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Has anyone ever tried to read a Firebird database?  It's not in the list of supported formats, but I'm wondering if there's a way to still read it using something more generic?

Hi,  I'm trying to solve an issue in our office where users who have the "FME Extension for ArcGIS" installed on thier PCs are checking out FME licences every time they open a copy of ArcMap. (None of them are enabled) The licences are usually returned within a second or two, but occasionaly they get stuck, which causes us FME users issues as we only have 2 licences. (it also regularly interupts scheduled tasks and batch process).  A sample from the licence manager log file when I started ArcMap: 12:50:04 (safe) OUT: "FME" username@machinename  12:50:04 (safe) OUT: "esri" username@machinename  12:50:04 (safe) OUT: "national" username@machinename  12:50:04 (safe) IN: "national" username@machinename  12:50:04 (safe) OUT: "fmeobjects_reproject" username@machinename  12:50:04 (safe) IN: "fmeobjects_reproject" username@machinename  12:50:04 (safe) OUT: "basic_raster" username@machinename  12:50:04 (safe) IN:

Hello! I have parcels polygons into a databse and I want to determine what kind of geometric shape (square, triangle, rectangle, trapeze, other) each of those polygons have. i am using the circularitycalculator and after a use a testfilter to determine each shape by the shape value (square ~ 0.75, rectangle ~ 0.65, etc). Unfortunately, a lot of polygon have weird values, so my filter doesn't work well. Would you have a better idea? Thanks!!

Hello,  I've recently upgraded to FME Server 2014 but am having problems publishing or downloading workbenches using FME Workbench 2014. It works fine when I use FME Workbench 2013.  The problem is a permissions issue where it says:  Login failed (Not Authorized) - Ensure that username and password fields are correct, and that user has sufficient privileges.  I don't know what the issue is as even using administrator gives this error and like I said if I go back to FME Workbench 2013 it works fine with the same username.  Which logs would I need to look in to help with this?  Thanks,  Peter.

Hi community,  I have links (with token) here that give me the opportunity to have GTFS data into realtime. So I could have bus realtime position or alerts by exemple : https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs-realtime/  Would you know a method to read this data into FME?  My goal would be to read this data and update the last position into ArcGIS via FME. If you would know a way to use the GTFS-realtime into ArcGIS, I would be interested too. Honestly I don't know what to to with those links...  thank you

Hello,  How to copy the contents of a file (File_m.csv) into another file (File_n.txt). Such that it does not overwrite but only appends to File_n.txt.  File_m.csv             File_n.txt                                   output expected:    File_n.txt A B C D E F            3 5 6 2 7 7                                                                 A B C D E F M N O P Q R           8 7 5 0 1 3                                                                 M N O P Q R                                                                                                                       3 5 6 2 7 7                                                                                                                       8 7 5 0 1 3  Regards.

Converting ESRI shape file to coverage,  I applied the tool “feature class to coverage” available in the ArcGIS to convert shape file to coverage but I got the error below:         How can the shape file be converted in FME to Coverage? The result is expected to take the following format:    Thank you  Best  Jamal

Hi,  Can anyone help me devise a method using FME to collapse a series of text records with no associate geometry, assuming that 2 values are equal and 2 values are contiguous. I have included some example data below, data is arrange such that the Animal and Colour values must match the preceding row and the preceding End value must match the Start value.  I have a very nasty script for excel which may be possibly be adapted, but I would really like to do this with FME.  I have tried to do some of this within a loop but got a bit lost. Could it be down using transformers or a Python script which can be included in a bench? Ideally any method needs to be adaptable as I would like to use it for other data sets with differing field names and more or less matches required.   Animal, Text Colour, Text Start, Int End, Int  Input Data Format  Animal,Colour,Start,End Dog,Blue,0,1 Dog,Blue,1,5 Dog,Blue,5,10 Dog,Red,31,35 Dog,Red,35,56 Cat,Purple,101,102 Cat,Purple,103,106 Cat,Purple,106,111  Re

HI,  I'm using the pdf2D writer in FME Workbecnh 2011 to create a bunch of maps.  I'd like to use the fanout feature on my pdf writer, however when i add a pdf_type of pdf_text to the writer it crashes fme.exe when the writer starts to open I think.  If i remove this pdf_type, by stroking the text then i can write the pdf with fanout, however if i drop the fanout i can write the pdf with text!  I'm not sure it's a bug in the writer as such as I can create a much simpler workbench and write text.  The bits i've dropped im my simple workbench that work are adding multiple pages, altering the page size to A4 portrait and landscape.  I'll keep plodding though the workbench until i break my simple  workbench and hopefully incover the problem, however i thought i'd ask here in case anyone has suffered a similar issue when writing pdf's? (in 2011 - as my server instance is still 2011)  Nick

I have a layer of around 21m features and I want to group them geographically using a region layer which has around 10 regions. I have used the spatial relator which I think is working but it has been running now for 17 hours and has only processed 687,000.  Is there a better way of doing this with a process that does not take so much time to run given that I have a large number of features to process.

Hi,  I'm trying to convert a DGN file with text to a DGN file with text nodes. What do I have to do? Any help would be appreciated.

I've never worked with point data in FME before so bear with me.  I have a request to create a DEM or surface model of the highest vegetation returns.  The .LAS file is classified into Ground, Low Vegetation, Medium, Vegetation, and High Vegetation, etc.  My assumption is only use the High Vegetation values and get the max value and create a DEM.  Is this the best approach and if so, what transformers should I use? I've played around in FME but aren't really getting the results I'm hoping for.  Should I use the ExpressionEvaluator to get the max value of Z values?  If so, what's the syntax for this?  Any thoughts would be helpful and I can provide more clarification if needed.

i am trying to transform Oracle to Autocad.  I need to set some line to a user specifed color. the color is in RBG and not a autocad color index number.  How would I go about doing that? Can I substitude autocad_color with fme_color?

Hi everyone,  I've got two flow of data: _FA with attributes (a, b, c, d) and _FB with attribute (e)  I've got X (>1)  FA and only 1 FB.  And I would like a way to have X features like this: _FC (a, b, c, d, e)   How may I do that ?  I first tougth of FeatureMerger but I can't.  Any solution ?

Publish to FME Server: Workspace Name issue,  I couldn’t figure out why “Publish to FME Server” doesn’t take the name of my file as “Workspace Name” but instead it takes other name  My file name is: UrbanMasterPlan_CAD_To_GIS_03.fmw The name read by the FME (Workspace Name) is: T1_Published  From where the “T1_Published” is read considering that the name of my file is “UrbanMasterPlan_CAD_To_GIS_03.fmw” as shown in the screenshot below    What might be the issue here?   Thank you  Best  Jamal

I have an Excel report template in which I need to update specific row/column fields and they are not in consecutive order. In other words, I want to update Row1,Column3 and then Row10,Column8, etc.... Is there a way to dynamically set the Start Column and Start Row parameters within the Writer Format Parameters? I tried, with no success, creating Row and Column attributes and then setting the parameters within the writer as @Value(Row) and @Value(Column). Or is there a better way to do this when using a template for a Writer?

Hi,  I'm having trouble reading from, and writing to, the same ESRI gdb. I'm just doing a simple transformation and have tried on a few different gdb's but get the same problem - it just hangs part way through the process. I'm assuming it is possible to read and write to the same gdb. I've made sure all ESRI products are closed to prevent any locking, but to no avail.  Any help appreciated.  Cheers Toby  

Hi,  We've stumbled across what seems to be a bug (or perhaps a design decision that we haven't understood!) in the shapefile reader and writer.  The DBF format defines the type of a field in its header, but there is nothing physically preventing a field that is numeric from having text data stored in it (because internally, numbers are stored as text in the DBF format). Hence, it is up to any implementation of the DBF format to make sure that the correct types of values are written to a field, and to behave sensibly if the wrong types are read from the field.  FME doesn't seem to do this. We translated some data to shapefiles. The data have a column entitled "Number" which contains road numbers. We set up the shapefile writer to store this data in a numeric field, without properly inspecting all the data. However it turns out that the data actually occasionally contain text values, such as "A3030" (reasonably enough because that's how British roads

Hi everyone,  I have photos store in a Microsoft SQL Spatial Database which I am trying to extract out on our job drive (i.e. a normal network drive).  I've had a search of previous responses and it seems that the AttributeFileWriter is the relevant transformer, however I can't get it to work!  The photo is stored in an Attribute field called P_Picture.  I added the relevant reader and connected the AttributeFileWriter with the following parameters:  Source: P_Picture Target Filename: P_Picture If Target Exists: Overwrite File Target File Character Encoding: System Default (fme-system)  When I run it, I get an error: "AttributeFileWriter: This FME edition does not recognise the 'o' function.  Please ensure that the current platform supports this function, the function name is spelled correctly, and that you have installed all the required plugins"  I'm am running: Win 7, 64-bit, FME 32-bit, SP4 ESRI Edition (should be able to read db format in)  Any pointe

We recently switched from HP plotters to EPSON plotters, and have had multiple issues with these over the last couple of months. Strangely, our floating licenses are able to print to these plotters without issue, our single use license user is having some problems. When he prints to these new Epson plotters, his print format have numerous errors.   Some bubbles are larger, some smaller, some colors are off, some pieces are missing. The text appears to be untouched, but any bubble surrounding the text is skewwed, missing, or someplace else on the page.   It is almost as if his license has a special driver or print filter that is doing this.  Suggestions?

Hi all,  In GDAL it's easy to stretch a raster image with a colorramp that can look for example like this: 0 255 255 255 5 225 225 225 10 205 205 205 15 190 190 190 20 178 178 178 25 166 166 166 30 154 154 154 35 142 142 142 40 130 130 130 90 0 0 0 This ramp stretches for example every pixel with a value between 0 and 5 to an rgb value between 255 and 225. What is the smartest way to do the same thing in FME Workbench? I thought about using the RasterExpressionEvaluator but it seems to me like the expression needs to be quite complicated. Is there a better way of doing it?

Is there any way to easily switch Oracle Spatial reader to read from another similar (ie. replica) table - than to rewrite to whole reader part ? This would ease my job a lot as I have several FME wb's with input data filtering (to reduce memory usage) from the same source data.  Rgrds, Esko

When trying to WRITE with the Esri Geodatabase (File Geodatabase API) to an existing file I get the following error:  Geodatabase Error (-2147024891): Access denied. FileGDB Writer: A feature could not be written.  Some issues:  1. The workspace does not FAIL, but completes.Even though the writer gives this error. There is no option on this writer to IGNORE FAILED WRITES: NO 2. Why is access denied? I have created a completely new FileGDB from within FME and I am trying to update this. 

Hi, I am exporting a semi large dataset from FME workbench (2013 SP2) through a writer as xlsx format.  Excel is saying "Excel found unreadable content in 'Export.xlsx'. Do you want to recover etc". I say yes, but when I do try to recover, excel only recovers a small amount of the data.  I also get the following error in excel.  Errors were detected in file 'Export.xlsx': Removed Part: /xl/sharedStrings.xml part with XML error.  (Strings) Illegal xml character. Line 1, column 55442. Removed Records: Cell information from /xl/worksheets/sheet1.xml part  Inspector with FME shows all the expected data. I can reload the file back into FME and all the expected data is there.  Why is the data not exporting correctly? Any ideas? 

Can FME Desktop accesses ArcGIS server map service as a reader?