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Good Day, Not a question but rather a discovery which may be of use to some others out there. I realize there are newer versions of all the mentioned systems but for a number of reasons the client is required to utilize these.  So on to the problems: 1. All Feature Types (SDE layers) are created in SDE prior to running FME so Writers are created using Import Feature Types rather than using FME to create the layers. Again this is required as part of the business process. In order for FME to recognize these tables as spatial they must be opened in ArcCatalog/ArcMap first to initialize them without doing this FME tries to insert a NULL/nil geometry and fails. 2. For one particular non-spatial Feature Type, FME kept indicating that there was a missing column although did not specify which one. Google searches indicated it was likely an underlying issue with the SDE table. To try and determine the issue, we dropped and recreated the table, removed any contraints, keys etc but still no luck.

Is there any demo available uploading file to a workspace with the REST-API and not the HTTP PUT method as described in the documentation:  http://host[:port]/fmedataupload/<repository>/<workspace>/<filename>      

Hi,  I am using the clipper on a dataset that contains many simple polygon features and few very large and complex features. I run the clipper in parallel processing and it seems to work correctly. However, the groups that contains the complex features take hours to complete while other groups with simple feature take few minutes. In this case there is no real performance gain with the parallel processing.  Do you have tips to speed up the whole process? Is it possible to divide the complex features in smaller part ?

I have two workbenches. First one will gather some feature type names and use workspace runner to call second workbench which should read only selected feature types. I found i can send these values via published parameter.  But i do not know proper format of listing these names in publish parameter for 'Feature Types to Read' that can be understood by oracle spatial reader.  Please let me know how to handle this problem?  Thanks, Subrat

Is there any way to make the File Geodatabase reader generic? It seems to be limited to the first feature type while using "single merged feature type" mode. Individual feature types is not an appeeling option...

I have some exif GPS data that I want to plot points for. These are strings:      jpeg_exif_gpslatitude    (54) (59.0226) (0)  jpeg_exif_gpslongitude    (1) (44.0662) (0)    My problem is - how do I get these into a format 2d point adder will use? I can easily strip the brackets, but then its still a string and I get this:    2013-02-18 17:01:35| 0.6| 0.0|ERROR |2DPointAdder: @Tcl2 -- failed to evaluate expression `FME_Coordinates addCoord {1 44.0662 0} {54 59.0226 0}' -- String value `1 44.0662 0' contains invalid characters and could not be converted into a float    Thanks.    Note: Sorry about the colour etc. That's what happens when you copy/past it seems and there's no "reset" button.

Untill FME 2012 I was able to import feature types of PostGIS tables to a PostGIS reader / writer no matter if they had a geometry column or not.  Since FME 2013 this is no longer implemented, the feature types import would only indicate tables with geometry columns to be selected.  In order to add non geometry tables to a workbench, one has to add an additional PostgreSQL reader / writer. This is not very agreeable. I wish the prior functionality back!

Hi,    My input feature has 2 attribute (One numeric ID, Geom Point geometry). I found 2 map geometries(Multiline) for ID in db. So after fetching, sql executor generates 2 features as (ID,GEOM,MAP1)  and (ID,GEOM,Map2).  I used aggregator assuming that it will return me (ID,GEOM,(MAP1+MAP2)) and then trying to write into database but failing.  Please suggest me how to approach this problem?  Subrat

Hi there,  I've got Smallworld polygons, some of which have holes, that I'm trying to translate into another format - ffs or shape file format.  With the writer set as FFS, the polygons with holes get translated as lines (with some extra lines added) while the ones without holes got translated as polygons.  I read that shape files support polygons with donut holes, so I then tried Shape file as the writer, but it completely failed to translate the polygons with holes.  When trying writing to Shape file, I tried with the "Allowed Geometries" set to shape_polygonm and subsequently set to shape_polygon but neither translated the polygons with holes.    

How can i stroke text with UNDERLINE,OVERLINE,HALIGN,VALIGN in FME?  Thanks, Subrat

In FME desktop 2012, How can i stroke text with BOLD, ITALIC, UNDERLINE,OVERLINE,STRIKE THROUGH in TextStroker? I tried and it only strokes plain text.

I am able to read geometry from oracle but how can i return geometry from oracle function and expose it in FME 2012?

I consider myself a veteran in spatial IT but newbie in using the FME tool - less than a year.  In my limited practice using FME, I increasingly feel the need to access "output ports" of Writers.  I saw some discussions dismissing such needs which for the most part I understood.  However, since ETL processes often times are synchronous in nature, picking up the "committed" results from database transactions for the following process will allow us to author fewer workspaces.  For example, feature elements of different types from ACAD files are extracted and processed before they are stored in several Oracle QC tables.  Without accessing the output ports of the QC tables just generated, I have to write a different workspace to Read from the tables for the subsequent process.  To piece automate the entire process in the sequence, I will need to use Python...  Any comments or advise is highly appreciated!  Bo 

How can i pass stroking text to text stroker in FME desktop 2013?

Hi everyone,  i am trying to run a Data Download Workspace from a Silverlight Application and i really dont get any futher. I tried it with the WebClient class and the DownloadStringAsync Method but i have absolutly no success. Does anyone have experiences with Silverlight and FMEServer?  Thanks in advance!  Ulf

I've built six custom web form to pass variable to publicly available workbenchs. But I can't quite figure what the url should be in the webform so that the user input gets passed to the workbench.     Webform: http://fmeserver.ncd.noaa.gov/encdirect_extract_overview.html     Workbench:     https://fmeserver.ncd.noaa.gov/fmeserver/repositories/encdirect_extract/orapub2multiformat_overview.fmw

I have a java application which uses the fmeserver api methods to run a translation. The code runs without error on our development server and produces a dataset as requested.  When  I run the application on the production server I get the following error when it tries to initialse the server session;   Error initialising FME Server: COM.safe.fmeserver.api.FMEServerException: QSInvalidRequest: Authorization Error: Unauthorized request by user  due to lack of proper permissions.   I have checked the entry in the Security/Resources tab for the  application with the appropriate clientid and roles assigned.   My question is how does FME Server know which box the request comes from ( requesterHost value listed under ‘Transformation Manager Directives’ in the Jobs/request data tab) ?

I have recently been trying to use the KMLPropertySetter to create KML from TAB, as per the documentation I enter the correct values for the Navigation Tree, Description Ballooon and Geometry. However when viewing the KML the properties I have set do not appear, for example I want the Navigation Tree name set to my Area column (ie Controlled Parking Zone A).  Please have a look at my KML and let me know if I am missing anything. In my workbench the only KML transformer I am using is KMLPropertySetter  https://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=217615190311347014347.0004df7ec96af6fe732ac&msa=0&ll=51.558503,-0.090122&spn=0.077909,0.154324&iwloc=0004df7ec9ace9d65ef59  Any advice would be very much appreciated.

When I generate an excle table as an output in FME, the field name appears to have an apostrophe as the first character in each of the field names but you can only see this when you click on the field cell...... 'TOTAL NUMBER OF BUILDINGS. I say appears, because you can not do a search and replace in excel to remove it.  The only way I found to remove it is by running a trim function in excel to remove blanks. Is it possible to produce an excel table, in FME, without this apostrophe/blank as the first character in a field name?

Hi,  I want to write to an MS Access File - which I have been able to do successfully.  However, it requires me to create the blank Access file manually before running the workspace.  Is there a way inside FME to create a blank MS Access File?  Thanks,

Hi,  I'm currently trying to create a mirror copy of a set of rectangles. Each rectangle needs to be mirror on one particular side to create its other half.  So far, my method has been to identify a centerpoint on the side I want inorder to use rotater transformer, but I've had limited luck getting the procedure working in the correct order when I attempt to aggregate the original rectangles with the centrepoint.  Are there any other methods or transformers I  could potentionally use?  

I am reading data from 5 WFS feeds and writing them to the same PostGIS database table. I schedule the FME workspace to run once a week so I get fresh data.    I only want to drop the data from the PostGIS table if the WFS readers complete. At the moment it is dropping the table, and then writing it as it reads the new data. If the WFS feed reader fails, I am left with a partial dataset.    So I have two questions:    1) I would rather that FME didnt write the data until after it had downloaded all of the data from the WFS readers. Is this possible?    2) Is it possible to make FME continue with the other WFS readers in the workspace if one reader fails?    I have found this page, is this the best way to achieve what I want?    http://safe.force.com/articles/How_To/Rolling-back-a-database-load-in-one-transaction

I am trying to extract x, y and z values out of a DGN file into a CSV file.  I used the following transformers: CoordinateConcatenator, AttributeSplitter and ListExploder.  Everything works except that the output has each x, y and z value in a separate row rather than all in one row.  Does anyone know how to change this?

Hi,  I've worked through all the various schema mapper examples but could not find one on how to add a new attribute to the writer schema.  I would like to read the source and add a attribute called  CadLayer as varchar(30) with value of autocad_layer from the source autocad drawing  The source can have various object data attribute fields  one example i have in source dwg MCCID_INT     integer MCCID_STR   char  255 NAME               char  255   i also would like to change them to char 50  I'm writing to arcsde 10.0 feature class  tx Rudy     

Hi  I have created a easy translator service using the available workbench from FME. I have also copied over the code from FME Server Playground using the '''full data upload'' example making the required changes to the code to look at my FME server.  The issue is i can see the call go to upload the data but on the return call   /*       Create the XMLHttpRequest object       */      var xhReq = createXMLHttpRequest();      // Request Variables      pHostName = "fmeserver.com"      pUrlBase = "http://" + pHostName + "/fmedataupload/Samples/easyTranslator.fmw?opt_extractarchive=true&opt_pathlevel=5&opt_fullpath=true"      pHttpMethod = "POST"     xhReq.open(pHttpMethod, pUrlBase, true);      xhReq.onreadystatechange = onResponse;      xhReq.send(null);     }   my return is blank...however if i copy the call directly into a url it works.  I am sure the code is correct...not sure why the return is blank as the document