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Hello All, I'm working on a workbench to convert IFC to CityGML. Before writing out CityGML, I'm trying to add some CityGML attributes, e.g. class, function, usage, etc.. According the section "Setting CityGML attributes and properties in FME" from Writing CityGML from FME (safe.com), I used these two transfermors "AttributeCreator" and "GeometryPropertySetter" to add the attributes. However, the output CityGML cannot identify the attributes as the ones in CityGML schema. Foe example, I opened the CityGML with notepad, the attributes are look like this:Only "class" can be showed as "<bldg:class>", others are showed as "<gen:stringAttribute name="citygml_...">". What I want is this:May I know is this possible to do in FME Workbench? If so, how? Many thanks.PS. This is my version of FME Desktop. Regards,Qubbie

I've tried using FME Desktop on one of the new M1-based MacBooks. When running workflows I notice that I get considerably more memory optimization messages and warnings than I do when running on an Intel Mac or on Windows. The result seems seems to be lower performance. I'm not really surprised as it is a brand new platform and Safe probably haven't had time to test this properly. It would be interesting to hear if anyone else have experienced the same thing. I'm also curious to hear if anyone from Safe can shed some light on the matter.Judging by my tests so far it looks like FME could potentially perform very well on Apple Silicon once the memory issues have been addressed and a universal executable for FME Desktop is available. For more details and results from running FME workspaces on Apple Silicon (and Intel Macs / Windows) I wrote a blogpost here. I also uploaded the workspace I used for testing.   

Hello friends,Im a new user of FME. I have a dgn file with hundreds of points with or without tags. i need to convert this dgn to shp with unique custom ids. Is it any procedure or transformers to do this in fme. I mean each point should get unique id number I tried with many videos and tutorials didn't solve my issue thanks

Hello, In my current project, i mostly use UTC datetimes, except for one process, where we need local time (Paris).  For example, i need to convert "2020-04-29 12:00:00" (UTC) to "2020-04-29 14:00:00" (local).  To convert my UTC datetimes, I could use the rule "+01:00:00 winter" and "+02:00:00 in summer". However, the day the times changes is never the same from one year to another.For example, in 2020, Winter time (one hour difference with UTC time) was adopted on October 25th, and Summer time (two hours difference with UTC time) was adopted on March 29th. In 2021, Winter time change will be adopted on October 31st and Summer time will be adopted on March 28th. Moreover, the conversion will not occur at the specified datetime ! This conversion could be run six months later, a year later… because we are processing data long after it was created. So I can not rely on the time of the computer doing the calculs to compute a time difference. I need t

Im playing around with OSM data, which when exposed leaves a very very large number of attributes, the majority of which are empty or have at best 1/2 entries.   Im wondering is the way a to filter "active" attributes from an FFS (or a PBF) IE: Filters where all or a certain percentage of attributes entries are not Null or Missing.   I know you can do this for individual attributes using things like "attributefilter" or tester, but I wonder is there an easy way to select every exposed attribute, filter this and leave a list of attributes after that have these conditions.

After publishing the ArcGIS Portal Feature Service, I haven't had any success updating the service except for small dataset. I used the ChangeDetector to perform the comparison that includes UPDATE, DELETE AND INSERT. CRCGenerator was used to generate the unique key for the change detection. In the output, Writer Mode=Insert, Truncate First=No. In Advance setting, Use Global IDs=No. The Feature Type was imported from the Original service.The error is as follow:ArcGIS Portal Feature Service Writer: Encountered an unexpected error. The error code from the server was '500' and the message was: 'JSONObject["globalId"] not found.'. Details: ''Your help will be much appreciated.Lawrence

Hello, I'd like to add a geo-referenced and framed text (see attached) to a GeoTIFF.I've used the transformers on the attached screenshot.Everything runs without error but the framed text does not appear on my output GeoTIFF.Could you help me? I'm new to FME. Thank you in advance,Camille

I have two point datasets, GPoints (~100 points) and OPoints (~1000 points), and I want to find the nearest neighbor for each GPoints entry. However, the nearest neighbor from OPoints must have an ID that matches the values from 2 possible columns in GPoints. In this case the column names are id1 and id2. E.g.The first entry in GPoints has values of id1 = 9001 and id2 = 9005. Therefore the nearest neighbor from OPoints must have an id of 9001 or 9005 (whichever is closest to the entry in GPoints current being analyzed). In SQL this would be WHERE OPoints.id = GPoints.id1 OR OPoints.id = GPoints.id2.

I have a polygonal tax lot feature class where about half of the features are being rejected from the Point On Area Overlayer Transformer with a rejection code of "INVALID_POLYGON_GEOMETRY_VERTICES". How do I fix these so they are recognized by the transformer?

I use FME to extract geometry from 1000's of cad files and save the results in a single SHP file. The source files are listed in a CSV file, and they exist on servers in three different citiies which are all connected with a VPN. It takes a bit of time for FME to read each cad file, filter out the layers and geometry required, and then save them to a SHP file with attributes that point to the original source cad file. Last time I did this, it took about 6 hours to complete, and we have added a lot of data since then. I am worried about what would happen if the VPN connection to a server goes down. Will FME time-out and loose all the data that may have been written to the SHP file?  I am thinking that perhaps I should add a counter and create a new SHP file for every 200 or so source files. That way if something goes wrong, I can figure out where to re-start the process.   

Hi all one more time,I didtutorial example: Transpose a Table Using FME. Is it possible to further modifythe table according to the images below, please?  Values could be"x" or any other. Thankyou all :)

After it begins running, I have this message: Error: The log file for job ID "19099" does not exist.However, I can see it (only the job id and the workspace number) in the running jobs section.

I would like to apply a background mask to some of the text I'm writing to AutoCAD. Does FME expose a parameter for the DWG writer to enable the creation of a such a mask? This is standard, if uncommon, functionality in AutoCAD.

I have workspaces looking a data quality which are automated on fme server. I am looking to record the monthly number updates from the workspaces and was wondering is there a way a writer can create a new file with a new name (e.g jan 2023 or Feb 2023) instead of just overwriting the current one?

Dear All, I am facing the following issue. I have 2 datasets (which are quite large) that contain a series of common attributes. I have a 3d table that stores the attribute names that I would like to compare (no geometry comparison).  What I would like to do sounds very simple (sorry, I am newbie to FME...) :loading the 2 data, add prefix, merging them based on a key attribute (they will then have attributes like source1_col1, source2_col1, source1_col2, source2_col2, etc.)load the data that contain the column names I want to compare (e.g. col1, col2, etc.)iterate over col1, col2, etc. and for each of this value use TestFilter testing sth like "@Value(source1_$(column)) = @Value(source2_$(column))", write the unfiltered in an excel file on "$column" sheet) I have tried thousand things (custom transformer, ChangeDetector, workspace runner), but could not achieve exactly what I would like to do. One solution works rather well : I have a parent workspace that loads the

Hi,I have 3D aggregates which I'd like to write to STL-format. Just before the wroter everything look fine but after it a part of all my buildings area swollowed by the terrain. It looks like a bug in the writer. I attached the 3D data in a FFS file. Before (ffs-file):After (STL files): Thank you,Arno

Is there a way to take a table as input and split it out into multiple outputs based on the value of an attribute (that I may not know)?I have a table of data that refreshes daily and one of the columns is for an object value. Most of the features (non-spatial) will have the same value for this field but people do have the option to set it to a different value that would be specific to them. Depending on the person adding data, the value could be different from one day to the next. Is there a transformer that will split a table out based on the value of a single field and then let me do different processing for each output? I've looked around and saw a few mentions of a "Fanout" but that looks to be something that happens on the writer and that's usually geospatial. I'm looking for something more like this:I see that there is an "AttributeFilter" transformer but it seems like I need to know what the values are that I would need to split by in advance. In

I recently upgraded from FME Server 2022.1.3 to 2022.2.7.  Since the upgrade, the JobHistoryStatisticsGathering.fmw workspace (which runs on a daily schedule as part of the built-in FME Server Dashboards) is failing.  The error message is:+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Feature Type: `JobHistoryReader_LoopHere'Attribute(32 bit integer)      : `Loop to JobHistoryReader_LoopHere1691186519 Input Splitter.BranchingFactory.Count' has value `1'Attribute(string: UTF-8)       : `_min_job_age' has value `20230803000000'Attribute(64 bit integer)      : `_offset' has value `0'Attribute(string: windows-1252): `fme_feature_type' has value `Creator'Attribute(string: windows-1252): `fme_geometry' has value `fme_undefined'Attribute(string: windows-1252): `fme_type' has value `fme_no_geom'Coordinate System: `'Geometry Type: IFMENullCoordinate Dimension: 2===========================================================================Loop to JobHistoryReader_LoopHer

Hi all, I'm wondering if it is possible to preserve the order of (unexposed) attributes when they come out of the Generic port of a FeatureReader. The attributes are coming out ordered alphabetically, I want them to remain in the order they appear in the schema. My process involves a dynamic FeatureReader to grab data records, a SchemaMapper to map (some) attributes to new names, a SchemaScanner to determine the new schema and a dynamic writer to write features out in the new schema. The problem I have is that the new schema is coming out with attributes in alphabetical order, rather than in the original order (with the old attributes mapped to their new names). Is it possible to preserve the attribute order from the Generic port of a FeatureReader? Thanks!

In the same workspace, I have 2 "lines" of attributes.I have to test an attribute value in line 1 to pass an attribute value of the line 2.I tried with an Aggregator, but all the attribute values are gone just after the Aggregator.Maybe it's just for geographical data.Is there another way?Or is it just my parameters in the Aggregator not right?

I'm wanting to see how many of a list of 34 overlays intersect each of 25,000 cadastral parcels, and get attributes from any that intersect. I'm currently using the SpatialRelator transformer, to see if each of parcels intersect the 34 overlays. However the output only appears to contain the attribute information of the first of the 34 overlays found, and I'm wanting all attribute information of all intersecting overlays. I would be able to achieve what I'm after if I used 34 different SpatialRelators, so each parcel could check if it touches any of the 34 overlays, however I'm hoping for a more concise solution. I wished that the SpatialRelator could do group processing that applies to only one layer, so that it effectively runs 34 times. AreaOnAreaOverlayer isn't doing what I'm wanting, as some of the parcels overlap and entirely contained by one another, which appears to be blocking the overlayer from reading them.

Dear All, I am facing a very weird issue : I want to run another workspace using a workspacerunner with a set of user parameters. Sometimes it works, or sometimes I get a UNDEFINED MACRO error. What is really strange, it is that in some FME workspaces it works very well and the workspacerunner does the job - but in another workspace a workspacerunner (that calls exactly the same script with exactly the same set of input parameters) fails with the UNDEFINED MACRO failure. Even stranger : when I copy-paste the workspacerunner that does not work in the same workspace of the workspacerunners that works, it also does not work -> so in the same workspace I have 2 workspacerunners exactly identical, one working and the other raising a UNDEFINED macro error ???!!! I've spent days trying to understand what was wrong in my script and/or parameter settings, but I end up thinking something else might be wrong... Do you have any ideas what could cause the issue ?Particular cache files to del

When I populate a FeatureReader with dynamically generated values containing the options I want, it works but not completely. It reads the parcel data I want, but returns no schema/attribute data:  If I manually fill in the values in the exact same reader. It produces the output I do want (I.E. the parcels and their data). This is super inconvenient since our process is based on the assumption that we will not have to populate workspace objects manually each time we run them. I feel like I am missing something fundamental here that will great enhance my understanding of FME. Please help me to understand why this behavior is happening. Any help pointing me to how I might get the automated values to generate the output I want would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time. Kim

HiAfter our server was upgraded to fme flow, the jobs that run together with ESRI services (gdb, sde) do not run, and this error is given: 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 along with 64-bit Background Geoprocessing; ArcGIS Pro; or ArcGIS Enterprise. Refer to this this article http://fme.ly/qua for more details Of course, in the previous version of the server, everything worked smoothly,And also when I run the same jobs on the server's machine, along with fme form, everything works fine.There is ArcGIS Pro with a license, and full access for all users.I would appreciate your urgent help!Thank you!

I am right now struggling to understand this issue. I have read XML several time with FME several times and never encountered this problem. I have an XML file that just lists a couple of airports with some basic information. The xml file looks like this: I read it like this: But when I read it in, this is what I get out of it: What is going wrong here?