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Good morning, I am using SQL Creator to query a table in SQL Server. This table has about 45M records. My VPN only stays connected for 24 hours, and my workspace needs more time to run.  Last night, I was up to 27M records written to text. In lieu of starting over, I was hoping there is a way to run the workspace again, but exclude the 27M records already written. There is a unique field in the table, so it would just be a matter of excluding based on that one field. I cannot figure out how to do this. I do have a list of the unique IDs that were already written in a MS Access database table.  Is there a transformer that would allow me to do this?  Thanks! Erin

Hi All, We have received a number of cases in support recently where a Geodatabase_SDE direct connection to an enterprise Geodatabase sitting on SQL Server has failed due to the inability to load the client libraries. Once we have determined that it isn't related to a 32 bit vs 64 bit issue the problem manifests as either the error message  "fme.exe - System Error The program can't start because sdemssqlsrvr102.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem."  or  "Could not open the Enterprise Geodatabase. The error number from ArcObjects is: '-2147155644'. The error message from ArcObjects is: {Cannot connect to database because the database client software failed to load. Be sure the database client software is installed and configured correctly.} "  In all cases these workspaces also contained a reader/writer that was accessing some other Microsoft format - e.g. Personal Geodatabase, MS SQL Server non-spatial,

Hello,  I am working with DXF files which are outputs from Leica GPS units.  When I bring the DXF into FME as a reader it displays the point data and attributes as seperate individual features.  What is the best tranformer to use to combine these into one point feature with an attribute from each one.  My goal is to end up with a point feature in a file geodatabase.  Thanks in Advance        

How can I use the HTTPFetcher to download pdf documents from a URL? I have successfully managed it with Images using the Imagefetcher and writing to JPG, but what do I do for PDFs?   

I have a large CSV and apparently FME tries to identify the column type when a CSV reader is added to a workspace. I believe this is causing a failure in a writer when FME identifies a column as "number" but there are a few null values in the column. It appears the CSV writer crashes when it wants to write a "number" but the value is "null". How do I get FME to stop identifying columns that have null values as "number"? I am doing no calculations on this column; it just needs to get pushed through to the writer as it is found in the reader. As a last resort (although painful) how do I change the column type manually to successfully deal with null values?

Hello,  I'm translating MS SQLServer Spatial to GML file by mapping SQLServer views I created for translation. But I have one problem. I need to have something like this (just an axample, not real code): FeatureMemberCollection   FeatureMember     Town     School     Class     ...   /FeatureMember /FeatureMemberCollection  But I have FeatureMemberCollection   FeatureMember     Town   /FeatureMember   FeatureMember     School   /FeatureMember   FeatureMember     Class   /FeatureMember   FeatureMember     ...   /FeatureMember /FeatureMemberCollection  Because of this my xslt creation goes wron way. What can I do, or where I'm wrong?

 I have to download images which are made accessible using a password protected api interface.  Using the following URL I can retrieve an xml dokument showing the element id´s which contain image data:  https://www.THESERVICE.com/api/media-get.php?&user=?????&pw=?????&crs=EPSG:4236&version=current&bbox=9.3131,52.5912,10.2535,53.2265&type=1  From the list, I can then call the images using the following query:   https://www.THESERVICE.com/api/medium-file.php?&id=73298&user=?????&pw=?????   Could anyone offer a way to enable me to download all the images to a given directory and rename then according to the id?   

Choosing a particular layer when converting CAD file to ESRI feature class,  I couldn’t figure out how can the end user choose a particular layer when converting CAD to feature class.  It appears the “feature type” can’t be set as “user parameter”  Then how the user can select a particular layer when converting CAD to feature class?              Thank you  Best  Jamal

I'm getting the following message:  CSV Reader: Invalid schema directive value 'number<comma>15<comma>0<comma>number<comma>4<comma>...The expected syntax is SCHEMA <typename1>,<width1>,<precision1>,...<typenameN>,<widthN>,<precisionN>.  Using schema scanner instead  As you can see, no typenames are being furnished.  This happens reading a pipe- or tab-delimited CSV file.  User Attributes are parsed and assigned correctly when opening the reader properties, so I don't understand the error.  Also why all the <comma> indicators instead of a literal ','?  Later on, I'm getting many attribute could not be written errors associated with certain attributes. The containing feature has been dropped...outputs, writing to a file geodatabase as a dynamic writer.  Where can I go from here and/or what am I doing wrong with my simple csv -> file geodatabase translation?

I have a bunch of raster KMZs that I want to conver to another raster format like geotiff. I inserted a geometry filter to just filter out the raster to write to geotiff. When I write out one file as a test, I am getting 17 different raster images as output. Why is this and how can I just get one image file as output? I tried to use mosaic raster before writing out to geotiff but it did not give a good result.

Hello I am using FME Server Notifier in my workbench . The topic is subscribed to email .  But it is throwing below   BODY @EvaluateExpression(STRING_ENCODED,<at>Value<openparen>_job_id<closeparen><lf><at>Value<openparen>_timeStarted<closeparen><lf><at>Value<openparen>_timeFinished<closeparen><lf>,FMEServerNotifier_2) OUTPUT OUTPUT FEATURE_TYPE FMEServerNotifier_2_OUTPUT OUTPUT REJECTED FEATURE_TYPE FMEServerNotifier_2_<REJECTED>' is incorrect.  The parameter to TOPIC must be a constant value, a value-of (&) attribute, or an FME function call  Below is my content for the notification @Value(_job_id) @Value(_timeStarted) @Value(_timeFinished)  Any ideas why this might be happening ?

Hello guys,  Could you please tell mem how could i sva shape file in some folder with another name? The trouble is that while i try to do this the programm creates the folder with defined name but the name of the file stays the same.  Thx, Siber-DEV.  

Hello,   I am trying to compare corrdinate system between 2 feature class . If corrdinate system is different then I want to terminate the process   In this below workflow my tester always gets failed even when both feature class are in same coordinate system .   Can anyoone point out what am I doing wrong .    

I saw the post about "how to convert a tiff and a world file into a geotiff file". Call me lazy but I'm no FME hotshot. I have a lot on my plate and I need to convert a tiff and world file into a geotiff in a short amount of time. Any chance you could provide me with the actual solution to do this conversion?    

I want to map the version last updated date from the metadata to a new field in the feature class.  When you save a feature class as an ESRI layer file it also creates an xml file in the same location.  Previously I would locate the feature class as a layer file saved in my local directory then read in the XML file using an XML reader, flatten the metadata and set the elements to match to 'metadata'  Then I can easily locate the attribute that contains the version date etc - and map this right over to a new field in a feature class.  But now where I have feature classes in SDE not saved as layer files I was wondering if there was any way of following this same process? How do I read that XML and after reading it, how would I carry out the xml flattening and elements to match when it is not using an XML reader?   Thanks

Dear FME users.  I want to write TIN surface into CityGML as TINRelief (tin) and I am not sure how to do that.  I am using in the CityGML GeometrySetter the following parameters:  CityGML Lod name: extent Feature Role: reliefComponent  Since there there is no option to select lod I set citygml_level_of_details to '0'. Hope that is fine.  Finally I am setting CityGML writer Feature Type Name as ReliefFeature.  When I run the workspace CityGMLWriter gives me this worning:  CityGMLWriter registered 1 messages of type:  The 'extent' citygml_lod_name trait is invalid for 'ReliefFeature' features, the geometry will be ignored, valid values are {}.  and there is no geometry being outputed into CityGML file.  I would appreciate any help very much.  Thank you.  Regards, barani

Hello,  Is it possible to read user parameters from a text/xml file. I need to store user parameters in a file which it turn read by a workbench to set a connection info which will be used to connect to db.  Regards,

Is there a way to protect the login page for FME Server 2014? I would like to allow login only from localhost, that is, on the machine itself. You can do stuff like this with Apache. Is it possible with FME Server 2014?  Thanks

Hi,  I have a workspace runner calling some workspace to export Google Spreadsheet data to Google Fusion. But, sometimes, I have an error like this :   Google Fusion Tables: Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to www.googleapis.com:443 Google Fusion Tables Writer: Unable to create the connection.  Please check your login information, table names and table IDs.  (Error was: 'Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to www.googleapis.com:443 ')  Or like this :   2014-07-15 10:14:12|   4.8|  0.2|ERROR |Google Fusion Tables: HTTP error code : 503 2014-07-15 10:14:12|   4.8|  0.0|ERROR |Google Fusion Tables: HTML Response: 'Internal error. Please try again.' 2014-07-15 10:14:12|   4.8|  0.0|ERROR |Google Fusion Tables: CommitTransaction failed 2014-07-15 10:14:12|   4.8|  0.0|ERROR |Google Fusion Tables Writer: Error inserting features to table 't_facturation'  The next workspace will run without problem. There is no network problem (tested on 2 servers).

Hi everbody,  i just want to rename the textures associated to my OBJ files. I have for example a file called AB0001.obj and four textures :  noname001.jpg,noname002.jpg,noname003.jpg,noname004.jpg  I want to rename my textures in order to have :  AB001_1.jpg, AB001_2.jpg, AB_003.jpg,AB_004.jpg  So i used "Appearance extractor" and "Appearance setter" but without success.  Thanks!

Hi, I am trying to read in a feature class, the name of this feature class depends on the output of another reader/transformer.  I may be missing something simple (like schemas) but I can't seem to find this.    More specifically I am reading in feature classes from a database, I want to compare the names to a diffTable in the database to see if there are new feature classes or edits that have been made.  I am stuck at the part where I have say 2 new feature class (names) and I want to read those and write them out to another database (just as they are, in 2 seperate feature classes).  I have access to desktop and server.  I was thinking of chaining or using server to run them.  Thanks for any advice.

Hey guys,  this is the first time i have used FME, i have been reading some files and watching the Youtube viedos,  i am sure this will be an easy question for you guy!  i am trying to convert the coordinates from the nationalgrid to are localgrid   i have an Autocad script file that have move and scale commend in it,   MOVE ALL  0,0,0 -346000,211000,0 SCALE ALL  0,0,0 1.000410669  but when i use the offsetter command and scale command with these values, Then coordinateExtractor and Logger to view the Coordinates, they dont match   are you guys able to point out a rookie mistake,  cheers

Hi! We are moving our OS from winXP 32x to Windows7 64x. We are using FME and ArcGIS. We will be using FME 2014 sp2 Dekstop and ArcGIS 10.2.1 Desktop. And we also have an ArcGIS server installed with MSSQL Server 2008 r2.  My question is on the correct install to use. I read here (http://fmepedia.safe.com/articles/Samples_and_Demos/Notes-on-FME-and-ESRI-Versions-and-Compatibility) that I can't write those format if I run FME 64x : File, Personal, or ArcSDE Geodatabase (ArcObjects)  But if I read here  (http://www.safe.com/fme/format-search/#!) I can write those format (File, Personal, or ArcSDE Geodatabase (ArcObjects))  I know I can use file geodatabase with the API but It's not my first choice as I'm limited on the API format.  So should I install FME 64x or FME 32x ?  Thank you!  

Hello,   I have feature class with annotation in the source File Geogatabase . I need it to move to ArcSDE .   WHat are the steps I need to follow to load it into ArcSDE

I have subscribed for directory watch if any data is added . But my requirement is to enable a scheduled task and  run it next day at 00.30 am . How can i possibly do this .