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Has anyone tried running the ExcelToPDFWriter in an FME flow? I’m encountering an issue where Excel cannot open the file when I run this transformer in the FME flow. However, I don’t face this issue when running it directly in FME Form. Any insights or solutions would be greatly appreciated!. I found the sloution here : Microsoft Excel cannot access the file (Java -> cmd /c python -> Excel) - Stack Overflow 

How to buffer a line with different distances on the left and right side?The question is about road centrelines, where buffer needs to have different distances from centre line on left and right side.

Is there a way to turn on logging of the SQL statements that FME is issuing to Oracle in Workbench 2014?

Hi All, i’m having an issue writing to an AutoCAD DWG file, with a template file. I want to preserve the Model Space, but not the Paper space as i’m editing some attributes within the drawing title block in FME which I want to write back out in the paper space.Even though I am setting preserve paper space in the writer to No, the original blocks from the template file, including the original attribute values, are being written as well as a copy of the block with the new attribute values I have updated in FME. As a result I have 2 overlapping blocks, 1 with the new values I want to keep and 1 with the original values I am trying to replace. I just want a single block with my new values.In the attached, you can see the output from the writer, with the same block duplicated with the new value I have updated and the old value in the template (highlighted in yellow).Any thoughts/ideas/assistance with this would be greatly appreciated, whether this is possible or not possible. I have done si

I had a workspace with 13 user parameters. When renaming them all, I accidentally erased one's identifier, and it duplicated it and the new one is bugged. When I try to save, the workspace crashes. After publishing it on the server, trying to run it shows not a single user parameter.  I can not delete it, and it is linked to every single transformer of the workspace (copy pasting any transformer from the bugged workspace to a new one imports the bugged user parameter and therefore corrupts the workspace). 

Hello,I have previously in Form 2023 added custom paths in the “Edit Data Download Properties → Include Data from Writers” when preparing to upload to Flow.The issue I now have in Form 2024.1 is that after I have published the workspace to Flow or if I reopen the workspace my custom paths are not saved within the workspace, or if it’s saved to Flow as it was in Form 2023. This makes the Republish option button not useful as I can see as I have to rewrite the custom paths. Or have I might missed something? To be clear I belive this only counts for custom paths and the benifit with custom paths is that I can customize how files are organised within the .zipped file from the Data download service. 

Hi, this must be easy but can't seem to find it...I want to convert duration from seconds to hours, minutes, seconds. So 337759 seconds should be 93h49m19s.I thought the DateTimeConverter should help me, but can't seem to get it right:results in 21h49m19s...I could calculate it myself, but I guess I'm overlooking a setting in this transformer?

Is there a way in FME to run a workflow similar to esri Intersect tool where a 1 line feature (1 route) could intersect a second line feature (roads) with multiple lines and get a point feature for each crossing point with the distance along the first line feature. Basically crossing point and stationing along a line?  

After deleting some files using the os.remove instruction within a PythonCaller the translation ends successfully but it gives these errorsWorker 215652 > Failed to apply the constraints feature to the readerWorker 215652 > Failed to apply the constraints feature to the readerWorker 215652 > Failed to apply the constraints feature to the readerWorker 215652 > Failed to apply the constraints feature to the readerWorker 215652 > Failed to read features from dataset 'C:/Users/LOCA1A~1/Temp/225/wb-cache-CLMS_Download_20240607_DESKTOP_2-igKtLc/LEGACY_DuplicateFilter_2 2 194 fo 0 UNIQUE  2  7b50d2c16b579db61a32ffc86b48776319f4311b.ffs' using the 'FFS' readerI have searched the web for the origin of the error but I can't find anything that makes senseI would greatly appreciate any help

Hell all, I am able to read my previously created shp file in Fanout mode, but I get this warnings:Shapefile Reader: Input dataset XXXshp' contains a Record Index file that is not a sufficient length to be useful and will be ignored. Features can still be read but performance may be impacted. After reading this shp file I am using AreOnAreaOverlayer and fme stacked there with warnings. Number of Inner Boundaries: 1 -------------------------------------- Inner Boundary Number: 0 Geometry Type: IFMEPolygon Boundary: Geometry Type: IFMELine Number of Coordinates: 10 -- Coordinate Dimension: 2===============================================================ccoordinates ============AreaOnAreaOverlayer (OverlayFactory): Overlaying requires a tolerance of at least 2.5078612099758616e-13 for these features, and the input tolerance is 0. Setting the tolerance to 2.5078612099758616e-13When I changed Tolerance from None into Automatic, another warning appears:@Geohash: The feature is either too

Hello,I have several lines in my data base which are self overlapping. On the the picture you see the vertices and the order when drawn. Vertices 3 and 4 have been drawn before vertex 5 which makes the line self-overlapping or self-intersecting. How can I detect lines in my database which have that kind of problem ? I tried the geometry validator but I noticed that it detects only some of them. So it is not fully reliable in my case. Is there any other transformer ? I thought maybe of calculating the bearing as the change of direction could indicate that problem as well. Thanks for your help. (btw I don’t want any transformer to automatically correct them, I only want to detect them)  

This is either going to be a very stupid question or a very silly bug.I want to check if MyUserParameter has a value, so I put a Creator and a Tester on my canvas checking whether MyUserParameter does have a value. It tells me it doesn’t, whilst it clearly does! Hmm, what’s going on?Am I being dumb? Why can I not test a User Parameter?I can get it by using a ParameterFetcher, so it’s not a big issue.We recently upgraded from v2023.1 to 2024.1, and I thought this used to work, but I could well be mistaken.EDIT: It does work if I check if MyUserParameter is of type string or when using RegEx. It sounds like the ‘has a value’ and ‘is null / missing / empty’ doesn’t work with user parameters.

Recently I put different tables into a PostGIS database. One of these tables contains 23M unique records and does not contain spatial data. I would like to read them into a FME workbench. Do you have some suggestions how I could improve my reading process?Is it possible for example to preselect already a set of columns I need while reading my table using 'SQL to Run before Read'?’ If so do you have a example SQL querry?   Is there a performance difference between  'SQL to Run before Read'?’ and the WHERE clause option in the Constraints menu? 

I am looking to have a workspace run by a workspace runner to parse out some data to be grouped by individual tabs based on an attribute name.i have an excel workbook with a dozen or so sheets, each sheet is a type of mechanical system with 3 columns - Column A is BLD which is a string building name. Column B is System Type which had data validation in place with named table references and Column C is System Name which is a string value.i am using a feature reader with the read formulas checked:i want to have the workspace runner pass a value for BLD and search all of the sheets for matches - for instance, it looks something like this once run:  The workspace is finished, except for the writer - i want to create a new workbook for each unique BLD feature and copy from an excel template that has the existing named ranges for the various data validation lists from the original read file - however, i can’t get the validation to copy, nor the sheet with the named ranges.my writer is set up

I have several rasters with varying Z values and thousands of parcels. I’d like to extract the lowest z value from multiple rasters by parcel. Any help is appreciated!

Hi,I'm using two SentinelDownloaders in my workspace: one to download data from a specific year and another to download data from the previous year. At the end, my workspace shows a "FAILED" message in the API after completing the first SentinelDownloader. I understand there is a conflict because it's the same transformer being used for different dates in the same execution.How can I run this workspace without problems?Thank´s

Hi! I have a workspace with a runtime of effectively 28 hours (this workspace controls slave workspaces, that get 50 million rows of external data). The runtime is only this long for the initial running of the workspace, However it is possible to get severe peaks in runtime due to hystorical data recalculations. I finish the workspace with a SQL executor that merges the retrieved data with already existing data and does some other cleanup. At this point this transformer fails though, forcing me to run the queries manually. I have not saved the log due to my brilliance :). the error given is paraphrased: there is no connection with the oracle server. I think the issue is that a connection is established previously with the oracle server, than put on hold for about 28 hours, than necessary again, with an elapsed acces key. Is there a way to circumvent this? I have not tried, due to time commitment, to untick persistent connection, should that work?

i”m unable to create the web connection despite all the documentation.  

Hi,The below python code works in ArcGIS Pro:But returns the below error in FME:What would be the ‘FeatureProcessor’ python symbol?Regards

Hi there I have been trying to extract the contents of a webpage the Facilities Masterlist which is on our internal sharepoint. I have downloaded a local copy of the page I am trying to extract contents from and attached it. I haven’t had much luck extracting the contents to replicate the table on the page. This is what I have so far. 

Hello,When using Featurewriter with a template excel file, i encounter en error when trying to open the written excel file which indicates a problem with the Named range "Named range from /xl/workbook.xml part".This happens only since updating to 2024.1.2.0, if I use the same workspace with 2022 version it’s fine.Has this happened to someone else ? is there a workaround ?I’ve tried a lot of things but couldn’t find the issue so for now we run this workspace with 2022.Thanks for your help.

I am writing a workflow that refreshes data within a hosted AGOL feature service.To enable continuity of service, I have 2 hosted feature services for the same layer.  eg.  Playgrounds_A and Playgrounds_B.    There is a view defined called Playgrounds_View whose source is either Playgrounds_A or Playgrounds_B My workspace plan is to refresh the contents of the ‘non-active’  feature service, and then set the Playgrounds_View to point to it.I have managed this previously with Python for ArcGIS scripts using commands like item.add_relationship() and item.delete_relationship()How can I recreate this functionality in FME workbench ?

Hi there,I have placed few VIEWS on Oracle Database changing TABLE column names. ie: ID as PLANT_ITEM_IDWhen I connect the VIEW via FME 2023.2.1.0 all column names are showing as what is recorded on Oracle Tables. It is ignoring column names I have set up on VIEWs. How do I get around this issue?I don’t want to use “attribute manager” to change the names. I have already done that on my VIEWs.Is there a way I can see the Column names on VIEWS through FME?thanksRegards,Pushpa  

Hello everybody! some weeks ago I asked for help with our project: calculate the distance to all schools in the city having as input one address. (Server App - calculate shortest route to several schools | Community (safe.com)) I have done it using FME Desktop (2022.2) and the result looks pretty nice:In addition I get the shortest paths to each school (each school has more than one entry).Now I have uploaded the GDB with the streets and the Shapefile with the school entries to the FME Server Ressources.I have created a server app (workspace) and run the project.There I receive this error:2024-9-30 09:01:48 | 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; or ArcGIS Enterprise. Refer to this this article http://fme.ly/qua for more detailsWhy it works loc

HiI would like to extract some info from a website that are inside a p tag inside a div class = paragraphs_item__body_paragraph_bundlethe website is https://www.padovanet.it/notizia/20221025/strade-chiuse See picture belowthx for support Francesco