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Hi, I have a rather large workbench that brings features from a SQL Spatial Server and has four Feature Types that use GeoDatabase Writers. I was hoping that there was a way to bring everything into one Geodatabase that will fan out into separate feature classes. Instead it is fanning out based on an attribute, but it is making multiple Geodatabases, instead of writing into one Geodatabase with separate feature classes within it. Is there a way to configure the writers in order to get this accomplished? I attached the log from my last Translation to maybe better express what I am doing.  http://pastebin.com/taKBBib2

[Python] How to read shapefile and excel file in order to display data from the excel file on the dgn file ?  I want to choose in Python a shapefile and an excel file and merge them in order to display data from the excel file to the shapefile and have a dgn file as output.  If you want, I already have this one but I have two issues.    - Here the source dataset (parcels.tab) is a MapInfo tab and I want to use a shapefile as input. - I can't use another MapInfo tab, because I can't change the attribute PARCEL_ID to anoher. 

Hi, I am using the GeoDatabase Writer. I have no other option but to use a specific name field for the Fanout properties. I was having writing issues and I figured out that it is because these attributes have Spaces and it is causeing the problem. Is there any way I can have it eliminate these spaces in the name or replace them with Underscores? Thanks. Here is my log file. http://pastebin.com/EsSyBEQx

I'm trying to write a CSV file to a computer that is not on our domain, so I have to have FME login to it before it can write out the data. How do I pass the username:password credentials to the writer so FME can log onto that computer?

Hi,  I am using a Geodatabase writer and I keep getting the error: Geodatabase Error (-2147024894): The system cannot find the file specified. Could not open File Geodatabase dataset `\\\\Vdi-standard103\\data\\LumosM4WMS.gdb\\Line_FPA Multiports' for writing. I made sure there were no locks on the database.  I'm not sure why this is happening, do I have to pre create the feature classes that I am expecting to be written? that seems like unneccessary work as I have it set to fan out based on a name field in the SQL Server Database. Maybe I'm missing a setting? Any Help is greatly appriciated

HI All,  I never really thought about this one until now, but is it possible to featuremerge on wildcard values?  For example,  I have a point file with an ID value.  The ID values are unique.  ie A, B, C, D I have a many table of values with a ID value of A_1990, A2, A, B1,B2,BC,D1,D3,D9  Is it possible feature merge based on a wild card? ie..  *A* join to A_1990,A2         *B* joins to B1,B2,BC        *D* joins to D1,D3,D9  

Hello, I'm new to FME 2014 and trying to figure out how to transform a csar file to csv.  Can someone point me in the right direction or show the steps?  Very much appreciative.

Hi, I'm looking for best practice solutions for writing to a SQL Server database mid-translation. I need to write mid-translation because I have foreign key constraints on the database and some feature types need to be inserted before others.  As far as I'm aware there's no way of telling the writer to insert feature types in a specific order.  I would prefer to do all this in a single workspace (ie. not have multiple workspaces called by the WorkspaceRunner).  I think my only solution is to use the SQLExecutor but inserting records using this transformer is not well documented and it does not seem to provide any feedback as to it's success.  Any thoughts?  thanks, Nic 

Hi,    I have one SQL Server Non-Spatial writter with ~80 tables (feature types), and need to insert into identity column. I enable this option in each writer's Feature Type, but it is still throws me error that FME cann't perform SET operation on my table(s). What is all about?    Thanks

Hi,  Is there a way of reducing the size of a TAB file that I've created in FME?  Any help with this or info on reducing any other files sizes would be greatly appreciated.  Many thanks   Jo

Hi, I am translating a CSV file to a Sqlite3 database. Some of the entries have accented characters, e.g. "Mhaol Mhòr" - a mountain in Scotland, but after processing it is displaying as "A' Mhaol Mh�r" in the target database when I query the record.  I can't see anywhere in the writer where I can specify the character encoding.  Any help or advice much appreciated, thanks.  Jason

Hi there,  I have a fully functional workspace that dynamically does calculations on shape files contained within a selected folder. My output is an xls that is fanned out baie the “filename” attribute retrieved from the “FileNamePartExtractor” transformer.  My problem is, I need to do the same calculation for a GDB file now, containing multiple layers(such as WATER, FORREST, etc). Now obviously, “filename” only retrieves the name of the .gdb (AFR_Complete.gdb in this case) so that no longer works. I’ve also tried “fme_basename” and “fme_dataset”, but with no success.  Is there a way that I can fanout by the contents of the GDB file?   Thanks in advance

Hey  i am trying to do a simple workspace of placinig a point at Lat & Long coordinates within a CSV file  if i inspect the data i can see the coordinates   but when i link in the VertexCreator transformer and put it to Lat and Long, i get a error that it cant find the data     i have done this a few time before on different sets of data, but i cant seem to work this one out!!  cheers for any help you guys can give, i am sure i am just missing something simple!  cheers

Hi,  I am developing a workspace (published on FME Server) triggered by an email whose attachments are elaborated and the final result, an xml file, emailed back.  The xml file is not accessible from une of the attributes of the features, it is an AIXM 4.5 xml file created by the workspace at the end of the elaboration and usually stored in a file on the disk.  So I guess I should retreive that file and send it by email to the user, but I don't know how...  I think I can't use the Job Submitter and Data Download Services because I I need the email with its attachments to activate the workspace.  Does someone know how to solve this issue?  Thanks,  Alessandro

Hi,     I have two workbenches published in server. First workbench generates an FFS in server. Upon completion of first workbench, irrespective of success/failure, server should call second workbench using POST_COMMAND in SUB_SECTION with FFS location as published parameter.  I can execute the workbench on system using command line, but i dont know the syntax for above workbench call from server.  Any pointers will be highly helpful.  Thanks, Subrat 

Can the TCPIPReceiver within a workspace running on FME Cloud listen on privileged ports?

Hi, We are unable to access Excel file from shared locationin FME server,  get error "XLSX Reader: Failed to open the dataset 'given Shared path'.  Error message was 'can't open file for reading' , but the same excel from local drive we are able to access without error.  Any idea  Regards CNG

Hi there,  This is the first time I'm attempting to write to an SDE database, and I'm encountering some hiccups.  1. If I use an SDE30 connection, everything works 100% according to the workspace, and despite it displaying that all 33079 my point features succesfully go to the writer (with the translation successful message) there is nothing in the database when I check in ArcCatalogue/Map. The feature class is not even created, never mind blank.  2. If I use GEODATABASE_SDE writer, I get the following error in FME, which also fails the translation:  Unable to create the table/feature class TUN_MN_TEST. When writing to a pre-9.2 Enterprise Geodatabase, a value of 0 is not appropriate for the GEODB_XYSCALE. Specify a number greater than 0 A fatal error has occurred. Check the logfile above for details  What makes this case even stranger, is that I got option 2 to work once. Without changing a single thing. It actually created the feature class and everything seemed fine, and whe

Hi,  I had a workspace with a personal GDB reader. Recently, our data has been migrated from personal GDB to file GDB. With same database schema, is there a way to just change reader's format in a workspace?  Thanks in advanced!

Hi,  I try to do a very simple translation AutoCAD to AutoCAD (no transformers, just a change of version). everythings works fine except that the blocks are not translated, even if I include the reader file as template for the writer.   Does any one has a solution ? I want to obtain the same structure as the original file...  Thank's in advance

Hi guys, I have a WMS running on FME Server which is basically taking an image of an area, cutting out a small user defined area and returning it to the user as a png file.  The question I have is related to changing the bounding box in the URL request, when I change it I still get the same map as in the original workbench I uploaded to Server.  I am sure it is something simple I have missed and any help would be much appreciated so thanks in advance.

Hello, I have points on many file on a side.  On the other side i have a directory with multiple cad file each cad have 1 boundarie  I make a workspace with a buffer/clipper and a reader to read all points.  I don't want to insert each boudary and insert writers with the same name.  I want to scan the directory for cad file, For each file this write a csv file with the point.  All of this work perfectly for 1 file but is a way to make it for each file ?

Hello,    I got GML file trough translation of SQLServer Spatial into GML, but I can not inspect it, or open it to graphicaly see features. XMLValidator passes the file against schema. Here is a link to my resulting GML file:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8kUf-xMW81XY09lV2prQ3VUVlE/edit?usp=sharing

Reader 1: Excel Data with a County column  Reader 2: Ownership Parcels for Northeast United States with a County column  I want to filter out all counties that are not listed in the Excel Data. This will greatly reduce processing time since the Excel file never has more than a 100 records daily. While the Ownership always has millions of records.  If today's Excel Data has County A, B, and C then I only want Ownership Parcels that are in County A, B, and C. I hope that makes sense.  What's the best way to filter the Ownership Parcels with the everchanging Excel Data by the county field in the Excel Data?

Hi All  I have made a FME script that loads data from an SDE Oracle database and from various csv files. The dat are manipulated and finally summarize in an attribute as a text in XML format . Finaly the text is written to disk using a text writer.  This script has been running in a weekly batch job succesfully until 2 weeks ago. Since then, when the script is run in batch or in the workbench, as soon as the writer attempts to write the the text file, a windows message appears saying that FME.ex stopped working and needs to close. After that another error appears with a runtime error.  When I run the script in the workbench the last lines in the logwindow are like this.  unable to realloc 73638411 bytes This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information. i = 72 String http://www.safe.com/fme/xquery/functions is still in the pool Zorba Internal Fatal Error in ..\..\src\store\naive\string_pool.c