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Hello, I have a question regarding the DGN Reader/Writer about reading and writing external reference files.I am using the DGN Reader that contains a reference to another DGN file. In that referenced file there is a rectangle (an igds_shape element). In the DGN Reader parameters I enable the options "Read Elements From Reference Files" and "Keep Elements That Represent Reference Files".My goal is to move that rectangle to a different location and save it into a DGN file in such a way that:the rectangle appears at the new (correct) position - this part is not a problem; I already have a workbench for moving the geometry but it still keeps the link to the original referenced DGN file, and the referenced DGN file itself remains unchanged.In other words, I want to move the geometry in the main DGN while keeping the external reference link attached to it, so that any futur

Hi, I’m working on a script which copies data from an Esri arcsde geodatabase to a postgis database. I need to know if the table in the arcsde geodatabase is versioned before I run the rest of the script, and I have a pythoncaller which runs something like this (simplified here):layername = "schema.layerName"connectionFile = "path_to_connection_file"arcpy.env.workspace = connectionFiledesc = arcpy.Describe(layername)isVer = desc.isversionedfeature.setAttribute("versioned",isVer) self.pyoutput(feature)Now, I don’t want to type in the path to the connection file manually, but rather obtain it by some function which can collect the data from the list of database connections I entered in the settings. Is this possible? I’ve looked into the FME Web Services API reference for such a function without any luck. Best regards,Jacques 👷🏼 

One of the greatest new features of the IFC4x3 schema is that we can write 2D lines to IFC, which was not supported in IFC2x3.Why does the new IFC writer support only 3D surfaces and solids and not 2D line geometries? 

It seems that in the iOS18 update Apple made changes to the HEIC file container that means the FME Feature Reader using HEIF (High Efficiency Image File Format) now fails to read the HEIC files.We are currently using FME 2022.2.Is there a later update that will support iOS18 images? Is there an alternative way to read in these images successfully? 

I’ve been trying to load some .nwds files, and they’re taking days to fully open. The files themselves aren’t very large—around 180 MB—but some of the geometry has extremely large coordinate offsets. For example, certain objects are located around X=10,000 and Y=10,000, while others are positioned near X=1,200,000 and Y=1,200,000. Could these large differences in coordinate magnitude be contributing to the slow load times?

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 

I'm trying to setup the children and parents list attribute for export to CityJSON. Therefore I thought to use the listbuilder, but I get a different result than it should be. This example is how it should be: And this one is my result. It looks like there is an extra layer in it.How can I solve this?

Hi, I have a report i make where from the data i get out the following (where / separate's attributes)Field / SubField / YYYYMMDD / ValueX / ValueYFor the last date of the Subfield, i would need a line where Value X and Value Y are zero - the end date is specific to the Subfield. Is there a way to get it to reach - for Subfield - find last date - create +1M from YYYYMMDD with X and Y equal to zeroI know how i would do it in a excel macro, but i dont know how to replicate this in FME /Emma

Hey all, Currently having an issue using the ArcGIS Connector when using FME Flow (or Form without Feature Caching / Counting on), receiving the following error below. Full log posted below the error message. The outcome I am looking to produce is to update a CSV file hosted on an Enterprise Platform. This does run with form with feature caching on. Any help would be much appreciated.Thanks. Ash135 2025-11-14 17:25:19 | Message Type: fme::internal::_v0::py::Exception 136 2025-11-14 17:25:19 | Python Exception <TypeError>: Call to pyoutput() requires an output_tag argument when multiple output ports exist 137 2025-11-14 17:25:19 | Error encountered while calling method `input' 138 2025-11-14 17:25:19 | ArcGISOnlineConnector_2_CALLER (PythonFactory): PythonFactory failed to proc

Hi Everyone!I’m currently working on a workflow using a dwg file (water system) to convert it into a geodatabase. I was wondering if anyone has any tips on the transformers and workflow I could use to successfully do this? Right now I have my dwg reader as individual types, leading into an attribute filter, and geometry filter (3 different ones- 1 for water, drainage, and sanitary). These 3 end up writing into the geodatabase. I would like to have feature datasets separating water, drainage, and sanitary written in the geodatabase. I understand this is a big undertaking, but any tips (or perhaps links to guides) would be extremely appreciated! Thank you!

Hi, I have a list of 100+ WMS services our company is using in a plugin for QGIS. I’d like to publish these to our enterprise portal, and I thought the ArcGISOnlineConnector seemed like the right choice, due to it haven the setting:Action: UploadURL : WMS URL https://***.net/geoserver/dai/wms?service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities&version=1.3.0 URL Item Type: WMS ?  My error is :ERROR |Message Type: fme::internal::_v0::py::ExceptionERROR |Python Exception <TypeError>: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not NoneTypeERROR |Error encountered while calling method `input'FATAL |ArcGISOnlineConnector_CALLER (PythonFactory): PythonFactory failed to process feature What have I misunderstood ? Or is there a better option ? Thanks in advance.  

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, I am attempting to copy an ArcGIS Server Feature Service from our Production portal to our Staging portal as a test migration using ArcGIS Data Interoperability (FME). The migration runs successfully, and the layer is created on the destination portal with all point features appearing correctly. However, every attribute field in the destination portal is empty for the layer.For this workflow, I used: Reader: Esri ArcGIS Server Feature Service Writer: Esri ArcGIS Portal Feature Service The strange part is that when I inspect the data immediately before the writer, all attribute values are present and correct in the Visual Preview. But once the writer publishes the layer to the portal, the attributes do not appear, only the geometry is transferred.Could you please help identify what might be causing t

I have a job that downloads 7 text files from an FTP directory, and for the last 3 days, 6/7 files have downloaded but 1 always fails (the same one each time) with the error: Number of redirects hit maximum amountI am aware of the post below, but as no similar setting exists on the FTP caller, I’m lost. I can upload fine, and manually downloading the files by logging into the FTP site, or using a WinSCP script also works. The file that failed today was empty (0MB), but so are some of the other files it downloads, and yesterdays file had records and still failed. Empty files are not uncommon for this job, and it has never presented an issue before. This has started occurring since upgrading to 2025.1.3 from 2022, and occurs on both FME Flow and Form. This error has so far not ap

FME Desktop 2022.1 crashes when trying to read Esri File Geodatabase - Reader works fine with any other format including Arc SDEs but crashes when setting format to File Geodatabase and trying to browse local drive

I'm trying to use FME 2025.0 to create a GeoPackage tiles file. It should contain a few Norwegian raster products, such as N50, N100 and N250. The idea is to mimic the properties of the Swedish product “Topografisk webbkarta Nedladdning, raster”, in the sense that the Swedish product contains a single table in the gpkg file and it shows different raster data at different scales. I am having trouble recreating this with the Norwegian products. I´m stuck at creating a separate tables for each data set or a single table that only contains a single data set. This use case is not discussed at, for example, https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/37417604217357-Creating-OGC-Compliant-GeoPackage-Files#h_01JXXGG7338W04GD0DRBY7VJCV. Any help appreciated. Norwegian products: 

Hi  I have spent far too many hours trying to make the change detector dynamically pick up changes. The scenario is: I have 10 datasets that need to be compared between the original and updated databases. Each dataset has only a few fields that need to be checked for changes. These fields are different for each dataset. I have a CSV which is acting as a 'config' file and contains a list of the field names to check for each datasetI have 2 workbenches; the first workbench gets all of the information from the config file, then passes through the information via user-parameters to the Change Detection workbench via workspace runner. Even though I have created a user parameter for the "Match Selected Attributes" config in the ChangeDetector, I can't pass through this information via the workspace runner. It ONLY works if I run the Change Detection workbench individually, and this isn't linked to the

I have a workspace that is reading a table via the MS SQL JDBC reader and writing the output to an Esri File Geodatabase feature class. It works in FME Form. However, In FME Flow, it fails after the following message (not a warning or error) and shows 0 warnings/errors in the log:Writer `GEODATABASE_FILE_1' of type `GEODATABASE_FILE' using group definition keyword `GEODATABASE_FILE_1_DEFIf I read the same exact data in from a CSV file and write to the Esri File Geodatabase, it works in FME Flow. If I read from the MS SQL database and write to an Open API File Geodatabase, it also works. However, I need to use the Esri writer in production for updates due to some Esri-specific functionality. It seems that there is some sort of odd bug specifically when using the MS SQL JDBC reader and Esri File Geodatabase writer in FME Flow. Has anyone else run into this or have any suggestions?Notes: I’ve tried with

Hello, so we regularly download the whole catalogue of polygons for England, seen here:Dataset Download - Use land and property dataI would very much want to automate this as its a tedious task to manually download them all one by one, so I’ve investigated the calls that my browser makes when calling this data and it first sends a very simple call to very simple URL’s containing the Zipped data, as seen here:https://use-land-property-data.service.gov.uk/datasets/inspire/download/Amber_Valley_Borough_Council.zipWhich in turn takes you onward to a Amazon service that just gives you 60seconds to fetch the data, as seen here:

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?

Hi, sometimes the XML Driven XML Writer decides that I have not set the Application Schema when I click on FeaturePaths edit button. As you can see it is set and the XSD file behind works well in a different workspace. But for some reason I get the error you can see in the attachment and I don’t know why. Starting a workspace from scratch works again with the same settings. Thank you for advice.

I have a lot of multipage PDF documents that I need to each summarize. Does anyone have any tips/experience/recommendations with working with multipage pdfs in FME and an AI of choice?I’ve played around with Copilot a bit and have got prompts to return pretty good results, but it seems like FME doesn’t natively support Copilot, so I’ll have to probably switch AI solutions. Thanks in advance!

Hi,I have run into behaviour in FME Form that I don't understand. I want to read an OGC API (WFS3.0) point features from any of these collections ( https://api.pdok.nl/lv/bgt/ogc/v1/ ) within a bounding box that I create based on input features.I dynamically create a bounding box (my random example: 6.7337723637079705,53.153741409492596,6.742906946412802,53.15869110582926 ) in a workflow before the FeatureReader.When I add the featurereader without any collection query parameters and save it so it generates the output port. And then I open the parameters and set bbox to the attribute value from the bbox (and also ‘limit’ to 1000). These parameters are not applied and used. Only when I regenerate the output port it applies any HARDCODED values. I cannot feed any dynamic value from a user parameter/attribute.If this is intended behaviour in FME: wh