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The Documentation for the @DateTimeFormat Function clearly states that parsing ISO 8601 format is supported:“Formats FME or ISO date, time, and datetime strings into a custom format [...] Arguments: <datetime> [...] Date, time, or datetime string in Standard FME Date/Time Format or ISO 8601 date and time format.”, so using PT1H as datetime Argument should be valid.But the Parsing of ISO 8601 date and time format fails:AttributeManager: Failed to parse 'PT1H' as a datetime value. For FME datetime syntax, please see http://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Desktop_Documentation/FME_Workbench/!Transformer_Parameters/standard_fme_date_time_format.htm . For ISO datetime syntax, please see http://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Desktop_Documentation/FME_Workbench/!Transformer_Parameters/standard_fme_date_time_format.htm#ISO-8601-Duration-FormatFailed to evaluate expression '@DateTimeFormat(PT1H,%H)'. Result is set to null FME Form 2025.1.2.0 (20250829 - Build 25630)

Hi,I’m having trouble with AmazonBedrockConnector and I believe it’s an error with how the transformer has been authored.The issue is that the transformer processes and outputs the square of the number of input records. If I input 13 records, it will process 169 (to AWS Bedrock!), and then output them. If I input 313 records, it will attempt to process and return 97,969 records (I’ve found this out the hard way).By embedding the transformer and then editing it, I was able to view the flow of information from a source workspace. The issue seems to be in the calling and validation of AWS Inference Profiles, in that they are checked to be active, and then joined back to the original input records (obviously to allow error checking and rejection). As downloaded, the transformer looks like this:Note that the 13 input records are joined back against each other to create 169 records that are ulimately sent to the Bedrock API. I can see no valid reason to keep all of the original records out o

After a week+ of trial and error I wonder. Have anyone managed to create an FBX-file with FME that contains terrainmodel + ortophoto draped on top. That can be opened WITH materials/texture directly in Navisworks? I have tried all settings - but can not make it work. The files open correctly in FME Data Inspector, Autodesk FBX Reviewe, 3dsmax, Lumion and even Infraworks. And also the export from Infraworks to Navisworks work OK! However I cant seem to be able to open the FBX-file directly in Navisworks - it only shows the terrain with no texture/material. Even when it shows the texture in the "materials" pane. Material is added on a Mesh-group and displays nicely before writing and as mentioned in the other software above.Some stuff I have tried:- All settings on the FBX-writer- Manually changing the scaleuints on the ASCII- file from 1 to 100 to scale to meters instead of default cm. It seems that there is some scaling issues between geometry / material or bug related to mat

Hello, I just upgraded to FME Form 2025.1.2 and am having a problem with the Google Sheets Reader. The Reader previously worked in FME 2024.x, but I am now getting a very ambiguous error whenever I try to read a sheet into a workspace. I literally just upgraded this morning after initially opening the workspace in Form 2024 and successfully running it, so I know nothing has changed on my computer or anything otherwise. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? 

I’m trying to use conditionnal parameters in one of my FME workbenches, and I’m running into a problem where I can’t seem to be able to handle the the <Unused> value that results in trying to read a disabled parameter.Here I have a workbench with 2 parameters, one checkbox that determines whether to verify that values have been reported for the date where the flow is running, and a conditionnal field where one timestamp can be entered (as I normally use FME Flow’s “Event Timestamp” as input for this field).Within FME Form, if FME_LAUNCH_TIME is disabled, it will have the value “＜Unused＞” (it’s a text string, reported as such by PythonCaller and ParameterFetcher). This is… inconveinient because “＜Unused＞” (I can’t even type it in the community forums, the system thinks it’s an HTML tag) is not considered null/missing/empty/not-a-value by conditional operators, but it is also a reserved value, meaning you’re often forbidden from even writing it.I am literally unable to write that f

Hi everyone,on my local machine, I have installed multiple FME versions (2023.2.6, 2024.2.4 & 2025.0). In our company we work extensively with git and i use the Workbench Git integration from the command line. However, if I want to diff Workspaces that were modified with the newer versions (only tested for 2025.0) the command “git diff” launches FME 2023.2.6. This is not useful, because if there are e.g. Transformers that have a newer version, i guess one that is not supported in the older versions, the “Compare Workspace” Tool (2023.2.6 version) cannot display them.Is there a way to specify which version of FME should be used when executing the git diff command? Thanks for your helpCheers!

Hi,I wonder if someone could help me?I would like to merge pdf files in one folder (folder1.png)with pdf files in different folder (folder2.png) based on data in excel (merge.png). For an example, merge 1.pdf in folder1 with 421.pdf,422.pdf,423.pdf in folder2 like it says in the table. And 2.pdf in folder1 with 424.pdf, 425.pdf in folder2 and so on...Is that possible?Thank you, Jasna 

Just sharing information about a new feature I found."Enable Performance Profiling" would be introduced in FME 2025.2 Workbench. You will be able to log detailed performance profiling on workspace run easily whithout editing header.Have been waiting for 10+ years :-)Sharing: Detailed Profiling of Workspace Running Performance[Addition] The command is available since FME 2025.1. I have overlooked that... 

I have a fileGDB with many records, of which I only want to read a Selection.I know how to use the Search Envelope to select records in a bounding boxIs there also a way of Selecting records where an Attribute equals a value? (actually one of three values)Or is the only way with a Transformer after the Reader?Just trying to optimise

So I’ve been experimenting with using FME to build specific AI agents/agentic workflows.I’m using OpenAI’s API and leveraging function calling. It’s been quite fun and a really good learning experience. You can let the agent make decisions - if you give it tools to use then you can use looping transformers to let it use the various tools you give it, constantly updating it’s context. Looping transformers are a bit of a paint to work with and hopefully there could be something done in this space to make building these tools in FME easier. I’m still not sure what the best way to do this is or even if it makes any sense to use FME for this but I made some progress anyway:for example: should the tools be other CustomTransfomers for example or whole workspaces or maybe both. Should this be something somehow handled in Automations rather than a workspace? So many optionsSo far the agent isn’t interactive and I’m just putting all the context into the logfile, but in the end it would be real n

Hi everybody, Do you know if Home licence of FME still available?

I have been trying to set up a Package dev environment on a Mac (Sonoma 14.7.7) and it crashes every time I get to the ‘import fmeobjects’ test in the venv.  Just getting that far was a huge hassle.  It appears that the SDK instructions and fme-packager library are geared for Windows. I had to modify the fme_env.pth file to only show the FME Home path and get rid of the rest, for instance.  The issue seems to be that the native FME python 3.13.5 library does not like the Python.org 3.13.5 library, but can’t say for sure. Are Macs even supported for this?  I currently don’t have access to v2025 on Windows.If anyone has had success making packages using MacOS, any insight is appreciated.  Bonus points if you have a good ICP reference! Thanks,-Loren

Hi.I’ve been tasked with projecting data from a local coordinate system to an official one.The local coordinate system transformation can be handled with PROJ, but is not necessarily part of the standard PROJ deployment.Q1: If I add these files to the Reproject/ProjData folder, will FME/PROJReprojector then automatically use them for the transformation ?Q2: Will FME automatically download any necessary (standard) files from PROJ if they’re not found locally ?Q3: And am I correct in understanding that FME 2025.1 and 2025.2 (beta) embeds PROJ 9.5.0 ?Cheers.

Hello everyoneHow can I restart a row counter in FME at the beginning of each year?I have a dataset with a year attribute (e.g., 2025, 2026). I want to generate a rowid that starts at 1 for each new year and increments sequentially.Example: For 2025 → rowid should be 1, 2, 3 … For 2026 → rowid should reset back to 1, 2, 3 … I then want to concatenate the last two digits of the year with the padded rowid to create a WorkOrderID like: 250001, 250002 … 260001, 260002 … Which FME transformers or workflow should I use to reset the counter per year?

Hi,I want to automate the process of downloading a dataset that comes as a zipped folder. Inside the folder, there is a GeoTIFF file that I want to read into FME. After that, I want to write it to a new GeoTIFF file, which should automatically update when the dataset is updated.What is the simplest way to do this?The file i want to work with is this: https://ext-dokument.lansstyrelsen.se/sodermanland/Geodata/Gron_infrastruktur/LstD_GI_Ädellöv_int.zip

FME can currently read from Autodesk Recap RCP and RCS files ?

Hi everyone,We recently switched to the new version (2024) of FME. I ceated a new fmw-file to convert gml to dgn. But when opening the dgn, I noticed that every level that uses an attribute value has the colour ‘white’ instead of the intended colour.Is this a bug? Can somebody help me how to solve this?Thanks in advance. 

I am testing the OGCAPI of the Norwegian Mapping Authority (https://ogcapitest.kartverket.no/rest/services/havnedata/collections). It provides five different coordinate reference systems. http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/OGC/1.3/CRS84http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/5973http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/25833http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/3857  The OGC API – Features Quick Facts suggests that the OGCAPI feature reader supports coordinate systems. The reader seems to default to WGS84. How can I choose a diffrent CRS in the OGC-API reader?  The call would be like "http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/5973&limit=2" alt="https://ogcapitest.kartverket.no/rest/services/havnedata/collections/fender/items?crs=https://ogcapitest.kartverket.no/rest/services/havnedata/collections/fender/items?crs=http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/5973" ... but how can one provide the crs information in the reader? Thank you.

Interpreting an FME model can be challenging at times, so having a function that exports every transformer/tool used in the model and automatically providing an interpretation of their actions would be helpful. Is this possible in FME?

I was busy creating a Custom Transformer and wanted to link a Published Parameter to the Advanced Parameter 'Maximum number of iterations’.  However, the dropdown option shown below did not pop up. This screenshot is showing a workbench derived from this tutorial:Looping with Blocking Transformers – FME Support Center Any clues?

I have a table that I need to export to an Excel file. To this file I want to apply some styling. I’ve written a Python script that works well: it uses a FeatureWriter followed by a PythonCaller, and the result is an Excel file with the desired formatting, including filters, colors, and so on.Now I’d like to split this Excel output using a fanout expression, which generates 23 separate Excel files. Each of these files should then be processed by the PythonCaller. However, that’s where things go wrong — the process seems to get stuck. I’m using the _dataset variable from the Summary output port of the FeatureWriter as the location for the Excel files, which the PythonCaller should loop through.Is there something I might have overlooked?

I have tried using the online tool but not having any luck. Could anyone show me how to get this into FME? How does someone get this built as a coordiante system in FME

 Hi folks! As I was using AI tools like ChatGPT and Copilot to troubleshoot, I suddenly received information from the AI about the "Generate Workspace Documentation" function. Here's what I learned:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Generate Workspace DocumentationThis feature allows you to automatically generate comprehensive documentation for your FME workspace. The output is typically an HTML file that provides detailed insights into your workspace structure, parameters, and transformations. It's incredibly useful for sharing with colleagues or for archiving your workflows. How to Use It: Usage in FME Workbench (GUI):Open the FME Workbench application. Load the workspace you want to document. From the Tools menu, select Generate Workspace Documentation. You can choose to output the documentation in an HTML format, which can be opened in any browser.Command Line Usage:This function is also ava

I am trying to get my few MS Excel as a reader and then write them to a new Excel all together however, I got this error that says Excel Writer: xlsx row limit of 1048576 exceeded for New. The first 1048576 features of New will be written to file. Ending translation ? Is there a way around to pass this ?

Hello everyoneFollowing this article I created (with the help of our IT folks) a OneDrive (Graph) web service with custom client and tenant ID values, and on using the Test feature I can successfully bring up the sign-in dialog, but my connection is repeatedly sent back for admin approval, even though I’m configured as an admin for the app, and the 365 admins approved my login.  On returning to the app I get this:A bit of web research leads me Microsoft’s troubleshooting topics, but I don’t know my way around.  Our 365 environment is pretty locked down, but IT say I should be good for the app.Has anyone been through this and has some tips?  Thanks.