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Just trying to make a variable input parameter with a Slider in FME 2017 (Build 17271) and it's not on the list of the Parameter types.Anyone knows where is it gone and how to create one?

Hi community,We run into the problems that certain jobs on FME Server fail become the underlying database can not be reached (temporarily). We are looking into the causes of this. In the meantime I am looking for a way to automatically resubmit the failed jobs after a certain time, e.g. retry after 30 minutes and perhaps retry a couple of times, rather than having to manually resubmit the failed jobs by the FME Server administrator.Is there a way to do this?Thanks,Joep Luijten 

I have reviewed the workbench provided in this link(https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/73933/converting-arcgis-indoors-data-to-imdf.html?childToView=86665#comment-86665). Are there any additional steps that need to be taken for generating the imdf? The workbench was able to read openings but none of the other gdb features were getting read.

Hi there,I have some data where one column is only sparsely filled, and I want to fill these missing ones based on another present attribute. Here's a basic representation:ClassTypeMammalDog DogFishTrout Trout TroutReptileLizard Lizard What I need to do is fill in all the empty "Class" lines based on the "Type". In the data, each Type will always have at least one entry in Class (aka, no Type will ever be classless), and no Type will have more than one class.So in short, my current data may have 3 entries with "Trout" and only one of those specify the class as "Fish". What I want is to derive the info from that one Type entry, and fill in all the blank Class lines.  Thanks in advance for any tips! Best regards,

Hi,I would like to use a python caller to compare the files (and their size) that are located between two folders.  My idea will be to used a python caller that will give me the list of the filenames for each folder and then used a Featuremerger to compare the two lists of files name by name and size by size.Any ideas?Arthy  

I have a workspace that produces statistics from some survey data and then writes a finished report as a Microsoft Word document. However I am having some issues.Firstly, there seem to be FME system attributes being passed through to the final report. Namely, "fme_feature_type" and "fme_type" (see image 1 - highlighted rows). These aren't selected in either the writer or reader Format Attributes tab, and I have tried a number of ways of removing them including using Attribute Managers, Removers, Keepers & Testers. The problem is they aren't showing up at any stage of the workflow, except in the final output report.  IMG 1 Secondly, I am having trouble with ordering data within a table as required. I pass the relevant attributes through to an Attribute Manager, sort them as I need (image 2), and then pass them to a MS Word Styler and a MS Word writer. However, they are then sorted differently in the final report (image 1). I can't work out how to sort

Hi,I use a FME Server 2016 to run different workbenches. For the update on FME Server 2018 I have to upgrade these workbenches, too. In one workbench I use the custom transformer LineDivider from Takashi Iijima.After the upgrade I have the problem, that the output of the upgrades workbench is less than the output of the old workbench.old outputnew outputEspecially the PythonCaller has an other output. But the old and the new workbench should have the same size.Has somebody an idea which parts of the PythonCaller has changed? Thanks and best regards 

Hi, I wish to segment a line geometry at the buffer extent. I.e. The buffer centroid is an intersection of lines, and I wish to segment all connecting lines, so that they all have the same length around this node. Thank you for your help, I am a beginner at FME.

I need to compare file sizes and other attributes for a PRE upgrade and POST upgrade output files. O would like to get the list of files from both folders and compare the sizes, names and type. I am new to python and really need help writing a python script.

I am using the FME Httpcaller to get data from an API. There is an issue with the API and some of the calls are rejected with a 404 Not Found Error. I am using the Error logging option in the FME translation but i wish to exclude this particular error. Is there any way to exclude certain errors from being logged in the Error log in FME?

Hi,For each feature in my dataset, I have two lists: one containing labels and one containing values.label{0}: IDlabel{1}: Namelabel{2}: Typelabel{3}: Countryval{0}: 1val{1}: Groningenval{2}: Placeval{3}: The NetherlandsThere may be more or less items in both lists. The contents of `label` may be completely different. But `label` and `val` always have an equal number of items.How can I dynamically create attributes from these lists, with the contents of `label` as attribute names and `val` as attribute values? 

It's slower on the machine that is supposed to be faster!

Hello,FME 2017.1.1.1 build 17652, 2017.1.2 beta build 17717, 2018.0 beta build 18208The scenario is:The source dataset contains multiple feature types. e.g. "A", "B", and "C".Read every feature from the source dataset and simply write them into Shapefile files for each feature type separately, with the same schema as corresponding source feature type.Here, the destination dataset (folder) names should be the same names as the source feature types. i.e. "A", "B", and "C".And all the destination files (feature types) should have an identical name. e.g. "output.shp"In fact, the names and schema of source feature types are unknown when creating the workspace, so you want to configure Dynamic Schema and Dataset Fanout.It's easy to realize this using FeatureReader + regular Shapefile writer with Dynamic Schema setting and Dataset Fanout configuration. However, I was't able to realize this with a FeatureWriter. Acco

Dear All,I have three workbenches,First one is for taking backup data and Second one is to check the value of one field with two cases and published in FME server.Third workbench is for to run above workbenches in sequences using FMEServerJobSubmitter transformer.My query is second workbench Status attribute value need to bring into Third Workbench when second workbench failed through FMEServerJobSubmitter Failed port.Please advice to achieve this task.Second workbenchThird WorkbenchThanks in advanceVenu

Hi all,Firstly I found this post: https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/5094/create-column-names-from-column-values.htmlBut it hasn't answered my question fully.I have multiple shapefiles containing points. Each point has a VALUE field and a unique ID field which is the same across all the shapefiles. The end goal is to create a spreadsheet with the unique ID field and a field name containing the date of each shapefile populated with the VALUE field. The name of the shapefile contains the date so I am using substring extractors and a concatenator to build the date.I followed the guidance in the previous question and am using an attribute creator to create the date field and populating it in the same stepAnd an attribute exposerHowever, when I run the workspace and the date field is not created properlyBut it is contained within FMEI tried writing to a spreadsheet, but the output was the same as the data inspector table view. As in it didn't create the field 18/05/2017, but it di

Hi all,I try to access the GDAL library via python to use a format (namely esri personal geodatabase) which my FME installation / licencing doesn't support. GDAL 2.4.0 and Python for GDAL are installed (everything under 32bit as my Microsoft Access driver is a 32bit installation, according to the manual https://sandbox.idre.ucla.edu/sandbox/tutorials/installing-gdal-for-windows). In my Command Prompt everything works, except the connection to a *.mdb. The error says:ERROR 1: Unable to initialize ODBC connection to DSN for DRIVER=Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb);DBQ=PGeo:electricite.mdbIf you have any advice on this, I'm grateful. Of course I'm checking my drivers, but couldn't find any inconsistencies yet.Well, my main problem is to access the GDAL library within FME PythonCreator. How do I import it? I triedfrom osgeo import gdalbut this doesn't work. Do I miss something?Cheers, Maria

i have problems to configured. i dont know that name to gdb put in. becasue i conect from Arcmap, only see the folder what i can conect. but the name gdb ¿? what can i do?

I have a workspace that is using an embedded custom transformer. I have made a change to this custom transformer (in the fmx file) and saved it as a new version or I have overwritten it. In this case I normally get a prompt when opening my workspace to update the custom transformer to its latest version. However, I don't always get prompted - sometimes the embedded transformer stays unchanged and I can't see a way to update it to the latest version without removing all instances of it and replacing them all with the latest version (replacing one by one does not work either as the transformer definition is retained until I have removed all instances).Hence my question: How can I update my custom transformer manually to its latest definition which is saved in my shared FME folder? 

Dear Community! A thing which bothers me since a long time and I couldn't find any similar thread in the knowledge center: I have very large workspaces where multiple "things" are done with data.Quite often I have to use the same Feature type (of a reader) multiple times in this workspace at different locations. Is there any way to use the same datasource (feature type) at multiple places in a workspace? Only workaround I see would be to use a feature reader on these "different locations". Problem with this is, that I want to quickly switch data-sources, and using a feature reader you have to remember to change the datasource there also...  So, best way for me would be the ability to "copy" feature types (of a reader). Any alternative way to achieve this? Thx and beste regards from switzerland, Chris

Hi all,I have 20 MBTiles of the same area that I have produced following this post: https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/41760/how-to-convert-tiff-to-mbtiles.html, so every MBTile contains several zoom levels corresponding to the input image (TIFF file).For every MBTile I have used different source files (TIFF file) corresponding to the same area but with different resolutions.I would like to extract the maximum zoom_level of every mbtile generated and merge into a single one.I can do that with a very simple python script using sqlite3 but I would like to reproduce with FME 2018.1 because is one part of a whole process. Until now:1. I can merge several mbtiles into a single one IF the input mbtiles have ONLY ONE zoom level (so no selection is made).2. I can read all mbtiles contained in a directory, select for each one the max zoom level tiles saved in TILE table amb merge records into a new TILE table with SQLITE Writer. In that case, the mbtile generated is corrupted: (a) gdalinfo do

There's a number of other similar posts out there, but I can't seem to find a solution that works. I'm still trying to build a workflow for this on my end, but I figured I'd post here to see if anyone knows of an easy solution.I have data in a table that looks as follows...IDSecondary ID1ABC1231DEF3451GHJ6782DEF3452XYZ7893VWX5674ABC123 And I'd like to transpose this across a spreadsheet so that it looks as follows...IDSecondary_ID_1 Secondary_ID_2Secondary_ID_31ABC123 DEF345 GHJ678 2DEF345 XYZ789  3VWX567   4ABC123    The problem I'm hitting a wall with is that there may be any number of Secondary_IDs for a given ID...potentially a couple hundred for a single ID. So, I'm looking to have a tabular data set in the end that may have a couple hundred columns, with a single row for each ID. Is this possible? I'm trying to wrap my head around using list attributes, but am struggling to find a solution to output each attribute value in a list as it's own co

Since upgrading to FME 2018 (32-bit version), I've been getting intermittent connection errors when using either my database connections or web connections.There are times when I run my workspace without any issues, but subsequent runs may, inconsistently, produce connection errors.If I go into my Database Connections or Web Connections through FME Options, I either get "Error retrieving connections", or it's "unable towhen the Testing the connection the test fails as it's unable to connect (i.e. "Unable to connect to Oracle database, because the database environment could not be initialized".

Is there a generic way to extract the feature count for each feature type in the writer? For example, I would like to capture this information either in the same workspace, or from the log file's Feature Written Summary section. I would like to capture this info for each updated feature type to a central location for review and reporting. Most of our FME processes are running on FME server.

This might rather be a simple task, but so far i have no clue how it works to merge and concatenate joined_list elements. I want to concatenate the two element values into one string and at the end write all the list elements out into one attribute.Result should be {KA:28,KA:12,KA:4}

The issue I am having is that I want to read in only 1 feature per and therefor end up outputting only 1 feature per type without breaking the already established connections. I have a feature reader with 300+ types of features setup/with connections across a massive work space. If I change the parameter in the FeatureReader to "1" for max features to read, it asks me to select a workspace. Each .dxf "workspace" has only a couple features, but combined with the remaining 100's of .dxfs I get all of features I need. So when I select one dxf "workspace" it only provides x amount of features. If I hit "cancel" at this point then all the features in the reader go away. The "PATH" is setup to parse through all of the .dxfs in the folder. Is there a way to change that parameter in the feature reader without breaking the already established connections?