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When I go to publish my workflow from form to flow I get this error: However when I go to run it on flow, I get an error saying that it doesn’t exist: 58 2025-9-23 12:18:08 | ArcGISFeatureServiceReader: Connection 'connectionname' does not exist. Check connection parameter and connection definitions in FME options and try again59 2025-9-23 12:18:08 | Python Exception <NamedConnectionNotFound>: FMEException: 1: ArcGISFeatureServiceReader: Connection 'connectionname' does not exist. Check connection parameter and connection definitions in FME options and try again60 2025-9-23 12:18:08 | An error has occurred. Check the logfile above for details61 2025-9-23 12:18:08 | The below feature caused the translation to be terminated77 2025-9-23 12:18:08 | FeatureReader_2_<Rejected> (TeeFactory): FeatureReader_2_<Rejected>: Termination Message: 'FeatureReader_2 output a <Rejected> feature. To continue translation when features are rejected, change 'Workspace Parameters' &gt

I am currently using FME 2025.1.1 (Build 25615) and have had some issues with inspector crashing. I have tried multiple different ArcGIS Online provided background maps and they seem to be causing both Data Inspector and occasionally Form (when using Data Preview) to crash. I have tried with multiple different types of data, of various feature counts, sometimes it crashes on initial load of background map, other times when it reloads it after zooming in. Wondering if anyone else has run into this?

I’m trying to use the FeatureReader to read 3 features from an ArcGIS portal feature service layer by reading in a spreadsheet and using a WHERE clause with an attribute in the spreadsheet. The FeatureReader will connect to the service and I can select the correct table in the “Feature Types to Read” parameter. But when I try to add the WHERE clause FME crashes before I can start creating the WHERE clause. The second image below indicated the point when it crashes.I can read the full table with no problem using the ArcGIS Portal Feature Service reader. How can I get the FeatureReader to run and read the required features?  

Hello FME brains trust. I have a situation where I need to run a regular update that takes a supplied point and looks up a corresponding lot and plan (cadastre) and add it as an attribute to the point. I am currently using the Point on Area overlay transformer, which works, but the updates are only one or two points, and our parcels layer has over 3 million features, which takes quite a bit of time to read and run.I am hoping that there might be an alternative that basically runs a spatial query on the server side and only brings in the intersecting parcels or any other options that might help me streamline this process.

can you think of a tester or tool in FME that can check for polygons in a dataset which are separate (not connected) but have to the same objectID Ie . fixing this issue below:thanks!

Hi Everyone, I have a java-based custom transformer built with the FME plugin SDK.  I created an HTML help file for my custom transformer, and I would like to link it to the transformer, so it can be displayed in FME Form when I right-click on the transformer and click help.  Where does the HTML file need to be placed, and where/how do tell the transformer about the help file?  Do I need to add something to the .fmw or the .java file, or both?  If so, do you have examples or documentation on what code needs to be added? Thank you for your time!

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Just wondering what kinds of workflows do you all use to try to reproduce an issue in a workspace which was run on FME Server.I have some workspaces which have quite a few parameters and copy and pasting the parameters from FME Flow to FME Form is getting pretty old…Any clever workflows people have developed to set parameters automatically from a job?I’m thinking of putting together a tool/workspace to try auto populate parameters from a job but I wanted to see if I was just being dumb.I’ve been using presets to save time for a lot of the parameters which tend to stay the same, however, it I’m not careful I end up missing something and speeding time wondering what my results in Desktop and Server are different because I missed something small in the parameters 

Hello Forum, I am reading in two .csv files into FME Form... csv 1Candidate_UPRNs.csvThis has just one column: candidate_UPRN. It contains 100 records. Each record contains a UPRN value in the candidate_UPRN attribute.Note for those outside UK: the UPRN is the unique property reference number (UPRN) from the Local Land and Property Gazetteer (LLPG). As the name suggests, the UPRN is unique and can not be repeated. UPRNs are managed in the LLPG. csv 2LLPG_PAs.csvThis is an extract our entire LLPG with around 169,000 records. It contains multiple columns including UPRN.   I want to filter LLPG_PAs.csv down so that I am only using the records that match (using the UPRN value) with the records in candidate_UPRN.csv (i.e.: the 100 records). Before I take the workspace on further from that point I need to establish the filter first.  I’ve looked at SpatialFilter, but not sure that’s ideal. Any advice would be welcome. Thanks,   

Hello everyone,We just upgraded to FME Form 2024.2.1 and we currently encounter one problem. For the users, the personal database- and web connections were inititally not migrated. Thus we sent first a mail to the users that they coud export the database- and webconnections in FME Form 2023 and then import  the exported file in FME Form 2024. It looked like it solved the problem, however when the users logged in the next day on an new machine, they lost all their personal database-  and webconnections.We read the following link: Changes to Connection Storage in FME Form 2024 – FME Support Center and it became clear to us that's due to the new way that personal database- and webconnections are stored. They are stored in fme_userconnection.data and the machineID is hardcoded in this file.In our organization we work on a virtual machine and thus also everytime we log into a new machine. It's now clear why the database- and webconnections are not visible in FME Form 2024.I was wondering if

Hello,I would like to decimate my point cloud to keep one point every meter for example.I tried PointCloudSpatialThinner but i suggest it extrapolates the coordinates to fit the best to the original cloud point.The problem I have is I can’t change z-coordinates. Optimally I’d like to decimate my point cloud only on the x and y coordinates.Does someone have a solution ?Best regards,Gurvan

Hi, I am getting this error:An error occurred while attempting to insert a row into the table ‘ABC’ using a cursor. The error number from ArcObjects is: '-2147217323'. The error message from ArcObjects is: {The cursor has been invalidated by an edit operation.} I am experiencing an issue when trying to insert features into a feature class stored in an enterprise geodatabase. Specifically, I am both reading from and writing to the same dataset. I haven't encountered this problem before, but it began after I set the Feature Operations to "Upsert" while updating existing records and inserting new records that are not yet present in the database. I suspect that performing inserts and updates simultaneously may be causing a disruption with the cursor. I also attempted to use the Feature holder, but I received the same error. This disruption is affecting the automated process. Does anyone know what might be causing this error or how to fix it? I would greatly appreciate any assistance!Thank

I am having some difficulty normalizing reverse geocodes for comparison from one Geocoding Service to another (in this case OpenStreetMap).  The _address that is returned can pretty easily split up into a list or separate attributes with most services as they are consistent. However, OSM’s _address has extra information and parsing it to be consistent with anything else has been a challenge.  See below where instead of having an AddressNumber, a null, or a 0, I get Falmouth Public Schools & Moonlight Meadery in the 1st position.  For that matter, I sometimes get supplementary place names such as Seaport & South Boston when expecting a Town in a particular separation/position.  So it throws off looking in any specific list due to the inconsistent placement.Some are normal, but many either don’t contain the expected info, or add info that is unnecessary for my needs.What I want to make into attributes: AddressNumber  Street  Town  State  ZipCodeOpenStreetMap gives me this in a te

Hey everyone, I'm writing some data into a Snowflake database and getting a geometry validation error on the Snowflake side: SnowflakeSQLException: Geography validation failed.When I run it thru the FME GeometryValidator - it passes.If I run it thru the SQLExecutor and call ST_ISVALID it returns false so in theory, I could call the SQLExecutor for every record however with a million records, this really isn't feasible. I thought about grouping the inserts by 1000 and if it fails, run those 1000 thru the SQLExecutor however I couldn't figure out how to have the FeatureWriter continue if it fails on a group.Does anyone have any ideas on how to get these records to continue. I really just want FME to remove any bad geometries and log which one's failed. Thanks!

Hi,As Safe people do some fun projects with AI like https://hub.safe.com/publishers/safe-sandbox/templates/agentic-ai-spatial-schema-mapping-template-gemini, would it be possible to do one preparing one or multile schema mapping file(s) instead of mapping all data through AI? You could just send a sample to Gemini/OpenAI (you name it), with the associated schema and restructure the output into something accepted by SchemaMapper. This would be better for performance, safety and the planet 😊. Quite many transformers could be adapted to digest an input like schemamapper so that they can be configured by AI agents in a nicer way. Thanks! 

Hello, new to FME here and am looking for some advice on which transformers might work for a workbench that I am trying to create. I have 2 road line feature classes stored in an SDE geodatabase. The lines store similar information but are created and maintained by two different departments (they have different road name standards and the geometry does not match). I would like to compare the lines and identify which ones from Roads_A are missing from Roads_B.  My main concern at this point is identifying missing subdivisions like the one in the screen capture below. 

Hi, I am looking into renewing my FME certification in the coming months. It is the first time I will do it proctored. Does anyone have negative experiences with Talview where you couldn’t use FME Form, FME Flow as described here: https://www.reddit.com/r/fme/comments/1dl0647/has_anyone_completed_fme_certified_professional/I understand you are supposed to be able to use the applications and help documentation during the exam. Thanks,Annette 

Goodmorning! I want to write a dataset with the postgis writer to GeoServer, but the result gives errors.  Process: A reader of municipal boundaries, and a reader with fire hydrants, the fire hydrants gets clipped on the boundaries layer, and then i want to write it to Geoserver. The postGIS writer says its succesfull, but when i inspect the layer in QGIS, there is no data, and i get the error: there is no item in geometry_colums. What have i done wrong in the postGIS writer? Can anyone help me?  Thanks in advance! 

Hi everyone,I’m running into an issue when using the FeatureReader transformer.When I read a table through the FeatureReader, the attributes are not exposed  However, if I read the same table directly using a normal FME reader (through SDE or GDB), all the attributes are properly exposed.Is there a setting I’m missing with the FeatureReader that prevents the attributes from being available? Or is this expected behavior when using it compared to a standard reader?Thanks in advance for any advice!

Hi, I am looking for a way to add attachements (pictures, pdfs ect) to a point layer published to Esri Enterprise using FME Flow. Does anyone managed to accomplish that?

Hi FME Community,I'm currently working on a BIM/GIS integration project where I need to regularly update Revit files into a 3D GIS platform. The initial setup is already in place: I've created the 3D environment and published some Revit files to Portal for ArcGIS using ArcGIS Pro.Here’s the current workflow:Load the Revit file into ArcGIS Pro within a 3D scene. Share the scene to Portal. This results in three published items: a scene-hosted layer, a feature-hosted layer, and a web scene.Since the engineering team updates the Revit files weekly, I’m exploring ways to automate this process using FME Form and Flow. So far, I’ve considered two options:Option 1:Use PythonCaller to replace the Revit file in ArcGIS Pro and re-share the web scene to Portal. This would overwrite the existing scene-hosted layer, feature-hosted layer, and web scene. No additional GIS data would be generated.Option 2:Convert the Revit files to a geodatabase format (possibly using multipatch geometry?). Push the up

Hello my fellow FME’ers,Probably I'm missing something or I stumbled upon a bug, but I can't get something to work like I expect. Maybe someone can point out what I'm missing. Workspace snippetMy data is going trough a Matcher to find features that belong to the same object. I then sort them on _match_id and an attribute called lighted.  Result of Sorter_4As a result I have something above. If lighted is null it will be the first feature.In the AttributeManager I use Adjacent Features to look 1 feature further and have the following condition statement for a new attribute called _filter. The second one is another attempt to get the same result, but that also doesn't work. Conditional statement Alternative conditional statement I triedI expect the two <null> values in the screenshot above to get the value ‘yes’, but it doesn't. What am I missing here?

FME Server 2022.2Build 22765 - win64I have an ArcGIS Portal Feature Service writer set up to update a single attribute. I am getting the following error ArcGIS Portal Feature Service Writer: Encountered an unexpected error. The error code from the server was '400' and the message was: 'Unable to complete operation.'. Details: 'True curve update not allowed.'I have specified to not update the spatial column so I would expect this error would not occur. It would appear that FME is trying to send a geometry

Hello,I have been looking for ways to convert multi-point geometries to lines but havent been 100% successful so far. Given is a data set consisting of multi-point geometries identified by a unique key and various attributes.Its a straightforward matter when the sequence of points forms a linear shape:Deaggregate the multi-point geometries and feed the single points to a line builder which groups the lines by the unique key. However it is not so straightforward when the points form an arc.In these cases the line builder creates shapes resembling spider webs rather than arcs.I tried various ways to sort the points spatially (e.g. with the spatial sorter) to better set up the line builder but so far without much success.Can you think of other ways to deal with this kind of case? Kind regardsRicky 

Hi.I just had a job on our FME server 2022.2.2 go haywire.When reading from one or more database tables, it suddenly spews out a _lot_ of error messages, repeating the same two lines from line 319 to line 865997 (on page 1734):Microsoft SQL Server Spatial Reader: An internal error has occurred. Please visit http://www.safe.com/supportMicrosoft SQL Server Spatial Reader: Failed to parse datetime, attribute set as nullWhat gives ? Should I be concerned ?I've occasionally encountered huge log files before, but haven't had any idea why. Next time I'll see if it's the same issue.The job took several minutes (as opposed to normally a handful of seconds) to finish, which is not good.Cheers.