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Hello FME'ers,Here is your weekly update on all the news related to FME. New 2021 (2021.2.4)Of course, we're all looking forward to the release of FME 2022, but fixes are still made to 2021. In fact, a new version of FME 2021 was released last week, 2021.2.4. As usual, there are few highlights (because it's not meant to be a spectacular release) but you should consider looking into this if you have experienced problems with either the ArcGIS Portal Reader or Excel writer. The changelog file has more information. Dmitri and Lena's AR SpectacularOtherwise known as the Exploring Outdoor Infrastructure with AR webinar! This took place yesterday and was very successful. Congratulations to them both for pulling off some great live demos. If you missed the webinar, you can find the recording on our website, or on YouTube.  FME's Favourite TransformerThe Favourite FME Transformer contest is now into its second round of voting, and there are some close matchups. For example,

Hello there we have a set of points getting to the line builder, not in sequence how we could organize them to build them straight line we are getting this from the line builderI think the line builder is connecting the point in the order they enter the linebuilder Any ideathanks  

I am reading a JSON file and converting into File GDB, here using Attribute Manager, but in Attribute Manager list of attributes are not updating accordingly when ever I change the JSON files. In order to update is manually update the reader and feature type, then only it is updating. So. requesting you please suggest a way to auto update this.

We need to move our FlexNet License Server for FME Desktop to a new machine. What is the best way to move the licensing from the old license server to the new? Thank you.

Hello,  I have a shape with points and a shape line. I want to create the shortest path between my points which have the same trip_id with the stop_seque field but the shortestPathFinder doesn't work.I don't understand ? Please do you know what is a problem ?Thank you

Hello, I need your help please my pdf after conversion is too heavy. do you have an idea to compress these pdf please? 

How would I go about copying the name of a column and using it as an attribute?

What is the best way to join 2 ArcSDE layers and then add a whereclause on the joined data?

Working with ArcGIS SDE Enterprise and feature classes. I am looking to create a back up of feature classes every month. The gdb changes every month and feature classes get added. Is there a way to automatically add readers based on those additions?

Hello, I am looking to convert RGBI (four bands) tiff files into JPEG2000 format and maintain the RGBI data. I cannot seem to work out how to maintain the infrared band as the write format seems to allow for that.

Hello there we are building line from multiples point using line builder we get this using line smoothness we get thisas you can see still there is some pics there the line is not very street how could we improve the result to get a straight lineI played with the tolerance but still the same result 

Hello Friends, I'm new to FME. I have two shp (Line) files. one with old data and another one with new attribute field data. in the new file its falling on exactly on the top of old lines, but some places its little shifted approx. less than one meter.  I would like to transfer All attribute data to the old file from new one, and copy new lines where ever old data is not their.Not sure which are the transformers to use for this string. Hope someone can help Regards, Ps. Old data is in black color and new data in orange color

Hello please advice. How do I view these attributes? They are not visible in the workspace. I only see them in the data inspector. Thank you

Is there a work instruction to sort a text file then export as a Excel? I have attached my current workbench and file as ZIP. I need to sort into 0-500, 501-2000, 2001+ sections.

Where can I store my FME AR model? Does the FME AR model need to be in FME Cloud or can it be in any public location?

Hi All,I am just starting with FME and so far it is amazing! I downloaded a CityGML file for the sidewalks of NYC (see attached) and want to export it to Unreal Engine. ( I already did the same with another cityGML file and it worked great) Yet with this particular model (it is 800 mb, so I have to use google drive link here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ov3Y_y2IVs_MPiazpZO1o2xNnMWiTEju?usp=sharing ) it exports empty file and the geomerty is not showing up in FME Workbench, while I can see it in FME Inspector. At this point I am pretty desperate and cannot find any solution on how to address this..Please let me know if you know how to resolve it! I really appreciate your time and help!    

Hey - I have to transform a lot of DWG Files into a custom coordiante system. The transformation works, but I have a problem doing so when a file has external references (in this case the reference points to another DWG in the same directory, which therefore has to get transformed as well). Following my first thought, I tried to transform all files but leave the insert points for the references untouched, but this didn't work. Even when discarding the RealDWG reader Option "Read External References" or trying to filter out everything that has the value "autocad_xref" for autocad_entity with a test filter and letting these objects bypass the transformation process in my workbench, I'm getting the same result: The insert points for the references are transformed too and therefore seem to be shifted double the distance in comparison to other objects. Do you have any advices for me how to solve this problem? Thanks a lot! :-)

When trying to use the SQL Azure SQL Database (JDBC) database connection, can that be used with the ActiveDirectoryPassword authentication type? I have a service account in the Azure Active Directory, but that is not the user our FME Server runs with, to be able to use the ActiveDirectoryIntegrated option. I have successfully used FME Desktop with my personal account as well as the service account (using RunAs) with the ActiveDirectoryIntegrated authentication. Any help you can provide would be very much appreciated.

Hello! I need to open a raster and use it as a reference to create a larger one (a few inches bigger on the height of the initial image). This procedure must be done for a set of images of varying sizes and not georeferenced.Later on combining the two files, the original and the other that was created (I thought use the RasterMosaicker), I would have an additional blank area at the bottom of the image where I could add a text box. I'm having trouble with:- creating larger images that have as reference a set of images of varying sizes- adding the text box with message in the fixed position (the bottom border that were added in each resulting image). Does anyone know any transformer or transformer set to solve this problem? Thanks for help!

Now i receive errors, as a workaround i tried to save each web page as html file, how can i bulk read inside info of 

Hello !  I got a script wich is working under FME Desktop but I'd like to make it an executable. I know that this is possible but as soon as I have to set some user parameters manually when the script is executed, is it still possible ?Moreover, the script uses two different postgis DB (One for reading AND writing, the other only for reading, don't know if this information is useful tho) If you have any information on deploying a batch/exe that prompts for user inputs and keeps DB logins please let me know 🙂 Thank you in advance,Regards,An fme rookie

FME Desktop: filtering based on two fields fails to bring the expected results, In the screenshot below, I wanted to filter all features that don’t take the 11 or 10 colors and exist in “UMP_Background_Hatches”. I couldn’t figure out why the feature with 11 color is filtered                

Hi, i'm trying to use the to rename the attributes. What i want to to is replace a part of the attributes with the values of a string but nothing seems to happen.If i use a regular string (f.e. "_1987") it works but if i use the expression @Value(_listJ{0}.J) nothing happens. Is this allowed? can i use a list in the field string?

I have a SHAPE-dataset with lines that I turn into polygones with the bufferer. Some of the lines are on top of each other, but that was never a problem so far. But now I have a new bunch of lines where for just a few, the bufferer only puts out one of the overlaying buffered areas insead of both. This only happens with about 10 lines while it works fine for the other 300.So far a could not find a common trait for those where it doesn't work compared where it does work.The lines are normal lines with no self-intersections (according to the GeometryValidator)Does anybody have a clue, why this might be happending?Thank you!

Hi all.I would very much like to trick my FME 2020.2 into using the 2021.2 Data Inspector instead of its own.The reason is that there is a bug in DI 2020.2 wrt. background maps, which is solved in 2021.2, and our national base map repository has just switched to another service, that makes the base maps unusable in DI 2020.2.I still need to use Workbench 2020.2 , as our FME servers are still running version 2020.2.Has anyone tried this, and if so, how to do it ?I've looked at the registry, but is not sure whether this is used for this.