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Hi, A simple question -> I want to write "" value in a field in a csv file using csv writer. When this csv file is opened in notepad, the value should look at "" and not as """""". E.g. Note the third column, that is how it should be visible. ID,Name,Comment 12,Vijay,"" 13,Sambhe,"" Its odd but that is the requirement. I can add a workspacerunner, read csv as texfile and replace """""" as "" and write to a textfile but I want this to be done in a single workspace. Thanks, Vijay

Hi, I have building floor plan with floor number (which is like G, M1, M2, M3, F1, ...F19 etc.) and I have height of each floor (like 3.4, 4, 4.5 etc.). We want to show the elevated floors in GIS with as per the exact height from ground (which is height of G+M1+M2+M3+F1+F2 and so on). I have attached a sample file. We have more 10000 buildings and each building has multiple floor so manual calculation of floor elevation is tedious work.

I am having issues using the ArcGIS Portal Feature Service reader. The reader accepts the host name and my username and password and it is able to successfully load all of the feature services. After I select a feature service, I click the ellipses button next to "Layer List" and it gives me the following error: Has anyone else experienced this error message?

Hello everybody. I added texture images to building walls in sketchup, and then I tried to transform .skp file to CityGML using FME. Transformation went successful, HOWEVER, FME doesn't save pictures the way I set them to fit the wall, it just saves the original picture as if I didn't do all the work with fitting and rotating the picture. Can anybody help me? Thank you!

Hello, Is there a way to force fme to delete all the temporary/working files at the end of each translation? I'm working with huge las files and it is taking a lot of memory so that I have to manually erase such files before doing the next translation. Thanks

I am writing Data with the Excel Writer to a Excel Template. In this template I have defined Named Ranges. These ranges only consist of 1 Cell (e.g. PrjNr =Schachtblatt!$G$5) The Problem is that FME writes to the Cell G6 (one cell below my named range) Has anybody a solution for this Problem ? Thanks Hans

Hello everybody, please, I try to solve one huge problem related to DWG writer. I wanna add a new attribute to block definition (e.g. attribute CODE), whose structure is not synchronized to its graphic. E.g. I have one block and its graphic is inserted to model space (pic below called "old") in DWG. But, meanwhile, spectre of its attributes was spread to nowaday structure (pic below called "new"). Anyway, the graphic is not synchronized, so newly added attributes are invisible. In FME, I need to add one new attribute to block definition and export graphic of block in the same graphic as on pic "old". But, if I have to export to DWG, I still need to define TEMPLATE FILE - this is problematic thing, because DWG writer automatically will load specific block definition will all attributes, so graphic is actual. Please, has anybody any advice, how to add new attribute to block definition with keeping old graphic of block before synchronization? Thank You so much! Lubo

I am reading feature classes contained in feature datasets from a FGDB and then write all feature classes to a SDE/GDB. My question is how I can avoid feature dataset names and only write feature classes. I don't need the feature dataset names

Hello everybody! Can anybody explain to me how to convert collada to citygml using FME? Thank you!

I have migrated data from SQL spatial server to File GDB, I have given the correct primary key and used vertex function to create the points from lat-long values. Migration was done successfully but I couldn't find any spatial data in File GDB.

Hello, I was wondering how easy it would be to accumulate x number of records (for this example 500), then run a bulk roads & highways or geocode query that would send all 500 records at once to be located/geocoded in a single query instead of making 500 separate calls to the service. Does anyone have any workflows like this? I feel like something like this would be extremely good for the geocoder transformer among others. Thanks in advance!

I am using the HTML-FeatureWriter for creating a HTML-File. The HTML-file consists of different parts, stored and passed by attributes. The different script parts contain values like @Value(name). Now I want to store the script parts as .txt (or others) outside of FME for better editing. When I'm importing them and link them to attributes, it seems like the "@Value()"-tags aren't recognized by FME. Is there another way for editing scripts containing @Value()-tags outside of FME?

I wish to add a blank line for every 'x' line in an Excel spreadsheet createt in the FeatureWriter. Any help or guide on how to do this? Thank you!

Hi all, I have a question concerning the output format of a tool on FME Server. Tool runs fine: input contans a DEM-layer, output contains a ZIP-folder including a .dwg-file. There is only one problem: I manually have to add the extension .dwg at the end of the file name, in order to open the file as a .dwg. Right now, the output file has no extension given after extracting the ZIP-folder. After adding .dwg to the file name, the file is correct. Anyone having a suggestion?

Hi, I have 10 building and 10 JPEG files, each JPEG is specific to the buildings .Physical path of the JPEG is configured in the attribute called "path". I need to apply textures based on the attribute "path" . How can I achieve this? Regards, K.Jayakumar

Hello, I periodically load the latest version of topographic data (shape format) from many municipalities in our GIS system. The data is loaded per topographic object (for example: a workbench for buildings, an other workbench for roads, ...). Each workbench loads the data for all municipalities together. The first time the data was loaded the source contained 94 shape files (94 municipalities). The second time this was 92 (9 old deleted and 7 new added). I have adjusted the change in the data manually (update features and connect the new ones), a work that does take some time. Should the number of municipalities change again next time, the reader must be updated again. Is there a possibility to automatically read all shape files (which can change in number and file name) in one and the same folder, without the need to make manual adjustments? Thanks!Luc

What I'm trying to achieve is to write data to hosted feature layer on ArcGIS Portal. In Esri ArcGIS Portal Feature Service writer parameters I'm using this template: "Host" - https://myarcgisportal.com/arcgiswebadaptor/, and tried all options and accounts in "authentication type" - "Generate token", NTLM, Kerberos and both domain and ArcGIS accounts (ArcGIS Portal admin), it shows "the server at https://myarcgisportal.com/arcgiswebadaptor/ does not appear to be an ArcGIS Portal Instance". Portal is federated with server and ArcGIS Data Store is configured. Maybe something is misconfigured on Portal? Any ideas would be much appreciated. Thanks!

I have a large number of dto's created within Mercator which I can not read through the MCF Reader. I get the following error message Error - Invalid data in file 'dto_test_notworking_t.dto' Closing input file 'dto_test_notworking_t.dto' MCF_READER_PIPELINE::f_1(SortFactory): Done sorting 0 feature(s) Error - No bounding box coming out of the pipeline A fatal error has occurred. Check the logfile above for details Failed to specify the feature index as constraints on the reader I also have a dto file that will read through the MCF Reader. I have tried to compare the structure of both files but the file produced in mercator seems significantly different to the one that will read through the Mercator MCF Reader. Does anyone have experience with this data type and can identify what is wrong with my data ? Sample attached. Thanks Ciara

ArcGIS Online Feature Service Writer: Could not connect to server. Check that you are connected to the internet and that no firewall is blocking outbound connections. The error was '("Connection broken: ConnectionResetError(10054, 'An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host', None, 10054, None)", ConnectionResetError(10054, 'An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host', None, 10054, None))'

Is it possible to download a PDF file and then write that data to an MS SQL table? Any help would be greatly appreciated! I am able to download, using the below. However I am not able to write to SQL as VARBINARY(MAX). Almost there....

Hi, I am using S3ObjectLister and S3Downloader to connect to a bucket, download data and process it. I have two bucket setup in two different regions (ap-southeast-2) and ca-central-1. When I use settings for first region it works fine but when I change settings for region 2 i.e ca-central-1 (which is not available in transfomer's region drop down) S3ObjectLister rejects to connect and gives me follow errors fme_rejection_code: ERROR_CLIENT fme_rejection_message: fme_rejection_message (encoded: UTF-8): Not able to determine region for ca-central-1.Please upgrade to a newer version of the SDK I am not sure how to access bucket setup for ca-central-1. I have tested bucket setting and it is responding well and tried using different regions with with bucket setup for ca-central-1 I get different error code 301.

I'm reading an XML with ticket details that has xsi:nil=true in the tag and it adds the field name with .nil Also,there is a tag with xlmns andIm not sure if I have to use a List Exploder to further get its attributes. I'm a novice FME user and have no prior experience with xml either I'm looking for direction on how to resolve the field names to be the tag text and populate its values in ESRI Gdb format Any help will be much appreciated

Hi! I have a workspace that converts LAS into Recap using a pointcloudlasclassifier before writing out to Recap. This workspace runs 100% flawless on desktop. When publishing to FME Server however, the workspace always fails the first run after logging into a new session in the browser. When running the workspace the second time (and following runs) without editing any parameter it runs successfully. Any ideas what can cause this issue? It seems that it is the rcs-files (which are written to a subfolder) that is causing the workspace to fail.

Hi, I use FeatureWriters in FME Workbench 2017 for inserting datasets in Postgres. But when there are errors in my input data, like a string instead a boolean value, the row is not written in Postgres but FME doesn't detect the error, the row is counted like a correct insert and I have the message "Translation was successfull" at the end. Of course, I could use AttributeValidators to detect such errors but I have a lot of fields and I wouldd like to avoid to inspect each field. Thanks in advance for any help, Christian

Hi, I’m having problems with SDE writer with a “Versioned Edit Session” transaction type in my workspace. The workspace in question is initiated by Workflow Manager. A child version is created in our flow and the name of this version is passed along as parameter value. I’m using a writer, with three feature types, with the following settings: What do I expect: The data is written to the child version. If writing to the tables succeeded, then the child version is reconciled and posted to the parent version. After posting, the child version is deleted. When the writing fails, the child version is not posted to the parent and is automatically deleted. What do I have at the moment: The data is written to the child version. If writing to the tables succeeded, then the child version is reconciled and posted to the parent version. After posting, the child version is not deleted. When the writing fails, the child version is not posted to the parent and is not automatically deleted. The followi