on the command line or in the command file? I just want Errors and Warnings.

i would like to aggregate the dataso i used Aggregator Group by Main unique IDAttributes to Concatenate 3 Attributes name that i want to combine but i found each row has one Attribute main ID, and many id at the first and second (Attribute to Concatenate ) duplicated more than one but the third not , my question : how could i remove the duplicate IDs inside the attribute to Concatenate , i need only the unique IDs only if dupliated .i tried Duplicate filter but it does not work . after i used the aggreator attribute to oncentate submain 1,submain 2 ,submain 3 the ouput looks like that ,i would like to delete duplicate in each row at eaach attribute   Main submain 1 submain 2 submain 3 5 2,5,4,4,3,3,4 6,6,3,2,2,5,1,5 9,4,7,8,2   FME 2018so what should i do ,thanks for help

Hi.I'm trying to build a simple workspace that extracts logged features from a log file.Since a logged feature in the log file is wrapped by a starter line and an end line, I'm using a variable to keep track of whether I'm inside a logged section or not.I'm reading the log file as a text file, and forking the read line feature 3-ways with connection order: (1) check for start line, (2) output if started, and (3) check for end line. In (1) and (3) I'm changing the variable to 1 or 0 resp., while in (2) I'm checking whether the retrieved variable value is 1 before doing an output.Unfortunately it seems that my check in (2) is always true ??It looks like the FeatureReader is sending all line features into each connection, one by one, so first (1) receives all features, then (2) receives all features, etc.I inserted a FeatureHolder immidiatedly after the FeatureReader, in case it was a problem with the reader, but it chan

Hi!I'm using FME Workbench 2019.0 and overnight it has changed the appearance. Now the font is totally different and can´t get back my original settings. According to FME options this new font is the default and definitely it isn't that one. How can I change it? Any help here? Not a big deal but annoying..Thank you very much in advance!!