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Hi,I am trying to make a flow where among other tasks I have to move some areas from one table to another and remove duplicates ID's for areas, but keep in 2 attributes a list of blocks (names and ID's) - like in pic attached.I thought I had a solution by using a Dissolver and put those values of ID's in a list, then using a ListConcatenator I could put them in desired new attributes. First issue I discovered is that the Dissolver didn't removed the duplicates (or not all of them) and BLOCKID and BLOCKNAME doesn't contain all values. Can you give me an idea on how to fix this issue? Thanks.Nicu 

Hi, Currently having 'fun' with the OnlineSharePointConnector transformer, this was correctly functioning on FME desktop and FME Server (both version 2021.1 ) for a me a week ago. Now the transformer none of the SharePoint sites I have access to appear and I'm getting the following error messages when attempting to connect to a site. Any assistance greatly appreciated.

Hello and welcome to What's Up WednesdayWe didn't get a post last week (sorry) so you can imagine that this one has a lot of items to mention! A Community Guide to FME Best PracticesLast week I tweeted a screenshot of a workspace I was working on and talked about how it was time to do some best practice on it:  Of course, Best Practice is more than just the style of a workspace; it's also about how you go about creating a workspace and testing/debugging what you have. Anyway, I suggested perhaps we should create an e-book or similar entitled "A Community Guide to FME Best Practices" and it seemed to be a popular idea with everyone. So I'm now determined to make this a reality and will reach out soon to those folks on Twitter and anyone else who would like to cont

I am setting up a WB dynamically to migrate data from one DB to another. Each feature types has a several hundred thousands of objects. Whilst developing the WB i dont want to read the entire content of the source tables and has therefore set the reader option "Features to Read" -> "MaxFeatures to Read Per Feature Type: 10. In that way I can Create the destination tables before I run the entire process which will take a while.But even if I have set it to read 10/feature type it only read the 10 first features of the first table. I was expecting it to read 10 features from each of my 30 tables?I can also see that it is readying the entire feature class but only processing the first 10. I am confused of this feature?

I'm doing a change detection on a date field from 2 sources. One source always includes time even if they are "000000". The other source appears to be strip those 0's. How can I add the hours minutes seconds to the records that are missing them? Do I need to filter for the records missing time values before adding the 0's. I will attach an image with the "J_NotifyDate" column missing time if they are 0's

Hello, please, I have met issue that I read DWG Layout in FME. But unfortunately FME is not able to load raster which should be in Layout. I use parameters "Read Paper space" as You can see in attachment. Is it bug? Or is there any workaround, how to read raster in DWG Layout? Its very uncomfortable, because I need to transform DWG Layourt to PDF. Thanks a lot!Lubo

Hi, I thought this would be easy but it's starting to look like it's not even possible. For each feature, I want to copy the contents of a list attribute from the previous adjacent feature (-1). It is possible to create a new attribute and copy an adjacent attribute this way, but since you cannot just create a "list" attribute in the AttributeManager, this doesn't seem possible. Is there a way to achieve this? I have also looked at the ListCopier, but it cannot access adjacent features since that functionality is only available in the AttributeManager. Is it possible to access adjacent features via Python? If that were possible, maybe Python could provide a solution to this problem. Thanks.

I am getting some records from replicate view in smallworld and fme unable to read these value bcoz fme is working on the current view in smallworld.IS there any possibility to change the current view to replicate view of smallworld in fme

Hello,When I put a gdb file in my process with the reader, its works, the file is read. But when I put another gdb file with the same reader (thanks to a parameter) it isn't read if this file hasn't the same name field. Why ? Thanks you

Hello,I am using Dissolver to remove common boundaries and create larger areas based by an attribute.Next step was to calculate the areas of areas from which I created the large ones - DONE (Accumulation -> Attributes to sum).Now I would like to create a list of some attributes from small areas and put them in another attribute separated by comma ( ex: name, id of old small area).Can we do this in Dissolver? Thanks!Nicu

Hi! I'm trying to connect points to each other using lines. The points are in two seperate postGIS datasets, but have an ID-value in common. So I would need help to join points based on a common field / attribute. Does anyone know how to do this? I have successfully done this in QGIS using the Hublines tool. https://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/processing_algs/qgis/vectoranalysis.html#qgishublines

Hello! I've been working on a project for a few weeks now and finally got a good enought network. Now I want to calculate the distance from every school to every adress point. This is to later create polygons from set distances.  Is it possiable to do this in the same shortest path finder? I've been looking at list but can't figure out how to do it. Can anyone help me? I have attached my workbench and the data.  Best regards Jesper

Hi there, I'm converting IFC to CityGML following the tutorial FME shared here: https://community.safe.com/s/article/bim-to-gis-intermediate-ifc-lod-300-to-lod-4-cityg.  It is noticed that the representation of WallSurface is quite strange (red lines on the surface). May I know the reason and if there are any solution to make the wall surface shown as smooth surface like others? Thanks in advance!

I know that in PythonCaller processing is feature wise and each attribute can be access by feature.getAttribute().But for my task I need all values of attribute (e.q. to check min, max, uniqueness etc).I know that I can check those e.q. in AttributeValidator but for current task I need them in PythonCaller.Is there some way to accomplish this using fmeobjects?Something like getAllAttributeNames() but for let say column not line?Thanks,Submi

I have an Edge line (like a polyline) and would look to trim some length in feet off the beginning of the line, with the rest of the line remaining intact as is. Is there a transformer that can do this?

I've created a workspace that updates (and truncates) an ArcGIS feature service. It works great! I'd like to run it once a day in the middle of the night like 3:00 AM. I have a floating FME Desktop license and don't have access to an FME Server. I use the floating license on my desktop and laptop computers, both run Windows 10. I think that this may be more of a Windows 10 question rather than an FME question. Can anyone recommend a way for me to run an FME workspace once a day at a specific time on my desktop machine? Because I have a floating license, I think that I'll need to make sure to FME Desktop on my laptop at the end of the day. Thanks.

I need to update a text file which contains the settings for an executable tool. It would be really useful if I could automate this in FME. The text file is saved in UTF-8 format and for example, lines two and three contain the variables for START_TIME and END_TIME: START_TIME=2005/01/01 00:00END_TIME=2007/12/31 23:59 How can FME be used to change the two dates, 2005/01/01 and 2007/12/31? Thank you, Rob

In a linked custom transformer, $(FME_MF_DIR) is resolved to the path of the folder of the installed custom transformer and not to the path of the workspace. My workspace is in C:\\workspacesbut $(FME_MF_DIR) is resolved to:\\\\filer25\\users\\uxxxxx\\FME\\TransformersI have to use a PythonCaller in the custom transformer to get the value resolved to the path of the workspace. In a PythonCaller,  FME_MacroValues['FME_MF_DIR'] is resolved to the path of the workspace and not to the path of the linked custom transformer.Is this as designed, or is this a bug?

As far as I knew, the MRF2D transfomers that are offered by FME were only available with an extra cost. That detail was mentioned in the docs of those transfomers, but today I have seen that there is no longer a mention of an extra cost: https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Desktop_Documentation/FME_Transformers/Transformers/mrf2dduplicateremover.htm The transfomers matrix doesn't mention that extra costa, either: https://www.safe.com/transformers/matrix/ Are those transfomers now available for everyone? If that is the case, do I need to download the

I have a workspace that is updating about 100,000 records online. It will do a couple groups of 1000 updates before the rest service returns an error:"The error code from the server was '1000' and the message was: 'Execution Timeout Expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding." Is there a way to get around this error? I was thinking that reducing the number of records updated per rest call would help but I dont see a way to change the number from 1000. Thanks!

I have a very large dataset that I usually split into 3+ pieces when I export to shapefile, then zip them up together. I'd like to use the shapefile writer to do both without setting feature thresholds (hi, FeatureCounter!) and using an external compression utility. However, when I leave the Split Dataset... checked and check the Create Compressed Shapefile option, all that's in the SHZ is the last portion of the split data set (FILENAME_3.shp, etc.). Can I use both? If so, what trick am I missing? Shapefile haterz to the back - it's sadly what The People want.

Hi. For many years, I've used FME as a portal for getting spatial data in and out of Blender. Most commonly, I've used the .OBJ format for this, which although simple, gets the job done reliably, at least as far as 3D geometry and materials go. Unfortunately, the .OBJ does not support feature attributes, which was never too much of an issue for me, as there was never too much scope for using them in Blender anyway. However, more recently, that situation has changed, particularly with the recent emergence of Blender Geometry Nodes. It's now beginning to seem like there are very good reasons for having feature attributes available to use in Blender - yet, I'm not seeing any way of transferring them across from FME (or, indeed, anywhere else). Does anyone know of a format that could potentially achieve this? Or is there a case for the creation of an .OBJ-like format that can additionally include custom feature attribution too? Once you&

When the workspace starts I have the user select a certain attribute. Depending on which attribute is chosen I want different user parameters to come up.  So for example I have a list of six items. If they pick item 1 then the attribute manager calculates a number of values. I also want it to display different user parameters depending on which inital item is chosen I hope this makes sense? I'm just not sure if I can even do this in FME. I notice any user parameters I create always show up altogether at the beginning.