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Hi,I created a parameter in my custom transformer of the following form:PARAMETER_NAME: LRF_FILEPARAMETER_TYPE: OPTIONAL FILE_OR_ATTR LRF(*.lrf)|*.lrfPARAMETER_PROMPT: Label Rule File:PARAMETER_DEFAULT: $(FME_MF_DIR)No matter what value I enter for the Parameter_Default, the file box on the transformer GUI always initially shows up empty in Form. Can someone suggest what I’m doing wrong?Thanks,Martin

Hi,I have 3 raster’s that I wish to merge into one. Two of the 3 are of the exact same extent, cell size and CRS. The third has a larger extent (but overlapping the first two) and a smaller cell size. The issue I am having is that once I have resampled and clipped the 3rd raster to the extent of the other two they are mis-aligned, and I can’t figure out how to fix it. I need them to be exactly aligned so I can merge them. So far this is my method:Read in all 3 raster’s and ensure their CRS is the same (Using ... Resample the 3rd raster to the cell spacing of the other two (5000 x 5000) Raster 1Raster 2Resampled Raster 3Clip the 3rd raster to the extent of the other two:I use RasterExtentsCoercer for one of the first two raster’s (as they have identical extents). Set extents type to ‘Data Extents’. As I want the data extent clipping not the outer extent rectangle. Then using clipper with the output of RasterExtentsCoercer as ‘Clipper’ and resampled 3rd raster as the ‘Candidate’. It is t

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 two tables where I have to compare rows against columns. First table (excel) contain Analytes as columns, but the second table (sql) has analyte column which contains all the analytes as values. I have to compare the values from the Excel table (which has analytes as columns) with the corresponding limits from second table.Example of first table:Example of second table:  I have tried couple of methods such as attributepivoter ,doing it via the pythoncaller but was not successful

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 everyone I have been having some issues with the new ArcGIS feature service writer. When using this writer in combination with a change detector, it doesn't seem to update or insert any of my changed records and i have been getting weird behaviour all over the place. Let me preface this by saying that everything works as expected on the old portal feature service writer, it's when switching to the new feature service writer that weird things start to happen.  Under the advanced parameters I have enabled the following fields to adress the first problem I encountered (namely that the writer no longer seems to care that global id is a read only field and skips it for writing):  Afterwards, I ran into the next set of errors:All global id's for the update actions are filled and added as an attribute. I don't really get what i am doing wrong, but furthermore I really don't understand why the behaviour seems to be so different in the new arcgis feature servicewriter. Why do i have to jump

Hello,I have a configuration table that my FME workspace reads to update a GIS database. This table includes ArcSDE database connection information. The workspace dynamically reads each database connection one at a time and passes it to the Feature Reader. Because it's dynamic, all features are routed through the generic port.Currently, I use an AttributeExposer to make feature attributes available for processing. However, this requires manual updates whenever database schemas change, which is problematic since the workspace runs on a schedule.Is there a way to automatically expose attributes at runtime, based on the schema of the next database being read, so I can eliminate the need for manually updating the AttributeExposer? Thank you, 

My current FME Server setup includes a CORE/2 Engines set up on one machine with another Engine-Only Host running remotely on another machine. Recently, I noticed jobs on the remote machine queuing up and never processing. Restarting the FME Server Engines Windows service temporarily fixed the problem. But only for a few hours. I don't see any errors in logs. But I've just switched to debug level logging for more info and hope to capture some. What I do notice is that in FME Server web console, under licensing & engines, the remote engine just won't show up. Once I restart the service, I see it under both the Engines tab and the Deployment Status tab, until it disappears again. Unlikely this is service account related (as other similar post/solutions suggest) since I can restart service and then it runs for a bit. I did make a change regarding domain controller/Active Directory recently but rolled that back and it didn't solve the issue. I am not aware of any other

Is it possible to generate a separate log file or configure the existing log file to display metadata for the reconciliation purposes. The field that I am looking to display is the feature count in input file, feature count in both output file, who executed the workspace with timestamp, the amount field totals in the input file and the amount field totals in the 2 output files ( I have a workspace where there is 1 input file and 2 output files) . Also I have noticed that FME overwrites to the same log file every time the workspace is executed, is it possible to create a unique log file at every run? Thank you for the support. 

Hi all, My colleague and I are preparing to do the Form and Flow certification exams. We use our work laptop to start Talview. The laptop only has FME Form 2024 (scripted). We would like to remote desktop onto our azure virtual machine to access Form 2025 for the exam.  This machine is also set up for publishing to Flow.Will Talview allow access to a remote machine for the exam? Thanks,Annette

I am trying to read in non-spatial data from Microsoft SQL Server. I need to read in three Tables and three derived Views. I have set up a connection using the Microsoft SQL Server Spatial (JDBC) format, and I have the connection to the main folder in the database working fine. In the Parameters > Constraints, I am only offered the option of ‘Tables’, and this does allow me to read in the three tables in the database perfectly. However I cannot find a way to access the Views which are in a different folder in SQL. Is Reader limited to just reading Tables? The FME documentation says “The Microsoft SQL Server Spatial (JDBC) reader and writer modules provide FME with access to spatial and attribute data held in Microsoft SQL Server database tables.” - with ‘tables'; being specifically mentioned, rather than all folders within a database.Is there another way of reading in Views? Or do I need to go back to the database creator and get him to do something else.

Hi,HELP. experiencing issues with cells in dgn styler.Can FME dgn v8 writer output solids? I am using dgn styler to input graphic cells from .cel file but seems like data is lost on output. When lines are used within the .cel file lines change colour within the output also. Please advise. I read about named and unnamed cells what is the difference? When I add the cel file to dgn writer elements go missing and colour of symbol is altered! In the writer I am using v8 seed file as provided in fme install. Am I missing anything had anyone wise have cell dgn styler experience?

Started this this help article which is written for V8i and not CONNECT but believe I've added the line styles to the seed. Drew lines set to the appropriate layer and the line styles are correct. Seed is in a ProjectWise workspace and exported for use with FME:Workbench clip:DGN Styler configuration:DGN writer:Translated DGN shows the correct line style in properties but not in the display:Re-importing line styles warns of duplicates:But afterwards the line style is correct:

Hi,I am new to FME.My question is simple and easy.I have a field that has multiple lines, FME is not able to read it.FME Version: 2025.1.1.0Data set has 5500 records, of those 300 gets rejected as it has multiple lines.I am trying to create lines.  Sample:LINESTRING (-122.47510883224778 37.72569214605437, -122.47549442640992 37.72569240767212, -122.47591818521782 37.72543361304484, -122.47615044826871 37.725435814791524, -122.47635018879221 37.72551472908074, -122.4768917047572 37.72596114891507, -122.47722446641976 37.72606220923341, -122.47809062309513 37.726088801447176, -122.47840706343166 37.72604796879034, -122.4788330330602 37.72589235538119, -122.47914970916452 37.72593694003075, -122.47935639456331 37.72605991382738, -122.47998774607001 37.72692786951861, -122.4801298766873 37.727219718364864, -122.4800482518362 37.72746956663917, -122.47983883659106 37.72763905162748, -122.47914598242949 37.72796883327165, -122.47869796921809 37.72821056418619) LINESTRING (-122.49346993299433

We recently migrated to FME 2025.1.2 / ArcGIS Pro 3.5.3Now I need to update some records in a point featureclass in SDE so I created a new workspace with a Creator, a FeatureReader, an AttributeCreator and a FeatureWriter.Reading the data from SDE works as expected. But when I try to write the data, I get the following errors:2025-10-22 13:12:21|   2.0|  0.0|ERROR |Esri Geodatabase Writer: Feature Type Definition 'd_y_n' was requested, but not defined. Please visit https://www.safe.com/support2025-10-22 13:12:21|   2.0|  0.0|ERROR |GEODATABASE_SDE writer: An error has occurred. Check the logfile above for detailsNot writing anything dynamic. Just point to the correct featureclass and go.I think I’m now pretty much out of options, because I upgraded my ArcGIS Pro.The only way to get it to work again is to remove ArcGIS Pro 3.5 and install a version which does work with an older version. I came from 2021.2.6 so I know that works, but I would prefer a more recent version.So my question is

I have a Geopackage, 458.761 polygons. Using a FeatureWriter, type Geopackage, I tried to store this. Unfortunately I get this error and could not found any logic behind this one:OGCGEOPACKAGE writer: Feature type 'Road' has geometry type 'geopackage_multipolygon' and cannot accept the current feature with a geometry of type 'geopackage_multisurface'.  Skipping feature FME 2025.1.2.0

Hi All,I’ve got what should be a simple issue but I’ve not been able to find and answer for my exact query.I’d like to take a feature class, containing photo attachments, stored in a file geodatabase and write it to another file geodatabase. Essentially copying the data from one file gdb to another.I’ve seen lots of posts about reading and writing as separate processes. In both instances the photo’s are imported and attached or extracted from the data.Is it possible to essentially copy a feature class with attachments between file geodatabases, without having to extract the photo attachments and then reattach them?Thanks for your time.

Hello, the workspace is close to “Creating CityGML Solitary Vegetation Object | Community” but without the issues. I would like to randomly rotate the instances along the Z axis. Dimensions are set as in the first matrix shown below. When I use the last row to rotate, as shown in the second matrix below, the rotation is ignored and dimensions change. I tried the rotators, and the 3D affiner after defining the matrix to no good results. It seems that CityGML only looks at the transformation matrix.  Any advise or workaround to force instance’s rotation is appreciated. I have a random rotation value stored in an attribute brought as an attribute of the location point. +++++ Matrix withOUT rotation +++++++++++@Value(width) 0.0 0.0 0.00.0 @Value(width2) 0.0 0.00.0 0.0 @Value(height) 0.00.0 0.0 0.0 1.0+++++ Matrix “WITH” rotation? +++++++++@Value(width) 0.0 0.0 0.00.0 @Value(width2) 0.0 0.00.0 0.0 @Value(height) 0.00.0 0.0 0.0 @Value(rotation) 

Hello everyoneI am currently using FME Workbench 2025.0 (FME(R) 2025.0.3.0 (20250602 - Build 25241 - WIN64)) in combination with ArcGIS Pro 3.5. When attempting to add a File Geodatabase to my workspace, I encounter the following error:"Unable to perform any licensing-related tasks. Please check your Esri ArcGIS Compatibility workspace parameter, found in Navigator → Workspace Parameters → Translation. This 64-bit version of FME requires ArcGIS Desktop with 64-bit Background Geoprocessing, ArcGIS Pro, or ArcGIS Enterprise. Refer to this article: http://fme.ly/qua for more details."Additionally, the following message appears:"Failed to obtain any schemas from reader 'GEODATABASE_FILE' from 1 dataset. This may be due to invalid datasets or format accessibility issues related to licensing, dependencies, or module loading. See the log file for more information."The workspace generation fails I have attached a screenshot of my current FME Options and Navigator settings for your reference. C

Hello,I’m using FME 2024.2 to read ORD DGN files stored in ProjectWise.The DGN files have a local coordinate system (LCC) defined in ORD, but when I read them into FME, the detected GCS appears incorrect — particularly the ORG_LAT value. Because of that, when I try to set the coordinate system and reproject to State Plane, the transformation doesn’t work properly.Has anyone encountered this issue before?Does the GCS definition in ORD need to follow a specific format or standard to be recognized correctly by FME?Any insight or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!GCS shown for features in FME 

Hi Long time user, havent posted as not been hands on in a long time but here goesWe are looking to add new extensions into GPX files Something like: <trk>    <extensions>      <htrk:HemaTrack>        <htrk:difficulty>          very_difficult        </htrk:difficulty>      </htrk:HemaTrack>    </extensions>  </trk> We have an XSD definition for the namespace as well <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xsd:schema targetNamespace="http://hema-ota-test.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/gpx/extension-schema/v1" elementFormDefault="qualified" xmlns="http://hema-ota-test.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/gpx/extension-schema/v1" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">        <xsd:annotation><xsd:documentation>    This schema defines the Hema Maps extensions to be used with the GPX 1.1 schema.    The root elements defined by this schema are intended to be used as child    elements of the "extensions" elements in the

Hi Folks,For reading and writing ArcGIS Online feature services we are transitioning to the newer Esri ArcGIS Feature Service format in FME Flow 2024.2 from the soon to be deprecated Esri ArcGIS Online (AGOL) Feature Service (at least according to this article)My problem is that now the reader seems to read dates as Epoch time in milliseconds! Obviously this can be worked around but it is quite painful to fix up the many workspaces we have which used the older reader and read dates as YYYYMMDD etc. especially when writing back to AGOL where the dates have to be back in  YYYYMMDD.Any thoughts?  

We have multiple workspaces that write to ArcGIS Online with multipart geometries. The old ARCGISONLINEFEATURES writer works and correctly writes the geometries. The new (2025) Esri ArcGIS Feature Service Writer returns an error rejecting the features and the following warning:ArcGISFeatureServiceWriter: INSERT error for a feature in Project Stats by State. The error code from the server was '1000' and the message was 'Adding/updating geometries that result in SQL GeometryCollections is currently not supported (SQL Server performance).' Using a Deaggregator seems to fix this in most cases. However, we want to retain the multipart geometries. In other cases, I see a similar warning and the following error after using a Deaggregator:ArcGISFeatureServiceWriter: INSERT error for a feature in Terracon Offices Closest Areas. The error code from the server was '1000' and the message was 'Data is Null. This method or property cannot be called on Null values.' I’ve tried a NullAttributeMapper a

I am looking for guidance on how to create this interactive map..  We have FME and ArcGIS…  From time to time, we are given maps and we have to change the counties based on new staff.  Most of the time the counties are adjacent.  Other times not.  We have a shapefile of the counties. I am looking for a solution where we can select the counties in the shape file/FME and output the selection for the update query.I believe I have all the pieces Just not sure how to attach the transformers together… or what the logic is to create this… TIA (Thank you in advance) 

FME Form (Workbench) 2024.1.2.1 (20240906 - Build 24624 - WIN64)Oracle Spatial Database 19.27.0 (19c) Hello!When trying to read data in from an oracle spatial database, I receive the message that FME cannot query the metadata table. It's unclear to me which metadata table the reader is trying to use. This happens both with a FeatureReader and a SQLExecutor, the behaviour is the same. When switching logging to debug, there is no further logging of the query that is being executed.2025-07-29 13:52:56| 0.3| 0.0|INFORM|ORACLE Reader: Executing SQL Statement `SELECT * FROM DINO_DBA.GDW_BLK_ARE_VW' to obtain features for feature type `'2025-07-29 13:52:56| 0.3| 0.0|WARN |Could not query Metadata table for dimension for geometry column 'GEOMETRY' of table '' -- geometry will be assumed to be 2DThe FME documentation I could find (FME Support Center: Adding metadata entries for Oracle spatial tables or views) hasn't been updated since 2015.1, and refers to MDSYS.SDO_GEOM_METADATA which i