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Hi, I updated a workspace from FME 2020 to FME 2025, and I have an error in 2025 that I haven’t in 2020, with the same input data.On the Excel writer, I get an error on a specific string regarding the validation as UTF-8.ERROR : XLSXW writer: The encoded string is not a valid UTF-8 string: 'S\x00u\x00r\x00 \x00c\x00h\x00a…….'Any idea why and how I can check the strings before the writer so it doesn’t stop the workspace with an error ?

Most efficient way to read folders of excel and constrain by a date range. each excel has the date field. Hi,I have a folder structure based on YEAR folders which contain MONTH folders which contain WEEK excel files. The WEEK excel files may contain date ranges which may go outside the month range of days.After reading all the necessary excels I  only want data of a whole month of days - e.g.  so all the days in January 2025 say.What would be the most efficient way to do this? For example there could be days at the start of January 2025 in the folder 2024, folder December.i’m not too familiar with where clause before and after and whether they would apply to excel data.Would inline sql be an efficient way?Or, as in my example, will I have to read in December 2024, January 2025 and  February 2025 before filtering to make sure i have all the days of January? Thanks for any advice.

Hi,I have a very simple workbench that is cliping a gpkg containing mulitple layer. I am struggling with writinng them back to one gpkg using dynamic schema. it fails every single time  

Hi all,I have a workflow in FME where I need to iteratively buffer a feature and check for neighbours, until no neighbour is found.The logic I want is roughly this: Buffer the feature by 10 m Use NeighborFinder to check if any neighbour exists If a neighbour is found, increase the buffer by 5 m Check again with NeighborFinder Repeat (increase buffer by 5 m each time) Stop when no neighbour is found and output that feature So the buffer distance sequence would be something like:10 m → 15 m → 20 m → 25 m → … until no neighbour exists  What is the recommended way in FME to build this kind of iterative / looping buffer logic?  Thanks in advance!

I am reading the feature classes and tables from an Oracle Reader, and many of those are not having any records, the tables are empty. But I want all of those in my ESRI FGDB output which I am using in the Feature Writer dynamically. How to achieve this? Any leads?

I have images taken by a camera mounted on a vehicle, with GPS (4326) coordinates recorded every millisecond. I also have a road reference dataset in a shapefile (epsg :2154) and I need to match my millisecond-spaced images (and their GPS coordinates) to this road reference. There will obviously be some discrepancies between the GPS measurements and the reference dataset, but how can I best align the GPS data with the road reference? What is the best method to do this?If you’d like, I can also help you rephrase it more formally or technically.Thank you

My scope currently is to produce an excel output using FME ensuring the template is being leveraged to populate the values in this columns. Some of these columns have formulas which have been coded in FME as AK.formula if the column AK has formula. However when I convert the FME produced Excel to XML and investigated this, the formula seems to be converting “ into &quot. However I get to know about this only when I checked XML since Excel exactly imprints the formula as coded in FME. What is the best way to resolve this issue?

I have a field with city names and state names in this format:Oklahoma City OKOakland CADallas TXForth Worth TXAugusta ME  I want to do the following:Extract the City name into one field and the state abbreviation into another field. The only consistent pattern in the data is the state abbreviation always comes after the last space in the string. I think I need to create a RegEx expression to do be able to do this. Can someone help me with how do this? 

I'm trying to write AGOL features and attachments coming from a feature service tied to a Survey123 survey into a SQL Server geodatabase. I've looked through most of the tutorials and questions about this, but in my use case I need to maintain Global ID's on both the features and the attachments. The feature GlobalID's are being used to name photos that get stored in S3, so I can't use the examples that use a counter to create a new relational ID. I have set the "Maintain Global ID's" parameter on the AGOL reader and have exposed the AGOL attachment attributes. The attachments have a Global ID and Parent Global ID, and I figured it would be simple enough to use both of those to create the relationship class in the GDB since that's what the AGOL service is doing. When I query the service, I can see a feature's Global ID and the attachment's Global ID and its Parent Global ID (the GID of the feature it's attached to).

HiIs it possible to connect fme to a Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse? And read data?I use fme 2022.2 

Recently upgraded a dev environment to FME Flow 2025.1.1We have some workspaces that use FileCopyWriters to move files.These workspaces still run on FME 2025 but now throw out a warning message for each fileThe move request details the correct move, but then there is a failed to delete message that appears to be saying it can’t delete from the destination not the source. The files are in fact deleted from the source, so it’s actually all working as it should be and as it did previously with the exception of these warning messages. I note that the FileCopyWriter now has a delete option so wonder if this is related somehow. Can anyone confirm they see the same behaviour in 2025.1.1.  The same warning error messages is seen in FME Form 2025.1

Hello fellow FME enthousiasts, We have been running into an issue when using the new Esri ArcGIS Feature Service [Writer] (from the new Esri ArcGIS Connector v3.13.2 package) to write to a Hosted Feature Layer on ArcGIS Online. The Hosted feature layer is created by Survey 123.Previously we used the old Esri ArcGIS Online (AGOL) Feature Service [Writer], since this won't be supported anymore in 2026 we started experimenting with the new one. When we try to update the hosted Feature layer with FME using the old one, all goes well, data gets written as expected and the geometry is visible.But when using the new one from the package we get a few warnings and no error's. The process tells us it's succesfull, we see the new records appearing in AGOL and the attributes seems to be as expected. The geometry is not visible either. When we try to zoom to a record nothing happens. When i open the layer in ArcGIS Pro nothing happens either when i try t

I’ve been trying to load some .nwds files, and they’re taking days to fully open. The files themselves aren’t very large—around 180 MB—but some of the geometry has extremely large coordinate offsets. For example, certain objects are located around X=10,000 and Y=10,000, while others are positioned near X=1,200,000 and Y=1,200,000. Could these large differences in coordinate magnitude be contributing to the slow load times?

Hi, I have a report i make where from the data i get out the following (where / separate's attributes)Field / SubField / YYYYMMDD / ValueX / ValueYFor the last date of the Subfield, i would need a line where Value X and Value Y are zero - the end date is specific to the Subfield. Is there a way to get it to reach - for Subfield - find last date - create +1M from YYYYMMDD with X and Y equal to zeroI know how i would do it in a excel macro, but i dont know how to replicate this in FME /Emma

I'm trying to use FME 2025.0 to create a GeoPackage tiles file. It should contain a few Norwegian raster products, such as N50, N100 and N250. The idea is to mimic the properties of the Swedish product “Topografisk webbkarta Nedladdning, raster”, in the sense that the Swedish product contains a single table in the gpkg file and it shows different raster data at different scales. I am having trouble recreating this with the Norwegian products. I´m stuck at creating a separate tables for each data set or a single table that only contains a single data set. This use case is not discussed at, for example, https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/37417604217357-Creating-OGC-Compliant-GeoPackage-Files#h_01JXXGG7338W04GD0DRBY7VJCV. Any help appreciated. Norwegian products: 

Hello, so we regularly download the whole catalogue of polygons for England, seen here:Dataset Download - Use land and property dataI would very much want to automate this as its a tedious task to manually download them all one by one, so I’ve investigated the calls that my browser makes when calling this data and it first sends a very simple call to very simple URL’s containing the Zipped data, as seen here:https://use-land-property-data.service.gov.uk/datasets/inspire/download/Amber_Valley_Borough_Council.zipWhich in turn takes you onward to a Amazon service that just gives you 60seconds to fetch the data, as seen here:

I’ve been trying to read a layer that has 16.1 million points and 7 fields into FME Form.  After 10-12 minutes I get the following long-winded 504 error:ArcGIS Online Feature Service Reader: Could not connect to server. Check that you are connected to the internet and that no firewall is blocking outbound connections. The error was 'HTTPSConnectionPool(host='services6.arcgis.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /PZSz9p6KxGzrnOUT/arcgis/rest/services/PHH_43_FullGeo/FeatureServer/0/query?f=json&token=3NKHt6i2urmWtqOuugvr9TpluUwD-K0TsTS8M3vWY6dKMXWdi_tH3WBIMlCuSgEpXHlYlhwKYwGuuQlZCRtBPNkiJDV5CIz_E4rWysxVYMtf2LCRDhJuovK2hsyIHZ78x99hsJVaIrIbEUFTrqdJzb_qpnp_vjly88FyTaaYsMGr8ItOJpumuJhFox3VA6NXh9o64ZVluadt9ApVCcvpmElqPgAf1TPFnSerF1uG4nnxdUFYdsd3QRvQmGuNsAYYh7s2BHXFM6Rh9P7H5jTyxQ.. (Caused by ResponseError('too many 504 error responses'))' Python Exception <FMEException>: FMEException: 926856: ArcGIS Online Feature Service Reader: Could not connect

Hello fellow FME-ers,I am working on making an xml from an Oracle database (with metadata). I am using the FME template for this in the XML Writer. Using the list builder I have generated two lists. One with the keywords and one with the attribute values. See below as an example (List_Trefwoorden and List_Attribuutinformatie):How do I make sure these lists (standard FME template for xml) are saved in my XML writer? Greetings, Wim 

Hi,Trying to use a clipper for 3d intersections but some 3d solids getting rejected i think due to geometry errors in 3d solids. I have ran the 3d solids through geometry validator but does not fix the geometry errors. Geometry errors include - Non-Planar Surfaces, Incorrect Solid Orientation, Invalid Solid Boundaries. Any other ideas to fix? Thanks

Hi,I would like to convert an image symbol from Esri CIM JSON to AutoCAD DWG format. The JSON file looks like this: {  "type": "CIMPointSymbol",  "symbolLayers": [    {      "type": "CIMCharacterMarker",      "enable": true,      "anchorPoint": {        "x": 0,        "y": 0,        "z": 0      },      "anchorPointUnits": "Relative",      "dominantSizeAxis3D": "Y",      "offsetX": -3.3333333333333335,      "size": 5.555555555555556,      "billboardMode3D": "FaceNearPlane",      "characterIndex": 85,      "fontFamilyName": "Tahoma",      "fontStyleName": "Regular",      "fontType": "TTOpenType",      "scaleX": 1,      "symbol": {        "type": "CIMPolygonSymbol",        "symbolLayers": [          {            "type": "CIMSolidStroke",            "enable": true,            "capStyle": "Roun

Wie lässt sich aus einer Spalte der Strassenname, Hausnummer und Zusatzinfo in eigene Spaltenextrahieren? Ackerstr. 9 - 4733 - Adlerbrücke Tunnel B 7 - 9814 - Adolf-Röder-Gasse o. Hausnr. - 8104 - Adolf-Vorwerk-Str. / Hohenzollernstr. - 9251 - Agnes-Miegel-Str. 6 - 9630 - Agnes-Miegel-Str.14 Miet - 5680 - Agnes-Miegel-Str.33/37 Miet - 5498 - Agnes-Miegel-Str.20/26 Miet - 5498 - Ahrstr.90 - 7943 - Ahrstr.35 - 7543 - Musterstraße 123a - 4102 -  

Hi, I have some 3D fencing data in IFC format and I want to work out the height of the objects. I been  x,y,z co-ordinates and the ‘Bounds Extractor’. However, due to the data being long linear features and thus the underlying height of the ground negatively affecting the height. I get strange results (as fencing goes up and down underlying elevations).I think the only method is to take cross sections of the fencing and work out the distance (height) between the highest and lowest z value from the cross section. However, this seems difficult to do. Any ideas? ta

FME Form Version: FME(R) 2024.2.0.0 (20241102 - Build 24783 - WIN64FME Flow:  2024.2.1 Build 24801 - win64 I have created a bunch of User parameter type: Groups Box in a skript. Within those Group box are a bunch of parameter type: yes/no. These parameters are used in an FME Flow APP. However. They’re not working as I want them to work. When a Group box is unchecked in the FME Flow APP then I want all the layers inside the group box to get unchecked.However in FME APP, it doesnt do that. Please see picture below attached to this question. All the layers inside the Group Box (byggnadsdelar) are still checked. What am I doing wrong?Please see my konfiguration for the group box parameter and the yes/no parameters inside Group Box.

Is there a method to import CAD graphic elements, line, Arcs, etc. with the geometric attributes readable by Arc map such as Radius of arcs, bearings of lines.  When I import CAD graphics, I get polylines, but they do not really have readable geometry like Line Length, Arc Radius, Line Bearing etc.  I would like to import CAD graphics like road centerline geometry and have the geometric data in a Table like format, similar to the old COGO formats.

I have a list of client records with a start-date and an end-date. In some cases there are multiple lines for a client, identical except for start-date and end-date. I need to somehow either concatenate them into one client record which contains the minimum start-date and the maximum end-date from each of those client’s records, or create a new client record for each client with the minimum start-date and the maximum end-date. All other data can be discarded in the process.For example, I start with:JohnDoe, startdate: 1 Jan 2024, enddate: 1 August 2024JohnDoe, startdate: 3 Mar 2024, enddate: 31 August 2024JohnDoe, startdate: 3 Mar 2024, enddate: 15 Dec 2024DavidSmith, startdate: 1 Feb 2024, enddate: 15 Oct 2024DavidSmith, startdate: 3 Mar 2024, enddate: 18 Oct 2024 And I want to end up with:JohnDoe, startdate_min: 1 Jan 2024, enddate_max: