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When promoting a list element using the ListRenamer in FME 2018.0, the cog remains red even though none of the fields within the transformer is red. When hovering over the red cog, it says "Parameter 'Component to Rename' must have a value". But as I am promoting rather than renaming, this doesn't make sense.I never had a problem with this in v2017, so I almost suspect it is a bug? But I'm happy to be shown otherwise!

Hi There, I am working on a functionality that converts events table into feature classes. I have large number of tables that need to processed. In order to keep the process clean, I created custom transformer that I could call for all these layers, details below:  Issue: Once I call the custom transformer, for List Attribute option, it doesn’t let me put a value. I wanted to know the best way to resolve this issue.   Appreciate any feedbackThanksJay

I have the following issue in Dynamic workflow. When converting from GDB to Shapefile, all the date fields (fme_datetime) become strings. I need what those fields stay fme_datetime. How can I solve this issue?

Hello,I have one feature reader that reads one table City, then I have another reader that reads table Person and then for each feature from City and for each feature from Person that are merged I'm performing job submitter operation with parameters CityId, PersonId I would like to change it a bit:What I would like to achieve is to take all objects from City and then take all objects from Person but then group results from Person to merge every n records into one. As example: Lets say I have 2 records in City table: New York Chicago And I have 4 records in Person table:Person1Person2Person3Person4 In o regular flow I would have JobSubmitter executed 8 times for:     CITY IDPERSON IDCITY IDPERSON IDNew York Person1 Chicago Person1New York Person2 ChicagoPerson2 New York Person3 Chicago Person3 New York Person4 Chicago Person4  What I would like to do is to group every n row from Person table and merge PersonIds into one attribute and modifie it a bit (by adding '' and ,) so

Hello, In my current setup I have serverJobSubmitter which may be executed even few thousand times in one JOB.  I noticed that it goes great for about 2000 executions and then I start receiving error: BADNEWS: FMEWorkspaceRunner: Error in opening the configured workspace (fmeworkspacerunner.cpp:468) FMEWorkspaceRunner: Error in opening the configured workspaceFMEServerJobSubmitter_2(ServerJobSubmissionFactory): Failed to complete run of workspace ... I also noticed that log file is growing rapidly and at moment when it starts failing it is ~600 MB big but I can't say if it is always the same.  I checked that still there is enough disc space for logs.  Session duration was around 27 hours and then it started to throw that error without any additional information.

Hello! I need to convert shape and geojson files from one pathe into the opposite file type (shape/geojson). I already created a Workspace with the reprojector. This has to work with the WorkspaceRunner, because it has to run through the whole amount of new files every time. My question now: How can I make my Workbench realize if it is a GeoJSON or Shapefile to continue the process? Does this need to be defined in the workspace Setting? Thanks a lot. Best  Sara  

I have an Office365 Business Premium account which includes OneDrive, but that's not the kind of OneDrive account that FME can connect to. Instead it appears to connect to a 'regular' (I guess) Microsoft account. I.e. the one I have for Skype.Is there a way to connect to that OneDrive account that's part of the Office365 Business stuff? Has anybody managed to do that?

I'm wondering if anyone can think of a way where I can control the number of jobs being run on FME. I have a process whereby I need to run some complex analysis on FME Server. To do this, I need to split the process into a large number of jobs (current process has 250,000 jobs). This is the only way to do it without crashing FME due to features needing to be held in memory. When on desktop, you can control the number of processes in WorkspaceRunner, however, this doesn't seem to exist with the FMEServerJobSubmitter. I've also tried using the REST API and that has the same problem. If I run the process in sequence, it would take way too long. If I run in parallel, it tries to load all 250,000 jobs to the FME Serve Queue and crashes the application. So, I'm looking for a away to tell FME Server to queue a certain number of jobs in batches. Once the first batch is done, it would release the second batch. This would enable me to run in parallel but without crashing the appl

At a client, a proces runs consisting of a master workspace, controlling four workspaces being triggered with FMEServerJobSubmitters, waiting for job completion 'yes'. The FME Server version is 2016.1.3.1 and the host-OS Windows Serer 2012 and FME engine running under a service account within the local network. In one of the slave workspaces a (custom transformer containing a) HTTPCaller calls a service on a different machine in the same local domain. This fails, giving a time-out, with the usual proxy warnings etc....Putting the custom transformer with HTTPCaller in the master workspace works fine. What could be the network related difference between having this HTTPCaller in the master workspace and in a slave workspace?There is some proxy on this machine which is supposed to be non-existent to the local network domain. Having the thing work in the master workspace (and separate test workspaces) shows this is the case. We tinkered and tampered with proxy settings on FMEServer

I have a dynamic feature reader (reading schema and generic ports) and a dynamic feature writer. I need to fanout the dataset based on an attribute and then write it. But, using dynamic writer the incoming attributes are not visible. Is there any possible way to make the attributes visible and then fanout?

Hi All,I wish to rename a folder name from ABC to XYZ. Do we have any simple way of renaming it without using any python script?

So I get this error every time im trying to use the multiprocessing library within python:Python Exception <FileNotFoundError>: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specifiedTraceback (most recent call last):  File "<string>", line 19, in input  File "C:\apps\FME2018.1_b18474_64\fmepython36\python36.zip\multiprocessing\context.py", line 119, in Pool    context=self.get_context())  File "C:\apps\FME2018.1_b18474_64\fmepython36\python36.zip\multiprocessing\pool.py", line 174, in __init__    self._repopulate_pool()  File "C:\apps\FME2018.1_b18474_64\fmepython36\python36.zip\multiprocessing\pool.py", line 239, in _repopulate_pool    w.start()  File "C:\apps\FME2018.1_b18474_64\fmepython36\python36.zip\multiprocessing\process.py", line 105, in start    self._popen = self._Popen(self)  File "C:\apps\FME2018.1_b18474_64\fmepython36\python36.zip\multiprocessing\context.py", line 322, in _Popen    return Popen(process_obj)  File "C:\apps\FME2018.1_b18474_64\fmepython36\pytho

Hey everybody,For example, I have .fmw with a user parameter (with choce list) that contains all users. But user list can change: some of them can be deleted, and there can also be new ones. This list is fetchable, so at any time I can get it in txt file or any. But I want the whole proces to be automatic.Question: Can I automatically update choice list in published parameter using other source?Thank you for your help

I have written a Python code to retrieve a list of  unique values from several rows with several attributes (in the example below, there are 5 attributes). The problem with this code is that the output field has only the result for the first row. It copies it to the rest of the fields. Here is the code:  import fmeimport fmeobjectsindex =  0list_yes = []# Template Function interface:# When using this function, make sure its name is set as the value of# the 'Class or Function to Process Features' transformer parameterdef compare_attributes(feature):    global list_yes    global index        s1=feature.getAttribute('Att_1')    s2=feature.getAttribute('Att_2')    s3=feature.getAttribute('Att_3')    s4=feature.getAttribute('Att_4')    s5=feature.getAttribute('Att_5')    myList_1 = [s1,s2,s3,s4,s5]    for i in myList_1:        myList_2 = myList_1[index:]        if i!='':            for j in myList_2:                if i == j:                    list_yes.append(i)                else:       

Hello, I've studies lookup solutions but Iit still does not work.I have 2 ora-tables. - a lookup table KALENDER with DATE_START and DATE_END and a corresponding number ie  DATE_IN DATE_OUT PERIOD  20181101 20181124 10  20181125 20181212 11  20181213 20181215 12  20181216 20190114 13  20190115 20190125 1  20190126 20190228 2  20190301 20190310 4  20190311 20190322 5 - a table with a dossiernumber and a DATE_INVOICE.  DOSSNR DD_INVOICE  D099 20181120  D099 20190305  D125 20190127  D125 20190315  D127 20190306There are more invoices per DOSSNR / YEAR. The output should be like:DOSSNR YEAR_2017 PER_2017 YEAR_2018 PER_2018 YEAR_2019 PER_2019 D125 2019 2,5 D127

I am trying to run a workbench from a batch file. The workbench is found in a shared drive (with access permissions), while FME is installed in the C: drive. According to what I've seen in the forums it is a simple command line. However, when running from a batch file, the following error arises: "The specified path is invalid".The batch file is stored in the same shared drive. I have tried the following options, using two path formats "\\\\shareddrive\\maps\\" and "Y:\\":Option one:"C:\\Program Files\\FME\\fme.exe" "\\\\shareddrive\\maps\\FME\\AddressGaz.fmw"Option two:"C:\\Program Files\\FME\\fme.exe" "Y:\\FME\\AddressGaz.fmw" In theory "\\\\shareddrive\\maps\\" and "Y:\\" are equivalent. I don't know what I am doing wrong. Does anybody have a clue?Thanks

Hi,I have a core workbench that is called from a fmeserverjobsubmitter with several parameters from the submitter workbench.Now in the core workbench I added a new parameter. If I don't refresh the fmemserverjobsubmitter in the submitter workbench, the behaviour is what I expected: new runs of the submitter workbench works with the default value set in the new parameter.If I refresh the fmeserverjobsubmitter the new parameter is present in the list of my parameters. Now I'm forced to set a value in the parameter box. If I leave the value empty, the jobsumbitter send an empty value to the core workbench. I've tried to switch to private parameter and set the default value but I have to maintain the value in the private parameter.How I can force the core workbench to use the default parameter set in it? I'd like that the behavoiur in this case is the same as the programming language. For example:def myProcedure(param1, param2 = False):The param2 is set to false when I call myProcedure(val

After processing I would like to fanout my data based on a created attribute (dataset) and fme_feature_type (10 tables) and write it to an Esri geodatabase with a FeatureWriter. In the created attribute are 4 categories, so basically I need a FGDB with 4 datasets and 10 featuretypes each. So I used the parameter 'Feature Class or Table name' to specify the <variable dataset>/<variable feature type>. It works but the Workbench only creates the first dataset and drops all feature classes and all records in it... What do I miss? Is there a way to let the FeatureWriter create more datasets? 

For example, if the shapefile contain an attribute filed called 'CONTACT' and need to populate its rows with following URLs embedded to display as text strings (display text) instead of actual URL vales as follows. CONTACTSafeEsri

Hi FME Experts, I am trying to use the "WorkspaceRunner" transformer to run workbench based on the other one. in the first workbench I used the creator transformer the WorkspaceRunner, it gives me it is run successfully but it the caching is still updating at the same time also (snapshot).Anyone can help me with that?

Hi,I have a set of workspaces that must write either in a production database or in a development database.So, I use a published parameter for the "connection" parameter which seems to work well.  But despite that it works properly, when I edit the connection parameters, the dialog box shows a database connection from the dropdown list instead of my published parameter.It's very disturbing because there is always a doubt that I haven't well configured the writer with my published parameter.And I can't afford to send data to the wrong connection...Is this a bug of FME or did I miss something ?I use the same setting for my SQLExecutor and SQLCreator transformers and I have not this problem with these transformers.The problem occurs only with writers and readers. I tried with FME 2018.1.2.0 and FME 2018.1.1.2

I have a few workbenches that are executed from a batch file nightly that are being used with a "SYSTEM" login (instead of a user like me) and I was seeing if there is a way to have a script or tool that once those workbenches are done that it returns the floating license for us users during the day. We only have 2 floating licenses.

Hi All,I have just started working on FME Server.Is there any way to execute workspaces in series i.e. executing workbench-2.fmw after completion of workbench-1.fmwPratap

Hello,As a hobby i'm a cyclist and i was wondering how to set up a workspace which can calculate how much percent of the time the wind is in favor of the cyclist.If the wind is blowing from the north west (arrow) i would like to know how much percent of the time i have the wind in my back en i have the wind against me. What would be the transformer to get the wind direction into my route data?

I have a Python Script Tool already created that creates a custom staged Project Folder containing all of the AutoCAD Drawings (.dwg) and a File Geodatabase (.gdb) with the correct naming conventions based on our submittal requirements. I also have a FME Workspace created that can read a specified .dwg and then create/write features to a .gdb.I would like to maybe execute the Python Script Tool as a Startup Python Script to build the Project Folder and then pass the .dwg and .gdb stored in the created folder as the src/dst or read/write in the FME Workspace. I am sure this or something that will accomplish the same end goal is possible. I have found similar questions in reverse (passing parameters from FME to a Python Script). I just have not found the correct documentation for it in my searches thus far.Thanks for any help in advance.