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Hi thereI’d like to convert the whole OS MasterMap Topography layer for our district in to individual 1km DWG tiles which are to be accessed in a variety of CAD packages.I have had some success in converting a Geopackage of the above layer, through a MultiClipper to create the individual grid squares and finally written as a DWGs with the output ‘fanned out’ by each 1km grid reference number.When one of the resulting files was opened in CAD, the geometry was present, but none of the attributes. However, I will try the UK OS MasterMap Topography Layer (GML) Reader, once my GML download is available from the OS Data Hub site.Would anyone who has had some experience with this type of conversion kindly forward me some tips or advice on how best to achieve populating a DWG, or series of DWG exports with the attributes from the file which is being converted, please?Many thanks :)

Hi.This is either a no-brainer that I haven’t figured out, or not doable, I think. But it’s a simple task.I need to count the items in a JSON array, but I need to do it in a looping custom transformer, so it needs to be non-blocking.In a custom transformer, I use a HttpCaller to get a JSON response, which includes an array of items. I may have to issue more http calls within the custom transformer, so it contains a loop back to its input.JSONFragmenter can easily find the array items, but as features, not in a list format, so I need to use a blocking transformer like Aggregator to count them. This is no-go.So either I need to extract the JSON array items into a list, and use ListElementCounter to find the length, or count the JSON array items in a different non-blocking way.Does anyone have a solution for either of these tasks ?Cheers.

Apologies if this has already been asked - seems like it should already have been reported.FME Form 2025.0.1FeatureWriter Version 0Writing to Esri Geodatabase on MSSQL Server 2019When using either Create if Needed, or Drop and Create table handling, the geodatabase_sde writer appears to ignore the table qualifier set on the feature type. The table gets successfully created, visible in SSMS - but under the default user database schema eg: domain\john.smith.FeatureClass1 However the flow then fails because at some stage it does take into account the table qualifier and is looking for a table called sde.FeatureClass1

Hi,has anyone had any success creating User Parameters for the SharePointOnlineConnector Site, Document Library and Path values?I’m using FME 2025.2.2 (latest version) and SharePointOnlineConnector version safe.microsoft-sharepoint  [1.13.1] (latest version)I would like to embed a SharePointOnlineConnector in a custom transformer but I don’t want to hard-code the Site, Document Library and Path values. However, when I create User Parameters to expose these as custom transformer parameters I am not able to actually select values for them. I have also tried creating User Parameters for these values as input parameters for a SharePointOnlineConnector in the main workspace but run into the same issue.This is how my SharePointOnlineConnector is configured (I have used all default values when creating the User Parameters):

I’d like to maintain my database documentation in an Excel spreadsheet like this:Attribute Name FME Data Type LandID int32 Acres real32 Name varchar(128)  And then I’d like to import that into an AttributeCreator. When I try importing, the attribute names come through, but FME Form sets all the data types to varchar(200) instead of what I specified in the field ‘FME Data Type’ and imported in the import dialog.How can I fix this or set up my spreadsheet differently?

Hi all,I am attempting to create an FME script that looks at the FWI information provided as a WMS by NRCAN to perform some risk analysis based on the WFI cell values. When I load the WMS into ArcGIS Pro and examine a cell, I can see a discrete WFI value: (It is hard to tell from the picture, but this display is showing up when I click to examine a single cell. As I click around in the polygon, the WFI value changes.)When I load the data into FME, I cannot seem to get that FWI value to be exposed. When I click a cell in the investigator, this is what is returned:

Hi,Is anyone else having issues with Form not starting after the recent Windows update? A repair did not help, and even a fresh installation of version 2025.2.3 will not start.

Hello,I have a main FME workspace where I call multiple child workspaces using WorkbenchRunner.The issue is that even when one of the called workspaces is terminated, the WorkbenchRunner still reports the execution as successful.My goal is to stop the main workflow immediately if any problem occurs in one of the child workspaces, so that the next WorkbenchRunner does not execute. What is the correct way to ensure that: If a child workspace fails (error or termination), the main workspace stops immediately, And subsequent WorkbenchRunners do not run? Any recommended best practice for this scenario?Thank you.  

lets say I have a set of coordinates x1,y1 and x2,y2 how can i create a dwg with dimensions between these coordinates?if possible a step by step guide with the transformers/writers required for this.  

Does anyone know a good built-in or pre-created solution to read “Tabular JSON” that’s in a format of schema followed by values rather than key:value? See example below. I have ~40 schema values but only included 2. I’m looking for something dynamic rather than manually assigning column names in a specific order.{ "schema": { "title": "Data Export", "type": "array", "properties": { "id": { "title": "id", "type": "integer", "default": "", "minimum": -2147483648.0, "maximum": 2147483647.0 }, "code": { "title": "code", "type": "string", "default": "" } } }, "data": [ [ 1, "DEMO1234" ] ]} 

I have a SQL Server Database that has 156 tables. I need to extract the schema for each table and table names into a CSV. I know one way is to add all 156 tables to the workbench as separate Readers and then use FeatureReader (with Features to Read set to Schema Features). This could be a start, but it seems rather tedious.  Is there a better way? I want to write to a CSV that has the attributes in one column and the table names in another column.  Any thoughts on the best way to tackle this?

Working in FME Workbench v.2024.2I am working on a process that validates my metadata format and converts it if needed, then exports the final format to xml for backup. We are trying to ensure all of our metadata is in ISO 19139, but we know some feature classes are FGDC CSDGM Metadata. We would like to use FME to convert the format and then update/write to the existing feature class's metadata in our enterprise geodatabase with it. Secondly, we want to also create a backup of the xml file which will be saved to a local folder. I have done this using an "Attribute File Writer" and only writing the geodb_metadata_string to a .xml file, however, when trying to reimport it into ArcMap/ArcGIS Pro I receive a "Failed to import metadata" alert. Comparing it an export directly from ArcGIS it is clear they differ. It seems like FME is converting it to their own format when reading it in.Any suggestions on either of these processes would be appreciated, thanks!

Hello. I’ve read an old closed thrad saying that there was an issue on virtual machines with FME 2023/2024.At our side we did not experience any issue on virtual machines with FME 2022-2024.But we just installed FME 2025.1.1 and get this issue “SetThreadDescription entry point not found in Qt6Core_fme.dll.Any idea? Stille the same issue?(It is on Windows 10 Pro)

Ive been wondering about this for quite some time now, but couldn’t get any satisfying reply so far. The only solution I had in mind was to create a pythoncaller that automatically checks this..but that does feel a bit supoptimal. Maybe I am missing something? I’m building a daily monitoring workflow in FME Flow (REST API v4 / fmeapiv4). Goal: once per day I want to store counts like “successful runs” and “failed runs” for a specific repository + workspace.I currently use the /jobs endpoint like this:GET /fmeapiv4/jobs ?status=success &repository=repo%20Name &workspace=workspace.fmw &limit=1000 &offset=0Problem: I only want today’s runs (or a specific day), but according to the Swagger docs for GET /jobs the available query params are things like status, repository, workspace, sort, limit, offset, etc. There is no start / end or other date range filter.Swag

Hello,I am a student who is discovering FME and learning it through self-training. I have a dataset that I need to process in FME, and I have been given the following technical requirements:Expected specifications:Each linear segment must not be longer than 10 meters. If there is no network point at a vertex of a linear feature, a point must be created with the following two attributes: Network depth (in cm): to be calculated according to the interpolation rules below: If there is no depth value at both the upstream and downstream ends of the linear feature → set depth to 100 cm. If there is a depth value at either the upstream or downstream end only → interpolate from the known depth to 100 cm at the unknown end, ensuring that the difference between two consecutive points does not exceed 20 cm.

In the Esri ArcGIS Portal Feature Service I can reference a Feature Service in the parameters with the service name and an ide.g.But in the Esri ArcGIS Feature Service it’s not possible without a group? Is this correct?Is there some secret syntax i’m missing?

Newer SDKs (v4/5/6) of the ECW image format supports a fourth alpha band. This seems to begin to occur for rasters from drones. It would be nice to include support for the new v4 (or even v5 and v6) of the ECW SDK in FME, as newer versions of ArcGIS Pro is able to open these files and support are arriving in AutoCAD Civil 3D as well, even though there still seems to be occasional issues with large four-channel ECW files in AutoCAD. The support for newer ECW SDKs in other GIS software, that FME often supports with data in many workflows calls for the inclusion of support for the newer ECW SDK version in FME too.Support for the newer versions would be desireable in both reading and writing.

I have written a workbench were user can upload a excel spreadsheet and the workbench will convert the coordinates in the spreadsheet to a variety of different coordinate systems.The last step is a dynamic(excel) writer which works perfectly if I give the new coordinate attribute (column) a generic name (new_X and new_Y).I introduced a bulk attribute renamer to add a suffix reflecting the new coordinate system ( for example: X_WGS84 and Y_WGS84) which makes the output more intuitive and will avoid any confusion.When I do this the dynamic reader changes the order of the output columns to alphabetical.All the spreadsheets are different, so I don't think I can use a template.Is there an easy way to achieve this?

Hi,I would like to know how to pass a dynamic variable to the FeatureWriter that is generated in the SQLCreator at the start of the process. If I explicitly write the name of the feature class name it works, if I try a pass the table name identified in the SQLCreator it fails, it looks like it is passing an empty string as the nameBelow is a screen shot of the table_name variable being used.  Below is a screen shot of the name being written, this works.

Hello all,I want to build a Tester that detects if an attribute value has a left-bracket in the stringFor example;ASCOT (TOOWOOMBA REGIONAL)Would be detected, because it has brackets surrounding TOOWOOMBA REGIONALI then want to extract just ASCOT and throw away that part of the string in brackets 

hi everyone! some of my line features (ex. pipes) have text features floating above (top left) of the line, describing what type of pipe it is. I want to add that text as an attribute field to that feature. but also not all of the lines have one and I want it to only match if it's describing that feature (not grabbing a random text field nearby). This is my workflow so far, with some brief descriptions. I'll also note that everytime I've tried to use neighborfinder, the autocad_text_string AND fme_text_string values of certain lines show numbers (ex. 356.77, 623.44) instead of the descriptive text it should have shown. im guessing those are possible distance values it’s grabbing….I've been trying this for hours and would appreciate any help given. thanks in advance! my workflow is attached below.

Hi All,I am working on an automation process to generate cutlines for use in a map series. These cutlines must have a consistent length and be positioned within the overlapping areas of the map sheets. In addition, the cutlines need to follow the orientation of the main alignment to support accurate mapping production. Below is an example illustrating the challenge: I have tried several workarounds, but I have not been able to get it to work.Any ideas?Thanks :)

So im reading the dwg file to fme, than just want to put it out to elswhere, while converting the elements to an autocad block. The problem is that no matter how i parameter the feature writer, it messes up the output dwg file. So the elements need to look like this:But after writing out to the new dwg they look like this mess:I also put the feature writer parameters here:I tried to aggregate the features, in that case this problem doesn't occur, but than i loose all the colors and other attributes, which is not an option.

Hello all,I would like to automatically record different Output Port names ​​into one new attribute. So in the newly generated output file there is al column with the name of the Output Port and a column with the value from the TestFilter.Desired outcomeI know it is possible to do it by hand, place a AttributeCreater behind every port and fill in the Output Port name. But I have a large number of TestFilters, and to avoid errors and keep things organized, I would like to do it automatically with one AttributeCreator/AttributeManager.If the AttributeCreator/AttributeManager is not the correct transformer, or I need two other transformers that do the job, that would already make a big difference to me.