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Hi all, As the title says I need to expose the basename or file name for multiple PDF files I read with FeatureReader. Seems there is no way to expose PDF attributes neither in the PDF reader or FeatureReader where PDF is selected as format?  I use a directory reader to make a list of Word documents that I convert to PDF using an external program and then pass the file name + pdf extension to the FeatureReader. However I'm stranded if I don't find a way to indentifying my input files.  Thanks!  /Jacob  

Hello,i was succesfull with static R script insede RCaller transformer. But, when i try to include some FME parametres insede R script like this:kr = autoKrige(h~1, new_data = grid, input_data = measures, nmax = $(NMAX), maxdist = $(MAXDIST))I got this error:Error: unexpected '$' in:So this is clear syntax error message complaining about $ inside that script. But is there way how can I pass FME parameters to R script inside RCaller?

Installed FME2019 unattended. When starting up, it asks for the floating license server. Where is that information stored in registry/files?We have a non persistent VDI and next time I login, everything is gone.

Hi, when securing our DB Connections I noticed that the only choice for the Connection security item, either by user or by role, is "Full Access". Does that mean that an (FME or Active Directory) user that can use the Database Connection also has the right to delete it? Or does it mean that the user always can use the Database Connection yet only can remove it if the user has Full Access?

Hello FME Community,  i need help to understand how i can solve my problem.   The outcome should be a Excel-File where all Adresses on a parcell should be stored.  1.)i got Points(Adresses) and Areas  2.) Use the PointonAreasOverlayer and make a List on the Areas.  3.) Use the ListExploder: Take the List and Create a _element_index (rest is standard)  now comes the part that i dont really understand.  4.) i use the AttributeCreator for Creating Attributes like "@Value(_element_Index)Adress" = "@value(Adress)" then i use the "centerpointreplacer" and a "pointonpointoverlayer" to merge the "new" attributes  then comes the duplicatefilter(group = ID) to get the unique Adresspoint with all the AdressesStored in a parcell.  and then comes the tricky part: after i use the AttributeCreator my Created Attributes where gone but when i redirected it to the datainspector my attributes where stored an the "Areas"  and that was it. I tri

Parameters and Attributes seems like two really confusing concepts sometimes. Can we have someone clarify the main differences between them? Thank you!

So, what would be the easiest way to do this. Lets say we have generated 2 separate, but parallel Lists like this (say from ListExpressionPopulator):Colours{}Precincts{}And it is desired to combine these into a single list with the original list names as instead the component names like this:Report{}ColoursReport{}PrecinctsAs far as I can tell, this can't be done with either ListRenamer or AttributeRenamer, and the closest got to is using BulkAttributeRenamer.

Hello FME gurus,I have a polygon layer where some polygons overlap and I need to end up with a single polygon per label. In the image above, I have three polygons, A, B and C (shown in green) but sections of each overlap i.e. B/C and A/CI have converted the labels as attributes to the polygons and split the attributes into parts.I want to be able to clone the overlapping parts and then merge based on the label i.e. A, B or C.Any ideas would be very much appreciated.ThanksDean 

I am trying to publish a FME Workspace(FME Desktop) running on a serviced platform (Citrix) to FME Server(FME Cloud) but I am getting the below error message in the Log file."Login failed (Connection Error) - Unable to connect to FME Server""Request to update access token failed. HTTP Error: SSL connect error"But when I tried to publish a FME Workspace from a local FME Desktop, it got published successfully.So, can some one who had similar experience share their solution.Thanks,arizona

Hello,I noticed a difference in attribute handling in my FME workbench. I hope anyone can explain what is causing this.I have the following data:With the AttributeManager I want to convert the numbers from meters to millimeters (see below).The outcome of the AttributeManger is:Why is the bottom value of the first row different than the other two rows?It is luckily not an obstructing issue in my workbench, because I solved it with the AttributeRounder. But I am curious how this happens, and what the options are to prevent this from happening.Thanks in advance!

Good day.I faced the problem with running jobs on FME-Server. Periodically (not always) jobs are crashed with status message: "The Workspace requires Python version %0, but Python version %1 is already loaded". I absolutely confused, because if I start this WB again the process will be completed successful.ArcGIS and FME-Server installed on this machine together and as the custom python the Esri ArcGIS Desktop (Python 2.7) selected.Who knows how to overcome this problem?Thanks in advance.

Hi,  I would like to create 72 features with predefined ID and NAME attributes for instance:  ID    NAME 689  Kativic 711  Monts et marées 712  Charlevoix ...     ...  So far I used the creator (1 instance) followed by AttributeCreator where I added all IDs separated by a coma into 1 attribute. Then I used the AttributeSplitter to create a list on the IDs and finally the ListExploder.    The result is ok, I have one feature with the ID, but I cant find a way to have the NAME attribute also attached to those features. Instinctively, I would use a JSON key:value list, but I am not sure how and if it is the correct solution.  Thank you for your help 

I am running fme from cmd and while passing command line parameters to run workspace I use cmd.exe at the start e.g. fme.exe C:\\Maps\\OraDWG.FMW --BoundaryName PTCL526 ...and if I use a same command but without using .exe in command like -fme C:\\Maps\\OraDWG.FMW --BoundaryName PTCL526 ...It's still running the workspace.So my doubt here is that what is the difference in using .exe? Does it use extra floating license instead of using one that is dedicated for this workspace. We have few more floating licenses.

FME(R) 2019.2.1.0 (20191202 - Build 19813 - WIN64)Hi,Int the following reference - https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Desktop_Documentation/FME_Workbench/Workbench/Running_a_Batch_Translation.htmUnder the heading - Running a batch translationThe following is stated;For example, you can apply an existing workspace transformation to a large number of input files, and produce separate outputs for each.How do you implement this, ie output to sepate output files?I have set up Batch Deploy to use a folder as its source.I have Run my workspace using the Batch Deploy method, but it continually overwrites the single file.Ben 

I'm having trouble with a relatively simple task - I want a field to be a specific data type (DOUBLE). The source for the values is a text field with a number (comma separator). However no matter what I try (e.g. creating a brand new field with @Evaluate(@double(@Value(MYTEXTFIELD))) or replacing comma with dot beforehand), it ends up as (as seen by ArcMap) text. StringFormatter didn't work either: the decimal option gives me (textual) scientific notation - yuck! Give me proper decimals or give me DEATH!

I have asked similar questions before and tried loads of different solutions. It seems like such a simple thing, but so far I have not been able to get the result I want. I thought I would try and start clean, maybe this can help me make sense of this.Imagine a dataset where some of the features are overlaying. (There are more attributes than those described, varius sources and not all features are overlaying.)In this dataset I want to identify polylines that are overlying and merge certain attributes from them. Feature Attribute A Attribute B Attribute C Attribute D1 A    2  B   3   C  4    D  The desired outcome of the four overlaying features above would be a new feature with the following attributes:newFeature A B C D  Empty cells should always be filled if possible. A kind of dissolver of attributes.How would you experts go about achieving this?

I have a Workspace running fine in command-mode, but I am not able til create a Batch Deploy. Function is dimmed...What am I doing wrong?@Anders_d

Hello,  I create a workspace with a parameter "COMMUNE". It's use with reader to select a city (Grâce-Hollogne) and also with writers Excels and DWG. The file name use this parameter  "OSP3-2020-$(COMMUNE)-Tableau ELYX_REJET_$(TIMESTAMP).XLSX""  FME Desktop 2019.1 sent me the Error Message below because the special character â is not handle.   I"Excel Writer: Failed to save changes to the spreadsheet '\\savip-fsapp02.tecteo.intra\GIS_METIER\FME_29\Output\EXPORT\EP\PROD\OSP3-2020-Gr<u00e2>ce-Hollogne-Tableau ELYX_REJET_20200122.XLSX'. Check that you have write permission to the file, it has no password protection and is not opened by another application. Error message is 'Invalid argument.'A fatal error has occurred. Check the logfile above for details... Last line repeated 2 times ..."  Can you help-me?  I can change the name of the city. In FME 2018.  I had this issues. It's very important in our processus. I'm from Belgium where ot this type of character is common  Best Regards

Hi,My organisation recently upgraded to FME 2019.1.1.0 (20190801 - Build 19617 - WIN64). Since the upgrade, several of my workbenches come up with the following error: When I click 'debug the program' the following message pops up:I saw a couple of post here from 2016 with the same question, but without solution. It was suggested to turn the debug logger on, which gives me the following error warning:BADNEWS: File C:\\Program Files\\FME\\metafile\\MULTI_WRITER.fmf could not be opened class StatusInfo *__cdecl TableReader::checkStatus(void) const(c:\\code\\fme\\foundation\\framework\\engine\\tabrdr.cpp:169) - class StatusInfo *__cdecl TableReader::checkStatus(void) const(c:\\code\\fme\\foundation\\framework\\engine\\tabrdr.cpp:169) Any tips or ideas on how to fix this?Thank you

Hey all,Having weird ArcGIS Online Authentication issues with 2019 b.19813. After I push up authenticated credentials to FME server for ArcGIS online, and after a random short period of time (day of, an hour later, day later, etc...)  FME Desktop becomes inoperable with ArcGIS Online. Meanwhile, the same credentials and authentication token are currently being used on our Server Machine and FME Server 19813. Python settings for desktop and server are 3.5+. I have noticed some already configured transformers double wrapping attributes with spaces in their names. I wonder if this is happening with my connection name: 'aarcra Esri ArcGIS Online 2019'... and the error occurs regardless of the '2019' in the name or not.  The error message returned from FME when trying to access AGOL schema's or data in FME desktop is:Python Exception <FMEWSException>: Type: 3, Number: 1, Message: Failed to get authorization header.Failed to obtain any schemas from reader 'ARCGISONLINEFEATURES' from 1 

I'm have a workspace whereby I get constantly new and updated data from the client. Based on what the data is I'd like it to fan out to it's correct GDB. The GDB's from the client come with all the data in one.E.g. ENV_BadgersENV_GCNsHIS_MonumentsPRP_LandAcessThese need to be moved into their corresponding GDB'sE.g.REF_ENVREF_HISREF_PRPMy current Method is just to move them based on GDB, and I also use the Insert, Create If Needed function, then the Insert, Truncate Existing. I've found if I used Drop and Create the workbench will break if there is new data (nothing to 'Drop'), same stands for Truncate Existing. So two problems:Fanout data into existing GDB based on name Import new and updated data without having to run twice for Create and Truncate.

Hi :)   I have a question - how do you handle errors of workspaces on FME Server (connected to data, or workspace errors not with FME Server)? My question is connected with the fact that none of the final users of scripts published on FME Server are familiar with FME, and that FME Server logfiles aren't that legible, so I would like to write my own error messages that are simple and easy to understand for final users. The perfect solution would be that author of script would be able to write conditional error messages - If this goes wrong send that to user. Is it possible? Do you know how to achieve something like this (or something similar) ?

Hallo everyone,to help my coworkers update some eodatabase, I created a FMW workflow that translates the data from an excel file and that automatically updates the datas in the geodatabase. So far all good, the workspace does his job.In the workspace I had to define two readers, reading basically the same file (excel spreadsheet) to get first some attributes in the "header part" and the rest of the attributes in the "body part". There is only one writer to the geodatabase.Now, I don't have much experience in programming but I'd like to write an small programm (C++? Python?) that allows my coworkers (who dont use FME at all) to select the Source excel file that will udate the attributes in the geodatabase (possibly using a file browser) and the directly run the fme workspace i created. So they'll only need to open the program, browse to the excel file and the fmw workspace will read it and use it to update the geodatabase.Could you please point me in the

I'm using FME to read, modify and write data to a oracle database. My queries are working fine but the following error is popping up for every SQL query .  ERROR |BADNEWS: An error occurred while fetching from query OCI_NO_DATA StatusInfo *STFDB_OCIStatement::fetch(STK_UInt32, STK_UInt32 &)(foundation/framework/util/dbwrap/ocistmt.cpp:661) - StatusInfo *STFDB_OCIStatement::fetch(STK_UInt32, STK_UInt32 &)(foundation/framework/util/dbwrap/ocistmt.cpp:661)What is it complaining about ? instant client or oracle database ?version detailsUsing FME 2019.2.2.0 versionMac OS X VersionOracle database version is '12.1.0.2.0'instantclient_19_3 Any help on this would be appreciated.

Hi,  I have a 2 sets of features, points and lines whith a common project ID (sewerprojects). I have to perform many actions to get my result. In ideal circumstances i could do this immediately on the entire dataset but because it's a collection of data from different projects, there are no unique ID's and some lines and points are duplicates. I wanted to start with the topologybuilder to create correct small networks per project with unique ID's for the point and linesCan i run my whole dataset per project ID and write alle projects to the same writer? I have found a custom looping transformer but i can't figure out how it worksThx!Nathalie