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I am reviewing some of the Transformers I either rarely use or have never used and came across the Feature Holder. Can someone provide me an example or two of why/when it would be a good idea to use the Feature Holder Transformer?

Hey. I have created a workspace on my desktop where I used source data from a local disk as part of my testing. Now I would like to have the data for all WS that use these sources in one place on the FME server, specifically on the Resources\Data path. The specific file path is "$(FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_DATA)/TopSky/AirportHeliport.BASELINE". Before publishing WS to the server I set this path on the reader as well, see attachment, however the file cannot be found when running WS from the server. Do you know where could be the problem?Thank you

Hi All,I would require your help dealing with empty values in a columnI have a file with "n" features. In one of the column (Example: Column A) certain values are null/empty. I would like to replace it with non-empty value. Also, Column A has only 2 distinct values - either null or date.Example:Feature     Column A1            Jan 20252            Jan 20253            Jan 20254            null5            null6            null7            Jan 20258            Jan 2025I would like to change Feature 4,5,6 to "Jan 2025" instead of null.In Java world, I would store them in local variable and run column A in loop and replace with value if null.Not sure how to perform similar scenario in FME. Would really appreciate your help in achieving the above expected output.Thanks in advance

Hi all.I'm having a hard time figuring out why lists with one entry, especially if it's read from XML, is mishandled in FME.A list may have any number of entries, and if reading such from XML, they often have any number including zero entries.When flattening the output, cycling thru the list, one normally uses ListExploder. However, if the list in question has one entry, it's auto-exploded, which makes ListExploder reject it. So I have to check the rejected features to see, if the list had been auto-exploded or if it had no entries at all. E.g. two or more transformers instead of just one.Why?Wouldn't it be more logical to _always_ create a list, if there are 1 or more entries ?It works as such in 2021.0Is this behaviour specific to XML (or JSON?) flattening ?Cheers.

Dear community,I want to automatically write all metadata for my geodatabase using FME. So I managed to set this up using XMLUpdater. But I only manage to do this for feature classes. I would also like to write metadata for the feature dataset, and even on the highest level, the geodatabase itself. How can I access the XML for these higher levels of gdb structure?The XML that I find with FME for a feature class only contains metadata for that particular class and not for the higher levels.Thanks in advanceNathan

I have Excel sheet with 2 fields, and I need to create folders with the values of the field 

Hi all,We have a set of points that we want to replace with symbols that are currently in a .dgnlib file. Opening the .dgnlib file does not give us the symbols directly within FME.How can we style the points using the symbols from the .dgnlib file?Kind regards,Ivan

Hello Guys I have a polygon  we need to know the length of each segment and which direction the segment is facing north , south , East or Ouest. Thanks 

I want to read some views in Microsoft SQL Server Database using a Database-Alias (not the Servername).I tried to make a DB-Connection using Microsoft SQL Server (ADO), but it didn't work with the alias (it works with the Servername).With a Microsoft SQL Server (JDBC)-DB-Connection, I can access the DB, using the DB-alias. Then I wanted to read the views, using the Microsoft SQL Server Spatial (JDBC)-Reader:I can access the database, but not the views. (In a database-application like DBeaver it works fine) TheDB- user account I use, is allowed to read the view, but not the underlying tables. Is FME not able to handle those permissions?  

This is my first time using the FeatureReader and the WHERE clause. I’m trying to tidy up my workspace and make it a bit more efficient.In the workspace I want to read in all the track points from an ArcGIS Online feature class and then in the WHERE clause filter it to just the last 24 hours.This is the WHERE clause I’m using. It has the correct date field. I’ve formatted it in the DateTimeConverter like this %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S."location_timestamp">='@Value(_24hrsago)'It filters immediately (I think) to what I need (first screenshot), but by the end it has passed through all the points in the feature set. Do I have the wrong output port connected up? Is there something I need to select in the parameters? This is what the FeatureReader Parameters look like. An additional question I have is if I want to filter to the last 24 hrs (as mentioned above) plus Projects A, B and C. How would I combine this in a SQL expression? I currently have this going into a Tester and then Clipper, but wo

Hi I had to create a script to be able to webscrape a web page using Selenium. I would like to be able to launch the script from FME but I don't know how to do it.If I share the script someone can help me ? thx Francesco

Hi there, Could I please have an update on if the I3S writer support point clouds after the release of 2023.1.1? If not then could I please have an update on the timeframe on this? Thanks, Shilpa

Which version of FME Desktop/Flow supports “Microsoft SQL Server Spatial Reader/Writer”? I want to re-project MapInfo Tables in the GIS database. Currently I’m using FME Desktop 2022.1. Is there any alternative transformer I can use to re project the objects in the live database? 

Hello,I’ve had a workbench running on FME Server and FME Desktop 2022.2 perfectly fine through the last 2 years. Suddenly, it’s throwing an error HTTP Transfer error: Transferred a partial file. I tested it with FME Server and FME Desktop 2022.2 and get the same error. When I access the url through a browser, it perfectly downloads the zip file. But the HTTPCaller fails. Request Url: https://static.aer.ca/prd/data/wells/PLA_RTF_SHP.zipAny insights would be greatly appreciated.Thank you. Sample below for testing purposes, attempting to download the file in my local.HTTPCaller settings:  Error: 

Hi, We are deploying FME Desktop 2022.2 in our server (it’s a virtual machine).  The security team had done a security scan and expected us to upgrade the FlexNet Publisher to version 11.19.6.0 or later. However, the FlexNet installer downloaded from this link (https://fme.safe.com/downloads/) is Build 11.19.2. And it looks like bonding with FME Desktop so that we cannot upgrade FlexNet Publisher individually. How can I upgrade the version of FlexNet to version 11.19.6.0 or later? Thanks in advance. Best Regards,Qubbie

Room output from an Architectural Revit model are solids. I need room polygons and I’m not finding a transformer that will do this.  Each floor of the model has a floor elevation value which would be perfect for slicing the room objects.FME version 2024.1

Hello everyone, I transformed some Orthophtos in a new coordination system and the nodata areas are black. How can I make these areas transparent? (The output data formats are TIFF and JPEG.)(I have read the related discussions, but couldn’t find the solution for my case.) Thank you for your help!  

Hi,I have encountered a problem. I have built a script that reads in from several SHP files followed by multiple SpatialFilters against another SHP file (A). The aim of my script is to check which polygons from (A) intersect with any of the other SHP files. I never know how many polygons from (A) will intersect because it is regularly updated.So, here is my problem. The result of this is a CSV and an SHP that contains the polygons that have intersected, and all the attributes from the SHP it checks against are appended. I want to remove all the attribute columns that contain only missing as values, but I have not been able to do that. The result can contain up to 25-30 different attributes! I have tried AttributeManager, NullAttributeMapper, and PythonCaller, but I can't make anything work.Any suggestions would be very helpful!

Hi,I have FTP Link, User, and PasswordHow Can I download a file using FTPCaller?Thank you for your assistance  

I am using Survey123 that generates a feature point at a default location. Every new point contains the name of the Road and from to information for the line segment. I am wondering whether there is a way to auto move that point right on top of the line segment using the Road Name information.Is there any functionality in FME that would allow me to move those points?

Hi,I’m getting data from a streaming source (Kafka) that contains multiple geometry per feature read in WKT. To process the geometry, I “desaggregate” the feature first, produce a geometry from the WKT string, then try to aggregate it back with the Aggregator transformer. As stream processing doesn’t allow blocking transformers, I have set the Group Processing parameter to “When Group Changes”.My issue with this solution is that the feature leave the Aggregator only when effectively, the group changes which means when a new feature is read… I was wondering if there was a way to force the output of the latest feature, or if it was possible to make the process “Desaggregate/Produce geometry/Aggregate back” treat one feature per feature. Edit: this is most probably possible with a PythonCaller, I’m wondering if there was a “native” solution.

Hello,  What is the best way to extract metadata from a shapefile? This would include Title, Tags, Summary, Description, Credits, Field Names, and Summaries. I want to export the metadata to an Excel spreadsheet.I am looking for some ideas on what transformers to use. 

Hi,My goal is to read multiple (unknown) Hosted Feature Layers (HFLs) from an AGOL group and write those to ArcGIS Enterprise (11.3). I can successfully specify a single HFL in my FeatureReader and using an Automated schema in my FeatureWriter, specify each individual layer and write it to Enterprise. As I need this to work for multiple HFLs, most with multiple layers, I need to use a dynamic schema in my FeatureWriter. As soon as I do this, my workbench fails. Every time I switch to a dynamic writer, using the fme_feature_type as layer name and schema from schema feature, the workbench fails due to these errors:Message Type: fme::internal::_v0::py::ExceptionPython Exception <KeyError>: 'My_HFL_Name'ARCGISPORTALFEATURES writer: An error has occurred. Check the logfile above for details I’ve tried everything I can think of to get this working and cannot understand what I’m possibly doing wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated. My workbench (so complex...) AGOL HFL FeatureRea

In the exercise: "Add Appearances to a 3D City Model" I have a problem with the "AppearanceSetter" transformer because I cannot get the colors in the buildings in the PDF output, as described by Liz Sanderson. I always get them in RED in both cases, namely: "AppearancesRed" and "AppearancesBlue". I have run the workspace as I downloaded it but both types of buildings always come out in RED in the PDF.https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407543263373-Add-Appearances-to-a-3D-City-Model

 Bonjour,je veux d’automatiser le téléchargement et la mise à jour des données accessibles via les plateformes de diffusion de données géographiques (IGN : BDTOPO, BDCARTO, etc., OSM, DREAL…).Actuellement, je travaille sur la partie automatisation du téléchargement dans FME, qui consiste à moissonner ces données. J’ai déjà fait quelques avancées, mais je sollicite votre aide sur des conseils; liens utiles  ou des pistes afin d’approfondir mes travaux..En vous remerciant d’avance.