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Hi, I'm creating a workbench to make some audit on GIS files. First my workbench list all files that are into a directory (including subdirectories).Then, I filter theses files to keep only the one I want to audit, for exemple every shapefiles.Finaly I get the schema of every shapefile with the <schema> output of a FeatureReader. It works really great but if I have two files with the same name in two different subdirectories my problem comes : only 1 schema is kept.That's how FME works, it unions feature types with the same name. But in my case, I need to analyse the schema of every layer even if they have the same name. This is an audit so these file can have different schema even if they have the same name. I want to have an automatic workbench and not having to create one FeatureReader for each directory. Is there anyone with an idea on how to get the schema of two files with the same name in two different subdirectories ? Thank you

Hello, please, I have met issue that I read DWG Layout in FME. But unfortunately FME is not able to load raster which should be in Layout. I use parameters "Read Paper space" as You can see in attachment. Is it bug? Or is there any workaround, how to read raster in DWG Layout? Its very uncomfortable, because I need to transform DWG Layourt to PDF. Thanks a lot!Lubo

I have a workspace that is updating about 100,000 records online. It will do a couple groups of 1000 updates before the rest service returns an error:"The error code from the server was '1000' and the message was: 'Execution Timeout Expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding." Is there a way to get around this error? I was thinking that reducing the number of records updated per rest call would help but I dont see a way to change the number from 1000. Thanks!

I have a feature layer with two tables in ArcGIS Online. It constantly receives new records from Survey123 survey. I'd like to join the tables together in FME them regularly import data to a new ArcGIS Online feature layer (with one table). Is this possible? Are there examples on how to do this? What transformers should I look at? Thanks.

ZMap writers have headers and within that there is zmap_format_name which by default is set to "ZMAP DEFAULT " Is there any way of writing out a different value? Thanks, Glenn

Hello, is it possible to set the cell/column width in a dynamic Excel Writer. I can imagine to precalculate the width for each column or to use a auto mode. Hendrik

What type of Autocad drawing was used in training that showed road names and other information as attributes. Usually DWG does not have any attribute unless we use AutoCAD Civil 3D etc. I need to tell my AutoCAD staff to provide me CAD data in that same format so I could easily convert the DWG into feature classes with useful attributes directly coming from the source DWG.

Hello, please, I wanna ask. If I wanna export many viewports of DWG in FME Desktop, is there any way how to define which layers will be frozen in each viewports? I need little bit different composition of layers for every viewport. Thanks a lot for tips!Lubo

I have created a workspace which has a prompt for user parameters, as I want the user to be able to run the workflow on different sets of data. The workspace reads in a set of CSVs which have identical schema, performs some transformations and then writes the data out into a single CSV. The process works for what I want it to do. The problem is when the prompt comes up to run and I choose a different set of CSVs, these CSVs have the same schema as each other but not the same schema as the previous set of data. The attributes that are used in the transformations are the same but other attributes are different and this data does not get read in. I want the reader to read in the new schema each time, but it always retains the schema from the first set of data I used to set up the reader. How can I fix this?

Hi, I've configured a FeatureWriter to dynamically write feature classes to an ESRI Geodatabase, but I need to be able to write different feature types to different databases. I've configured the FeatureWriter to get the connection file from an attribute, but it only uses the first connection file attribute it receives, it doesn't change connection based on the attribute value of the incoming features. Is there a way to get it to do this, or do I need to setup a writer for each possible database connection?

I made a simple workflow to compare two datasets using the Change Detector and make the changes to one of those datasets using a writer. The process works fine, but it takes roughly a second per records updated. Is that a normal speed? It's alright for small numbers of changes, but this dataset can have thousands of changes from day to day, which would make the workflow run for over an hour, and that's only one dataset when we need to update dozens of them every night. I've looked at the performance tuning article and it either doesn't seem applicable or I don't know enough about the software to know how to check it. My data isn't versioned so I'm using a Transactions writer; I saw another question that had this problem but the answer was to not using the versioning writer. The writer is set to fme_db_operation (so that the updated, inserted, and deleted ports of the Change Detector will work) with Use Existing as the table handling. If there's other inf

Hi all!I have a workflow when I read and download image attachments from ArcGIS Online. I have used the AttributeFileWriter to download the image to a unique filename and it has always worked smoothley.  Now I am trying to do the same with image attachments from our ArcGISPortal and it works fine to read and download the files, but when I try to open the files it says that “It looks like we don’t support this file format.” If I go to ArcGISPortal and manually downloads the image file, it works fine. Does anyone recognize this phenomenon? Best regardsJohan 

I've been trying to access some internal data which is being published from TopDesk via an OData feed. This is the first time I've tried to use odata... I'm using the OData reader, and parameters provided by the TopDesk administrator here. I have a url, a username, and password. I'm using basic authentication. After clicking the browse button beside Feeds, I get the error message "Failed to retrieve feature types."  Does anyone have suggestions on what I can do to successfully connect? Note I also get an error when trying to connect to it from Excel 2016:This sounds like a problem with the account.However, I am able to connect to this odata feed successfully using power BI, and using the same url and credentials as above. During the connection process there, the only difference in dialogues that I can see allows me to choose the "level" at which I wish to apply the login settings to (I chose the root portion of the url).This then lets me view t

i have used DGN Reader to read DGN File and it reads great but to modify the font size that read from this file , i use attribute creator and change the value in igds_text_size but i have no effect . could someone fix my problem , why i got no effect of the font size ? and is there other method that i could use to modify the Font size of text ? FME 2020 Thanks in advance

When I convert a GeoTIFF to ECW, the bright colors of the GeoTIFF are not preserved in the ECW output. Is that possible anyway, to convert it and preserve 100% of the right colors? Searching the knowledgebase, I have found some directions to a solution: How to preserve exact colors in raster conversion .ecw to .tiff? (safe.com) But in the end, how could it be done? Does someone has experience with it? Find examples below of the original GeoTIFF and the ECW output.the faded example is the ECW filethe bright colored example is the GeoTIFF file

I have created a 32 bit DSN ODBC connection using the progress/openedge 11.7 driver which connects successfully. I am trying to then connect via FME 2020.2 and choosing the ODBC option to connect but I am getting a message returned as follows?The specified DSN contains an architecture mismatch between the Driver and Application 

When I load my excel file I want the Day attribute to be read as type char so I can split it with string functions (Left/Right). The problem I have is that FME insists on reading the attribute as a 64bit real. I have tried removing the reader, purging the temporary files, saving the workspace, closing FME, and then add the reader again. But I keep having the same result. Are there any suggestions or is this standard for the Exel reader?

My workflow reads an SDE, carries out some transformations, and then writes to .xlsx using a feature writer and a template file. When I open the excel file and sort columns the sort function works the first few times but then it begins to only sort certain columns leading to mismatched data in the document. There doesn't seem to be any pattern as to which rows sort and which don't. Sometimes it is only the ObjectID column which will sort.

Hi, I'm trying to write mesh files incl textures from obj to Esri SLPK format. The problem I face it is takes a really long time. I'm a newbie on the slpk format and don't know if there is a smarter way to do the translation. Any help highly appreciated.

With ECW v3 Writer I get the following error message: ECW writer: An invalid parameter was used : date and projection setting are invalid. The coordinate system used is EPSG:2056/EPSG:21780. With the coordinate systems UTM / LL-WGS84 the ECW v3 Writer works correctly!Tested with FME 2019.2.1.0 (Build 19813) WIN64 and FME 2020 Beta (Build 20153) WIN64.

(English translation below) Bonjour, Dans le cadre d'un projet, j'ai pour objectif de créer une routine permettant de convertir des plans topographiques et de réseaux enterrés en modèle 3D au format IFC. J'ai commencer à chercher, mais il semble y avoir à la fois beaucoup de possibilités et à la fois aucune que j'arrive à faire fonctionner. Je vous explique un peu mes données d'entrées. J'ai : Plan topographique, dessiné en 2D, contenant des points topographique avec attribut (altitude).Plan de réseaux enterrés avec des étiquettes (bloc ou texte) contenant des attributs divers (nature du réseaux, profondeur du réseau, type d'élément (fourreaux, câbles, canalisation...), altitude de la génératrice supérieur, ect.). Nuage de point j'ai donc plusieurs besoin : 1/ Il faut que j'arrive à faire que mes polylignes représentant mes réseaux (polyligne 2D - Z=0) remontent à la hauteur où elles sont vraiment (soit hauteur TN - Profondeur ou Z de la génératrice

Firstly, we have extracted the Schema of this Oracle database (sde) in MySQL FGDB format in ArcGIS Pro exporting this schema.Now, in FME Desktop I need to connect to Oracle database server and get this data as per feature classes present in datasets with all the attribution and its values with geometry in this MySQL FGDB Schema imported.Need help on this and which transformers can be used to get this Oracle data migrated in MySQL database Schema FGDB.  

The attributes should be visible in the AutoCAD properties dialog.I have been able to write "extended attributes" that you can list with the XDLIST command in Autocad but I want to write attributes that are visible in the properties dialog in Autocad.   Can anyone provide some advice on this or a sample. I think it must be simple but I am missing something???!

I am doing a simple landxml read to delete unnecessary data from a landxml pipe file and then write it again with the landxml writer. The Struct feature type should write out Invert{}.flowDir, but it doesn't. Anybody have an idea what the problem is?

When trying to use the SQL Azure SQL Database (JDBC) database connection, can that be used with the ActiveDirectoryPassword authentication type? I have a service account in the Azure Active Directory, but that is not the user our FME Server runs with, to be able to use the ActiveDirectoryIntegrated option. I have successfully used FME Desktop with my personal account as well as the service account (using RunAs) with the ActiveDirectoryIntegrated authentication. Any help you can provide would be very much appreciated.