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Folks, I have a huge number of access databases the include the '{' character. FME is clearly trying to treat this as a wild card character instead of a part of the file name. Is there a way to get FME to READ them as names not wild cards from the reader?  Otherwise im going to have to bulk rename a lot of files... thanks.

I have DGN file. In Microstation I can see that it had a defined GCS (ETRS89 / UTM zone 32N) When I read the file with FME the coordinate system is not recognised. How do I get FME to read the GCS details?

I'm trying to sum a series of values by an ID in the StatisticsCalculator (using the group by function) and the summed values keep returning as scientific format (5.9e-6) but I want the decimal number (0.00000599). How do I do this? P.s it only seems to happen when I set to group by.

Hi,I have a shapefile with municipality polygons and I am using the SpatialRelator with the option "Requestor Touches Supplier" to count the number of neighbours of each polygon. However, I need to know the lenght of each common border for all polygons. Is there a way to output that information? In QGIS is posible (as explained on this link https://spatialthoughts.com/2020/04/08/calculating-shared-border-lengths/#more-962 ) but it's not very fast to run, therefore I would like to do the same in FME.Thanks and best regardsOscar

I want to mosaick 188 netCDF files into a single netCDF file. I get the errorNetCDF writer: Failed to end definition. The error was 'NetCDF: One or more variable sizes violate format constraints'The data is a DEM, so only one band which is elevation.I have attempted both "Classic" and "64-bit Offset" ParameterWhat am I doing wrong?

Hi there, Thanks in advance for your help. It's my first time using FME server and setting up an app. I want the end user to be able to upload a folder full of shapefiles or gpx files. In Desktop, I have the parameters set up so the user can upload folders and the subfolders within it. I can't find this option in server. I see I can upload one file at a time, but that's not what I want. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I want to capture all this info in the folder structure:OperationName>Fieldworkername1>All the gpx and shapefilesOperationName>Fieldworkername2>All the gpx and shapefilesOperationName>Fieldworkername3>All the gpx and shapefiles 

Hi,I want to run some Rscript and so installed an R-interpreter and installed some Libraries. As a test case I downloaded the workspace from a rather old article "RCaller: Ins and outs of using R in FME". The workspace is from 2020 though so i ran it on both 2019 and 2021 versions but it returned the same error in both cases. Actually the exact same error as mentioned in the article itself: "Failed with exit code 1 when executing R script. Output was: Loading required package: gsubfn.......". Now the article mentions to check spelling but as the workspace is an exact copy from safe I expect that to be tested and ok and furthermore that is just not the issue as the line "fmeOutput<-data.frame(meanEst,meanAct, r2, m, k)" in the Rcaller works just fine if I just pick one of the columns for output, irrespective which one. e.g. "fmeOutput<-data.frame(r2)" But the moment I comma separate a few data frame columns for output I get the error.Any hel

Hello FME'ers,This is a slightly late and slightly shorter version of What's Up Wednesday this week. Voting for WebinarsAt Safe, we're just planning the webinar lineup for the final quarter of this year (October to December). We'd previously asked users for suggestions, which we reviewed, and now we want to put that list to a vote. The simplest way we could think of was to add them to the Ideas section of the community. So that's what we did:  Please do log into the community, browse the list, and vote for your favourite webinar suggestions. Just like FME functionality, the more upvotes a webinar gets, the more we are likely to present it. If you want to isolate all the webinar ideas, then be sure to click the Webinar tag on the Ideas page:  On the subject of Ideas, write down your best ones and bring them to the FME User Conference with you, where the User Experience team is waiting to discuss FME with you! Our Webinar HistoryThere was an interesting tweet from Geo

I would like my workspace to start with nothing filled in the user parameters. I tried creating presets but that doesn't work as the workspace is being used in a Gallery app and there is no access to the presets there. Is there a way to have the workspace saved so it opens with no values in it whenever the user opens the form?

Hi, I am creating contour lines and contour polygons from a raster geotiff file with 50m intervals. In lowland areas near the sea a lot of tiny lines/polygons are created wherever the elevation fluctuates around value 0-m. GDAL has a parameter (Offset from zero relative to which to interpret intervals) which allows setting an offset so as to reflect only significant low elevations (by setting it to -5 for instance). However this parameter is not present in the ContourGenerator transformer of FME.Can you think of a workaround for simulating such behavior? Otherwise is it easy to call the GDAL function from within FME?Thank you! Best regards, Olivier

Which transformer can I use to convert text from a dgn to points or cells? The origin of the coordinates should be retained and the actual text should become the new cell name. Example: Text: "House" --> cell name: "House"

During manual QC of the data I see that there are some geometries that share common border, but the vertex in that place is missing.I looked at the vertex creator and snapper as a fix, but I don't think this exactly what I'm looking for.

I created a Custom transformer that contains a FeatureReader set as Esri ArcGIS Server Feature Service.I want to set Spatial Filter via an attribute. For this I created a conditional attribute (DE-9IM) with values TT*TT**** for Intersects and ********* for <No Spatial Filter>. If the case is that there is no filter, a conditional WHERE CLAUSE activates.The problem is if the case is that there is no spatial filter the FeatureReader returns no data.What is the corect DE-9IM value for <No Spatial Filter>?

I have a workbench that takes a zip file as a user input and checks if it contains a shapfile. If it does, it goes to a FeatureReader and then on to a shapefile writer.  I have tried every setting I can, but I can't get it to generate an output shapefile if the shapefile writer is set to use a Dynamic Schema Definition Am I missing something, or is this just not possible? The log says the workbench ran successfully, but no shapefile was created: > Translation was SUCCESSFUL with 9 warning(s) (353 feature(s) output)>FME Session Duration: 3.1 seconds. (CPU: 0.6s user, 0.8s system)>END - ProcessID: 940, peak process memory usage: 116280 kB, current process memory usage: 111672 kB>Translation was SUCCESSFUL Ultimately, I'd like to publish an enhanced version of this to FME Server and create an app so that colleagues can upload zipped shapefiles and have convert their data to different coordinate system. I'm running FME Desktop/Server 2021.2. Thanks, Dave 

I have a workbench set up with multiple WFS readers, default parameters. It will run 1 reader and complete its process. When moving to the next WFS reader it will throw a timeout error: [2]: HTTP transfer error: Timeout was reached[2]: Please ensure that your network connection is properly set up[2]: No proxy settings have been entered. If you require a proxy to access external URLs, please ensure the appropriate information has been entered<WFS> Timeout was reached- Unable to fetch the capabilities document: If I disable readers and run each individually they all work. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Hi all! I've noticed a strange issue with my workspaces, and I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced anything similar. Basically, whenever I run any of my workspaces, the translation always hangs for several minutes at:FME API version of module 'LogCount_func' matches current internal version (4.0 20220317)and the next logged action (in the workspace I'm working with currently, at least) is:Loaded module 'FeatureJoinerFactory' from file 'C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Data Interoperability for ArcGIS Pro\plugins/FeatureJoinerFactory.dll'Eventually, they always move past it, but it sometimes hangs at this step for several minutes before continuing. Is this something wrong with my workspace, is it a known bug, or is this normal? I'm happy to share one of my workspaces or more details if that would help.  I'm using FME(R) 2022.0.0.2 (20220518 - Build 22343 - WIN64) on Windows 10 with an Intel i5-7300U CPU and 8 GB of RAM.

I have been able to connect/authenticate to Dataverse with Postman by following the steps in this guide: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/developer/data-platform/webapi/setup-postman-environment I have tried using the Dynamics 365 web service for this connection, but could not get it to work. I am trying to create a new web service in FME Desktop that uses the OAuth 2.0 implicit grant type to retrieve at token, as in the steps from the linked guide, but have been unsuccessful at this as well; when I try to authenticate or create a new web connection from the web service, I am unable to get the browser window/sign in prompt to appear and allow me to enter my account credentials. I am attempting to create this web service as a new Token Service, rather than a new OAuth 2.0 Service, as the parameters for this type of service seem to be what I need to enter/what I am doing with Postman.

Greetings,I have a Feature Reader transformer, reading a list of dwgs. Sometime after I initially created the Feature Reader I needed to expose additional attributes, and so did by adding to this list......however, the newly exposed attributes are not showing up in my output ports. I'm not seeing the Feature Reader in the 'Update Readers' command, so am not sure exactly how to get the newly exposed attributes exposed. Any pointers would be appreciated.TylerFME WorkBench 2021

I am trying to convert a CAD file in GDA 94 to a CAD file in GDA 20. But it is creating the output CAD file of very less size around 12 kb. Please suggest.​

Good day, I'm using FME desktop to create a mosaic dataset of some imagery in a file geodatabase. In the footprint attribute table there are default fields "Name", "GroupName", and "ProductName" that are able to be edited in ArcGIS. Is it possible to write this data to the mosaic dataset in FME? Right now I'm populating these attributes in an AttributeManager transformer, but they are obviously not being added to the mosaic. The "Name" field seems to be populated with the basename of the rasters I'm adding I'm using FME Desktop 2021.0 with the ArcGIS Pro 2.8 data interoperability extension.

What is the FME syntax required to assign a <null> value? Inputting <null> seems to return the string '<null>' and not a bonefide <null> (greyed out FME version). Some fields offer <null> in the drop down, but some do not and require the user to input, such as...Thank you.TylerFME WorkBench 2021.0

I am translating from Smallworld using coordinate system AZ83-C to MicroStation V8i coordinate system AZ83-CF. text size should be 8 but is scaling up to 26. it works fine when using FME 2018..

Hello,In one field, I want to keep all string values matching the regex:\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}and relegate all strings NOT matching that string to:<null> See following image for my attempt where I developed ^(?!\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}).* as the negation of \\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2} and set replacement to <null>. This did not work. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!Tyler

Hi, Why my clipper don´t cut the APP shapefile? Look the fmwt attached. Thank´s

I have polygons (closed polylines) that I want to buffer a fixed distance, removing any overlaps. Each Polygon has a unique ID and they need to remain individuals.Below and attached are starting polygonsAnd shown in red is what we want to achieve.I've tried an array of Buffer/AreaOnAreaOverlays/Dissolvers, but I cant quite get what's needed and keep ending up with holes and artifacts.Any ideas?I've attached the road strings i'm buffering towards, incase that is useful