Community Q+A

Hi everyone,I’m trying to read the contents of a folder to identify all file geodatabases (GDBs) and the feature classes stored within them. However, when feature classes with the same name exist in different GDBs, they appear only once in the schema Has anyone encountered this before, and what is the best way to handle or distinguish feature classes with identical names across multiple GDBs?

Hello FME community!I am using FME Flow 2025.2.4 Build 25835 - win64 and I am having issues with connections in apps and galleries. I have created Roles, shared my connections with full access, created new connections per this article http://fme.ly/zn8 nothing seems to work. The funny thing is that it has nt failed for me is I run the workspace directly in FME Server.Are there any tricks that I have not tired or is this a bug?Thank you in advanced for any help/ideas that you can provide. 

Hi, I have a problem with runing Flow Apps on Flow 2026.1When i press run i got : And in F12 tab shows Internal server error 500 Job Section is empty, i dont even get faild or cancelled job.Any idea what could it be?My Form and Flow version are both the same, 2026.1 Thank you in advanced! 

Hello,I try to do something very simple but I think I must be dumb. So I’m working with a ArcGIS Featureservices data which are agriculture data. In the RPG_2023, the attributes associated to “CODE_GROUP” will be only numbers like 11,16,18 so very simple.In the user parameter I try to add the “CHOICE” parameter because I want the script to ask me which kind of attribute I want to work with.I try to use the import wizard using the valuesBut then in this box is going endless ==>I don’t know if I do something wrong

I have georefferenced pdf file(HLB_Map) and i need a output as digitalized layout map( for reference  i have attached ) by using raster pdf file...Please give a guidence 

I have a dwg file format exported from Autocad Architecture which contains 3D Wall type objects. I am using “Autocad Civil 3D Reader” in FME(2026.1) but I am having two issues:1. The geometry of the wall component (eg. hatches) is not being extracted by the reader. 2. Wall style properties are not being read (the wall geometry has properties like style or material). I have tried to expose them (style attribute and geometry) but I could not find them. Note: I don’t get any errors.Does anyone have suggestions how to deal with these issues?

Hello,I have a file with a .bag extension, and I would like to convert it into LAS format. Could you please assist me with this process?Thank you in advance for your support.

Reading Living Atlas layers anonymously (no authentication) is done using the Standalone Server source type but the 3.21.2 package errors.  This is a publicly shared service you can try:https://services.arcgis.com/P3ePLMYs2RVChkJx/arcgis/rest/services/USA_Major_Cities_/FeatureServerSafe are aware of the issue, you can revert to 3.20.2 to avoid the issue.

Hi,Does anyone else have any trouble accessing Safe webinars these days? They are usually in the middle of the night for me, so I used to watch any relevant ones after a video becomes available. They a good professional development hours.I always used to be able to watch them on demand. However, I haven’t seen a video in 6 months. I seem to be only have the option of attending live. Does anyone know what’s going on? Does Safe not provide on demand videos anymore?I did send a support request a few weeks ago but I have not had a response.Thanks  

HI anyone else else getting a 403 error (ERROR: No permission for specified URL) with the TGIF link.https://community.safe.com/thank-goodness-it-s-fme-91/introducing-tgif-thank-goodness-it-s-fme-40120https://community.safe.com/thank-goodness-it-s-fme-91Yes I am logged in?Cheers,

I have a very simple workflow setup:read a table (typically either a .CSV or Excel file) which then connects to an Attribute Manager set up with multiple fields from a template that adds and renames them so they can be seamlessly imported into another database with exactly the same field names; and then this connects to  Excel Writer (the file format required for import)Since the files I’m reading into FME Workbench do not have all the fields or match exactly those in the template/Attribute Manager has (the point of the workflow), I get an “incomplete transformer” error message. The workflow executes flawlessly, however, and I’m getting the results I need.I’m wondering, however, if there is a way to eliminate the error - the red “incomplete transformer” icon in the navigator window is a bit disconcerting. 😉 PS: I have added the following annotation to the AttributeManager should there be no way to get rid of the error m

Hello Team,I have an Excel template with a single worksheet that includes predefined colours, formatting, etc.In version 2025.0, I’m trying to write my results into this template, but I want to output multiple worksheets within the same workbook using the same template. I’ve tried several approaches (both dynamic and manual), but they either fail or behave unexpectedly.What I’m seeing is that only the first worksheet shows the designed template but no results, while the subsequent worksheets contain the results but lose the template formatting. Even when I set Remove Template Sheet if Unchanged to Yes, the first worksheet (the template sheet) is still present with no results filled in.Does anyone know whether this is achievable in version 2025.0? If so, how should it be configured in the Excel Writer?Kind regardsThanks!

Moving this to FME Form Q/A.  

Hello everyone,I am seeking confirmation on whether GeometryValidator supports 3D geometry validation (such as solids, meshes, point clouds, etc.) in version 2025.0I noticed that GeometryValidator includes an issue type called “Self-Intersection in 2D”, which suggests that this one specifically built for 2D geometry. However, I would like to understand whether the other issue types - such as Missing Vertex Normals, Missing Texture Coordinates, Invalid Solid Boundaries, Invalid Solid Voids, Contains Non-Planar Surfaces, Invalid Area Orientation, Surface Orientation, and others - are applicable to and capable of validating 3D data.Could you please clarify which of these validations support 3D geometries?Thanks in advanced!

We recently upgraded our FME Flow from version 2019 to FME 2025.2.1. Although we encountered several issues during the upgrade, the system is now running. However, we are facing a new error when executing an existing workbench. The workbench reads data from an Oracle table and generates GML and GeoJSON files. The files are generated successfully, but at the end of the process, the following error appears: 190 2026-1-20 14:33:00 | Router and Unexpected Input Remover (RoutingFactory): No geometry mapping entry found for 'fme_line' in metafile 'E:\Server\fme\metafile\ORACLE_SPATIAL.fmf'. Please visit http://www.safe.com/support Has anyone encountered this issue before? Any guidance would be appreciated.  

hi All, i am currently using FME2015, May i check if we are able to use openJDK to replace JRE so that we do not need to use Java Oracle license? Thank you.

I have an excel file that has changing header position at every ingestion. The header is randomly stated into any row position and before the header data is populated until row 4 (not always stable). I have been using these configuration where the Field Names Row is set to 1 and Cell Range is blank by default. However when the different file is ingested, these values automatically changes to 1 and 2:as attached in the screenshot.  I tried changing the attribute definition to manual, however it terminates the translation when the feature type changes. What is the best approach to this issue given that the names in the header remains always stable?

Hi, What is the best way to manage the schema drifting issue? Context: Currently the user uploads an Excel File through Workspace apps, and the file contains multiple attributes where the attribute names can change anytime. ID can be reported as Id, Identifier, id, ID. What is the best way to map and standardize these attributes ?

I wanted to make all my attribute to camelCase, currently they are separated by underscore.I wanted to change my attribute name to camelCase, so using regular expression in BulkAttributeRenamer transformer to find text following underscore using regular expression replace: _([a-z])  However, i am not sure what String parameter i have to put to make the selected character Capital letter. I have tried \U\1 and also few other but its not working. Basically wanting to find String parameter value? 

I’m using the Gemini Connector (Transformer) in FME and facing an issue with initiator (upstream) attributes.My requirement is:The attributes coming into the Gemini Connector (initiator attributes) Need to be merged with the Gemini response/output, so that the final feature contains both the original attributes and the Gemini result Current behavior: The Gemini Connector output only contains response-related attributes Initiator attributes are not carried through or merged automatically Question: Is there a supported way to merge or carry initiator attributes along with the Gemini response? Is this a limitation of the Gemini Connector transformer? What is the recommended pattern (FeatureMerger, Joiner, correlation ID, etc.) to achieve this? Any guidance, b

Hi,I have text from a source DWG that contains all the information needed to create an annotation class in a geodatabase (text size, rotation, color hex/RGB/fme, etc.). I’m able to create the annotation class in the GDB, but all the text comes in as black, even though the original text has different colors.What am I missing?

Hi,Is anyone else having issues with Form not starting after the recent Windows update? A repair did not help, and even a fresh installation of version 2025.2.3 will not start.

lets say I have a set of coordinates x1,y1 and x2,y2 how can i create a dwg with dimensions between these coordinates?if possible a step by step guide with the transformers/writers required for this.  

Working in FME Workbench v.2024.2I am working on a process that validates my metadata format and converts it if needed, then exports the final format to xml for backup. We are trying to ensure all of our metadata is in ISO 19139, but we know some feature classes are FGDC CSDGM Metadata. We would like to use FME to convert the format and then update/write to the existing feature class's metadata in our enterprise geodatabase with it. Secondly, we want to also create a backup of the xml file which will be saved to a local folder. I have done this using an "Attribute File Writer" and only writing the geodb_metadata_string to a .xml file, however, when trying to reimport it into ArcMap/ArcGIS Pro I receive a "Failed to import metadata" alert. Comparing it an export directly from ArcGIS it is clear they differ. It seems like FME is converting it to their own format when reading it in.Any suggestions on either of these processes would be appreciated, thanks!

Hello all,I would like to automatically record different Output Port names ​​into one new attribute. So in the newly generated output file there is al column with the name of the Output Port and a column with the value from the TestFilter.Desired outcomeI know it is possible to do it by hand, place a AttributeCreater behind every port and fill in the Output Port name. But I have a large number of TestFilters, and to avoid errors and keep things organized, I would like to do it automatically with one AttributeCreator/AttributeManager.If the AttributeCreator/AttributeManager is not the correct transformer, or I need two other transformers that do the job, that would already make a big difference to me.