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When running my workbench locally, there are no issues/errors. However, when I publish to the server and the workbench gets triggered by an automation, I get the following error in my log:The clause 'TEST @Value(fme_rejection_code) != FEATURE_TABLE_SHIM_SUPPORT Yes' within 'FACTORY_DEF * TestFactory FACTORY_NAME Date_Converter_Rejector INPUT FEATURE_TYPE ___TOREJECTOR___ TEST @Value(fme_rejection_code) != FEATURE_TABLE_SHIM_SUPPORT Yes OUTPUT FAILED FEATURE_TYPE Date_Converter_OUTPUT @RenameAttributes(FME_STRICT,fme_rejection_code,___fme_rejection_code___)' is incorrect. TEST must look like: TEST <value> <operator> <value> [ENCODED]Edit:Just fyi, may have something to do with it: The DateTimeConverter is followed by a matcher. Any help would be appreciated!Thanks.

Today I ran into a problem executing workspaces containing multiple versions of a custom transformer, which has parallel processing 'turned on'. I was wondering if someone has some thoughts on the matter I found.I am using FME 2016.1 build 16494.With all the instances of the transformer embedded the workspace runs fine, and reacts to changes in the parallel processing level (and the amount of groups the data is split into) quite like one would expect.When I have the same custom transformers 'linked', the whole thing crashes and / or does not function at all.As soon as the linked transformer is read, it requests for the amount of threads regulated by the default value of the Parallel Processing Level of the Public parameter I use to set the level. The value of the parameter in the workspace from which the transformer is set does not seem to affect this initialisation-value.When set to moderate it means every transformer requests four

Dear FME Community,since recently i have trouble with FME on parallel processing. When the first feature enters any custom transformer i get an FME appcrash. Also, I get different error messages on the same workbench, which is very unusual. -------------------------------------------- Error_msg begin ------------------------------------------------------------Error 1(most frequently):|WARN |0arning: not all FMESessions that were created were destroyed before shutdown. This may cause instability |WARN |Warning: not all Stashed Objects that were registered were dropped before shutdown. This may cause instability |FATAL |Precondition failed at stfspec.cpp:1152. Expression: aFeature != 0Error 2:|ERROR |This FME edition does not recognize the `TransporterFactory' factory. Please ensure that the current platform supports this factory, the factory name is spelled correctly, and that you have installed all required plug-ins

In my company we have installed the FME Server on a server only accessible from inside the intranet (so no internet connection). I want to publish some workspaces to colleagues without the need of signing in, so I built a simple html file with a JavaScript form in it, based on the FME Server playground examples. My goal was to place a html-file accessible for all relevant colleagues, they can open it in their browser and submit a job. Unfortunately it doesn't work because of the CORS policy, which throws an error.Is there a simple way (maybe another?) for "publishing" workspaces inside a custom environment (like an own HTML file) in local networks without the need of changing the CORS preferences? 

In pre 2019 versions of FME I often used a python scripted parameter to generate a timestamp which I used in the filename of a File Geodatabase.All I used was:import datetimereturn datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S")Now I can't get it to work anymore. The moment I add the parameter the workbench is done:2019-08-19 11:26:35|   2.1|  0.0|FATAL |GEODATABASE_FILE writer: An unknown exception occurredI suspect it has something to do with the deprecation of python 2.6? What configuration do I need to set to get this to work?My Python skills are nonexistent, so it might be something obvious but I can't find what I'm doing wrong.

Hi, I have published a workspace on FME Cloud (2019) where the user can submit parameters such as name, date of birth and comments (using this tutorial below adjusted this slightly to incorporate the new advanced 'webhooks' functionality) and a prettier html form. https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/1295/send-source-data-to-fme-server-with-http-post.htmlThe target URL is as follows: https://<fmeServerInstance>/fmedatastreaming/test/test.fmw?username=bruce&dob=20190101&comments=playstation<&tokenid>Based upon the sensitivity of the information being passed (username, date of birth, status), is it possible to customise the respons

I have a ListBasedFeatureMerger to merge requestors that have IDs that potentially match the ID of the supplier features.I understand that a list can be generated if there is no complete match with all IDs of the requestor list.In my case, the generated list "_all_matches" appears in the result on the UnmergedRequestor port (see screenshot 2, it has two entries).However, I cannot access these attributes with any transformer.How can I get access to them?   

For some reason the default text size for annotations in any FME workbench has changed, and I can't find a way to adjust it back. Based on this link it should be under Tools>FME Options>Appearance, but not on 2018.0, it seems... Currently the text is huge (up five notches from the default size):

Is there a best way to automate what a MySQL Reader and Writer should use based on a specific file name? For example if file name = foo.txtUse the reader/writer DB connection for fooDB.If file name = fooBar.txtUse the reader/writer DB connection for fooBarDB I know that User Params along with a Filter in the automation may make this possible, but I don't know if that's the best route to go. I would also like to refrain from having multiples of the same workflow for thier respective DB connections. Thanks in advanced!

Hi, From a running workspace i would like to write the userid,starttime, endtime, and the filename of the workspace into a metadatafile. Starttime an Endtime is possible with datetimstamper but it is not accurate. Does someone know the solution?Kind regard Kees  

I've started have a problem where my transformers jump around in the work space. They seem to be snapping to the upper right corner. This tends to happen when I connect it to the output port of another transformer or to an existing connection line. Occasionally it will happen after I hit OK after updating the transformer parameters. I have verified that the grid and guides are both unchecked. I'm on 2016.1. Has anyone else seen this and found a setting to prevent it from happening? I can be very inconvenient when working with a large workspace.

How can I define a for loop, that count the average one after an other point. I sorted the point list, so now they are in ascending numeric order, and I want to calculate get a values that comes from the average of the points . For example: the fifth elements average is counted from the first five data, the sixth is from the 1,2,3,4,5,6th element?

Hi Partners,A new article has been published which provides a workaround for a known issue with upgrading FME Server 2016.x or older to 2017.x or newer.Known Issue: Error when FME Server role contains "quotes"

I'm using WorkspaceRunner to run several workspaces. Then a FeatureReader reads a folder where the output of those workspaces would go. I need to list the output in the email and also attach them to the email. If I just attach the featureReader to the Emailer, I get multiple emails. If I aggregate the files as a concatenated list, the emailer doesn't know how to parse the string to attach the files. I need some help.

I need to read a GeoJson from an URL. One of the attributes of the call is the current time that I could get using the "Date/Time Functions" on Text Editor, however those functions are note available in the reader. I tried to use a FeatureReader where I can set the current time properly but then I don't have the "Network Authentication" options under parameters.  Any clue on how to set the reader source GeoJSON URL dynamicaly?

Hi I have a number of features, each with a list of dates which I obtained using PointOnAreaOverlay.I would like to order the dates within the list. I am using PythonCaller to process the list and write to a separate table. Any suggestions?

Hello community,I have a folder with all .mdb files that I want to process independently. Therefore I am using a 'directory and file pathnames' reader together with a workspace runner. So every file is send to another workbench, where it will be processed.In this 'other' workbench I have a 'Microsoft Access' reader, with the 'Single Merged Feature Type' box switched on. When I select the table name myself it works all perfectly. However, here comes the trick. The table names that I am using are different for each incoming file. For example the table name for file 1 could be trees_abc, for file 2 monumental_trees_abc and for file 3 tree_export_abc.The table names have one thing in common. They contain the word tree and always end with _abc. This regular expression should catch all the possibilities: ^(\\w+|)tree\\w+_abc (so it has the word tree somewhere and always ends on _abc). Now I was wondering if I could implement this regula

Hello Safe, i have one published parameter name "FEATURE_TYPES" and it basically defines data from a ESRI geodatabse. The download process works good with this parameter. Problem is happing when I change the name into "nm_FEATURE_TYPES". The data download process stopped and giving the error: statusMessageParameter 'nm_FEATURE_TYPES' must be given a value. statusFME_FAILURE This there any solution for me thus i can use the name nm_ for my Published parameter? With kind regardsMuqit Zoarder

Hello FME friends, I have a question about system path variables and how that translates to FME server.I downloaded the Google cloud Storage connector from FME HUB. I'm using a Google service account along with a service account, JSON key file. Part of the configuration is to set the windows environment variable GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS to a JSON key file I downloaded from Google Cloud Console.The package works flawlessly in FME workbench on my workstation. I would like to now publish a workflow to FME server, but am scratching my head trying to figure out how to deal with the environment variable GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS and how that translates to FME server. I assume the .JSON key file for this Google service account needs to be on FME server somewhere, but how do I tell FME server that the environment variable points to the .JSON file on

I've got some features and one of their attribute is a sequence of number or number with letter such as A001, A002... Now some of numbers are miss from sequence due to editting was performed. Is there a way to find out miss numbers and asign them to newly created feature from North to South, West to East?

I would like to create new attributes for all features with a value of null. The tricky part is that the number of these attributes and their names is not known before running the workflow. The names have to be equal to the feature values provided by some part of the workflow. I attach an image of what I am trying to do: I am feeding the AttributeCreator with the main table (the one where I want to have new attributes --or columns -- with null values) and with the UnmergedRequestor of the Feature Merger. The feature values of SimWaterBodies_FN (the output of the UnmergedRequestor) are supposed to be the names of the new attributes (2 in this case) of the table. I have tried by setting @Value(SimWaterBodies_FN) as the New Attribute and null as the Attribute Value of the Attribute Creator, but this doesn't create the 2 columns with same length of the main Tabl

HiI'm using FME 2018.1.1.2 18586 and having weird crash errors. The app crashes apparently at random, I have taken a blank workspace and added a MapInfo file as a reader and the workbench app crashed. this happened several times. I left Workbench open for a while (maybe an hour - working on other things!) and tried again and it added successfully this timeThe odd crashes have been going on all through the 2018 releases. I only have this release installed on my machine. It seems to like to crash when using Feature Caching mode more than any other time or when using HTMLReportGenerator (which is quite annoying because this transformer is a gem)Is there any advice that anyone can give me to stop this please? FME used to be rock solid on my machine and recently it has become very buggy, to the point where it is becoming quite unusable.I've reinstalled previous versions to try and combat this issue and I am using a build that is only a few weeks old no

I have a problem with one of my workbenches. A few actually, but the most important one: It skips a part of the workbench and I have no clue as to why.  After this, it continues, but no suprise: Point on area overlay does not work without points. Problem 2: Featuremerger does not work. It simply refuses to merge 2 identical columns. The weird thing; If I use chashing and run from the featuremerge onwards it will merge and it won't skip. And then the second feuturemerger refuses to merge only a few (+/1 100 out of 3000) feutures. I get no error messages at all. I am at a total loss as to what is happening and I am getting a bit frustrated.  

Hi,I am creating a dynamic schema from a list, however when I am trying to create a GUID in an Esri File Geodatabase it is showing the field as text (using both writers and changing the format_short_name). What's more annoying is this same example is shown in this article: https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/1051/index.htmlDoes this no longer work, or can you see an issue in this example??Guid.fmw

Dear community,I don't find a solution to my problem and hope someone can help.  To automatically create XML documents for a metadata catalog, I created a generic FME workspace. An SQL Creator serves as an initiator to a FeatureReader and all features and feature classes are received through the <Generic> Port of the FeatureReader.Because I tend to create a document for each feature class (POSTGIS table) rather than for an individual feature, I use an Aggregator to only have one feature per feature class. Important here seems to be that I use the Group By setting which groups all features by feature class (attribute fme_feature_type).After having gathered all necessary information for each deature class (like bounding box and description/title) with various transformers, the processing chain comes to the XML templater which creates the XML file document.The problem is that I have no idea how to deal with the keywords that are sa