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Creating and organizing workspaces. How to use Workbench.

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pinkopoContributor

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Re-run reader after error in workbench

Hi guys,I am trying to setup a workbench to download data from various feature servers. the reader's format is Esri ArcGIS Server Feature Service and i use feature writer to write the data.I've been having this below error notice once a while, but it's normally gone after i re-run it after a while. Python Exception <HTTPError>: 502 Server Error: BAD_GATEWAY for url- Is there a way I can setup in my workbench to let it keep running after one of the readers has this error? - Can I let the workbench re-run that reader after receiving this error?Thanks

7 years ago

lifalin2016Contributor

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Expanding the FME Workbench GUI with custom buttons ?

Hi,I base my production runs on FME mapping files, which I create from Workbench workspaces by using "Save As". This way I can mess a little with a the workspace without throwing my Is it possible to add this 5-click procedure as a nifty custom "macro" in the Workbench GUI toolbar ?I.e. save workspace as mapping file with the same name and in same folder, prompting for overwrite if required.Cheers.

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lifalin2016Contributor

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Setting custom "Application Name" in connection string ?

Hi,Our IT department now wishes to have all connections to the central admin database (MS/SQL) identify themselves properly. I.e. not as e.g. ".Net SqlClient Data Provider" etc.FME does identify itself as "FME(R) 2016.1.0.1" in this case, but it would be nice, if one could overwrite the connection default "Application Name", e.g. with a custom workspace related name.Is this possible ?Cheers

How can I resolve "No module named arcgisscripting" resulting from a Shutdown Python Script in a workspace?

My PYTHONPATH system variable is set to the following and python.exe and pythonw.exe are both in the D:\\apps\\Python\\ArcGIS10.5 folder. This script works fine in the Python window in ArcMAP.D:\\apps\\Python\\ArcGIS10.5; D:\\apps\\ArcGIS\\Desktop10.5\\bin

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tomw202Participant

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TweetStreamer - Is it possible to retweet and follow a tweet/user

Hi, I'm using the TweetStreamer to monitor a few key words, when I hit these key words, I'd like to retweet the tweet, and follow the user who created it. I can't see an obvious way around this at the moment, so am looking for suggestions!

7 years ago

aaronfisher82

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How to pass data from one workbench to the next workbench

I am trying to chain together multiple workbenches so that when one workbench finishes making changes to my data, that changed data will be passed on to the next workbench. I am using a WorkspaceRunner at the end of the first workbench to begin the next workbench. I have been trying to find information on how to read the data from that WorkspaceRunner into the next workbench, but have been unable to find any clear information about how to do this.What reader should I use or steps do I need to make to accomplish this?

Can you add a feature reader (specifically an Esri Geodatabase file) to a custom transformer?

7 years ago

chauContributor

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FeatureReader from Oracle to FeatureWriter, all attributes end up being 200 char

Hi!I am trying to download a set of data from my Oracle database. I have created a simple workspace with a Creator, a FeatureReader and a FeatureWriter - connected in that order.I the reader I connect to my database and select a table. The writer I configure to export to an ESRI Shape file completing only the dataset and the shapefile name.When I look at the "User attributes" pane in the writer all my attributes from the Oracle database are listed but as CHAR 200 (and they are not all of them supposed to be CHAR):Why can't the reader and the writer work out the correct attribute configuration?

Can I pause or cancel a WorkspaceRunner from FMEObjects

I have some very long running Workspaces being run from C++ using FMEObjects. Is there anyway that I can allow the user to pause or stop them from code, perhaps when I receive log messages from them? If not, can I request that there is some mechanism added to the interface so I can. Currently on 2013SP2, moving to 2017.1 shortly.Chris

FeatureReader won't accept my Attributes to expose input

I have an Excel parameter file with tabular information indicating which files/feature classes/tables to read, which queries to use, which fields to expose, etc. I figured the FeatureReader would be a good option to use for grinding through my various datasets. I've managed to get most of what I need to work, but I am seriously struggling with the Attributes to expose. I first thought I could simply use an attribute from my parameter file as input, but it seems the FeatureReader only accepts User Parameters for this option. I therefore created a separate workspace for the FeatureReader, calling it from my main workspace through a WorkspaceRunner, with Attributes to expose as an input parameter. But...no joy. While it now seemingly accepts input from my parameter file attribute, it doesn't do anything with it. I have tried various settings for the user parameter (text, attribute, attribute list, ...). I have created a user parameter straight from the FeatureReader dialog (it se

Check if set of attributes exist or not

Hi,I want to check if set of attributes(not the values in attributes) exist in feature type or not?I also want to get the name of attributes to generate HTML Report which are Present or not present in Featuretypes.Case: I have multiple EXCEL filesFirst file with column name (A,B,C,D,F) Second file with column name (A,B,D,E) I want to check in which file which columns are missing out of Set {A,B,C,D,E,F,G}I want to retrieve the column names as well to generate HTML Report also.Please help on this topic, Thanks in advance.

Python Script will not run as Startup Script but runs in IDLE

Hi All,I have a python script that runs successfully in IDLE, but when I copy and paste the same script into the startup python script box in my workbench the script fails.Below is the script: # Import modules import arcpy import arcgisscripting import arceditor arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True arcpy.env.workspace = "C:\\Users\\GRAUP\\AppData\\Roaming\\ESRI\\Desktop10.3\\ArcCatalog\\Connection to NRGISSQLS03 WWW_GIS USER.sde\\www_gis.GIS_ADMIN.WastewaterDataset"# Local variables: www_gis_GIS_ADMIN_RMoN_San_GravityMain = "C:\\Users\\GRAUP\\AppData\\Roaming\\ESRI\\Desktop10.3\\ArcCatalog\\Connection to NRGISSQLS03 WWW_GIS USER.sde\\\\www_gis.GIS_ADMIN.WastewaterDataset\\\\www_gis.GIS_ADMIN.RMoN_San_GravityMain" RMoN_San_GravityMain_Route_Output = "H:\\\\O.10_Operating_Projects\\\\Linear_Referencing\\\\Reference\\\\Linear Referencing Shannon Working\\\\Linear_Referencing_Working.gdb\\\\RMoN_San_GravityMain_Route_sde_connection" # Process: Create Routes ar

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How do you set role policies in FME Server 2017? I don't see this link. How do I give a particular group access to certain features in FME Server 2017, such as the web user interface, notifications, repositories, etc?

7 years ago

thomask

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Adding transformers from FME store fails

Dear FME community, when I try to connect to the FME store, it always fails to load the transformers. I can see what transformers are available, but there is no way to add them. I get's the following message for example (see also the attachment): "Could not download 'PythonEmailer'- A problem was encountered while trying to download from FME store." In the network settings menue I have set the option to "Use system proxy setting" and I also have writing permissions in my FME installation folder. Is there anything what I can do to load the transformers from store? Kind regards Thomas

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fmelizardContributor

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My firewall is blocking FME Hub content when I am using FME Workbench. What can I do?

My company uses a firewall and I cannot download content from FME Hub when I am using FME Workbench! With the help of my IT Department, I have traced this issue to a couple IP addresses that were blocked: ec2-52-0-251-21.compute-1.amazonaws.com ec2-54-208-208-236.compute-1.amazonaws.com ec2-54-243-241-253.compute-1.amazonaws.com ec2-54-165-124-56.compute-1.amazonaws.com ec2-54-87-96-236.compute-1.amazonaws.com ec2-54-243-173-199.compute-1.amazonaws.comAre there any other IP addresses I should be aware of?

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Can you do an UPDATE fme_db_operation using a field of type GUID as the Update Key?

I am trying to use a GUID field to update records in an ArcSDE Writer. It seems to work perfectly when using an integer field for the Update Key, but when I use a field with type=guid the update does not go through.

Save progress on long translation, is it possible?

Hi All,I'm very new to FME, so I apologize if this is a silly question.Is it possible to re-run only part of a translation?I have a series of transformers (clippers and surface modelers) which make up my translation, the whole thing takes 6 hours to run. I let it run over night and when I checked the output file this morning I realized I messed up something in the last transformer.I changed the parameter on the last transformer and it should be good now. Is it possible to just run the last transformer or should I re-run the whole thing and wait 6 hrs. I see the numbers of features on the connections between transformers, so I was hoping they're stored somewhere on the memory and don't have to be recalculated.

7 years ago

osarhan

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Speeding up a workspace runner

Hi folks,This is my first post here so apologies if this is a basic question. I have a quick one about a workspace runner operation I am using. I have a project that makes sense and is working but I'm looking at trying to make it more efficient.It takes 2 files, workspace runner passes it file A, the workspace runs and matches variables in A to another static file, file B. then outputs the resulting file in File C. This all makes sense. It works beautifully.However it would be nice if I could read file B once as oppose to every time the work space runner fires off a process. It's a static file and quite big, and I have about 17,000+ file As to process, loading in File B for each of these is a massive drain on time. Is it possible to 'preload' a file for a workspace runner? I've looked everywhere for an answer but not seen anything that leads to an answer.

User parameter : difference beetween "Text (multiline)" and "Text (multiline) or Number" ?

Hi,I don't get the difference beetween these 2 user parameters (FME 2017.1) :Text (multiline)Text (multiline) or Number"Text (multiline) or Number" don't have a configuration button to specify numbers limits (like the Number parameter), so what's the point ?Regards, Mathieu.

7 years ago

navneetsahni100

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how to use multiple versions of fme workbench for create the batch file ?

7 years ago

oscardInfluencer

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ATOM feed for INSPIRE - OpenSearch description?

Good morning!I'm trying to implement an ATOM feed with FME Server 2017 that fulfills the INSPIRE requirements.I've been following this tutorial for the first steps: https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/1340/create-inspire-atom-download-service.htmlWith that tutorial, the following XML is created as feed:?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <generator version="2015.0" uri="http://h-0106"/> <id>http://myweb/Catastro</id> <link rel="self" href="http://myweb/Catastro" type="application/atom+xml"/> <rights>data.gov.uk</rights> <subtitle>Smoke control areas declared under the Clean Air Acts</subtitle> <title>INSPIRE ATOM Feed: Smoke Control Areas</title> <updated>2015-02-23T16:15Z</updated> <entry> <author> <name>Brent Council</name> </author> <categor

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lifalin2016Contributor

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Workspace log file is remembered !?

Hi,I recently needed to run the same workspace (command line) with two different target setups, but I wanted to see separate log files for each run. Simplified example:fme.exe myworkspace.fme --p1 ABC --p2 DEFfme.exe myworkspace.fme --p1 XYZ --p2 KLMSo I had FME create a workspace parameter (--LOG_FILE) for this value. This value is normally blank, prompting FME to use the workspace file path with "log" extension.I.e. my setup had the first run without a value, and the second run with a value for the log file..However, I found out, that the value given in the second run are somehow reused in the first run at a later time !?!Is this a correct observation, that FME somehow caches the last parameter values given to the workspace, and reuses these whenever the same workspace is run at a later time (and no other values are provided) ??I got my two runs to work only when both set the "LOG_FILE" parameter.Cheers.

7 years ago

lorraine_s

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Auto updating Reader CSV

HiI have a workbench that takes a csv file and creates 10 csv files , 1 for each site - it does this using AttributeFilter. This works great but the csv reader gives the last 8 months of data with each month as a column. So the first version we ran had Nov to Jun. This latest month is Jan to Aug. So every time we run this the attributes change and I had to manually update this last time. Is there a way of automatically picking up new attributes from the reader and adding them to the writer (and removing any no long needed) please?I'd ideally like to schedule this with server but I can't unless this is automatic. Thanks

run second part of workspace only if updatedetector from 1st part finds changes?

Hi,Workspace attached. The first part is the CAD_Parcels bookmark. The second part is the CAD_Properties bookmark. I only want to run CAD_Properties bookmark contents if there are any features in the Update, Insert or Delete ports from the CAD_Parcels bookmark.I assume tester and workspacerunner may be in order. I have to turn this into a FME Server job submitter also.

Custom coordinate system for EPSG:3275

Hi, for my first time I need to define a Custom Coordinatesystem - since EPSG:3275 is not defined in FME.I have made the following entry under \Documents\FME\CoordinateSystems:COORDINATE_SYSTEM_DEF WGS84.SCAR-SU01-05 \ DESC_NM "WGS84 /SCAR IMW SU01-05" \ DT_NAME WGS84 \ EL_NAME WGS84 \MAP_SCL 1 \ORG_LAT -80.23861111111111 \ORG_LNG -165 \PROJ PSTERO \SCL_RED 1 \UNIT METER \X_OFF 0 \Y_OFF 0 I do:- Creator, create point with X -160 and Y -82 - Set CoordinateSystem to "LL-WGS84" - Reporject to "WGS84.SCAR-SU01-05" (my defined system) gives an error :Reprojector(TeeFactory): Reprojector: Reproject: Could not reproject the g

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