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Hi everyone, I'm trying to set up a model that will allow the user to select from a list of feature services to read from. I've got a Choice user parameter set up but whenever I try to run the workspace I get this error:I'm very confused since the service connection is working just fine and the feature reader will read in normally when I directly reference a specific service. Help a noob out?Thanks, Brian

How to create an exact copy of an column in FME? Which transformer?

I am trying to do vertical transformation using EsriReprojector, I have installed additional grid files from the FME downloads sections and pasted them into the installation folder. But I am not getting the desired result. Height is unaffected. I have read some other questions but not able to understand what should I provide in vertical transformation field. Right now it's set to None.

Hello everyone, I have an Excel list with many first and last names. For the next process step I need the gender of the person. My idea here was to establish a new attribute (salutation) and fill it with the appropriate form of salutation (Sir or madam). Is this possible with FME? Thank you very much for your support.

hi guys there must be a trick I'm missing. I've set kml_id and kml_parent also set kml_name (different to the id) however the folders don't seem to get created correctly. elements get one level of folders. and the folders get the kml_id not the kml_name as their heading. I'm sure that the id's are the same as the parent but only get one level of folders. yes I've set fme_feature_type to "Folder" - Using 2022.2.4.0 Build 22792 - Win64. I've also tried many variations - setting "Create folder for Feature Type" to yes and to know... spent over a day on something that should be simple. Many thanks.Leon

Hello – I am hoping someone can help. I asked a similar question previously and got a working solution: https://community.safe.com/s/question/0D5Dm00001GWvsMKAT/calculating-total-second-from-hhmmss-field However that solutions only works for hh:mm:ss fields that are under 24 hours as soon as that field is over the 24 hours I get a blank value. @DateTimeDiff(@Value(Duration),000000,seconds) Does anyone know of an alternative solution so it would calculate the total seconds for records under and above 24 hours? Many,Thanks

Hello, I have a dwg file as attached, for some reason when import to FME form/workbench, it shows some hidden objects where I couldn't find at all in the DWG file. I also loaded the same file to ArcGIS Pro which didn't show these hidden objects and matches what the dwg looks in AutoCAD. The only way I could fix it is exploding the whole dwg file which will get rid of the mystic hidden objects from the dwg. I'm anyone has seen this before and also if FME developers could enhance the software to simply ignore these hidden objects like how it does in ArcGIS Pro. thank you.

I am trying to do a transformation basically summarizing the area of vegetation polygons within parcels of land. This involves a number of filters before the "Clipper" is used to 'cut' the vegetation polygons to the shape of the land parcels. Due to the complexity and number of polygons in each dataset this is run sheet-by-sheet. I have this working on my own PC using the WorkspaceRunner. The vegetation polygon sheets are stored as Feature Classes in an Arc Geodatabase and the WorkspaceRunner uses an Excel with a list of the vegetation polygon sheet numbers allowing them to run through the "Child" workspace one sheet at a time.The problems come when I try to replicate this with the ServerJobSubmitter. I can successfully connect to flow and have set up the workspace parameters similarly to those of the Work

I read the line from a DXF reader, generate measure using the measuregenerator and then write it to a GML. The line including the curve end up perfectly in the GML, but I do not see any measure.Any suggestions?

Hello everyone, happy monday to you all, I have a dataset of points on a road network which I am trying to assign to groups of max 300 points. There are two attributes which must be the same for all the points in a certain group.  Also, to make the work of our editing team easier, the groups should be sorted by location. For this I am using the SpatialSorter (Hilbert sort in 2D). I am however getting some unexpected results. In the screenshot below I have selected all points in group 1100, also note the scale below to get a rough idea of this dataset:These points seem grouped correctly but they are not all grouped together. These are the points in group 1101:There is a large gap between these points (

Hi everyone,I'm new to Smallworld and FME working together. The only thing I'd like to achieve to update one attribute, not the geometry. I set fme_db_operation = UPDATE and I didn't give any geometry information. After running workspace i could see a few records being updated but translation failed with this message: Number of Features: 1Connecting to Smallworld on localhost:30000 using service FMENOFACTORYTable: 'gis.point_of_interest'NumberOfAttributes: 16Processing a pointError running translation. Do you have any idea why this happens? Many thanks

Here is my scenario: I need to very roughly georeference thousands of scanned air photos that are tracked in a file geodatabase. Oversimplifying things considerably, my fields look like: Filename (which contains location of the raster tif on disk)Center_X (map coordinate)Center_Y Rotation (always zero for my simple exercise)ground_resolution (in map coordinate units) I want to feed each "filename" to the rastergeoreferencer, using Center_X, Center_Y, rotation, and ground resolution. But I'm conceptually stuck... rastergeoreferencer obviously wants input from a raster reader, not a text string with the path to the raster. See the rub? Can somebody give me a push in the right direction? Thanks!!

I have been getting this error a lot: Excel Writer: Failed to open the dataset 'FILEPATH\\FILENAME.xlsx'. Error message was 'No such file or directory.'XLSXW writer: An error has occurred. Check the logfile above for detailsExcel Writer: Dataset 'FILEPATH\\FILENAME.xlsx' contains no data and is therefore not a valid Excel file. No file will be createdXLSXW writer: An error has occurred. Check the logfile above for details It will happen a few times and then the workspace will run as normal. This occurs in any Workspace I use that has an Excel Writer. In the Task Manager, if there was a process I could end, I would do that. It still happens.  Any Ideas?Thanks,-Loren  

Hi guys a silly question here, is there a way i can expose the attributes before use dynamic schema to write them out? I'm using feature reader to read a list of sde feature class from csv file but hope i can expose their attributes for further processing before write to the destination.. Thanks!

Hello, Does anyone know of a way to use the HTTP Caller or another Reader/Transformer to download the entire contents of a Google Drive folder? There is a Drive folder (not owned by me) that hosts folders of shapefile data (link below). Does anyone know how to possibly download these folders in zip format so I can then process them as shapefiles in FME? I can download the whole folder directly in Google Drive, but I'd like to have this done automatically so I can schedule this workflow to run once a month. Any help is greatly appreciated. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KLb-8DcrXkVFW8b2OmbOnEEueQNSUS5Y

I have an attribute (ID) contains ID 183849fjlr-kfklf373789-hdlldfo398383-jjdfj087734 and sort attribute contains sort 0-1-2-3 I would like to convert them to be  Target ID. Target sort 183849fjlr 0kfklf373789 1hdlldfo398383 2jjdfj087734 3 fme 2021 thanks in advance          

Looking to create a csv output as a 'dat' file for import to another system. basically rows of text with the fields essentially defined by the number of characters they occupy in the row, padded as necessary. So, i need the output row length to be fixed for each field, and yet I only have the otpion of vchar.In online documentation I can see reference to a datatype of char, but this is not exposed in the fme writer.Why is it missing? / Why have I missed it?Help appreciated.Using FME Desktop 2022.1.2.0

Hi, I am a master scholar conducting a study on BIM and GIS. I am also new to using FME and don't have a background in computer science. My question is, what is the difference between the attributes in a table and the hidden attributes in properties? Why are they hidden, and why is it necessary to expose them using the Transform Attribute Exposer (not Automatic Exposer)? Additionally, what are trails? I'm somewhat confused about understanding these terms.Another question regarding geometry, from my readings, geometry can be created through BREP, Extruded, and Sweep methods. How is this determined in FME, as I only see IFMEMesh, IFMEFace, and so on?

We have an authenticated WFS from Drone Deploy that has an API key. ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro both have the ability to include the api_key in the request. Is it possible to include the custom request in the WFS Reader?  

I am trying to tint some terrain shadows (raster) with overlaying polygons of different colours (RGB). Thing is that the polygons are larger than the shadings so VectorOnRasterOverlayer colours a larger area than I wish. I only want to tint the "black/greys" in the raster, not the white areas. I have tried to filter out the unwanted areas using a RasterExpressionEvaluator, setting everything beyond break point to white. Unfortunately I have not been able to figure out a syntax that does not also change the hues. Any ideas on how to approach this? Looking at the example below I would like to keep the darker/shaded areas and shift the flat ones to white.  

Hi,When i insert with the jsontemplater a date in the mongodb writer the type of date is always string even i choose isodate, fmedate......etc. Can i have a type date in mongodb via the jsontemplater ? Thanks a lot

When I specify an HTTPCaller with a defined header, then everything works as desired. However, as soon as I want to enter a conditional value (the same values that work alone), I get an error message: This FME edition does not recognize the `' function. Please ensure that the current platform supports this function, the function name is spelled correctly, and that you have installed all required plug-ins. Unfortunately it's the same behavior when I define conditional User Parameters and use them as HTTPCaller headers. Is there a way you can use conditional "header" values in a HTTPCaller or is this a bug? Best regards

I want to set the vector tolerance value in the Matcher with a dynamic value. Currently, I can use a parameter value only. Is it possible to use an attribute value for this, or how can I set this value more dynamically? I have been trying also to create a custom transformer with the matcher in it. However, I got the same issue.

Is there a method in FME, similar to ArcGIS Pro, for exporting a model to a Python file?

Hi, I am struggling to put a simple Python script in gdb Reader/Scripted Parameter Value that will allow me to read only polyline. Could someone please push me in the right direction?