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bwn
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bwnEvangelist
asked in General
How to run 2 x WorkspaceRunners simultaneously with "Wait for Job to Complete" = Yes

I'm struggling to figure out a way for an initiating Feature to trigger 2 separate WorkspaceRunners simultaneously. In this case, Workspace 1 and Workspace 2 are completely independent of each other, and it doesn't matter to them if the other Workspace Fails or Succeeds. However, Workspace 3 DOES need to conditionally only run if Workspace 1 and Workspace 2 both succeed, and Workspace 1 and 2 must only report "Success" if they run with no errors. I hopefully set it up this way below only half expecting success, although it ended up that this still only ran the WorkspaceRunners in Sequence and didn't work, since WorkspaceRunner #2 waited until WorkspaceRunner #1 completed before pulling in the Initiator Feature. Note: Workspace 1 and 2 are completely different FMWs and completely different Parameter lists.

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sandrawang
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oliver.morris
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oliver.morrisContributor
asked in Transformers
Feature Reader not respecting max features to read

Hi, wondering if anyone know how to limit the featurereader, I am trying to read only the first 10 rows from each table in postgres and it is still pulling back every row before passing on only 10. What am I doing wrong? Thank you in advance

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gracecai
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javierml
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javiermlParticipant
asked in Transformers
How are intersections between 2D and 3D solids possible?

Hello everyone, I’ve been working with 3D Buildings recently and I’d like to add some info to the walls (e.g. indicating which wall has an entrance door). I could set up this information with the 2D Footprints by using the BoundingBoxReplacer and HorizontalAngleCalculator (I’d have used it with my 3D Buildings themselves, but it only works for 2D lines). But I can’t find the right way to add this information to my 3D walls. If I directly extrude the 2D walls instead of the 2D polygons, I lose the classification of Building_IDs that I want. If I reconvert the 2D walls into 2D polygons with an aggregator, all my info goes away and I’m back at the starting point. I tried converting the walls into points with snipping and then converting them into 3D Features with Offsetter and Bufferer such as other past suggestions, but then I hit a wall (pun unintended) becacuse SpatialRelator and SpatialFilter don’t work for 3D Data (INVALID_GEOMETRY will be written). The only transformer that seems to

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javierml
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gjaguilar
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gjaguilarContributor
asked in Integration
FME 2024.2.3 Publish Failed (Not Authorized)

Hi everybody I have FME Flow 2024.2.3 installed on a virtual machine in Azure. I'm trying to publish a workspace from my computer using FME Form (FME Workbench 2024.2.3), and the WAF blocks it. I get the following error: requestUri_s /fmeapiv4/repositories/Samples/items/upload?overwrite=trueMessage: Illegal Content-Type headerdetails_message_s Pattern match ^[\w\d/\.\-\+]+(?:\s?;\s?(?boundary|charset)\s?=\s?[‘”\w\d\,\-]+)details_data_s {found within [REQUEST_HEADERS:]} How can I view the header content to determine what is illegal? Thank you for the help! Gerard

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gjaguilar
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hlynur
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hlynurContributor
asked in Authoring
GML in generic reader through Add reader as a resource

Hello, have bumped into the problem of generic reader not being able to read a GML and have read the literature on how to circumvent this by adding a separate reader as a resource to make the generic reader understand my GML’s. But I cannot get it to work the reader just runs and doesn't find data, no error or warning, Total Features Read 0., So my GML is pretty straight forward as there is no problem getting FME to read it with a OGC GML reader without needing to set XSD schemas and so forth, just reads it in by default. I have tried various settings in a GML reader that have all worked and then copied that workflow when I add the reader as a resource without any luck. Have I overseen some step here or any ideas what I might be doing wrong? Send hilfen, Hlynur

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hlynur
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takashi
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takashiContributor
asked in General
How can I prevent adding excess decimal places in the formatted JSON document?

Hello, In some cases, JSONFormatter writes a decimal point number with the full precision of floating point numbers. Example: Source { "number" : 1.954, "string" : "1.954" } Formatted by JSONFormetter (FME 2021.2.2) { "number" : 1.9540000000000002, "string" : "1.954" } I think this document is desired in many cases. { "number" : 1.954, "string" : "1.954" } Is there any way to prevent adding the excess decimal places?

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itay
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vki
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vkiContributor
asked in Authoring
black out text in pdf

I have many pdfs that are structured in exactly the same way.At a certain place I have to black out the text. My rough idea:- pdf-reader: define the search envelope so that only the text that has to be blacked out is read in- place black polygons at the position of the text- rewrite the pdf as a whole, with the polygons overlaying the text Is this feasible in FME ?

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redgeographics
Celebrity
mk-det
Observer
mk-detObserver
asked in Transformers
Unable to authorise Slack Connector due to unsupported browser

FME Form 2024.2.4 on Windows Server 2016 I’ve been using the SlackConnector transformer for quite some time to send messages when jobs have finished in both FME Form and Flow. It’s been working without fail for the past two years. Just recently we had to reinstall a few things on our VM which caused our user accounts to be wiped. This meant all our existing connections had to be recreated. Unfortunately I’m no longer able to create the webconnection in FME for Slack as it keeps failing on the authentication step telling me “your browser is not supported”. Slack stopped supporting older browser on 15 March 2025 I initially thought the default browser was causing issues so I set it again to Chrome, but I think FME Form must be running an in-built version of IE or something. I’ve also tried recreating to connection of various other machines running windows, but same issue. I can’t seem to find any way of forcing FME to use another browser. I saw on the FME known issues page a workaround b

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mk-det
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vxn43
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vxn43Supporter
asked in Authoring
Convert TIFF files to PDF files

I have a dozen TIFF files I need to convert to PDF. These are not georeferenced or related to GIS; they are just black-and-white images. They are intended to be hyperlinked so users can view them on a website. I understand how to use the TIFF Reader, but the PDF Writer confuses me. I see there are only two choices to write to PDF: Adobe 3D PDF and Adobe Geospatial PDF Writers. I have tried both and received same error. I am using FME Form 2021. What is the best way to convert TIFF files to PDF files? Or what parameters do I need to set if I use one of the PDF Writers I mentioned? Here is the error I receive when I use any of the two PDF Writers: ERROR |PDFWriter: Could not open output file for writing. Please verify that the file is not open in other applications or that the file is not read-only The TIFF files are not open and are not read-only.

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redgeographics
Celebrity
bromp
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brompContributor
asked in Transformers
Esri Portal Connection for Survey123ReportGetter

Hi there, I am trying to generate a survey123 report using FME. I have downloaded and added the custom Survey123ReportGeter transformer however I am using a portal connection instead of an AGOL connection: After this step i have the Tester that checks for the submit_response_body beginning with {"jobId" however the flow always fails here. I get an invalid token message in my submit_response_body: {"error":{"message":"498: Invalid token.","code":498},"success":false} I am not sure if the request URL needs to be different for portal? or if the token i am providing in my query string parameters is not being read in properly… Any help would be greatly appreciated. This is what my transformer looks like:

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bromp
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stinah
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stinahParticipant
asked in Transformers
See if all attributes has value missing

I am downloadning data by several url from different organisation webpages that I later import to tables in a Microsoft SQL server database.I want to get the information if all the attributes that I exposed for a datasorce isn’t containing any values (the value is missing).Is it a way too choose all or multiple attribute at the same time and test if they contain any values?I have data that has like 50 attributes and it is going to take a long time to manually set like a test for each of this attribute individually.

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danilo_fme
Evangelist
bellrosemike
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bellrosemikeContributor
asked in Transformers
I have photos stored in a database. Normally, I simply use an AttributeFileWriter to extract the photo. However, I want to use the JPEG Writer. Can JPEG Writer be used from an Attribute?

I wish to use the JPEG writer rather than the attribute file writer, because I want to add EXIF data to the image that doesn't exist in the original BLOB. I do not see a way to add this EXIF information when simply using an attribute File Writer.

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danilo_fme
Evangelist
katt
Supporter
kattSupporter
asked in Transformers
Find point where lines are parallel

I have two lines that are starting from the same point (blue point). I would like to calculate the geometry of the points where the lines start to run in parallel (approx. where the green points are). How can I do it in FME ?

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danilo_fme
Evangelist
anderstgd
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anderstgdContributor
asked in Transformers
Force custom transformer to process features one at a time

Is it possible to force a custom transformer to process features one at a time when there are blocking transformers within the custom transformer? I run into this problem when I try to create a 3DGeneralizer and want to process lines individually. Example: A custom transformer splitt lines into vertices. The lines are also generalized. NeighborFinder is used to match vertices and generalized lines. I want the NeighborFinder to only process features (line and vertices) from a single line at a time. If Group By is used in NeighborFinder it will block features until all lines have entered the custom transformer. Thanks, Anders

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anderstgd
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jugoslaviaa
Enthusiast
jugoslaviaaEnthusiast
asked in Transformers
FME Feature Writer - Default Values Not Applied

I have a template.gdb that contains feature classes, and some attributes within these feature classes have default values. Like here for the attribute FLOWDIRECTION When writing features into these feature classes using the Feature Writer, I expect the default values to be applied to attributes where no value is provided. However, this is not happening. What could be the reason for this issue? How can I ensure that the default values from the geodatabase are correctly applied?

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takashi
Contributor
aashnaparikh
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aashnaparikhParticipant
asked in Data
Duplicate Features Division

Hi, Based on the sample table, I want to implement a logic. Same name, different policy # and same address - Goes to file 2 Same name, different address and different policy number - The first record goes to file 1 and rest of the records go to file 2. All the manual should again go to the file 2. Policy Number New/ Renewal/ Manual Name Address To process Split 123 New John Chris 123 Oxford St Y File 1 110 New Mary Jane 45 Caron ave Y File 1 111 New Mary Jane 360 Caron ave N File 2 112 Renewal Kent Bryan 333 Queen St Y File 1 113 Renewal Kayla Jan 333 Queen St Y File 1 114 Renewal Jung Chen 5 Queen St Y File 1 115 Renewal Jung Chen 5 King St N File 2 116 Manual Ray Ban 5 abc st N File 2 116 Manual Kan Can 6 xyz st N File 2 116 Manual Harry Potter 8 niagara st N File 2 116 Manual Rob Smith 9 India St N File 2 116 Manual Tony Stark 10 peter st N File 2 116 Manual John Snow 11 sandwich st N File 2 2000 New Melanie Joy 275 Rankin Avenue N File 2 2001 New Melanie Joy 275 Rankin Avenue N Fil

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evieatsafe
Safer
swach
Contributor
swachContributor
asked in Authoring
Errors wrting metadata to sde geodatabase

I am having an issue writing metadata to an SDE geodatabase. I am reading features from a feature server and xml metadata from a URL. When I write to SDE it gives the error: Error occurred using IXmlPropertySet2::setXml(). HRESULT = -2147215103. File: D:\code\fme\foundation\formats\geodb2\geodbutilities.cpp Line #: 3580 I set the attributes up like in the tutorials (setting geodb_metadata_string and geodb_type) and I am testing on a new feature dataset. Using FME 2023.2 Any ideas?

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swach
Contributor
kalbert
Contributor
kalbertContributor
posted in Transformers
BulkAttributeRenamer - unexpected attribute removal in FME 2025.0

Just recognized, after migration of a workspace from 2024.2 to 2025.0 a BulkAttributeRenamer shows strange results: The transformer is set to change attribute names to lowercase (mode rename) for a selected set of attributes. This works as expected. However the remaining attributes (not selected for any change) got almost completely removed. ‘Almost completely’ means from the >5000 records only 4 have the attribute after the transformer while all other records show the attributes as <missing>. @safe - although it’s easy to mitigate it might be worth to dig into it. note: in mode ‘keep original attributes’ results are as expected. Klaus

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DanAtSafe
Safer
bjarne
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bjarneContributor
asked in Integration
IFC files and IDS validation

Hi, we would like to test if it is possible to use IDS- files to validate propertySet in IFC- files. Any ideas?

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bjarne
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limo
Supporter
limoSupporter
asked in Transformers
How to get seamlines for different aerial photos?

Hi, we are searching for a solution to create seamlines between aerial photos. So we have a lot of photos with different overlapping areas like this: footprints Is there a possibility to create seamlines between the images? So we wouldn´t like to do this manually. It should be approximately the center line of the overlapping areas. At the end we wanna cut out the origin arial images based on the seamlines. Does anyone have experience with this?

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evieatsafe
Safer
nicholass
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nicholassParticipant
asked in Transformers
Having a problem with data type 'double' when fme is writing shapefiles

Hi all, I work on a mapping project that requires all of our shapefiles to be quality checked at the end of production. I currently have an FME workbench that converts Esri geodatabases to shapefiles for the final check. However, I’m having an issue with one of my attributes. The attribute is being written out by the workbench as a ‘double’ (which I believe has a max width of 19). The quality check tool checks both the data type (needs to be real) and the specified width of each attribute (needs to be 19). When it is checked by the quality check tool I get an error message which states the expected length is 19 and has found a width of 15? It’s fine with it being a ‘double’ though? Any ideas? Will provide more information if needed.

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takashi
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sazerty2
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sazerty2Participant
asked in Transformers
How to display GroupID with SpatialSorter using FME Workbench 2024

Hi, I am trying to use the SpatialSorter in my workspace to sort data by location and define group size. However, as I’m currently using the FME Workbench 2024 version, the SpatialSorter is quite different and doesn’t provide a new attribute named “GroupID”, it’s also impossible to define a group size in the parameters. It is quite inconvenient because it’s not possible to use the Aggregator transformer on the GroupID attribute afterwards to group sorted spatial data. As far as I know, there is no unexposed attribute generated from SpatialSorter in the FME 2024 version. To compensate, I used the NeighborhoodAggregator but I’m not satisfied by the results. I was wondering if anyone else encountered the same issue and found another solution ? Thank you for reading!

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sazerty2
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moustik
Contributor
moustikContributor
asked in Transformers
SQLExecutor in FME2024.1 doesn't show Geometry of PostGIS raster, in contrary with FME2023.1

Hello, I am currently working with some database PostGIS rasters and wanted to import some into FME 2024.1, using a filter to only select 2 out of 11030.To do so, I tried both a SQL Executor and a FeatureReader (as both enables PostGIS raster reading).The SQL Executor filters the rasters correctly but doesn’t create the geometry and returns an error in the log file.The FeatureReader loads the 11030 rasters without filtering, suggesting a problem with the “WHERE clause”. I tried the same thing using FME 2023.1 and the SQL Executor is working under this version. I am wondering if there is a bug in the FME 2024.1 version.The problem was the same for the Feature Reader.A colleague said that the Feature Reader outputs everything as well in previous versions of FME (2022.2 and 2021.1). Do you know when the FME 2024.1 bug will be corrected?We are linking our work with ArcPro and we know we will have to use FME 2024. I am enclosing a share folder with the different logs (as txt) and the 2 work

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benji
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sleschi
Contributor
sleschiContributor
asked in Transformers
Big difference in behavior between TINGenerator in FME 2021 and 2025

I have a workspace in FME 2021.2.6 where I produce a TIN from a DEM with the TINGenerator. In this transformer there is a parameter called Tolerance. I was playing with this tolerance to find the right amount of detail, that is still acceptable for my task and reduces the amount of triangles in the TIN. Now we’re about to switch to FME 2025 soon, so I thought there might be a performance win with the new Version, so I gave it a try. But I found out, that this transformer does not work the same way anymore and whether I put in 1 or 100 or 10000 in the tolerance, it does not really matter. The result looks way different and in my opinion is worse, than with the 2021 version. Can someone explain me, how I can produce kind of the same results as with the 2021.2.6 Version? How can I reduce the number of produced triangles and level of details within the TINGenerator if the tolerance does not has any effect on this? Thanks for your help Simon Different tolerances in the TINGenerator in FME 2

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sleschi
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aron
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aronSupporter
asked in Transformers
Create group ID based on conditions?

The two lines below share the same end nodes and I want to give them a common group id for later processing. This is to be the step after a TopologyBuilder. I thought this would be pretty simple, but have run aground. So how do I achieve this? The geometris are to be left unchanged. I just want them to have a common “id” if they intersect at both ends. The conditions for the ‘join’ are: _from_node = _from_node AND _to_node = _to_node OR _from_node = _to_node AND _to_node = _from_node Because sometimes the lines orient in different directions.

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aron
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