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Hello,FME Flow announces the deprecation of the JobWaiter transformer:2024-9-2 10:59:42 | FMEFlowJobWaiter (ServerFactory): FMEFlowJobWaiter was deprecated in 2024.1.0. Its support lifetime is limited because the v3 FME Flow REST API will be removed in future FME releases. When the v3 API is removed, this transformer will stop working. Please update this workspace to use an HTTPCaller to call the relevant REST API directly instead.Question: Is there any ‘how-to’ with a sample workspace which REST call can be used to replace the JobWaiter functionalities? My sample scenario would be: You have 5 jobs running in parallel (wait to complete NO), JobWaiter polls every 20sec until all 5 job_ids are received and completed. all 5 jobs must have _status SUCCESS before Job #6 is called.I tried GET /transformations/jobs/id/{jobid}/result but it failed with 404. Any hint?thanksKlaus 

Can I please have some help, I have list of attributes as example:attribute{}.name = ID and attribute{}.native_data_type =longhow can I use jsontempleter to have as output to json ID(long)? Thank you,M

Hello community,Just installed the 2025.1 beta of FME Form [FME(R) 2025.1.0.0 (20250612 - Build 25591 - WIN64)].I'm experiencing a new behaviour compared to all the previous versions: when I open a workbench it automatically fills all caches in, without me running the workbench. Luckily, it stops at the writers and does nor run them.I could not find any information about this in the change log of the latest versions.Is this on purpose or a bug? Is there any way to stop it? I do want the caches, but I want to decide which ones are created.I get these notifications in the data preview while it is doing it and after it is done:Sorry if this is repeated, I couldn't find it here.

I have downloaded  county road network compined the lines via road name I have 2 point datasets a (From and a To). they are intersections of the road network they share many fields but ive been using a count field as a joiner. when I am using feature joiner I keep the roads that the points are touching but i want to keep only the road inbetween the points. after point on area overlayer theyre broken up but the fields are duplicated. so i am unsure how to keep the “inner section”. Im sure its just something simple i am misunderstanding 

Hi FME Community We have a dynamic FME workbench which iterates through 89 datasets in an Oracle Database and inserts all records into datasets in a SQL Database. Some of the datasets are large (over 4 million records) and the whole process for truncate & load can take over 24 hours to run. We are looking for ways to improve the speed of this process.  We are currently using a feature reader to get the Oracle features, then using a few transformers to clean up the data (i.e. in case there are multiple geometries), then using a feature writer to insert the records into the SQL database.  How can we speed up and/or optimize this process? Is there a way to use a SQL Executor to improve the process?  

Hi Community,I’ve developed a workflow that enables me to connect to an external SFTP server and download all contents from a specified folder. I followed the guidance provided in the following post:The workflow functions well for a single folder. However, the SFTP directory structure includes multiple nested subfolders. I now need to enhance the automation to recursively traverse these subfolders. Please see the structure example below.  Additionally, the SFTP contains files in various formats. To handle this, I plan to use multiple StringSearcher transformers—one for each file type (e.g., .tiff, .asci, .las). My challenge is ensuring that FME iterates through all subfolders to identify and process the relevant files.Could anyone advise on how to configure FME to recursively search through subfolders and apply the appropriate filters?Many thanks in advance!

Dear FME Community,I should to optimize my job, and for that I need to make group processing with an optimization of objects numbers like that :And after, as you can see, make a parallelize of objets for not having only a linear treatment. Do you know how can I do this ? Thank you very much.

My requirement is to calculate the distance in meters from points to nearest road in FME, end output should be one new field should be added in point layer with distance to each points. i have tried to do this with NeighborFinder transformer but i am not getting my desired output. i don’t where i am doing mistake. can any one help me.

Colleagues, I'm looking for a way to sort two text columns in Excel based on a custom classification. I have a dataset with several columns, including X, Y, ID Link, GIS Portal Link, Major Company, and Sub Company. My goal is to sort the "Major Company" and "Sub Company" columns according to my own predefined order.Here's what I attempted:I used the AttributeMapper transformer to assign classification values, followed by a Sorter to sort both columns. However, it seems that FME ignored the initial sorting by "Major Company" and only applied the sort to the "Sub Company" column.What I want is: To first sort the "Major Company" column based on my custom classification. Then, within each "Major Company" group, sort the "Sub Company" column based on another classification. It’s important that the row structure remains intact—meaning if a "Sub Company" row is moved, all its related data (X, Y, ID Link, GIS Portal Link) must move with it. However, I worry that "freezing" or locking the

What is the best way to extract the path_modified_date, path_created_date, and path_accessed_date for files in a folder (these are shapefiles and zip file)? I ran the Directory and File Pathnames Reader, and it shows these attributes as missing. Is there a transformer I need to use after this Reader to extract this information?  

I have this line (the green one): And I want to calculate the shortest path from the start of the line to its end across the network (the violet one).How can I do it?What is it the right way to do it? How can I set the parameters of the “ShortestPathFinder”?attached files!Tnks 

We have been using FME 2021.2 ( build 21789) and recently upgraded our SQL database to 2019. We started seeing timeout errors when the FME writer tries to connect to the SQL Server and keeps saying 2023-10-16 15:04:58|  2.2| 0.0|INFORM|Microsoft SQL Server Non-Spatial Writer: Trying to connect using Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server...We use windows scheduled task manager to run our jobs and this is causing some of the jobs block other FME jobs. Any ideas on what may be the issue.  Thanks,AD

Hi everyone,Brand new to FME (ArcGIS Interoperability) - like 6 hours into it.  I have a process in ArcGIS Pro that I’m trying to replicate in FME.  It starts with a one to many spatial join where I also keep all target features.   I have parcel data (Target) that I want to join to address points.  Multple address points can sit on a single parcel (think apartments and duplexes), also 1 address point can be snapped to multple parcels (think of a property owner that also owns the adjoining lot. I am trying to create a layer : that will duplicate the parcel for every time an address intersects with it - 5 apartments on one parcel will produce 5 stacked parcels If an address is snapped on the edge of two parcels, both output parcels will inherit the attributes of the address point If a parcel has no address, it will still be included in the output.This is very simple in ArcPro with a one to many spatial join set to keep all target features  But I’ve been struggling for hours trying to get

Hello everyone,I have a column with output that changes depending on different input.Ideally, I would like to populate a published parameter (Choice) based on the output of that column, so then a user can click on a value of that choice list on FME Server in let's say a workspace app.Does anyone know how to dynamically fill in a choice list based on the output of a column?  

Hi community, does anyone know how to find these points using NeighborFinder/VertexCreator and then create a line with LineBuilder? My goal is to find the shortest route between the "common" points of these two road networks (existing vs planned).

Hello together (and thanks for your help)I’m testing my 2022.2 workbenches in 2024.2Every single workbench generates an error when having a testfilter in it:Cannot have multiple factories with the same name.  Multiple factories were assigned the name 'BufferRuler_4_TestFilter'The testfilter itself is not filled anymore.Like that it looks in 2022.2: This is 2024.2: Any suggestion anyone? Thanks in advance, Hannes

Can FME create folders in an on-prem Sharepoint Library? I’m successfully connecting to the library using the Sharepoint List type (Reader and Writer), and looking at written data I can see an existing folder, but I can’t use the writer to create folders.

Hello,I am currently working with some database PostGIS rasters and wanted to import some into FME 2024.1, using a filter to only select 2 out of 11030.To do so, I tried both a SQL Executor and a FeatureReader (as both enables PostGIS raster reading).The SQL Executor filters the rasters correctly but doesn’t create the geometry and returns an error in the log file.The FeatureReader loads the 11030 rasters without filtering, suggesting a problem with the “WHERE clause”.I tried the same thing using FME 2023.1 and the SQL Executor is working under this version. I am wondering if there is a bug in the FME 2024.1 version.The problem was the same for the Feature Reader.A colleague said that the Feature Reader outputs everything as well in previous versions of FME (2022.2 and 2021.1).Do you know when the FME 2024.1 bug will be corrected?We are linking our work with ArcPro and we know we will have to use FME 2024.I am enclosing a share folder with the different logs (as txt) and the 2 workbenc

I’ve tried multiple times to read gml file with feature reader or import that into the workspace using reader. I tried with multiple settings but failed.The gml file structure seems ok as it is loaded into old QGIS without any problems. Any advises or tips how to handle such files are welcome.

Hello everyone,For my use case, I would like to retrieve information from a SharePoint site of which I am an owner.Specifically, I’m trying to find out who the members of the site are and their mail-adresses. Do any of you have an idea of how I could approach this?I looked into the SharePointOnlineConnector, but it seems I can't retrieve site metadata using it. I might be missing something. 

Error:I have a workflow using a generic reader and it give me below warning:2022-03-10 22:07:41| 135.3| 0.3|WARN |Detected 2600000 unique Attribute Names strings in the translation. Several unique names may result from operations like list attribute creation or feature type fanout. Reducing the number of unique names may improve translation performance and reduce memory usageany idea what the reason is? 

After the update to version 2025.0.2, the writer is very very slow.  Am i the only one who noticed it?

fme form 2025.0.3 ，can not open it

HelloI have to change the value of a deployment parameter. Is there a way to find out, in which other workspaces this deployment parameters is being used?Thanks, Vera

Hi all,I’m running a workflow that reads a licensed FGDB layer, it’s setup within a custom transformer to take advantage of parallel processing.The problem is I’m getting the following error when the PC spins up 16 instances.025-06-03 22:38:47| 0.3| 0.0|INFORM|2> Opening the Esri Geodatabase reader2025-06-03 22:39:48| 0.4| 0.1|INFORM|2> The ArcObjects license 'Advanced' is being selected from the ESRILicenseInfo ArcObjects call2025-06-03 22:39:48| 0.4| 0.0|INFORM|2> The Esri Product license used by this machine does not include licenses for the 'Advanced' licensing level2025-06-03 22:40:48| 0.5| 0.1|INFORM|2> The ArcObjects license 'Advanced' is being selected from the ESRILicenseInfo ArcObjects call2025-06-03 22:40:48| 0.5| 0.0|INFORM|2> The Esri Product license used by this machine does not include licenses for the 'Advanced' licensing level2025-06-03 22:40:48| 0.5| 0.0|ERROR |2> Unable to perform any licensing related tasks. Please che