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Using the CSV reader. Encountering an extremely annoying problem ... the columns by default get named col0, col1 .. etc. up to col20 and are output in the same order which is fine EXCEPT that col9 is added at the end and not where it should be ... between col8 and col10.  Can't see how I can re-order.  Any ideas? Am I doing summat wrong.

Hi  I'm having problems translating POSTGIS text into Autocad_text. I have a project set up for originally converting GML to DWG and the process works fine. I am now changing the input to a postgis database and all layers work  fine except for the text translation.  I have the AutoCAD_entity set to: Autocad_text but I get the error message:  The following feature is not valid because its entity type of 'autocad text' and its  geometry type of 'IFMEPoint' do not match. The geometry failed to be converted to match the type, so the feature will be skipped.  Any help appreciated,  Mike

Hi, I have a workflow which outputs MITAB in several languages: Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese  and Chinese Simplified. These come out fine when I check them in MapInfo using the Microsoft AppLocale tool.  Now I want to add Korean to the workflow but I can't find any option in the MITAB writer Character Encoding list for this language. Could anyone help confirm this is a limitation?  Thanks, Jason

Hi dear forum users I want to transfer oracle dump features into one of the ESRI formats. I have a spatial Building table which have nearly 1.5m features inside.Here is the symptoms:   1) I am using Data interop extension on Arcmap 10. When i try them convert from ETL spatial tool; it waits too much when calculating intersections. Plus that; some of the string column records does not even loaded.   2) In order to see the string features i follow a way like that:    First i translate dump features into ArcInfo coverage. Then i create a feature class as the schema type in oracle and load all the data from coverage file. Is there a direct connection method?   3) quick export gives an error in the log file.  Thank you all.

Hi Guys,  My client currently uses autoCAD map and they store the data into oracle spatial DB.  My mission is to translate text to annotation.  Apparently autocad stores the TEXT in a field , justification in a field and coordinate using points and line.(Oracle Spatial DB). When I use geometry filter on text data, I will get point and lines, !NOT Text  My solution  1) I extract out the text using a series of textadder,coordinator extractor, rotation and setting geodb_v_align and  geodb_h_align.  They result is close but not perfect. There is still some alignment issue and text size.  The most irritating part is, when I open the original data using autocad and export them into a .dmg file and use esri toolbox(cad to geodatabase)  the output of those text are perfect.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------  May I

Does anyone have any examples of reading an SDE feature class with fmeobjects in Python?  I was able to do it with a shapefile without any issue but am having trouble figuring out how and where to specify the parameters for the GEODATABASE_SDE format.  I am using an SDE connection file if that makes it any easier. However, whenever I try to open() the reader it pops up the SDE connection properties dialog. I get the feeling I'm just not specifying the reader parameters/directives correctly, but without finding any examples of the proper format I can only guess.  Thanks!

I have three testers operating on the same data, but each on a different attribute. I want to write the features that fail to the same file, with a heading or prefix as to which rule it failed. It could be a text file or excel file to write to, it doesn't bother me.  After that I want to email that file to a user, but that might be another question.

Hello,  A similar quesiotn to this has been asked (by  me :) ) but I am having trouble getting a FME Server to use a certain engine when the value of "Engine 2" has been set in a parameter or passed to a parameter to a called Workbench.  Via FME Server, I have a workbench that displays parameters to the user for certain info, this workbench then runs the transformer FMEServerJobSubmitter setting the values of the 2nd workbench.  The 2nd workbench has a parameter of fmeInstance. Doesn't seems to make any difference if I set the parameter or pass the parameter.  If I rung the second workbench directly, it runs on Engine2 correctly.  Any ideas?

Hello,  I am currently using a feature type reader with the Merge Feature Type filter * - wilcard to load a reader from command line, ex:    --folder all --data fullcoverage (the path formed with publish params: C:\\all\\fullcoverage\\area.shp What I would like to do, is to allow a user to choose between a default reader (let's say, the YES choice, which would be the above example) or to allow him to insert a completely new path (the NO option). So, if the choice is YES, it will take him on a branch, if the choice is NO, on a different branch. It should work somehow like this: "--choice yes" -> would load the default reader C:\\all\\fullcoverage\\area.shp "--choice no" (should require the "--path" param where the user could indicate the path for a completely different shapefile) which should create a reader like C:\\cities\\test\\dummy.shp if the command is: "--choice no -

Hi,  May I know how can I find all the feature class that has not been committed after a run?  Yes I know how to save those feature that have error/ignored by setting the writter but there are those that are miss out because they are not commited anywhere.  I do not wish to manually route them to a database or shape files because it can be quite a tedious task.  May I know if there is anywhere to say all feature classes not saved to be commited into a file or database table?     

Hi,  I want to move text  the in Y direction,using the line as a base(text created along the line nodes already) how to mve this?

so i have a point cloud (lots of them actually) in a LAS file and all of the data is unclassified.   I am wanting to extract the ground heights from the LAS file and then use those height values to create a DTM.  my thinking is to create a 1metre grid over the top of the area covered by the LAS file (or get FME to do this for me?) and then find all points within that 1m grid cell and assign the lowest Z value to the grid cell.  then once each cell has the lowest Z values i can use that grid to create a DTM. I know there will be cells that have tree tops etc in them and therefore the lowest Z value will be much higher than the ground, how to fix this i am not sure as i do not believe FME has convultion filter style transformers availabe?  so is my approach a effcient way? or is there other ways i can go about doing this? any other ideas on how to solve the inevitable issue of cells with no ground points in them?  any

Hi all,  I've got a directory of MapInfo Tab files. I want to convert these to DBF files, and along the way restructure the Directory.  Currently, The Directory structure has 16 categories at the top, and each category has U.S. State subdirectories within it. The tab files are within the state folder.   For example:  USA_ACC (folder) >  CA_ACC (folder) > CA_ACC (TAB files)  I would like to rearrange this directory structure such that the U.S. states are at the high level, and the Tab Files for the 16 categories are within the state folders.  For Example:  CA (folder) > CA_ACC (DBF file)   I have experimented with 'Batch Deploy' and the 'File Copy' writer, but I still dont have a clear idea of how to achieve what I'd like to.  Thanks in advance!

Hi,  Input data are in fgdb_1. Ouptut data will be in fgdb_2 which is acctually copy of fgdb_1. One of columns (attributes) is Shape_Length with already known values. In my workbench I am doing some string manipulation and populate some another attribute. Output values for this attribute are being populated without any problem as well as others without changes, except Shape_Length attribute which now has value <Null> for all objects. Right before writing output data I inserted Inspector to check If there is still values for Shape_Length, and yes, values are there. But after writing to fgdb they dissappear. Where is a problem, why values for shape_length are lost? Tips? Database overwrite is set to NO, transaction type is transactions, table drop no, table truncate yes, attribute names are the same of course, i don't know..

Hello folks,  I'm sure someone has ran into this issue before, but I can't seem to find any intuitive way of accomplishing this.  I am trying to setup an excel spreadsheet reader with the constraint that my header (column name) data is contained on row 3 and my actual data begins at row 4.  Row's 1&2 contain groupings of the column names (in row 3) and can be disregarded all together.  How can this be done in an FME workbench?  Is it possible out-of-the-box? or is custom coding/scripting required?  Thanks in advance.  Regards, JP

Hi folks,  I've had luck outputting the Mapinfo table from Oracle including the MI_STYLE that picks up the symbology. The issue I'm having is the tables are coming out as a native table rather than linked. I'm using FME 2012 Desktop and I've not found anywhere in the Oracle reader or the MITAB writer where the metadata tags can be exposed.  We parse the U:P to our tables so we can refresh them in Mapinfo when required rather than outputing a new table.  Below is the tab contents that I'm expecting to see. What I'm currently getting is the attributes sans the metadata at the bottom of the file.  What have I missed???  Thanks  Michael   !table  !version 550  !charset WindowsLatin1 Definition Table    Type LINKED Charset "WindowsLatin1"    Fields 56      DOP_UID Decimal (10, 0) ;      DPR_UID Decimal

Hi Is there an Autocad equivalent of the Microstation Convert_Dimensions.fmw file ?  I have tried modifying the settings in this file to suit Autocad attributes but can't seem to get it to work.  Can anybody please give me some pointers to modify it properly or provide a link to an already modified version?  Thanks Tim

Hi FME Gods,  I'm new to the FME world, so I'll try to explain my problem as good as I can.  I'm receiving the following error, when running my workspace:  "Geodatabase Error (-2147220655): The table was not found. Could not open File Geodatabase table '\\Skovkort\\Teknisk_anlÅ|g'"  Now I'm Danish, so I use the special characters :æ, ø, å. The character 'Å|' in the end of the error message, is actually the character 'æ' in my ESRI geodatabase, however FME has changed it in the error message. I have not had any problems with my other data, which do not have any special characters in them.  So my question is this:  Do anyone know if FME has problems with reading in databases, which have special characters in their name, and if so, do anyone have a solution?  Looking forward to any replies.:-) 

Hi, How can i set the character set for an Input CAT (txt) file. It seems it is not possible and when writing to a database (UTF-8) the scandic characters get messed up. Shold FME be able to recognize the character set from the file?  

I have one spatial point feature class(X) having 10 records with unique id (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10). I Have one object table(Non-Spatial) (Y) having 25 records with foreign key (1,2,5,6,7,8,3,10,4,5,3,6,7,9,2,1,3,5,10,2,4,5,6,10,8).  So my question is can I create spatial feature class of (Y) which is Non-Spatial, using spatial feature class (X)  by Using any FME transformer.  Now i am having X-feature class with 10 records graphically.  I want to have Y as a spatial feature class with 25 records using X-feature class geometry.  I have Data Interoperabality tool.

Text x - y offset   when I migrate text that uses point to for location to arcgis enterpise geodatabase (annotation)     I notice the text will never be at the same position because annotation has a box and the text is contain in that box.    may I know how do I remove the margin?

I don't know much about the generic writer but I'm hoping to use it to write to:   shapefile gdb dxf dwg dgn V8  I eventually want to expose these options in a drop down menu on a public fme server, I'm trying to duplicate the functionality I have in this Spatial Direct page which were finally getting rid of migrating to fme server 2013.   http://ocs-spatial.ncd.noaa.gov/SpatialDirect/translationServlet?SSFunction=prepareFetch

How can I read a zipped CSV file from a FTP site, extract it and save it. Nothing I have tried seems to work. Has anyone done it successfully? Would need to do it on the both FME server and desktop. I would be thankful for any input.

i'm stumped...  I have FME Workbench installed on 2 different machines.  On one machine the Oracle readers are enabled and available to be chosen and on machine 2 they are grayed out and disabled.  Yes there is a dot in the Licensed column of the Reader Gallery on both machines, so I believe I am licensed for it.  I have the Oracle client installed on both machines.   Machine 1 is Windows 7 64-bit. Machine 2 is Windows Server 2008 R-2 64-bit.  How do I "enable" the Oracle readers on machine 2?  on Machine 1 the Oracle client was installed first, then FME 2013 SP1.  On Machine 2, the Oracle client was installed after FME 2013 SP1 was already installed.  Does that matter?  Sarah

(working with server and workbench 2011 32-bit)  Hi,  I'm trying to use a published parameter that is a combo of two other private published parameters in fme server.  e.g.  full_path=$(drive)$(path)  where drive="D:/" path="afolder"  i'd expect D:/afolder to be returned from $(full_path) as it is in workbench.  however i get the unresolved string '$(drive)$(path)' instead once i've published the workbench to server.  The full_path parameter is being used as an esri personal gdb dest_dataset parameter.  Can anyone explain why this may be?  Are joined parameters like this supported in FME Server 2011?  I thought they were.   Nick