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Hi all,I am currently using ArcPro 3.5 DI tool that uses,FME(R) 2025.0.0.0 (20250228 - Build 25208 - WIN64)Some of my FME scripts are failing when reading an excel file if it as a python start up script that imports arcpy specifically. If i remove arcpy, the excel reader works fine.Is this a bug with the FME build that came with our ArcPro 3.5 or is it consistent with a stand-alone FME install?Some of the warnings are:----------------------------------------------------------The Startup Python Script changed the current FME process locale from 'English_New Zealand.utf8' to 'English_New Zealand.1252' and FME has restored it back to 'English_New Zealand.utf8'. It is undefined behavior to change locale and doing so may cause unexpected errors. For more information, visit http://fme.ly/PythonLocaleError-----------------------------------------------------------Excel Reader: Could not read cell at row '0', column '1' for sheet 'can't read more cells in trial version'. Error message is 'can'

I have an excel file with 100 records (100 rows) with 5 columns. I have a process that will filter one record to update one column field called ‘Last Update’ in that particular record row. So The column ‘Last Update’ for that 1 record should be updated and the rest of the 99 records will remain the same. Keep in mind that the one record being updated, only one column is to be updated which is the Last Update column and the rest of the columns fields will remain the same.  How can I configure the FeatureWriter?I currently have the following set in the FeatureWriter Parameters and in the configuration but this does nothing. The excel sheet  looks the same as before with all 100 records the same and the one record that Im looking to update does not have the Last Update column updated.  If I do an Insert, it updates that one record column ‘Last Update’ but the rest of the 99 records are deleted, which I don’t want. So the Insert is not working for my purpose.Thank you. 

I believe there is the possibility to configure user parameters in a way that they take a local path for in/output and when they are going to be published the provided alternative for the FME Flow resources path is used.I cannot find my bookmark on how to do this and did not come to anything useful when searching the net.Does somebody have a tutorial on how to configure the user parameter that it uses the local resources when run in FME Form and the FME Flow resources when run in Flow?

Hi all,I’ve successfully solved one issue of enumerating points along the lines (to define flow direction) using this post - Line to connect in order. | Community. Is it possible to enumerate segments of the line the same way using enumeration of points?

Hi all.I’ve encountered a strange issue, when I made a small workspace to help me encode and decode strings on the fly.Apparently you can’t a TextEncoder and a TextDecoder in the same workspace at the same time !??What kind of dark magic is yielding this error ?I even made each of the two transformer into separate custom transformers, but the error was the same.In 2025.2 beta

I think we can all agree that FME is pretty unique, special and powerful in it’s no code approach to data movement, integration and automation.I’m sure many of us have heard of, or even used similar (FOSS) platforms to FME, such as Node-RED (https://nodered.org/) or IFTTT (https://ifttt.com/) ‘The algorithm’ recently pushed n8n towards me - https://n8n.io/,  These platforms are more focused towards the API/Event integration side of things, rather than the entire data stack that FME excels at. Of course, with the right workspace, FME can do everything these tools can (and more)!I don’t particularly see these tools as being much of a threat to FMEs core data manipulation as they’re primarily targeted at stringing web events together.What I do think however, is it’s opening the doors to developers/teams/companies who have previously only ever thought of lines of code being able to solve solutions. It’s raising the awareness of these no code solutions and how (GUI based) tools like FME can

This morning I tried to import data using a WFS concerning a Dutch data source. I got into a weird error:Used WFS: service.pdok.nl/kadaster/kadastralekaart/wfs/v5_0?request=GetCapabilities&service=WFSDoes this look familiar to someone?

Edit: I think I found the issue. In the 2025 documentation (https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME-Flow/WebUI/Version-Control.htm) this note has been added “FME Flow currently supports only GitHub as a Git repository.”. Since my repository is on Azure it no longer works. I will leave this here, because I'm probably not the only one that will run into this issue.----original post:After update from 2024.2.1 to 2025.1.2 Version control is not working anymore.The issue is sort of the same I had last time:  Only this time when I press Push to Remote I get the message “The remote ref update was rejected. Check your repository permissions or configuration and try again.”.I refreshed the token to be sure the right token is entered, but that did not help.I opened the repository with Visual Studio Code on the server (D:\ProgramData\Safe Software\FME Flow\repositories.The check-out branch is main and it says there are 125 changes. The branch is not published.Because last time I figured out the FME Fl

Hi there,We have a plethora of web connections in FME Flow from various people publishing workspaces.  now that we can use FME Flow as the web connection repo, I would like to tidy these up and ensure a better naming convention/structure.What would be the best way to do this?I think we have to:download every workspace, open them and audit the connections, build a table to show where all the connections are used, create new ones that adhere to our standards, update all workspaces and republish to Flow, ensure any workspace apps have permissions on the new connections delete old connectionsDoes this sound right? Thanks,marc

Hello. Fairly new to FME, so might be a bit over my head.I’m trying to create a validation workflow that compares 50+ files against 3 main ones. They all have the same structure, except the geography field name that is to be used for the comparison.The 50+ files are all named with a similar structure > final_DOMAIN_GEOG_Distance or final_DOMAIN_GEOG_Driving. Pretty much the files are divided by domain and 3 geographies.The 3 main files are a compilation of all domains and GEOG. My thought process was to have 2 csv readers (1 for distance and 1 for driving) and a few parameters that would read the user choice for domain and geography and read the csv accordingly. I have two issues:the parameters for file path seem to work but the csv schema remains the same (eg, it’s reading the original reader before adding the parameters), so it doesn’t update the field name with the geography, when it’s different form the original one is it possible to create parameters that can be used in the tra

I'm getting a weird error at the very end of the log (after Translation was SUCCESSFUL) The dataset is LL-GDA2020 but at the end I get this, even after adding in a reprojector just in case and setting it to reproject from source to LL-GDA2020: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Feature Type: `'Attribute(string: windows-1252): `fme_geometry' has value `fme_point'Attribute(string: windows-1252): `fme_type' has value `fme_point'Coordinate System: `_LL-WGS84_0'Geometry Type: IFMEPointCoordinate Dimension: 3(148.19125855756474,-32.732898266064595,0)===========================================================================Unknown coordinate system '_LL-WGS84_0' specified - aborting+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Feature Type: `'Attribute(string: windows-1252): `fme_geometry' has value `fme_point'Attribute(string: windows-1252): `fme_type' has value `fme_poin

I have seen some partial answers to this while searching but nothing definitive.Can someone explain the best way to install a transformer [package] manually on Windows? More specifically, the emailer package from FME Hub. We don’t have internet connection to FME Hub so would need to download the package and install it. Does it have to be installed for each profile or can the users share a location for the package?Thanks!

Hi ExpertsNeed your support and Guidance.I was having p scanned PDF and exported a page of the map which was of 1984 and I need to extract the Points with location details with size of each point size so that i can differentiate them based on that.Main challenge is how to georefence it and I have vector file for the province and Extent and 30 M grid i was able to secure that but How can i proceed to georeference and get the details.Kindly Guide and support.I have attached the Image file with GDB of it https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SZXkbyDlMxL_cE0FPsiHKuuECl7k6HrW/view?usp=sharingThanks

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

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,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, 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