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I seem to be running into the same problem again and again. That problem is how do I pass a series of attributes to a transformer using what would be considered a variable in a scripting language. I can generate an attribute or variable containing a list or string containing the attributes, but I can't seem to figure out how to pass that value into a transformer and have it produce the desired result. I know it has to be possible (you can't know every attribute you want to keep/expose/use in every workflow every time, so passing them dynamically has to be a thing), I just can't figure it out. Plus, I can see having to use dynamic inputs in a hundred different ways I can't imagine yet, so I have to get this bit. Can anyone point me to a resource where I can learn the technique? Thank you.

How do I go about creating a table in AutoCAD like the one attached with inputs that look exactly the same (basically an insert of a csv)? It seems like such a simple task but is proving to be hard. FWIW I am learning AutoCAD via FME so my AutoCAD knowledge is not of a professional standard.

I'm trying to have a distributed deployment of my standard engine & the dynamic engines in azure kubernetes. I created 2 nodepools and referenced the tag of the 2nd nodepool in the values.yaml file. The dynamic engine has a nodeSelector: {agentpool: nodepooldynamic} field that says this engine has to go on a specific nodepool. However, when I update my deployment it says the pods affinity rules are not met since it only wants to schedule engine pods on the same nodepool as there is a core pod available. Although, the engine pod immediately launches even before the core pod is available. Is the presence of the core pod hard coded or is it possible to change this?

I have previously downloaded (using SharePointOnlineConnector)a file to my local PC storage, and I know that it is possible to use an S3Connector to upload attributes or files, but, how can I directly upload a file from Sharepoint to FME Server folder in the same Workspace without storing it at C:/?

Hi, I'm really new to FME, and am a little confused about how to do something. I have an existing automation built by an integrator that parses some emails for specific text. those are then bundled up various ways and sent out to various entities via email. I want to also send an API request with some of that data in it - the vendor i'm sending it to doesn't support a login auth, just tokens, though so i ended up making a workspace to send the call. However, i'm kind of confused as to how i get the outputs from the previous workspace into this one? I see the output keys from the writer, but, I don't understand how to get those keys into the next "run a workspace" My schema for the API looks like:{    "version": "v1",    "alert_text": "route.Email**#.RAWMESSAGE",    "title": "route.Email**#.AlarmName",    "IsTicker": false,    "lifetime": "1d",    "computers&quot

I am able to use Powershell to get json data from SPLUNK Res API.Now I want to translate this method to the HTTPCaller, but I dont succeed to get this working in FME. Does anybody have experience with this or has some tips and tricks? 

I'm working on data transformation and trying to achieve a task using FME. I have a dataset with two columns(From and To), and I need to match values from one column(From) with values in another column(To). The third column(ID) corresponds to the value present in col From, so eventually, I have to match the value in col From, find it in another col To, and populate the ID value(in new col ID2) in a new column.Essentially, I want to find instances where a value from the first column exists in the second column.Could someone guide me on how to set up an FME workflow to accomplish this? I got an understanding that it can be performed using AttributeCreator using Enable Adjacent Feature Attributes, though not sure if it can, and how!I appreciate any help or insights you can provide. Thank you in advance for the assistance!The ID1 values in the below image are IDs of col From. I have to populate ID2 values that refer to To column.

My keyboard input to FME has suddenly changed. If I use another application I get my normal response, but when I try to type in FME, it seems the keyboard layout has changed (probably to another language somehow). I cannot find anything in the settings that fixes this. Has anyone got an idea what might have caused this and how to fix it?

Hello Community, I am currently working on a project that requires me to integrate spatial data from various sources like Shapefiles, GeoJSON, and CAD files into a unified database. While trying to use FME to accomplish this task, I've run into some challenges. Specifically, I am having difficulty with the coordinate transformation and managing attribute schema mismatches. I've followed the tutorials and documentation available but still find myself stuck. Could anyone with experience in this area guide me through the process, or perhaps point me to some advanced resources or tools within FME that may assist with these issues? Thank you in advance for your assistance!

I am in process of migrating FME to a new windows machine and to run in the latest version (FME 2023.1). I have found that the workbenches run faster in the version we have upgraded from (FME 2018.1) Checking the log files for some of the processes, the SQL creator processes take longer in FME2023.  FME 2023 takes 2:06 minutes to connect and run a query ODBC Driver 17 for SQL server installed on new machine Version 2017.1710.03.01 2023-07-27 12:10:05 Microsoft SQL Server Non-Spatial Reader: Trying to connect using Microsoft OLE DB Driver 19 for SQL Server... 2023-07-27 12:12:11| 105.0|103.3|INFORM|140521: Database read complete. Retrieved <default parameter> feature(s) FME2018 takes 38 seconds for the same query2023-07-28 02:17:26 |Microsoft SQL Server Non-Spatial Reader: Trying to connect using SQL Server 2012 Native Client... 2023-07-28 02:18:04| 40.7| 36.9|INFORM|Microsoft SQL Server Non-Spatial Reader: Database read complete. Retrieved 140521 feature(s) Note, I also tested th

This question relates to another question / post regarding Oracle SDO_GEOM data types. We have both ST_GEOM & SDO_GEOM data type fields in our Oracle database schemas that we want to replicate to a Snowflake data warehouse.

We are connecting to an SDE database via and SDE file in server, we would like to use Windows Authentication and the service account the server runs under. But when I load an SDE connection file with Windows Authentication selected it does not pick up the windows credtiasl of the service account. Error Message:Could not open the Enterprise Geodatabase. The error number from ArcObjects is: '-2147216118'. The error message from ArcObjects is: {Bad login user}Please ensure the connection parameters are correct (server=`egisdev-db.tnad.tasnetworks.com.au', instance=`sde:sqlserver:egisdev-db.tnad.tasnetworks.com.au', user=`', password=`***', database=`EGIS_UNMaster', version=`sde.DEFAULT') I have tried reading from the DB using a database connection set to Windows Authentication, but we need to to use SDE connection as these are esri geodatabases. Any thoughts?

Hi.I have a workspace, built with 2020.2.5, that utilizes FeatureWriter to build a zipped shape file for attachment to an email.In FW I'm adding some variables to be propogated along with the datasets, i.e. adding them to "Additional Summary Port Attributes". This works fine in 2020.When uploading the 2020 workspace to our 2022.2.2 FME server, it still works fine.I just tried to create a workspace in 2022.2.2 (open+save as), and now the additional variables are all set to blank strings. This is so both on desktop and when uploaded and run on server.I then did the same test with 2023.0, and the same problem exists, at least on desktop (can't test it on server as my server is 2022). The version of FeatureWriter is 0 in all versions, suggesting that it is the same transformer since forever. Please advise.Cheers.

FME beginner here, I'm trying to do a pretty straight forward export from an sde based database to file geodatabase, the only real criteria I'm after is preserving the ObjectId values in the output. Everything tried results in the ObjectId resequencing itself in the output per normal, our client has built relationships on the OID (why I'll never know) so we need to preserve them in the extract. Any help is appreciated.

After georeferencing CAD in ArcGIS Pro, generating World (wld3) and Projection files (prj), FME doesn't position the drawings correctly despite enabling advanced options. Why?

One of the main pain points I've been having so far with using Python with FME is getting datetime attributes from features as datetimes in Python. FME datetimes normally have a sub-second precision of 7 digits, up to 9, but Python stops parsing after 6. "When used with the strptime() method, the %f directive accepts from one to six digits and zero pads on the right. %f is an extension to the set of format characters in the C standard (but implemented separately in datetime objects, and therefore always available)."        #        # Unzoned        #                a_timestamp = feature.getAttribute('a_timestamp')        print(repr(a_timestamp)) # '20230620161403.0020449'                # ValueError: unconverted data remains: 9        # (Python's strptime stops at 6 decimals)        # (This will randomly work once out of 10 because trailing zeroes are trimmed)        # datetime.strptime(a_timestamp, '%Y%m%d%H%M%S.%f')                # This shouldn't be that complicated!        # Also, 

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.