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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

Hi,  I wonder if someone know how to put axis-labels on your bar chart that's created with the WebCharter. Is it possible?  Is there ways to control the axes in a better way? My chart has the months on the x-axis, but the WebCharter automatically puts a zero instead of 1 where my data begins. Can I deside that the x-axis should be shown from 1 to 12?  Thank you!

What is the best way to bring Google Earth into Smallworld? I have been saving are capturing the image and spotting the 4 corners Lat-Longs to be used in configuration in Smallworld.  Thanks! Paul,

Hi all,  is there a way to make sure that data from a shape file transfered to a gdb file using FME have the exact same coordinate values?  I happen to have to rounding happening in some features. This means that when I compare features from the shp and the gdb feature class, there will be some geometry discrepencies flagged up even though there should be.  I don't know when the rounding occurs (i.e. when it's written the first time to the gdb or when it's read the following time from the gdb)  Any idea? Anything I can set on the GDB writer or FeatureReader to make sure this doesn't happen?  Thanks in advance,  Maryse

This should be simple but I’m ready to throw up my hands.  I have a workspace that fetches an OpenStreetMap chunk of XML for a requested area.  I can save the data and then read the data using the FME OSM reader, a two-step process.    What I want to do is pass the OSM data it to the OSM reader in a single workspace.  I guess I could call the OSM fetcher in a startup Python script but that seems more convoluted than it should be.  Am I missing something obvious?  Thanks, Alan 

I would like to log the parameters that the user inputs to the log file.  I realize that the information can be found throughout the log file, but I would like to have a list of the inputs in a central location.  At the moment, the user is taking a screenshot of the input screen for QC verification.  If QC could simply check the log file, the user wouldn't have to worry about screenshots.  What I've tried so far in the Startup TCL Script is:           FME_LogMessage fme_inform {FME_MacroValues(inputParameter)}  This was really just a stab in the dark, and didn't return what I was hoping for.

I am reading one XML file. An element can have zero or multiple occurences. When I am reading one XML there are multiple occurences and after flattening the element it is recognized as a list in FME. e.g. VectorScaleRange.CompositeTypeStyle.CompositeRule{}  However When I am reading another XML (based on same XSD), there is only one occurence and after flattening the element it is recognized as an attribute in FME. e.g. VectorScaleRange.CompositeTypeStyle.CompositeRule.LegendLabel (CompositeRule element again contains some other elements e.g. LegendLabel  In case the element is non-existent, I am using TestFilter to check the condition if the attribute is present or not. How to check if the element occurs multiple times in the XML. ListElementCounter is not working, since if there is only one occurence it is not showing up as a list.  I am trying to create a custom transformer which should be able to read all occurences of data. Kindly suggest an approach.  Regards, Ananda

Hi guys,   I am trying to migrate some .dwg file to ESRI raster/symbols.  1) when i use inspector on the .dwg reader, the colors for polygon or hatches are missing from the drawing.  May I know how resolve this?  2) How should i migrate .dwg file to geodatabase raster dataset or symbols?

Hello, is there any way how to write compound polygon (lines + arcs) to Oracle with FME? When i try to write this kind of geometry i always get "ORA-13347 Description:the coordinates defining an arc are not distinct". But arcs seems fine to me (no redundant points, distance between them is larger than oracle tolerance).   FME 2013 (Build 13261 - WIN64) WIN 7 64bit Oracle 11gR2   Thanks for any advice, David  

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 know is there a solution in FME to extract out this text perfect like how esri toolbox does?  Any hints will be greatly appreciated.

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?