FME Form

Hello everyone,I'd like to outline the main concept of my work. I am working with two point clouds, one representing a road and the other obstacles. Initially, my goal is to determine the minimum distance between these two point clouds. To achieve this, I rasterize both point clouds and calculate the difference (A-B). I then identify the point with the minimum height (Xh, Yh) and its corresponding difference height (H). After that, I rotate the two point clouds, merge them, and rasterize the combined set. The result is like represented in the first picture. However, I aim to enhance this representation by adding an arrow to signify the distance H, as shown in the second picture.  My idea (maybe not the best) is identifying the neighboring pair in the two point clouds close to the extracted point with the minimum height (Xh, Yh). I intend to draw a line connecting this pair, label it with H, and either rasterize it with the point cloud or incorporate it in the end somehow. For now i

All our processes that were inserting NVARCHAR(MAX) values into SQL Server databases have stopped working correctly (FME inserts NULL values into NVARCHAR(MAX))after the latest FME upgrade (2022).  We have found a temporary solution using the Microsoft SQL Server Non-Spatial (JDBC) format instead of Microsoft SQL Server Non-Spatial but it requires to modify a lot of workspaces manually. Does anyone know if this is a bug and if it will be fixed? Thank you! 

I have created a process that simulates the horizontal wellbore creation processes for a client. However, I am stumped on, what seems to be a rather "newbie" process of flipping 180 degrees a select set of features. Let me illustrate further:  In the example below the user selects a township to create the horizontal wellbores. The workbench tiles the township into 6 sections by default. They next pick a direction (ie East/West or North/South.) Next they choose a starting location for the Surface Hole (N, S, E, or W.) Lastly they choose how many wells to place in each section.  The result is this of a North/South orientation with the surface hole in the south and 6 horizontal wellbores placed in the sections. So far, no issues this is version 1 where they all go in the same direction.    However, the client also wants the option of creating a "pad well" style drilling progam. In this case alternating rows would be flipped or reversed. Normally I am able to figure thi

I have drill hole id's with overlapping minimum and maximum depth values. I'd like to split the overlaps. However this implies the addition of a new row with new minum depth and maximum depth values. I've unsucessfully tried building lines to get the intersections and overlaps. I've added an excel sheet with sample data and (I think) a clearer explanation of what I'm trying to achieve.

I have a workbench I'm updating from 2021.2 to 2022.1. It reads in features and then following the general flow from this article (https://community.safe.com/s/article/how-do-i-write-updates-to-an-existing-arcgis-onlin) does the change detection and then updates the portal service. In 2022.1 I'm running into an error though where when it starts writing the updates I get" ArcGIS Portal Feature Service Writer: Could not find a layer/table matching feature type 'ParcelTest_DBO_DelTest'". I've used the GUI to select the item from the portal, the only difference I can see is the '_' instead of the '.' in the service name. I can't change this though. In 2021.2 the writer has the '.' in the name. I can click on the url of the ArcGIS Portal Feature Service Writer: Requesting metadata for Feature Service at 'https://xxx.xxx.xxx/server/rest/services/ParcelTest_DBO_DelTest/FeatureServer' message and it opens the rest endpoint  

With GET /repositories/< repository >/items/< item >you can get information about items in a repository, in my case I am retrieving a workspace. In the response there's one tag named 'history', but this is not the comment you enter when committing a workspace.  Sub-type: Workspaceworkspace {...history (string, optional),... } Can I find this history I am looking for through the API? Or at least a timestamp of when the workspace was committed?

I've got two identical line/point features, each of them has a list of all attributes created by Aggregator. I want to compare these two list, some elements are same and some are not and number of elements may not be same. Matcher or ChangeDetector can do comparing part but can not out which elements are different. Is there a way to compare two lists and output different elements? Or can I just compare attributes of two features without creating lists?

I don't have experience in Bentley or AutoCAD. We aren't an engineering company, so we won't be using much of the 3D capabilities. I think for most jobs, we use CAD to generate reports, and plats, mostly 2D drawing. So, I would like to ask for some guru advice. 1) What do you like and not like about each software when it comes to integration with FME. 2) If you have to pick one, what would you choose and why? Thank you!

HelloAs a FME Rookie ive a questionI have three polygons less than 1km square0.4 , 0.5 , 0.2 km² I would like to know if there is a transformer to adapt every polygons to a 1km² box each ? , i only know Bufferer but is it possible to have the same surface in three different geometries ? Thanks in advance !

Hi everyone,  I have a some workspaces in workbench 2020.02, where I have used Creator and the filecopy writer to create new empty folders at the start of the translation. However, this no longer works in workbench 2023.1. Is this function no longer supported with filecopy?  Thanks! 🙂   

Hi @mark2atsafe​, I've read your interesting post (dated 2023-11-15) on LinkedIn about surface model in FME. Could you please share the workspace in this post? Thank you! 

If anyone is using Asana, please help me. I have the portfolio, projects, and users table in my FME workspace. I am trying to figure out a way to be able to use the project GID to be able to get their tasks but there's a problem with the tasks table. The task api has an endpoint to ONE projects. I am envisioning where I can pick different projects and be able to look at their tasks.  Does anyone have any idea? I was thinking about looping but I'm having a hard time understanding how I would loop if the task's api can only GET one project.

I routinely create buffers, and when I do I get thousands of tiny gaps which I need to fill, but only gaps upto a specific size. I can and do this currently very easily in MapInfo. I can quickly identify and then merge or fill these gaps with the rest of the buffer to make it look contiguous. As this is a repeated task on my part I want to do this with FME.I am thinking that I use the AreaGapandOverlapCleaner, however the tolerance to my knowledge is a distance setting, not an area setting, which I find odd as this is an "Area"Gap cleaner. My specific area size is quite small, just 0.005 sqmi.This is what it looks like in MapInfo. The yellow is my buffer and the red areas are the gaps of 0.005 sqmi or smaller that will be filled in. How to is set the tollerance to clean gaps of this specific size and smaller? Thanks in advance 

Hi,I wonder if it's possible to download all the tiles from a WMS web server. I would like to cache them as a Geopackage Tiles for exemple or XYZ Tile layers.  Do you know if this is possible ? Thanks,Arnaud

Here is what we want to do, review our annotation layers (from an ESRI SDE) to see if there are annotations that overlap or touch. When the annotations are brought into Form, they are represented as points. In the Data Inspector the text is displayed the same way as they display in ArcMap. Is there a way to convert the FME text into a polygon? Then we can check if there are polygons that touch (which there are many :D) Thank you for your help :) We are using FME Form 2022.2

 I have a unique requirement that I'm racking my brain trying to find a solution. I have a set of irregular shaped polygons, and I would like to draw a line between all unique pair of vertices. In the crude example below, the black line represents the input polygon and the yellow represents the desired result. Ultimately, after building the lines, I want to query out the longest line for additional processing.

When I migrating a workspace from FME 2019 to FME 2023, the FMEServerJobSubmitter in FME 2019 version returns _status feature attribute which helps me debug if the job is suceeded or failed. However, when I opened it in FME 2023, there is NO _status attribute returned after the workspace runs. FME 2019: FME 2023:How can I get the _status attribute back in FME 2023? or is there any other way to get an attribute value similar to _status to info the user if the run is succeeded or failed? Thanks for the help!

Hello everyone..I have Laz data and I want to bring the base completely to Z = 0 without disturbing the 3D position.How can I do that?

After processing the data, I am using the Feature Writer to write the output into a file geodatabase. I have configured the Feature Writer to use the User Parameter name as the output geodatabase, which means that the database name should change every time I input a new name in the User Parameter field. Although I am getting the desired output file geodatabase every time I run the workspace in the FME Form, the same workspace does not change the output geodatabase name when I run it on the FME Flow. Using Version 2022.2.2 for FME Flow and Form. I would greatly appreciate any help to fix this problem.

I have a workbench that's converting 3D CAD files to 2D shapefiles, and some attribution changes. After reading in the CAD data, there's a test filter that separates the data into 4 separate paths, in which each path has a separate Shapefile it writes to.My goal is to have 1 path run, and successfully write before beginning the next path. This functionality would need to happen after the test filter separates the data out. Is there anything way to configure this? I could split this into 4 separate workbenches and automate on Flow, but wasn't sure if there's a fancy transformer that has this sort of functionality before spawning a gaggle of separate workbenches.Thank you!

Hi, I have a pdf from which I can split into vector data (points, lines, polygons) and raster (pdf_rasterized_pages). I know the paper size of the pdf (A1) and scale (1:500). I would like to save the vector data in gdb and preserve lenght, area and position of the shapes. In general, once the shapes are opened in ArcPro they should have the same geomety and dimentions as on the printed on A1 paper. I have tried scaler but the outcome did not match printed pdf. 

Excel typically comes in non-standard or not exact database ready format. In my case, I need help on reading Excel file: when "Well Name" is "Shut In", I like to add a new attribute such as WELL_TYPE = 'Shut In' and assign this attribute value for all Excel rows below this until reaching the next value called "DUC" (i.e. total 6 rows, well_type ='Shut In')).  When "Well Name" is "DUC", and assign WELL_TYPE = 'DUC' for all Excel rows below this until the end of the file (total 2 row, well_type = 'DUC'). Your suggestion and help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. 

I have been working on this challenge of using two HTTPCallers to update the assets' spatial data in the AMS (Asset Management System) via an API in the form of uploading the GeoPackage files into AMS. And here how the two HTTPCallers are set up: The first HTTPCaller uploads the GeoPackage file into AMS and in that process, it has to save a string value in the "_response_body" attribute in the FME Workspace - However, at this stage the upload is not working at all due to lack of the string value in "_response_body". Then the second HTTPCaller takes the string value in "_response_body" as a Job ID to do the validation of the file and after that begin importing of the data. And therefore, if the first HTTPCaller can't return a string value in the "_response_body", neither upload nor import of the GeoPackage happens. When I tested the API in Postman, it works as expected.

Since it almost exactly matches what I’m trying to do, I started with the workspace posted by @trantatsafe here https://community.safe.com/s/question/0D54Q000080hPh1SAE/agol-attachments-what-are-you-doing-with-the-attachments-after-youve-read-them Problem 1)There are 3693 attachments in the dataset.  When attempting to put them through this workspace, only a suspiciously even 2000 come out of the ListExploder. The others fail with the message MISSING_PARAMETER_LIST. Since they exist (visible from Esri), they must have attributes, don't they? Or am I missing something here? I hate to muddy the waters but there is also second issue: Problem 2)The 2000 records that do pass through do not link back to the points. I initially thought this was due to the reader bug https://community.safe.com/s/question/0D54Q00009PK7llSAD/read-arcgis-online-attachments-and-maintain-globalids-for-both-features-and-attachments?t=1703270433321 but I applied the GUID Generator solution without any success.

Hello,I have lines (linestring) that intersect forming Multilinestring. I would like to know if it possible to "force" them to keep the Linestring format? Example: here is a network with a loop (in red)On FME, I tried a deagregator which gives me 3 polylines , 3 linestring. Ok it's good! But I want juste one line and impossible for me to find how to merge these 3 lines without convert all in Multilinestring. I tried the LineCombiner but nothing happens, I still had my 3 lines.Any help would be appreciated :)Thanks you