FME Form

Hi, We use the transformer HTML2PDFConvertor, but for some reason it has stoped working and reject the input. Anyone who has an idea?  

Hi I was particualrly interested in an item that is mentioned in the FME Form Change log for FME 2025.0.2 - “Add support to read workspace parameters.” https://fme.safe.com/changelog/?_change_log_product=FMEFORM&_change_log_version=2022000001%2C2025000200 I was wondering if it is possible to obtain a detailed description of what this change is? It may well address a topic that I have been interested in for some time.RegardsJamie

I have a problem. I've built a workbench that allows me to dynamically pull in various data sources. This also pulls in lists, depending on the situation. But FME doesn't know anything about these lists. How can I expose them dynamically? I have an attribute that contains the list name. At the end I have to explode the list, edit it and reassemble it with the same name.Thanks for your supportMichael

I have 4 classes that I read from ArcGIS Online, reformat and write out to new classes, all are small and to create each output I've set "create if needed" to yes on the writer and each class is set to "use existing". All 4 classes are created. I then set the model to "create if needed" to no and each class to truncate existing. 3 of the classes update. the 4th with 55 rows truncates existing but then the writing times out with an HTTP 504 error. I've tried setting the features per request to 1 and that times out also. If I delete the class in AGOL I can still create it from the mode but i can't update it.

Hello,I have an FME 2018.1 tool that updates an ArcGIS Online-hosted feature service (Writer Mode: INSERT, Truncate First: YES). The feature service has about 15,000 parcel polygons. Typical changes: a dozen or so new polygons per month, a dozen to a hundred attribute table changes per month.The tool/transformers all work when attempted on a local geodatabase feature class. Therefore I am able to rule out transformer problems. But when the tool runs on AGOL-hosted feature services sometimes it works. Other times it fails and returns these various errors: - The error code from the server was '504' and the message was: 'Your request has timed out.'- The app domain with specified version id (xxxx) was unloaded due to memory pressure and could not be found- Could not connect to server. Check that you are connected to the internet and that no firewall is blocking outbound connections. The error was '('Connection abo

Hello,So we have some workbenches (FME 2018.1.1; 20181203 - Build 18578 - WIN64) that either read or write to AGOL after performing a bunch of operations on the data. These workbenches were working fine up until a week ago, when all of a sudden they started throwing a very generic 503 error message and failing completely.If I understand correctly, a 503 means it's a server side error (so it's likely something with ESRI), right?We've been having issues with our organization's ArcGIS Online portal for the last couple of days (layers being randomly dropped from maps, apps refusing to load) and I'm starting to think that their December 2018 AGOL update messed some things up, including the way FME's readers/writers communicate with it. Is anyone else having trouble working with AGOL lately?Thanks! 

Today I'm breaking my rule of never manually (or automatically) editing a workspace file, in order to dynamically update a choice-type user parameter.Question of the WeekThis question was asked by @philippeb who needs to send a list of names to a survey choice field. Q) Our employees fill a weekly survey about their health and their kids going to summer camp activities.The survey [fields] change in time, depending on the kids that subscribed. The subscribed kids are exported into an Excel file every week.  I thought to read the file with FME and push the kids into the survey every week. That way the list of kids in the survey could change without our help. And the kid (or his parent) could select his name to fill the survey.The issue is that we don't know any survey platform able to chang

We are looking to set up an integration between Snowflake and ArcGIS Online and need some assistance with network security.  We've found that ArcGIS Online encrypts all traffic to and from through TLS 1.2 or later with AES256. We also found that Snowflake operates in the same manner.  This would mean all web traffic to and from both data sources and the FME Flow server would be secure through the above protocols, correct?

Just want to check I’m not missing something obvious.I want to dissolve some polygons and then aggregate distinct areas into multipolygons. One of the attributes of the original polygons needs to be concatenated into a single line with no duplicates. Fairly simple with a list builder/listduplicateremover/listconcatenator if i was only using the dissolver. But if i want to get combine attributes from both processes it seems unnecessarily complicated without resorting to python (which only requires a couple of lines). Am I missing an easier way to do this?StartEnd  

I’m working on a flood-affected buildings project in St. Pauli, Hamburg, using FME’s SpatialFilter transformer. I uploaded an image of my setup (see attached). Almost all buildings are being rejected, and I’m not sure why. My buildings are the "generic object"  and flooding areas are the clipped ones  

Hi there,Input data:list with numerous entries, sorted, with changing name excerpt: name from to 947606 2041.020 2045.574 947606 2045.574 2055.574 947606 2055.574 2065.574 947606 2065.574 2079.880 947606 2079.880 2083.168 947606 2083.168 2089.880 947606 2089.880 2099.880 list with ‘exceptions’ excerpt: name from to 947606 108.459 108.7

Hello,I would like to perform queries on a branched electrical network composed of sections interconnected according to the current direction. However, the "TopologyBuilder" and "NetworkTopologyCalculator" transformers facilitate this task, but have limitations regarding the manipulation of downstream sections.  For example, I have the entity "i" and I want to collect and query the values ​​of the entity "i+1" (by analogy with the "for" loop in Python), then "i+2", etc.Do I have to use Python development, or are there other, simpler solutions?Thank you in advance for your valuable assistance.

I’m connecting a Sharepoint dataset to a portal dataset, with the intention of creating geospatial data in portal, each record having an object-id along with geometry. The Sharepoint record would be manually linked via this object-id, and then FME would sync changes of related columns.My question is which transform (there are so many!) makes the most sense, and how can I limit the updates to only those records that have a matching object-id?In my writer, the upsert action exposes a match column config, but the update action doesn’t. I feel like I’m missing something, as an update statement still needs something to match on.

I’ve reached the workflow stage, but I can’t proceed further. I’m trying to extract multiple tables from a PDF file. I’ve been following https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407564475277-Extracting-Text-and-Tabular-Data-from-PDF#h_01HW3Z9Z37Q33NQQ7R0XBGEVB0, but the structure of my PDF is quite different.I only want to extract the tables—nothing else. In my case, the table has titles on the right and content on the left. I used the StringSearcher to extract the titles, since they are easier to identify (usually one word).The challenge now is that I can’t extract or separate the content, as it’s made up of long sentences that are mixed with the titles. I'm looking for a solution to: Sep

I’m hoping to use a DTM service provided by the Environment Agency to extract the height for locations I have (points or polygons I haven’t decided yet).  They provide WMS, WCS, WMTS, OGI API: LIDAR Composite Digital Terrain Model (DTM) - 1mI believe it’s the WMTS I want, it has the elevation data layer within it. https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/lidar-composite-digital-terrain-model-dtm-1m/wmts?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMTS&version=2.0.1My plan was to use a WMTS reader, and the PointOnRasterValueExtractor to get the heights for the points I suppl

Hi, I am trying to run a custom python code that uses QGIS library in PythonCreator. However when I run the code I get this error:Python Exception <ImportError>: DLL load failed while importing _core: The specified procedure could not be found.I tried everything, I followed the documentation/manual how to setup custom python interpreter, I tried to setup dependencies and environment variables but none of that worked. Can someone tell me what am I doing wrong? Thanks!

I want to run a batch process to load a series of file-based datasets in a folder, do some simple transformations and export each to a database table.  The workspace in the image below is run by a workspace runner.  The complication is that each source has some standard columns and an unknown quantity of additional columns, which need to be loaded into the database as a new table.  If I configure the workspace with one source file, the schema config will not be correct for another file.  How can I set the schema definition to be dynamic?  I’ve been researching the subject but have not found the answer. 

when I am using AnchoredSnapper Reader Cad civil Writer : oracle spatial  Anchor : arcsCandidate : pointsSnapping Type : vertex Snapping it working fine Anchor : arcsCandidate : pointsSnapping Type : Segment SnappingTolerance zeroerror ORA-13347: the coordinates defining an arc are not distinct  same Snapping Distance in both  Why does this error occur when using Segment Snapping, The anchor is not supposed to move even with the Segment Snapping selected

Hi all,I’m trying to create clean cutouts (like donut shapes) from overlapping polygons in FME.For example, lets say I have four geometries A, B, C, and D, with each progressively larger and fully containing/overlapping the smaller ones. I want to subtract the inner shapes from the outer ones (e.g. D minus C, B, A; C minus B, A; etc.) so that only the ring-like areas remain.  I’ve previously used the AreaOnAreaOverlayer with overlap counts to determine hierarchy (e.g. a shape with 1 overlap is the largest, and one with 3 overlaps is the smallest, so I can then figure out what is what).However, this approach breaks when some of the smaller shapes are missing. I still need the output features to retain their original attributes (e.g. A, B, C, etc.), regardless of which shapes are present.

I am building a workbench that has a GeoTiff Reader, and uses the RasterPropertyExtractor and CoordinateSystemExtractor transformers to report on various qualities of the input image. The bounds, the cell sizes, etc.I am hoping for a transformer that reports on the compression method of the input image. LZW or JPEG or something else?Something similar to CoordinateSystemExtractor but instead a CompressionExtractor

I have been trying to setup the GoogleGeminiConnector in my FME Workbench to able to prompt and use the Gemini 2.0 Flash model to get me the results.Since GoogleGeminiConnector is a FME Hub transformer, the documentation is not friendly for a first time user of Google Gemini.The GoogleGeminiConnector makes use of the Google Gemini Web Service available on the FME Hub, which again needs some configuration.There are several things to be configured from the Web Services in FME to Client ID/Secret, using the on the Google Console and other configurations, some within FME and some outside FME using the Google Console.Due to the documentation is bits and pieces, a FME user is required to jump between various help documents and web pages.It will be good if Safe can provide a single page workflow, that lists out the steps in the correct order to be followed to make the GoogleGeminiConnector to successfully work in FME Workbench.TxSRG

I thought I had a good idea to simplify our in-house processes by using FME Form startup python script to use subprocess.run to run external python files. That way we wouldn’t need to copy all the python code into the startup script and could easily make changes to it.Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to work.subprocess.run FME Form runs the python script, but errors with “ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘boto3’. The python script itself works fine when run manually. It also works when copied into the FME startup section (in other words, boto3 runs successfully in both).But for some reason, running subprocess.run within FME Form will not find boto3 in the external python file (even though it works if the python code in is the startup script section of FME Form).I hope that description made sense. Is there a parameter for subprocess.run that I’m missing? Is there another way to run an external python file from FME startup?Software and Sett

So I was testing the 2025.1 Beta and was curious to try the new DocumentPDFStyler after seeing it mentioned in Seattle a few weeks ago at The Peak of Data and AI 2025. This caught my eye and I cannot find anything about this new “Safeguard”. What is it and why are the run icons disabled and not the same as other transformers (ex: Run from this, run to this...)?  

Since version 2025, we've had warning messages in the log file when we start the Workbench via batch call. When we start the Workbench manually, we don't see these warning messages. How can we disable them? Is there an FME parameter for this?Example Reader-Warning (see red columns):2025-06-02 13:14:05| 5.0| 0.0|INFORM|Executing metadata query: 'SELECT f_table_name, f_geometry_column, coord_dimension, srid, type FROM geometry_columns WHERE f_table_schema = 'public' AND f_table_name = 'example_for_fme''2025-06-02 13:14:05| 5.0| 0.0|INFORM|spatialColName: -> 'geom'2025-06-02 13:14:05| 5.0| 0.0|INFORM|spatialColDim: -> '2'2025-06-02 13:14:05| 5.0| 0.0|INFORM|spatialColSRID: -> '2056'2025-06-02 13:14:05| 5.0| 0.0|INFORM|spatialColGeomType: -> 'POINT'2025-06-02 13:14:05| 5.0| 0.0|INFORM|spatialColType: -> 12025-06-02 13:14:05| 5.0| 0.0|INFORM|authority query:2025-06-02 13:14:05| 5.0| 0.0|INF

I am merging incoming attributes in Aggregator.  I concatenate the values from a field but I am getting duplicate values.  How do I create a cleaner attribute without duplicates?