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I have encountered a strange issue where FME doesn’t recognise a cell named ‘1’ in any of the cell files I have tried using it with.This arises both using the DGNStyler, where the cell is missing from the pick-list (and it’s the only one missing),and also by applying the idgs_cell_name format attribute, where the dgn writer gives the warning that the cell could not be found in the cell file and it will be dropped from the output.This issue is in the 2022.2.4 FME Workbench currently our workplace standard, but NOT in an older 2017.1 installation.Any suggestions would be appreciated.

In FME version 2023.1. We can keep the attribute field order after schema scanner for most of dataset. But for the attached dataset, we can't keep the attribute field order after schema scanner.Is any problem in my dataset?The fmw is attached alsoThanks

Currently unable to use Feature Reader (version 15) with:Spatial Filter = "Initiator is OGC-Within Result"My initiator is a points layer and the Result layer is a polygon layer, both in the same coordinate system.It gives me a _reader_error of <missing> with no further explanation.This was upgraded from FME 2022.2 Feature Reader Version(13). No changes to any settings.When I copy/paste the version 13 Feature Reader from FME 2022 back into this 2024 workspaces and run it, it works just fine.Has functionality changed? If so, can someone point me to the doc that explains it?Or is this a bug? 

Good day Safers,I’m cutting my teeth on the new DocumentPDF Writer in FME 2025.1  Trying to set up a “Ledger” (17x11  inches) page in the stylerhttps://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME-Form-Documentation/FME-Transformers/Transformers/documentpdfstyler-pkg.htmNot really clear how to do this with the Page Properties.I know this is a work in progress so hopefully this can be worked out.  Please advise.Best, Reed

Hi, I have a bunch of workbenches which routinely read layers from our AGOL environment. There are multiple readers in the same workbench, all reading different layers. Until recently everything was doing fine, but now one reader is throwing an error. See part of the log here:ArcGIS Online Feature Service Reader: Querying layer/table 8 for object IDs, where '1=1'ArcGIS Online Feature Service Reader: Got 731 results for layer/table ID 8ArcGIS Online Feature Service Reader: Splitting reading of 731 features into 1 batches of up to 1000 featuresArcGIS Online Feature Service Reader: Getting feature results 0 up to 1000 of layer/table 'tekentools polygon lopend'ArcGIS Online Feature Service Reader: Encountered an unexpected error. The error code from the server was '400' and the message was: 'Cannot perform query. Invalid query parameters.'. Details: 'Unable to perform query. Please check your parameters.' I checked the source layer in AGOL and nothing has changed for the last 5 years, so t

Hi All,Has anyone tried to follow the steps for ‘Using the OpenAICompletionsConnector’ tutorial? Link here: https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407431621517-Using-the-OpenAICompletionsConnectorI have used the FMWT attached to the tutorial but I have the following error when trying to run it: A few considerations below:I’m using FME(R) 2024.2.4.0 (20250318 - Build 24831 - WIN64) I have created my own API Key Thanks

Hi everyone,I’m working on an FME workspace where I have two input ports: One port brings in the main data (features). The second port provides attribute values from an Excel file, which I want to use to filter the data from port one. And here you can see how the data from port one looks:Here is what the Excel file looks like: I’m basically trying to filter the data (output of AttributeRemover_6, see first image) where:destination_class_source = StructureBoundary AND  assetgroup.description = InstallationBoundary AND assettype.description = CabinetBoundary and cus_cstype_id = 2 destination_class_source = StructureBoundary AND  assetgroup.description = InstallationBoundary AND assettype.description = CabinetBoundary and cus_cstype_id = 9 destination_class_source = StructureBoundary AND  assetgroup.description = InstallationBoundary AND assettype.description = CabinetBoundary and cus_cstype_id = 3 The filter information comes from the Excel file (second image).  What would be the best

Hello, does anyone know how to create a solid from a list of intersecting 3D planes, the result of the intersection of which creates a closed shape? The input 3D planes are not logically numbered with each other in any way.

Hi,As per my current workspace I use feature reader to read layers from AWS and this after some translation is written to Feature writer with file format as gdb. I want the Alias also to be written to the file gdb. Tried by using attribute manager with similar attribute name followed by _alias (same case as existing attribute). This dint work. Any Ideas? 

Hi I have a point cloud that I want to simplify. I need 1 point in every 1cmx1cmx1cm space/voxel. I already did something similar, but that was in 2D with point clouds containing only ground points and with the resulting point cloud as some sort of DTM.In short, I used the 2dgridaccumulator to make a grid. Then I calculated the mean Z value’s of al points in a grid tile and added that value to the centerpoint of that grid. Than I used the vertexcreator to make the new point cloud.  Now I need to do ‘kind of’ the same thing but in a 3D grid…I was looking at some transformers: pointcloudduplicateremover, pointcloudsimplifier, pointcloudspatialthinner, 3dboundingboxreplacer… I haven’t found a really good way to do this. Anyone with ideas?    

Good morning,I have a folder in an S3 bucket that contains a folder for each day of the year and each of those folders contain about 24 files. Since I need to download the data in order to process it, is there a way to only download the folders that contain the word “2025”?  I have not been able to format a wildcard that works for a folder. I could also potentially use a wildcard to select the files, if there is a way to do that.Thank you,Peter

I have two input features. One contains the actual data, but with the wrong attribute names. The other contains the desired attribute names plus the connection key.Data-FeatureAttributename-FeatureGreen corresponds to the attribute name in the data feature,Red is the name of the attribute in the end How can I merge the two features and/or rename them so that the correct names appear? 

We're currently integrating FME with Databricks. In a vanilla Databricks environment, everything works as expected—both reading from and writing to Unity Catalog tables using the Databricks Reader and Writer in FME.However, in our organizational Databricks environment, we're encountering an issue: Reading works fine using the same credentials (tested with both OAuth and PAT). Writing, however, gets stuck in an infinite polling loop in FME, with no error message returned. The same credentials and target table work fine for writing when using a Python script in the same environment, so it seems to be specific to how FME writes data.Given that writing works in the vanilla setup but not in our organizational environment, I suspect the issue is related to permissions or Unity Catalog access controls that are more tightly restricted in the corporate setup.My questions: What exact permissions are required in Databricks for FME's Databricks Writer to write to Unity Catalog tables? What met

I’m not sure if this is the right forum or category (I couldn’t select “general”), but as I’m sure you’re aware, Safe recently changed it’s pricing for FME, which includes annual maintenance pricing. We are a small consultancy business, long term Safe customer (10+ years) and have been FME advocates amongst our customers for many years. We have just received details of pricing for our annual maintenance in 2025 and for FME Form (previously FME Desktop Professional) for us this has increased by approximately 600%.The new maintenance price for FME Form is going to make it a lot more difficult to justify for a small business like ourselves.We were also previously lookng to expand our FME use by purchasing Flow, but the new pricing has also forced us to cancel those plans.We will also find it difficult to recommend FME to our customers, especially smaller ones, as the bar to entry in terms of pricing has been set so high.I have previously raised the issue of pricing with our reseller in th

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 aborted.', error(10053, 'An established connect

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 change automatically from a script. Do you know if any kind of platform could change when FME pushes new values into it?A) I know of a platform that could be used to provide a weekly survey: FME Server! Aft

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 108.459 108.747 947606 2070.204 2074.543 947606 6071.987 6100 Goal:I need to find ‘matching’ rows, where from(1) <= from(2) AND to(1) >= to(2) [colored lines].What I already tried:I already attached the second list as an list attribute to every single line to the first list (FeatureMerger) and than tried to find the matching line with two ListSearchers. This is limited as the ListSearcher only finds “First ...”.Can somebody help?