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Reading Utility Network Data in a FeatureReader with an SDE connection with resolve domains and resolve subtypes ticked.Domains can be applied different on each field dependent on subtype, but it looks like only those fields that are set to domains on the Unknown subtype are exposed on the reader. Subtypes that have domain fields applied to other fields, have these attributes resolved but they remain unexposed. Is this a known issue?

We have FME Form/Workbench installed on some of our Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) machines, and it works fine overall. There is this recurring issue where the Connection Storage access is lost between each session. This is disruptive, and not always apparent, which wastes time and effort troubleshooting. In 2025.1.2.0, navigating to Web Connections under FME Options shows this each time:And navigating to the Workspace Defaults section yields:My connection storage is a Shared Database, which I thought was part of the problem, but I have more recently learned that a colleague of mine is using the default Personal Database connection storage and is also having the same failure to decryp

Okay, hear me out 😄In december we’ll be doing a webinar about Best Practices, but because it’s a bit of a tradition to make the last webinar of the year a fun one we’re going to call it the Worst (Best) Practices webinar. So we’re looking for workspaces that are complex, undocumented, badly designed with renamed transformers.Way back in the day the training materials included the Chamber of Workspace Horrors Powerpoint, that’s the kind of stuff I’m looking for.Feel free to reach out to me privately, anonimity is guaranteed 😃(Normally we do our webinars in Dutch, but depending on the response we can also do this one in English, so if you’re interested in that also please let us know!!!)

Hello,I seem to be outputting multiple folders when I run my app through data stream or data download.Tried connecting all connections to one feature writer but it seems to be limiting me to one excel file if I do that so I did multiple feature writers for each excel file that I want.Tested running my app through data download and data stream and it outputs multiple folders - one folder per feature writer.Was wondering if I am able to simply download all excel files right away without putting them into a folder or just output them all into one folder.Screenshot below.Feature writers under Microsoft excel format. Basically 2 sheet type. 1 is based on a value and other is count sheet

Goodmorning! I want to write a dataset with the postgis writer to GeoServer, but the result gives errors.  Process: A reader of municipal boundaries, and a reader with fire hydrants, the fire hydrants gets clipped on the boundaries layer, and then i want to write it to Geoserver. The postGIS writer says its succesfull, but when i inspect the layer in QGIS, there is no data, and i get the error: there is no item in geometry_colums. What have i done wrong in the postGIS writer? Can anyone help me?  Thanks in advance! 

HiI draw some 3d lines from point cloud but sometimes I snapped the wrong point so now I need to check if all my vertex are correct. So in the picture I need to detect the vertex encircled in yellow any suggestion ? thx Francesco 

Good morning.I’ve been testing lately a FME Flow 2024 version.When writing “Date” field types using the ArcGIS Online Feature Writer, the following warning masked as an error is thrown:D:\code\fme\source\engine\plugins\python\fme-arcgisonline\src\arcgisonlinefeatures\arcgisonlinefeatures_rest_writer_helper.py:557: DeprecationWarning: datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp() is deprecated and scheduled for removal in a future version. Use timezone-aware objects to represent datetimes in UTC: datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp, datetime.UTC).The FME 2025 Change Log shows this entry:It only mentions the Reader. Would it be possible to know if that deprecation was solved for the Writer, too?Thanks!

Hello Safe Folks,I am trying SharepointOnline Connector with a TenantID, Client ID and CLient Secret.I followed https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407443807117-Getting-Started-with-Microsoft-SharePoint#WebConnection https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/30678084674189-How-to-Create-a-SharePointOnlineConnector-Web-Connection-with-Application-PermissionsIn the second URL, it suggests to have 

I am looking at implementing something like this: https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407459193613-HTML-Page-with-Link-to-Download-Excel-File-FME-Flow-AppBut I don’t want to create a webhook for public access for the data streaming link, I want this restricted to the same role/group that has access to the server app - is that possible?

HiSomething strange. I just wanted to write shapefiles with a fanout based on a field in the attributes, and that no longer works.  No errors, it creates the folders in the specified location but does not fill them.  It selects one and ignores the rest. I don't understand. I've used it a million times and never had any problems.  Has anyone else noticed this? Is it the version or is it me?

With the new spatial definition option in the FeatureWriter, it appears that Attribute Definition cannot be reverted to Automatic after first setting the Spatial Definition? In my case the format is set to PostGIS. Is this expected behavior? Am currently running FME Form 2025.1.1.0, Build 25623.

Hi,I recently moved to FME Form 2025.0.3 from FME Workbench 2021.1.2.The install is on a central windows machine. Some workbenches run as other users. ArcMap and ArcPro (3.4) are also installed on this machine.All our workbenches involve ESRI enterprise geodatabase readers or writers, so require an ESRI licence to run.Users of FME all have named user licences for ArcPro, they are able to launch Pro and obtain a licence on the central machine.When I use FME Form there is no issue accessing the ESRI licence and using the readers/writer. However when testing with other users, who have the same type of named user ESRI licence, FME reports the error: “Worker 6428 > Unable to perform any licensing related tasks. Please check your Esri ArcGIS Compatibility workspace parameter, found in Navigator -> Workspace Parameters -> Translation. This 64-bit version of FME requires ArcGIS Desktop along with 64-bit Background Geoprocessing; ArcGIS Pro;

This seems like is should be so simple, but I can’t get it to work! I want to take a CSV file that has Feature Class Names, FieldPrefixs, and Feature types. For example:FeatureClass, Prefix, FeatureTypeRoads, Road, LineWildLandUrbanInterface, WUI, Polygon. This CSV file will be dynamic, meaning that the Feature Classes that will be summarized will change.I then have a SummaryPolygon Feature Class which defines the polygons on which to summarize. I want to iterate through the CSV file, summarize the data for each CSV record, and then add two fields with the prefixs (ie Road_Miles, Road_MilesPerAcre or WUI_Acres and WUI_PercentArea) to the SummaryPolygon. I thought the workspace runner would work well for this, but the Child workspace isn’t updating/showing the new fields that were created after each iteration. Meaning the schema isn’t dynamically updating with the two new fields on the next iteration. In my Reader, I have Workflow Options set

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I am creating some PNGs from my analysis and until recently the MapnikRasterizer has been creating transparency according to the opacity setting for my polygons.I did not touch the MapnikRasterizer, but the results do not show any transparency anymore.Below a screenshot of the settings I made and the opacity setting is the same for all polygons, yet there is no transparency to see in the resulting PMGs. Is there anything where you see something problematic, that might prohibit transperancy?

Just upgraded from 2022 to the latest version for Flow and Form. Whenever I publish a workbench the publication works then shortly after the log gets the message “The web connection 'FME Account' could not be loaded”We don’t have a Web connection “FME Account “ and the task has completed anyway. Any ideas where this is coming from?  

Hello everyoneIn 2025.1 FME Form I can use the Civil 3d reader, to read extended data from a dwg file just fine. Within the reader I just have to make sure the option for  “Civil 3D and CAD entities” is on and leave the other settings as default.The challenge comes on writing extended data. I can write ‘object data’ just fine but I cannot figure out how to write ‘extended data’. The picture below shows where I want to be able to write data to within the Civil 3D interface, from FME. Any insights would be valuable.Thank you

There are situations when I want a variable or parameter to determine whether a certain process is run or not. I could add the variable as an attribute to each feature and then test for the value of the variable. But that way the variable controls the process for each feature, when I already know that I don't want put any of the features through the process. And it feels like creating an unneccesary amount of extra data (even though temporarily), which I have to remove later on.I've come across this before, and now I have a case where I want to run part of my workspace once a week and another part every day. (An alternative is to distribute the processes across separate workspaces, of course.)What I'm thinking of is functionality like the feature reader has: it only reads features when triggered by an initiator. But I can't think of a way to do this with other transformers.Does anyone know of a way to achieve this in FME Workbench / Form?

Hi, I’ve seen this touched on in other posts, but I wanted to ask directly: has anyone had success getting data into a Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse, and what are the best authentication methods?I think there are potentially options using the Azure Blob Storage connector to push CSV files in, and possibly using the Fabric API as well. Before I go down the governance route and request SAS tokens or API keys, I’d like to hear about others’ experiences to make sure what I’m asking for is actually going to work.I have a few data rescue use cases where I need to scrape large volumes of documents, structure the outputs using FME, and then write the data to a Lakehouse so the business can use it for reporting.I’ve managed to get data out of Lakehouses using the SQL endpoint with a SQL Database Reader, since it has Entra ID authentication integrated.Any insights apperciated.  im using FME 2024

Hi,I recently upgraded from 2025.1.1.0 b25615 to 2025.1.3.2 b25646 and noticed that whenever I open a .fmw file, a new folder, “.sentry-fme” is created in the same directory.When I started FME from my desktop shortcut, a “.sentry-fme” folder was created on my desktop once the program was up and running.Could we get this fixed? I’d rather not bloat my directories with temporary files if I can help it. I’ve since downgraded back to 2025.1.1.0.Thanks,

Hi FMEers.I have an interesting task and thought I’d come directly to the experts for advice! I want to pick a random position on Earth, but it has to be on land. How would you go about it?The obvious route is to simply pick a random coordinate, repeating the process if it doesn't fall within a land boundary. That seems inelegant. Alternatively, maybe I could use H3 hexes? Generate all level 15 hexes over land and pick one at random. That seems slow.I'm open to any suggestions. I want lat/long coordinates to about 7 decimal places, and I need it to run (on Flow) in around 1 or 2 seconds.Thanks for any suggestions.Mark

I am reading data from SQL Server that is in the default dbo schema. I want to write the data into a specific schema in postGIS.But i struggle to make to do this as a dynamic workbench.The setting is to Always create tables. The table is created as expected (dbo. is replaced with correct postgis schema name in StringReplacer).But i get an error trying to write featurePOSTGIS Writer: Fanout for feature type '' failed to find feature type template ''Seem to be a missmatch between the schema feature and the feature itself?  

I have an odd problem. I have suddenly lost the ability to view the lists on my objects in the “feature information” pane. They are indeed there, I can search and explode them, but for some reason -mid working on this workbench- I have suddenly lost the ability to see my lists.I am in version 2024.2. I havent found anything helpful or related online yet so thank you if anyone is able to assist. created list ^ no list visible ^ I am ONLY able to see the lists in the “Found” port of a list search

Hello,Does FME has some kind of DefaultCoordinateSystemSetter? I've created an FME workspace that dynamically transforms FileGDB layers into an Oracle SDE database. For this, I need the Oracle SRID and ESRI WKT coordinate system descriptions. To get these, I use the CoordinateSystemDescriptionConverter transformer (handy tool!). However, there are tables without geometry (which crash the ESRI WKT conversion, luckily a TestFilter or something similar fixes that). But it gets worse when geometries enter the workspace that DO have coordinates, but NO coordinate system. Setting the coordinate system on the reader doesn't work because I expect multiple coordinate systems in the data, and setting one of them as the default on the reader will incorrectly overwrite data with a different coordinate system.So here's what I need to do:Extract the existing one (CoordinateSystemExtractor) Test if it resulted in an empty value (Tester) Set the "default"

Hi all.I just ran into a curious problem. I tried to generate a buffer around my data, exporting it to GML. The problem is that QGIS won’t open the generated GML.I found that the GML data contained geometry errors (OGC Simple), and that these in part was made by the Bufferer transformer !??When I debug run a GeometryValidator->Bufferer->GeometryValidator setup, only running passed+repaired features into the Bufferer, the second GeometryValidator outputs failed geometries, i.e. output by the Bufferer..Is this a known problem ?CheersUsing 2025.2 beta