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Dear all,  I am trying to do the following : I have a yes/no user parameter that determines if additional output files are written or not. At several steps of the workflow, if this parameter is set to 'yes', intermediary files are written (before the final output file).  To implement that, before all the intermediary writers, I put a sampler (to go through the filter with a single feature instead of the > 300'000 features of my data) followed by a TestFilter inside which I test the value of the parameter. It works but I don't find it very ''elegant''. And as I am new to FME, I was wondering, what would be the more "FMEic-way" to implement it ? Does a transformer (or something like a junction?) exist which would act as a ''gateway'' and pass the data further downstream ONLY if a certain condition is met ? Thanks in advance for any information

I found a VPF Coverage Reader. For Writing, the only VPF writer is VPF-DB which doesn't write VPF Coverages.Please advise if there is any add-on tool to write VPF Coverage.

Heya FME specialists, another PostGIS question:As a start I have a PointZ PostGIS table created with a PostGIS writer in workbench.Next I have a very simple workbench to duplicate some PostGIS tables from the production server to my local server for offsite development / analyses:I use a PostGIS FeatureReader with schema and generic because I want to dynamically create a clone of the table which is altered (data AND schema) in production without having to update readers and writers. This works wonderful!The one problem I have is that the geometry column definition changes from PointZ to GeometryZ:Original:(  pkey serial NOT NULL,  the_geom geometry(PointZ,28992),

Hi Everyone, I am trying to write some zip files using the blobStorageConnector. Now i have this in a folder that i want to upload direct to the root of my blobstorage account but the transformer requires a container to be selected to be able to write. I want my new folder to be the container. I can specify a container and write to it but i don't want a nested folder structure if i don't need one. So my structure would look like the below image.

How to create 3d visualisation for a pit like structure of rectangular shape or any shape pit for that matter. Thank you.

I wondering it is a bug or not on FME?Input from CAD:And on FMEPls, help me to explain it and how do i handle it on FME! 

I am converting dwg blocks to Postgres. There are many dwg blocks, and I am writing each block to different tables. In my dwg blocks, there are attributes like fme_attrib_info{1}.field_name and fme_attrib_info{1}.field_value in my output or writer The field name should become attribute name (field name), and the value is from fme_attrib_info{1}.field_value dynamically. Field names are not constant in my input DWG files. What I need is column name, which comes from the fme attribute. Is this possible? pls help me.

 Hello everyone i have polygons and there are points in them my question is how can i find the point with smallest value inside the polygon thank you very much to everyone in advance

Hi, I am a beginner, mostly have been using graphic QGIS interface before this. I appreciate FMN Workbench very much :)  I have been comparing old and new data from catchment area streams. Suddenly the second AreaOnAreaOverlayer stopped working. No matter what I did: it did not bring anything else to the table than the _overlaps data column. It's quite a big area (with smaller catchment areas in it) I am studying so the information about the catchmentarea_id is important. I'm choosing only the areas where are streams defined to me when I started working.  This is for someone having the same issue: do not spend time with transformer not working. Copy the first one working and rename it for example 2_AreaOnAreaOverlayer. I didn't let the system to rename it anymore, just in case because I don't know why the table information disappeared.  Hope this helps someone other to save time. 

I am attempting to use the Oracle Spatial Object reader to read-in ESRI feature classes that are stored in an Oracle database. The feature geometries are simple - point/line/polygon feature classes. When I attempt to read them into FME, everything seems to work, except for the feature geometry. When exposing fme_type, all records are set to fme_no_geom. However, when using the Esri Geodatabase (ArcSDE Geodb) reader on the same feature classes, the geometries are kept and works correctly.  Is there something that I am missing when using the Oracle Spatial Object reader?  I am using FME Desktop 2021.2.6.

Hello ,  i am facing this problem I would like to import xml document (schema only ) to write into file geodatabase but I got this error The error number from ArcObjects is: '-2147220735'. The error message from ArcObjects is: {Unable to create object class extension COM component Then feature class name .Could someone provide me a solution for this problem ?FME 2021 Thanks in advance

Hi all, So I have been trying to connect to our ArcGIS Portal for the last couple of days with no luck. Our Portal uses windows directory/single sign on and I have tried connecting to the FME writer using my Portal credentials (I am an admin in Portal) but it fails. Portal is on a separate server to our desktop FME, which has it's own machine.  I firstly tried to connect by just adding the reader in filling in the credentials, but this failed. I then looked up some documentation on here (https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Desktop_Documentation/FME_ReadersWriters/arcgisportalfeatures/arcgisportalfeatures.htm ) which mentions setting up a web connection using one of their templates, so I tried doing this but it ultimately failed.  However looking at more forum posts I s

I have multiple format files with same names, I need to zip them all together with same names in a .zip file in a way that all are zipped corresponding to their filenames, is there a way to do this?

Hello, I am new to FME and am taking over support for our FME extracts between Smallworld and MicroStation. I am seeing an issue where MicroStation is not honoring the colors I am assigning in the .fmw file. I tried the Level Overrides setting and that was not the cause. I seems to be an issue with the cells themselves, but I am not sure. Other cells seem to work fine but I am so far unable to make a distinction between the ones that work and the ones that don't. Hoping anyone has encountered a similar issue-- any information is appreciated.

I've just been exploring the Compare worksapces tool in FME 2023. Great to be able to integrate this as both a diff and merge tool. But I noticed that currently there is no way to compare CustomTransfomers or CustomFormats. Any plans to add this to the workflow? A large part of out FME projects are CustomTransfomers which we use in final workspaces.  For now the only way to compare a CustomTransfomer is to have it embedded in a workspace. This makes it Impossible to use as a Diff or Merge tool in Git. @mark2atsafe​ - pinging you here Mark to get Safe's take

I am working with conductor lines and need to create a routine that establishes connectivity of lines out of the substation. Essentially the first line out of the sub would be line 1, the second line would be line 2 and its parent would be line 1. Line 3 parent would be line 2, etc... I have tried TopologyBuilder, but this doesnt account for flow.

Reading a feature class from file geodatabase and writing it in another file geodatabase fails,   I wanted to read a feature class from file geodatabase and write it in another file geodatabase but it appears not to work          What might be the issue here?     Thank you   Best   Jamal 

Hi, I want to write geometry and attribute data to a dxf file. How do I make sure that the attribute data is saved in the dxf file? All I get now is the geometry in the dxf. 

two seperate shape file are there for trees and poles respectively, how to create there 3d visualisation with appropriate texturing.

I logged into FME Server several days ago and had no problems. Today when I logged in I get this message. Any ideas on a fix? (Our FME Server environment includes a Load Balancer between FME Server 1 and FME Server 2); I am logging in using the Load Balancer URL.

I’ve been building some automations in FME Flow with optional parameters (date or numeric fields) that can either be filled or be blank when run outside of an automation.  When I try to save an automation with one of these optional parameters filled in, it saves fine, but as soon as I try to save an automation with a blank optional parameter, it loads forever and doesn’t commit the change. As I've said, it seems to affect date and numeric fields.  Has anyone else come across this issue before?  Currently have 2021.1 (upgrading soon)

Hello, I am creating a list in a pythonCaller which contains lists inside. Similar to this example: mylist=[[4, 5, 6], [1, 2, 3], [9,8,7], [10,14,13], [5,9,10]]. How can I expose this list to pass it to the next transformer ? The usual way of feature.setAttribute('mylist{}', mylist) is not working. My script is working fine when I am running it outside of FME. I am getting the following error in FME:"Python Exception <TypeError>: Could not convert attribute value to a supported attribute type.Error encountered while calling function `processFeature'PythonCaller_3 (PythonFactory): PythonFactory failed to process feature"

Hi Guys,I'm just trying to read my group content from arcgis online and do some query from "last modified date" on service level.Anyone know how we can read/convert this format? Seems DateTimeConverter cannot recognise it..  Thanks! 

Hi. I need to convert all the values from each row in an Excel sheet to a different word doc. Is this possible woth fme? With the custom transformer TableAdder I could convert the whoke sheet, but I need to create different word docs for eacht row. Each row had a unique value in the field KEY and it would be usefull to add the KEY value to the word filename.