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I have been trying to automate uploading/deleting from a Google Drive Shared file using a GoogleDriveConnector, which I thought was recently changed to support shared drives. The first issue is that the files do no automatically overwrite if they have the same name, they create duplicates, whereas if you upload manually the files will become versioned. To get around this, I assumed I would be able to identify and delete the older file first before uploading the new file, however when trying to delete the older file I get:"2021-10-20 15:19:39| 21.6| 0.0|INFORM|Delete_existing_file: Object with id "File ID" does not exist on Google Drive. Nothing to delete". (I have removed the ID for this post). I have permissions to delete from the drive, and I have created the shareable link manually as a check to confirm that the file ID is correct and exists. I can successfully upload new files to the said folder,

Hello all,Since I wasn’t able to find anything in the FME documentation about this and despite reading hundreds of community posts, I wanted to share what I’ve learned about using the GoogleDriveConnector transformer to delete files in Google Drive Shared Drives and Shared Folders.When using the GoogleDriveConnector in FME to delete files you need to make sure you have the right access. Shared Folders and Shared Drives have different types of access levels. For Shared Folders you have "Editor", "Commenter", "Viewer". If you want to be able to "Delete" files from these folders you will have to have an "Editor" level access right to the folder and the files.For Shared Drives, the access levels are "Manager", "Content Manager", "Contributor", "Commenter" and "Viewer".Due to the restrictions on the Shared Drive, its folders, and the difference in the actions each access levels can have, if you want to delete files from a Folder in a Share Drive folder

I have a lot of excel spreadsheets that all have the same attribute schema. However, there are a varying number of header lines that precede the data in each. In FeatureReaders & Readers, we define the start point for data by line number. Given the consistency of the attribute schema and the inconsistency of the header spiel, I’m trying to think of a way to only read in the ssheets from the start of the data/attribute names, i.e. dynamically, defined by the first attribute name rather than the line number (I guess). Any ideas?

Hello Forum, I need to start uploading data to a MS Azure Blob Storage account set up by our IT service providers.I have a Creator connected to a FeatureReader which is reading in the source file. The FeatureReader is connected to an AzureBlobStorageConnector transformer.But I first need to set up a new Web Connection through FME Options…  I asked our IT provider for the Access Key ID and Secret Access Key of the Azure Blob Storage. They responded by saying that I should just use my standard network username (for the Access Key ID) and my standard network password (for the Secret Access Key). This really doesn’t sound right to me. I was expecting Access Key ID and Secret Access Key for the Azure Blob Storage. As I’ve not used Azure Blob before I don’t know what an

Hi, I’m fairly new to FME and having some issues with the PointOnRasterValueExtractor.All datasets are in EPSG:7850 (GDA2020, zone50) and the PointOnRasterValueExtractor seems to be working as I can see the correct values when I interrogate the points.The issue is when I try to write the output to a Shapefile.  The Q__band values are all zeros.What am I doing wrong here?  

Hello experts,My question is simple.when using the Directory and File Pathnames to access a directory, can I then read files from that directory?I would like to be able to view and query the data in those 1042 filepaths passing the testfilter.see my current workbench: any help would be much appreciated,thank you.fb

Hello all, I am a beginner with CityGML and am currently trying to convert a dataset to CityGML 3 with generics extensions using FME Workbench.I re-organized the features in TrafficArea and added some new generic attributes. Then, I want to map these new features back to TrafficSpace to build the child-parent relation. But I always failed. I am not sure whether I used the wrong way to create the new TrafficSpace, and I didn’t find the tutorial online either. My workflow for the TrafficSpace is shown below. I extracted the boundaries from the TrafficArea and set them with lod2MultiCurve as the TrafficSpace back. Welcome for any suggestions or assistance! Thank you very much. 

Hi all,I am looking for a transformer that does the opposite of the ListKeyValuePairExtractor.It needs to create a list with FIELD_NAME and FIELD_VALUE pairs for all the attributes on a feature.I checked the transformer gallery and the FME Hub, but could not find such a transformer.Has anybody a solution?Could be a Python script. Thanks in advance.Erik

I have a bunch of ZIP files which we download the contain data in 3 formats, shape, csv and file gdb. The zips also contain numerous other files such as pdf and xml, which we don't need to read. Now the tricky bit, I am using a PATH reader to check a directory to see what ZIPs are there and to only load the ones that have arrived in the last 24hrs. The load is triggered in a Sub workbench where the Path is passed to a FeatureReader set to Generic. I can add I file type filter to the path that is passed by adding [**\\*.shp], for example to the path of the zip found by the PATH reader and can read the ZIP 3 times with a different filter each time by building this string""@Value(path_windows)[**\\*.shp]" "@Value(path_windows)[**\\*.csv]" "@Value(path_windows)[**\\*.shp]""  but can't work out how to add filters for csv and gdb to read the file once and look for shp, csv or gdb. The above w

Hello togetherI am currently working with two watercourse datasets from different sources, which unfortunately do not take the same course depending on the region, although in reality there is clearly only one watercourse. For this reason, I would like to merge the datasets or assign the attributes of one dataset to the line segment of the nearest neighbour of the other dataset.I've already tried a bit myself in ArcGIS Pro, but haven't come up with a clever solution. Do any of you have an idea for this?Thanks in advance for an answerBest regardsDani 

I have one FME workbench running on application server to export all the GIS sql tables into MapInfo tab files. It was running fine before but recently failed a couple times, its failed to export tab files after running 50 minutes or so, and each time its failed at export different sql table. I checked disk space and sql tables and they are fine to me. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated, the log file is attached.

I have a somewhat large (~180k lines, 100 cols) set of features coming out of a database reader that I'm loading into a PythonCaller to run some heavy processing on. I've been doing some profiling and it's a big contributor to slowdown in my workbench. To my surprise, though, the number crunching only represents about 10-20 seconds of the 90 seconds runtime for that node. Most of it is actually spent in the hot loops that run feature.getAttribute (another 25-30s) and feature.setAttribute (about 50s). Meanwhile, using a FeatureWriter and a FeatureReader, all these features can be written to and read from Parquet files in seemingly less than a second. It's not exactly easy due to how FeatureReaders don't output the path of the file they've written to, and PythonCallers only have one input node, making it difficult to handle passing a temporary output file name, but it cuts down my translation time from 90 seconds down to 9 seconds. A

Hello everybodyI am currently working with a watercourse network dataset (lines), which is divided into a new segment each time a new watercourse branch branches off or is integrated. Unfortunately, the dataset contains very obvious "errors" as the width of the watercourse between two consecutive segments is much too large and the orthophoto also clearly shows that there must be an error here.I am not that experienced in FME yet and so far I have simply determined the points between the segments and was able to assign the different values of the touching watercourse arms to them. My main task is actually to provide the person responsible with an extensive data set that quickly shows where the difference between two watercourse widths is greater than XX metres (parameterisable). I have currently arrived at the status in the screenshot below, where the intermediate points with the water widths are listed for each line. Ideally, however, I would like to have only one line

I have a line feature (electrical wire) and a polygon feature (containing buildings). I want to get the distance from the wire to all buildings, along with the parameters (angle etc.) when using the tool “near” in ArcGIS Pro.Is there a way to do this in FME? Either with a similar tool, or maybe create some sort of connection and use that specific tool in FME. Im working with FME workbench 2022.2 

HiI need to update several Excel files within a zip file. I have contacted support and they have created a problem report for the development team (FMEENGINE-83267,  I have reproduced the problem with updating multiple Excel files within a zip file). FME Form 2023.2.1.0Build number: Build 23774Meanwhile I need a work around, any ideas?BrFelipe Verdú

I’m trying to load a csv that is saved in sharepoint.  I want to convert this to Excel as well as process the data and export to other formats.  I can access the data in a browser.  Nothing is returned by the httpCaller or the SharePointOnlineConnector.

Hi,I have some utility pipes that have been modelled by a sub contractor. When I bring them into FME they are surfaces. This doesn’t surprise me, though they area actually shapes. Can anyone thing of a way to build these surfaces into solids? Say I have a cylinder for a pipe. It comes in as a surface but should topologically be a shape. I wish to convert itI also wish to find the centre line of these solids, and their diameters which I haven’t been able to do eitherAny help would be appreciated. I have the 2023 versionThanks

Good Day everyoneI have some difficulties reading an ifc file. There is an IfcBuildingPartElement that is apparently ‘too’ complex to read. When excluding Geometry from the FeatureReader running it is successful, but as I am trying to analyse the Geometry, it is kind of needed to include it whilst reading. The Error message does not tell me which of the objects it read failed, which makes it hard to figure out how to bypass the geometry. Does anybody have any solutions how to get it to skip/process the complex pieces? I have tried to ‘Continue Translation’ for Rejected Feature Handling, no luck FME Workbench Message:Processing on a solid has failed. The solid may be too complex, not closed, or not orientable. Feature Reader Settings: 

Hello,Currently, I have a process where I am doing a PointOnAreaOverlayer. I then create about 23 List Attributes. As of now, I have 23 List Summers to achieve my requirements. I then port all the List Summers into one Attribute Manager, remove all the non-summed fields, aggregate all the points grouped by the Primary Key, and then I join that back to the area layer so that it holds the summed values and stays an FMEPolygon and not a MultiFMEPolygon.Is there a way to do this “better”? I have to redo this process on another Polygon Feature Type and it’s cumbersome.  Kind Regards,Senad

I have requested a raster file from an API (HERE Map Image API v3), and the response comes in the fashion of (I guess) base64 data.I would like to have a way to transform such data and store it in proper folders.Any idea? Regards.

HiI have 2 transformers (A and B) they have to provide a Sorter with inputs.If there isn’t any output from A, then this workflow C has to stop, but not the entire workspace.  If there is output from both A and B, it has to continue.If there is only output from A and not B, it has to contiunue. Is it possible?   

Note: I already solved this issue by forcing everything in “MGA2020-55_FME”, however the way FME writer handles GDA2020 data seems strange.I am trying to update an “EPSG7855” table from SQL to an “EPSG7855” feature service in ArcGIS Online. After checking the log, FME seems do not think EPSG7855 is GDA2020 Zone 55 and trying to reproject the data. Which cause the GDA2020Zone55 layer not align with GDA2020 Zone 55 basemap.   Log:  2024-06-20 09:27:58| 0.9| 0.1|INFORM|The ESRIWKID number of the FME coordinate system 'MGA2020-55_FME' is '7855'2024-06-20 09:27:58| 0.9| 0.0|INFORM|ArcGIS Online Feature Service Writer: Requesting metadata for Feature Service at 'https://services-ap1.arcgis.com/w6r4Ll*/arcgis/rest/services/Property/FeatureServer'2024-06-20 09:27:58| 0.9| 0.0|INFORM|ArcGIS Online Feature Service Writer: Found layer/table 'property_view' with ID 4 for feature type 'property_view'2024-06-20 09:27:58|

Hi everyone,I give you my work on the transformation of Runway from AIXM 4.5 reader to AIXM 5.1 writer.All seems to be fine with the structure but when i try to add some annotations to keep the <txtRmk> attribute inside an <aixm:annotation>, i didn’t suceed to keep the structure complete.When the branch is disabled, it’s fine. When the branch is enabled, all is going wrong.Could you please have a look and please give me your feedback.For the FME documentation team https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/profiles/17698677148429-Liz-Sanderson: the workbench given on this page : AIXM 4.5 and 5.1 Reading, Writing and Valida

Hi!Does it exist an easy way (1 transformer) to compare 2 lists from differents dataset ?For example :dataset 1 - feature 1list{0}.NAME = Alist{1}.NAME = Bdataset 2 - feature 1list{0}.NAME = Blist{1}.NAME = CI would like to have the difference so here :=>on the dataset1, feature1 “A” is missing=>on the dataset2, feature1 “C” is missingthe index of the value doesn’t matter, juste the presence of the value is important.I succed with 2 ListExploder and 1 FeatureMerger, and I imagine It would be working too with  ListExploder, FeatureMerger and ListSearcher, but maybe it exist a transformer to do that more quickly.Thanks!

I'm working on enhancing an FME Workbench to be more interactive.Currently, my focus is on a project aimed at creating study area polygons.Depending on their purpose, these polygons can vary from one another.Is there a way to incorporate a dropdown menu or a list at that junction to select which writer to run and which not to?