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Dear FME Community,I am currently working on a project that involves a vector point file containing electricity power plants. As part of my quality control process, I need to check if there are any power plants that overlap with the point file.I am wondering if there is an automatic way to check for this overlap, as there would be two situations, one where point file is overlapping with power plant in satellite imagery, or else it is not. I want to ensure the accuracy of the data and identify any potential errors. We can hover to locations and find it, but can there be something more in an automated way?I would greatly appreciate any advice or suggestions from the FME community on how to best approach this quality control challenge. Thank you in advance for your help!

Hi! I have a workspace where I mainly use a PDF reader to read around 5000 pdf:s in folders and subfolders (defined by the dataset “…\\**\\*.pdf”).The workspace is large and quite complex but the thought is to take the pdf file name, which is an object ID, and combine it with other files that contain the IDs coordinates, etc. The pdfs contain other info on the objects that get extracted through its predetermined local coordinates.The workspace has worked excellently, but since recently it doesn’t complete. The only change I recall is that the amount of pdf:s keep increasing as times goes by. I’d say that last time it worked was then it contained around 3000-4000 files.I also find the reasons for the error to be sporadic. Mainly the workspace runs though a few hundred pdf:s, but eventually I get the message that the pdf cannot be opened “because the file is not in PDF format, or because it is corrupted”. Sometimes the program just crashes. The pdf can be individu

Hi,I have a workflow where I need to forecast particular values. The formula to calculate this forecast value (in Attribute A) needs to reference the previous feature in Attribute A, but the AttributeManager doesn't allow you to reference ajacent features (in this case, previous) for the same attribute. Is there a way I can do this? I wonder if a looping process would help. Thanks

I have a request to convert some postgis geom data into TopoJSON. However they want the output to be single combined file similar to what is produced by https://mapshaper.org/ I can easily create individual TopoJSON files in FME. (Simple read postgis and connect to TopoJSON writer.) But I have not figured how I can produce a combined file with multiple objects in it like what is done with mapshaper.org site.  I uploaded sample TopoJson output files from FME and the sample combined file from mapshaper.  I figure this will likely need some type of python code, which is fine, but I'm hoping to not install any additional modules outside what FME provides.  Currently using FME 2020.2. That is what company uses. But I can use new FME version if it had options for doing this in some update.

I am getting the following error when I use the ArcGIS Online Feature Service Writer: "ArcGIS Online Feature Service Writer: Multiple Global IDs defined for feature type 'd_y_n'. This is not permitted." I am trying to copy the data from one ArcGIS Online (AGOL) hosted feature layer to another hosted feature layer with the identical schema. The source is a view-only feature layer, and the target is an editable, blank duplicate of the source. The target has hasVersionData=false and supportsApplyEditsWithGlobalIDs=true. All layers with attachments have global IDs defined and all attachment relationships are defined to use GlobalIDs as keys. In the Writer parameters, I have tried Use Global IDs=No and also UseGlobal IDs=Yes and Preserve Global IDs=Yes. I still get the same error with either of these cases. What might be going on here? I can't say I really know what the error is getting at. Might the problem be that there is

I have a reader that reads a PostGIS raster and I would like to have a writer that uploads it to ArcGIS online. When I do this, the raster gets uploaded as a table to ArcGIS online. How can I accomplish this? Thanks!

Is it possible to add transfomer with PC sound notification? Eg. If unexpected path event was detected or a scound notification to the data inspector new window opening?

HiI need to obtain as output the time %H:%M:%S but without the decimal for secondSo the final result must be 11:05:01 instead of 11:05:01.002  thx Francesco

Hello,I would like to ask. If you look at the attached file with an editor that can display binary characters, you will see how individual requests start with these binary characters ( ef-bb-bf ). Why do these signs occur? How do I remove them?Thank you

Also, I put the .gtf file in the customTransformations folder. It could not find either. (I use ArcGIS Interoperability extension and the directory that I used is "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Esri\\Data Interoperability (x86)\\reproject\\EsriPEGridData\\customTransformations" for .gtf and C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Esri\\Data Interoperability (x86)\\reproject\\EsriPEGridData\\ntv2\\canada for.GSB)

Hi Team, I am trying to copy data from gdb feature class to another feature class but i am getting below error. please help me understand the error. I have changed the permission settings & schema also matched.Error : Geodatabase Error (-2147220987): The user does not have permission to execute the operation.FileGDB Writer: A feature could not be written+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Feature Type: `WaterDataset/WaterDistributionDevice'Attribute(64 bit real)       : `diameter' has value `600'Attribute(64 bit real)       : `elevation' has value `309.255'Attribute(string: UTF-8)      : `facilityid' has value `Pratap Nagar'Attribute(string: UTF-8)      : `filegdb_type' has value `geodb_point'Attribute(string: UTF-8)      : `fme_feature_type' has value `Test3'Attribute(string: UTF-8)      : `fme_geometry&#39

Since in ChatGPT its showing the following steps , install the Plugin.Snapshot for your reference.

Hello, We are looking to use an Active Directory group as a Role in FME Server. I'm able to import an AD group and use the Load Template button to grant the AD Group the same set of permissions as the "fmeadmin" role. The Load Template dialog does not have superuser role as an option. Is it possible to set up an AD group as superuser role? Thanks,Vu Dang  

In this article - Woody describes a custom HTTP caller using a parameter to call PBI API. Idea: Power BI Writer (safe.com), I don't really need a writer, I am looking for a way to use the HTTP caller and liked the post about using parameters.I have followed Microsoft's instruction for registering an APP. I can use MS docs to call the API to refresh a dataset. I have done the same with Postman. I am stuck trying to do the same with FME.Thank you - Tim Woods

Hi,Ich use a String Replacer that cleans all values from "??".Mode: Replace TextCase Sensitive NoText to replace ??Replacement Text(Replacement Text is empty as just I want to delete all ??) This Workt fine in FME Server 2021on FME Server 2022 I get an Error:"StringReplacer_4 (StringReplacerFactory): Internal error: Failed to build ICU replace pattern. String was '"Große Mohreng. 9, 1020 ??, Österreich"', replacement pattern was '??' "    

Hi, I want to update an ArcGIS Online hosted feature service which has read-only 'Editor' and 'Creator' Fields. Has anyone been able to update read only fields on ArcGIS Online? Thanks

Hi.I generated a TIN using the TINGenerator transformer. I write this TIN to a DWG (real dwg). When opening the data in CIVIL 3D, it does not show as a surface. Does any one know how I can write the TIN to a dwg as a surface? Thanks.

The attached dataset. I can read it by FME Data Inspector. But I can't add the XML reader into main canvas I want to know if any reader can I used for itThanks

We have a pair of nightly maintenance workbenches that clean up feature class attributes via Portal connections. When I manually trigger these workbenches to run, they complete without fail. However, about 80% of the time that they run overnight via FME Server, they fail with the following error: ArcGIS Portal Feature Service Writer: Error code 400 Message - 'Unable to complete operation' Details: This operation is not allowed while editing [AutomatedProcess_DONOTDELETE] These Workbenches are trying to Update, No Truncate first. Is this a branch versioning issue? I have done some digging but haven't found anything specific to this particular error other than the ESRI help page saying that "It is rare and causes are unknown." Any insight is greatly appreciated. 

I have an FME Server instance running on FME Cloud (FME Server 2021.2.1 Build 21797 - linux), and when I try and run a workspace that uses a PythonCaller, I get several 'could not load module' errors related to plugins - please see attached log file.Everything runs fine on FME Desktop (FME(R) 2021.2.0.1 (20211112 - Build 21789 - WIN64) )As it is an FME Cloud instance, I don't think I can do anything to set python paths, unless I am missing something?Any assistance with this greatly appreciated.Thanks,Fiona

I try to color features by attribute value. Tried both the FeatureColorSetter and the KML Styler.  I have the color in an attributes for each feature both as hex "#FFCC00" and as decimal "255,204,0" but both don't work when i feed them to "Fill Color" in the KMLStyler or FeatureColorSetter.  How do I have to format the color values?

Hi, I am building an xml file with the XMLTemplate. Empty fields are displayed differently than expected. <attribute></attribute> is displayed (exported) as <attribute/>By first changing empty fields to <attribute>Replace this text with nothing</attribute> and then replace the text 'Replace this text with nothing' with null using the string concatenator, it works. But I'd rather be able to properly set the empty fields in the XMLTemplate. How can this be done?  

Not sure if this is a known issue or not, this is in FME 2020.2 GeoJSON processed by the GeometryReplacer results in a line with 0 coordinates, it is not rejected which is what i would expect to happen e.g. {"type":"LineString","coordinates":[[[0,0],[100,0]]]}Processing this with the GeometryReplacer, results in this geometry 

I have a distributed FME Server deployment (core + n Engines). One of the Engine hosts has been dedicated to run jobs that require to write/read to/from Esri Geodatabase (SDE). In order to enable that I deployed ArcGIS Server on that machine (it is licensed and running).Unfortunately when running a job that tries to read from SDE (Oracle) I got the following error:60 Creating reader for format: Esri Geodatabase (ArcSDE Geodb)61 Trying to find a DYNAMIC plugin for reader named `GEODATABASE_SDE'62 Could not load module '/opt/fme-engine-2022/plugins/..\geodatabase9.so' : '/opt/fme-engine-2022/plugins/..\geodatabase9.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory'63 Module '..\geodatabase9' is unavailable for use with this FME editionIs this configuration (access to SDE GDB from Linux machine) supported? Should I try to use Windows based Engine machine with ArcGIS Server? FME Server version: FME Server

I tried generalizer and spike removal. The spike removal works to remove the twisted lines, but it leaves small cuts everywhere. Any advice how to clean the small cut lines and reduce the number of vertices? Thank you so much!