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Has anyone managed to successfully connect to a MySQL database using the MariaDB reader?  The first time I tried I successfully got the table list and was able to choose a table but when it came to add the reader it just said "Running indefinitely" until I cancelled it.  Now if I try to add it again I get a fatal error and FME shuts down  (FME 2013 SP3 Build 13528)

I have the following readers.... Mapinfo line (Roads) Mapinfo Shape which consists of multible boundaries (Suburbs)  I want to populate the Roads file with an attribute 'suburb boundary' from the Suburbs Mapinfo file and have a 'writer' that is the new roads file with a column called suburbs.  Thanks,

I'm trying to read from a csv file a list of 3ds models to convert to sketch-up. Each model also need to be offset to correct insertion point.  csv file contains for example header included: 3dsfile,xoffset,xoffset,zoffset m:\\sourcedata\\models\\test123.3ds,33001.98,58123.76,12.54 ... 54 models in the list the list is generated from a spatial filter  I've tried the featurereader but it only works with single column cannot get the x,y,z details. also tried scripted parameter, but it only work only a single column  Any ideas?  Need to read each line, and offset each model to sketch-up (offset with the values in the csv file  Rudy. 

Hi,  Has anyone come across the older SIGRID format or know of any tools or off the shelf file readers?  http://nsidc.org/data/docs/daac/nsidc0050_aari_seaice/sigrid.html   Thanks, Annette

Hi there,  I am new to FME and I have been assigned a project where I would like to download a changeset data from the WFS server (eg. land parcel data), extract the data, evaluate the change in data and update everyweek and save in the local geodatabase using FME. I am kind of lost, I would appreciate if anyone would direct me in the right direction or is there any samples or any related documents that would help me understand for  heads up?  Regards, Subodh

Hello, I have a problem when I want to migrate Smallworld records to Postgis, I can not migrate the geometries.  When I do the opposite, to migrate PostGis records to Smallworld: 1- I add, the format attribute "sworld_geometry{0}.sworld_name",  in the Smallworld Reader. 2- I put an "AttributeCreator" transform in the workbench and create the attribute "sworld_geometry{0}.sworld_name" with value: location, route o boundary,(they are the names of the geometric attributes in Smallworld,That depends on whether the geometry is a point, line or area)  But i don´t know how can i do the same for PostGis.  Thank You

Hi  Does anyone know how I can set a specific DWG layer visibility to be "off" by default? I have 100's of layers and would like to set some to be "on" and some to be "off".  I can "freeze", "hide" or "lock" the layer via the format parameters section for the feature type properties - is their a way to switch visibility off?  Thanks,  Mike

Hello,  I want to insert a value in a table with an XML Type (oracle non spatial) but I haven't find a type in user attribute corresponding. I have tried to insert by an sqlExecutor but for transaction meaning it is not valuable.  Anyone can help me ?  Best Regards,  Julien

Hi,   I’ve got SMW 4 source data that has multiple attributes that contain Date values that I’m importing to an ESRI File Geodatabase. (Not all attributes contain information, some have unset values). Using the DateFormatter on the values that do have information, it works; but when I include all records, I’m getting the following error message:   The date 'unset' is not valid. Valid forms for a date type are YYYYMMDD, YYYYMMDDHHMMSS, or HHMMSS   Is this error because I’m using the DateFormatter? Is there a way to pass the date with the correct format and not expect there to be a value in every field?   Thanks in advance! 

My first attempt at shape to KMZ is attached. I'm doing clearly several things wrong. Suggestions welcome.   http://fmeserver.ncd.noaa.gov/ge_error.png  I'm trying to produce:  http://fmeserver.ncd.noaa.gov/ge_charts.png  Which was created using Arc2earth which I no longer have acess to.

I have a large number (one for each day the past years) of text files of apparently same field structure. The fields are separated with semi colon ; delimiter, but with no text qualifyer e.g. " ".  However, some of the records have data, which include semi colons and consequently mess up and fails when importing into FME Workbench.  So far I have added the text files as readers in used the first line as column names, but the import apparently breaks when hitting the false semi colon delimiters.   What can I do to manage and  clean up such failures?

I have an AutoCAD drawing with hundreds of layers.  I want to reproject the whole drawing and write it out as an AutoCAD drawing with all layer formats and attributes, blocks, etc preserved.  So basically take the whole drawing and reproject it and create the exact same DWG in a different coordinate system.  When I read in the DWG, FME shows my all the layers separately.  Surely I don't have to connect each one to a Reprojector transformer? 

Hello all,  I have the following database:  Table_source ID,CATEGORY,TYPE,REMARK 1,TEST,TYPE 1,NO REMARK  What I need to do is export this to 2 XML files Table_export_1 ID,CATEGORY 1,TEST  Table_export_2 ID,TYPE,REMARK 1,TYPE 1,NO REMARK  The problem is that I can't find how to do this, I've tried with a SchemaMapper, but I always get a 1:1 result instead of a 1:n result.  Can anyone help me out?  Thanks in advance.

Hello,   l'm attempting to create a json file using a json existing file structure, with values coming from an excel file. (I didn't find example with json file not in input). My problem is that l want to fill json file only with key:value not null (as you can do in php..?) so that the key is not written in the json file. sorry for my bad english, this an example :  if l managed to get from my excel file : title_fr : description in fr --> title templater  "fr" : getattribute("title_fr"), title_en : null --> "en" : getattribut("title_en") In my title objet in the json file, l want :  title {  "fr" : "description in fr" } and not title  {  "fr" : "description in fr",  "en" : "" } in order to have a clean json file especially when l expect to hav

Hi,  I have a shape file with a price for each polygon and I want to convert that to a raster in order to be able to mosaic these values to another raster. How is that possible? Many thanks!

we are trying to import the object data to small world 4.3 from .tab file usnig FME work bench 2010. while running i am getting translation failed error. int the log file message Object unset does not understand message int!world_transform is displayed. so kidly let me know how to fix the issue.   

Dear All ,   The uploaded files by the users get deleted before the process end , how to keep the uploaded file for a longer period . Also how to increase the performance of the datadownload services , it is taking one hour to report check conflict of an uploaded parcel againist all our store layers , is there is a way to speed up this , in arcmap when we found all intersect with this parcel it takes only 2 minuts .

Hi,    I have 2 custom transformers embded in my main workbench. All are using same set of parameters. Hence, instead of each time    changing all parameters, i tried to link parameters of 1st custom transformer to publish parameters of main workbench in Navigator.    Workbench is executed successfully. but when i link any parameter of 2nd custom transformer, workbench is failing with following error. "Undefined macro `USER_ID' dereferenced in file `C:\\Users\\mypc\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\FME_138424666970_7432'  Undefined macro `%0' dereferenced in file `%1'  ... Last line repeated 2 times ...  Oracle Writer: Translation aborted -- rerun specifying "ORACLE8I_1_START_TRANSACTION 0"" 2nd custom transformer has one SQLExecutor, 1 test filter and 1 attribute creator. Please let me know how to solve this issue. Thanks.

I am generating new features in a workspace and wants to write to 2 already defines features in ArcSDE:  Feature1: fme_feature_type: Road geodb_oid: 1  Feature2: fme_feature_type: RoadFeature geodb_oid: 2 MY_FOREIGN_KEY (guid): 1  The issue is that I only get an error when I try to insert Feature 2 in another table: |An error occurred while attempting to insert a value into the field 'MY_FOREIGN_KEY' for the table 'RoadFeature'. The error number from ArcObjects is: '-2147219887'. The error message from ArcObjects is: {}.    I suspect i need the UUID from Feature1 to insert as the MY_FOREIGN_KEY in Feature2? However how can I do this when I am writing both features at the same time? I have other tables with M:M connections and a temporary geodb_oid on each object and a table describing the relationship and these goes through smoothly with correct connections in ArcSDE. 

Hi All,  I have just installed FME Server on a machine here at work (Build 13545) with only one engine - pretty simple huh?  Well all is going fine so far, a test workbench which reads a TAB stored in a network location reads fine and writes to a local CSV.  All good there.  Then I upload a workbench which also writes a CSV locally, but reads from the Corporate SDE.  Chaos ensues...  The error message I am getting says: "Unable to perform any licensing related tasks. This is a 64-bit version of FME which requires a 64-bit version of ArcGIS Server"  The issue is that ArcGIS Server IS 64 bit...  Any suggestions?

How to set Subtypes and Domains are written here: However how do I read the allowed subtypes from a feature? Ie for the "Diameter" attribute I want to extract the value:text pairs of choices (0:Unknown,12:12",2:2" etc...) Schemareader does not work as far as I have seen.  http://fmepedia.safe.com/articles/How_To/Working-with-Geodatabase-Subtypes-and- Domains     

I would like to to use the DirectoryAndFilePath Reader to assemble a list of file paths, and then feed tha to a JPEG reader as the list it should read.    I have also looked at the FeatureReader, to see if it could be used under program control.    But I am drawing a blank. Any hints?   

Does anyone know of a fast and simple way to "smudge" an ECW file?  I know this sounds strange but I essentially want to read a large ECW file and smudge it so that you cannot see any details within the resulting output ECW image.  Any ideas?  Thank you in advance.

Hey all,  I have a question about translating spatial data from a PostGIS database to Bentley Microstation DGN V8. Just to get an idea of what I am doing: the superior goal of my work is to store spatial data from DGN-V8-file in a central PostGIS-database, so that the spatial data can be accessed from any other place. So far, so good. The other way around, a DGN-V8-file should be the result when retrieving information from the PostGIS-database. The translation from DGN-V8 to PostGIS with FME works very well, all spatial information as well as additional attributes are transfered. On the way back, translating the PostGIS-tables to DGN-V8, the problem occures. All the geometry information gets into the new file as well as five attributes (igds_color, igds_weight, igds_style, igds_class, igds_graphic_group). But the rest of the attributes stored in the PostGIS database are ignored. They don't appear in the resulting DGN-V8-file. For instance, there is a table, whi

Hi,  I have a 3D Microstation v8 DGN file which I need to convert to shapefile.  How do i get the elevation data out of the DGN and into an attribute field in the shapefile?  Thanks!