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Enlarging the “text” that appears in the “FME Data Inspector” from the “workbench”,  I couldn’t figure out if there is a way to enlarging the “text” that appears in the “FME Data Inspector” from the “workbench”.  For example, the “text” output below appears in small size, how to enlarge its size from the “workbench”?     Thank you  Best  Jamal

Hi Folks, So I've inherited a workspace that has a generic writer in it. One of the formats it writes is File Geodatabase (ArcObject).  One thing we've noticed is that FME seems to append to the GeoDatabase rather than overwriting it. As it's a Generic writer, is there a way to specify Overwrite = true? I.e. with an attribute? The doc's don't seem to say what the default is so I'm guessing it's False based on what we're seeing.  Using FME 2013.  Thanks, Jonathan

Hi everybody,  I have a raster image(TIFF file). I want to import it to Postgis. How can I do? I tried it : - Reader: read tiff file , - Writer: PostGIS Raster. But I got error. Could you tell me please how can I do? Thank you     

Can the Generic (Any Format) Reader handle an arbitrary schema or is it limited to a fixed schema?  This quote from the FME 2014 documentation suggest that it should handle arbitrary schema: "... and is very useful for solving problems when the input format and schemas are not known at design time."  However I have a workflow with Generic (Any Format) Readers that throws an error when I change one or more of the input datasets when testing. The error is:  "During translation, some features were read that did not match a reader feature type in the workspace. This can happen if the reader is changed, or a reader feature type removed or renamed."  "The following unexpected feature types were read:" .....  My workflow checks for a number of data problems.  There are two datasets: a reference dataset and a dataset to check. The reference dataset and the one to check are each used by a Schema (Any Format) Reader so I can check schema differences and a Generic (A

Hi, I have an XYZ file with 1 million points at regular 1m horizontal intervals.  I want to convert this to contours, however when I tried ContourGenerator and SurfaceModeller transformers, all I got was a square polygon showing the extent of the XYZ points.  Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong or if I should be using a different transformer?  Thanks,

Hi there,  I've created a workspace you can point at any folder containing multiple shape files, and outputs an access mdb files that simply summarizes the counts and present attributes for each shape. The problem is however, FME seems to ignore “Empty” shape files. This is somewhat understandable, but is there any way I can bypass it? The nature of the tasks this workbench has to perform dictates that it also needs to list the empty features. The count will be zero for these specific layers, but I still need them to be added to the output file.  I’ve done several tests, and it doesn’t seem like the empty layers get thrown away at any of the specific transformers, so I’m guessing that it’s an inherent feature of FME it self? Or am I missing something?   Thanks in advance,

I have a lidar point cloud clipped by building footprints and grouped by the building id. I would like to calculate slope for the points in each building, which I assume would be:   (elevation of point_with_maximum_elevation minus elevation of point_with_minimum_elevation) divided by (length between point_with_maximum_elevation and point_with minimum_elevation).  I have used the PointCloudStatisticsCalculator to get the min and max, but it does not tell me where these points these are so I can't determine the length between the points. Is there another way to do this?  Thanks   

Hi!  I work with Maritime Spatial Planning and thus have a lot of mapping to be done. One of my biggest concerns is that very often in maps there are layers upon layers - areas of national interest - in the maps, making them hard to read. However, there isn't always a conflict between the interests because some are below the surface, some are on or below the seabed and some are above the surface. My problem is that I wish to make a traditional map and in that map include cross sections as an inset from lines I draw (and then run through FME).     I have gotten as far as extruding (seabed bathymetry model)-draped lines with line on area overlay to polygons, but I cannot export the results to shape to use in ArcMap or QGIS. It has to be a popular format because these results will be shared.     So: I have a lot of polygon and line interests which intersects my freshly drawn cross section-line (straight line, 2 vertex is good enough). Line on area (and line) overlay. Extrude the fea

Hi All,  We have a simple GeoRSS reader workbench here which we would like to publish to our FME Server. The server sits behind a proxy, so proxy authentication is passed into the GeoRSS readers advanced parameters.  Doing some testing on FME Desktop, if I set the proxy settings in the GeoRSS advanced properties, but don't have those setting set in the FME Desktop network options, the workbench hangs for a while whilst trying to call the RSS URL and eventually fails like below:    As soon as I set the proxy settings in the FME Desktop network options, regardless of whether it's set in the GeoRSS properties, the workbench runs fine. So first question is, what is the point of the GeoRSS Network Proxy parameter? If it doesn't seem to effect anything. Does the GeoRSS reader use a different HTTP Client library to other readers/transformers (i.e. HTTPFetcher)?  Also, are we able to set a global proxy setting for our FME Server, in the same way we set the network options in Deskto

Hi We are testing FME 2012 (32x) with MapInfo v12 on WIN7. When I want to extend MapInfo V12 with the FME Integration Console, I can't do it. It says I have to upgrade my licence. Is FME 2012 sp4 compatible with Mapinfo v12?  If not, we are also testing FME 2014 soon. Is FME 2014 sp2 compatible with MapInfo v12?  Thank you!

Hi,  I'm converting tiff (with tfw) file to ecw, but after transformation there is no eww (ecw's world file) neither is ecw properly georeferenced.  Yes, there is a way to georeference it by changing the extension of original tfw file, but that doesn't solve problem if you're running any other transformations (e.g. clipper) in between.  Thank you in advance.

Hello,  I need to read a file from an external Sharepoint server in FME Desktop. When I open the https link in the web browser I first get directed to a login page where I can type the username and password. Is it possible to pass domain\\username and password in the Source file parameter in FME so the Excel file can be opened in FME?  Thanks, Daniel

Hi,  Most of the docs on DGN tags are unfortunately about writing them. But I need to read them intelligently.  Tags are exposed as the list variable tag_names{}, which either contains the tag key names, or the tag values, dependent on the "Output Tags As Text" setting in the DGN reader.  And the values in the tag_names{} list is accessed used a numeric index, not the key names.  If one needs to build some logic to handle the situation, where individual objects has vastly individual tag assignments, both name wise and index wise, how does one go about that ?  Intuitively I would loop thru and test the key names, and assign the corresponding value to a variable of my choice. But as I see it, this is not possible in FME 2014 !?  Any experiences and thoughts and suggestions on - or alternatives to - this issue ?  Cheers Lars I  

I have a design file with used levels and unused levels. When reading this file in FME I can only see the objects, which means I can only see the used layers. But I am interested in the levels that I don't use. Is there any way to get to this information?  When programming in Visual Basic for example I can get information about the model and information about the document. How do I do this in FME?

I have two featureclasses in a geodatabase. These two FC are related with each other, 1st with Object ID and 'X' in 2nd featureclass. i want to update a field in 1st featureclass on the basis of 2nd FC, after it is joined.

Hi,  is it possible to connect to shape layers on an FTP site with a wild card?  for example this WILL WORK:  ftp://user:password@the.server.com/download/my_private_dataset.zip  But I would like to get this (or the same idea) to work:  ftp://user:password@the.server.com/download/*private*.zip  so the idea is that the reader would simply read all the layers which match the criteria.  Thanks for any suggestions!

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