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To put it simply, I have created a model which takes a single candidate polygon and compares with a number of potentially overlapping clipper polygons from a database. This has run on FME Flow for a few months now without issue, however a recent combination of polygons has caused an output I cannot get my head around.I have isolated the issue to a very small model, consisting of one shapefile with three Clipping polygons and another shapefile of a single candidate polygon (see data attached).Model:Candidate Polygon:Clipper polygons (note the smaller polygons overlapping the larger one, totalling three):When fed into a Clipper transformer, I would expect three results. One for each clipper where it overlaps with the candidate. Instead I get the following:Result 1:Result 2:Result 3 (a donut is formed with the middle polygon by the smallest clipper polygon):The first and second of the above outputs are expected, but the third forms a donut with the smallest polygon. I’ve tried many differ

How to configure the property manager setter to accept an attached file and display it in a KML popup

I am creating a table for my PDF report which is sorted on months of the year, I have a sorter just before my DocumentPDFStyler table that feeds it. It sorts the months chronologically, however in the pdf output the order is not respected. I am sorting on the month number ascending, everything in my workspace and the outputs look correct, and then the output is sorted months 1-12 but June appears at the end after December. 

HiI recently upgraded FME Form from 2025.0 to 2026.1.1 and my workspace for processing IFC files no longer seems to work. So far, I have noticed these issues:FME 2026 does not detect the same attributes, such as BIP.IfcGUID.NominalValue I removed the reader and added it again and FME now seems to replace BIP.IfcGUID.NominalValue with BIP.IfcGUID. The “Door” subset now seems to cointain thousands of attributes, which was not the case in FME 2025. This makes FME very slow to work with. Saving the workspace now takes several minutes and the .fmw file has grown from around 0,9 MB to 21 MB. Opening the workspace takes several minutes as well. Has anyone else noticed these issues?

Hi all,I have a table in Redshift that is JDBC (not the spatial version of Redshift); it has a column that is in WKB.  I need to extract this and create points in Lat Long.  I’ve tried the geometry extractor but getting nowhere fast.  Have also tried sql executer to use the ST_geometry to get the coords, nowhere again.  When I tried to use the Redshift connections, the username/pwd and related connection data did not connect.  It is only with JDBC that I can create the connection.Anyone had any experience with this?Thanks,Lorinda

I have a routine to be done once a quarter-year or maximun a month. There is some major file downloading and processing that was managed by parallel workspace runner in Form (Desktop). I need to deploy the same routine on FME Flow, but I need to take advantage of parallel processing. As I understood I can't process multiple simultaneous jobs with one engine.So I have tried combining it with FME Form WorkspaceRunner that actually works, but somehow can't pass the DB connection from Flow job to Form workspace. Is there a way to pass the connection from Flow job to WSRunner other than embedding the connection and so creating a workspace for every DB connection?

Hi, I have a regular grid of 50 x 50 cells (polygon features). These cells cover an overall area which can vary each time the workbench is run resulting in a different number of cells generated.   Within each cell I want to place points at specific locations (the same relative locations in each 50 x 50 cell but not  themselves arranged in a regular grid). Currently I utilise the bounding box of the overall area to define the point locations for the grid cell in the bottom left corner (point locations based on x_min+number, y_min+number).  What is the best way to insert points in the other cells?  I can use an offsetter to move the points in each direction but there might be a significant number of other cells and the number of cells isn't known.  Thanks

Hi allI want to define the Geometry Type in PostGIS-Writer. I recently changed from an old version of FME to version 2025.2 In the user dialog of the writer there ist still a field for the definition (feature type/user attributes/spatial definition/geometry type, but the field is de-activated (grayed out).Is there a way to “manually” define the geometry type for postgis tables?  Thank you for any help.

I developed a small MCP server that exposes an FME workbench (.fmw) as a service that can be invoked via natural language, using an AI client (e.g., Claude).The interesting aspect is the architecture and the simplicity of "assembling" the various components:1) I build the FME flow that executes the workflow, managing logic, transformations, and formats (we leave to FME what belongs to FME),2) the MCP server exposes operations and parameters in a controlled manner,3) the AI ​​client interprets the request in natural language and translates it into a structured call. 

Linked to this query, that i believe is now closed, it would be great to be able to export GOCAD TS files.

Hi,I’ve created an FME workflow which successfully creates a csv and zipped shapefile and emails a recipient. However, I want to use the TempPathnameCreator so that the output files are wiped after emailing. I’ve adapted the workflow but it fails to create the files. On inspecting the rejected email output it couldn’t find the files in the temp folder, but when testing with just the writer 0 features are output. I assume I need a separate TempPathnameCreator for both zip and csv file or can they be in the same folder? Here is the final part of my workflow. Is my configuration wrong? Josh

Hi,I have a file geodatabase (.gdb) containing feature classes, along with an Excel file that includes ArcGIS Pro SQL definition queries intended for specific feature classes.Example: gdb with feature classes ArcPro definition querySchema = '1' And Rodzaj NOT LIKE '%B%' I’d like to understand how I can automatically convert these ArcGIS Pro SQL queries into FME SQL syntax. The queries will vary each time and are tailored to individual feature classes. This SQL works in FeatureReader but it requires a lot of manual work   

Hi,  I get an error “unable to open primary document entity” if I have a XML-file with a space-character “ “ in the filename of the XMLfile I want to validate in XMLValidator. (2024.2) My questions: is there a work around to set up “Manage User Parameters”, so I can’t upload XML-files with a space in the filename? Best regards,Inka

Hi,I want to tile LiDAR data. My project contains about 550 tiles (1 km × 1 km), so processing everything at once in a standard FME workspace is not practical, as my PC would struggle with the memory requirements.At the moment, I use a shapefile that contains a "to_run" attribute. In QGIS, I select a group of tiles and update this attribute. In FME, I use a Tester together with a Feature Reader so that only the selected tiles are processed.While this works, the workspace still consumes a lot of memory, and I have to monitor the process more closely than I would like.I think a solution using WorkspaceRunner could be more efficient, as it would allow FME to process one tile at a time instead of loading a large batch at once.I have:A shapefile containing all tiles that need to be generated. The LiDAR source data.What I am struggling with is that I don’t know how to do it exactly. I feed the workspacerunner the shapefile with tiles but then in the bench that needs to run I also load in the

Hello Community,in FME 2024 I was able to find out whether I was running a workspace on FME Flow or locally by checking FME_SERVER_WEB_URL or FME_SERVER_HOST values. Both values would be empty unless the workspace was actually running on FME Flow. Fast forward to after upgrading FME to 2026, in FME Form, FME_SERVER_* parameter values are URL/host of the FME Flow FME Form is connected to. Knowing whether a workspace is ran locally is important e.g. if it calls a child workspace (using WorkspaceRunner vs. FMEFlowJobSubmitter). It is also very helpful during authoring/troubleshooting. How can I do this in 2026? Thank you in advance for any tips/ideas

Hi all,I’m working with FME 2025.1 on a LandXML export-import workflow and encountering an issue: LandXML Reader and Writer do not have a Version 1.2 option. My goal is to export a corridor alignment, but the vertical alignment (profile) data is not coming through correctly. Without 1.2 support, how can I tolerate or work around these missing elements in FME? Specifically, I’m wondering: Is there a way to properly bring vertical alignment data from a LandXML 1.2 file into FME? Are there alternative formats or preprocessing steps to compensate for missing data? How can I avoid data loss on the Writer side, since 1.2 is not supported for export? Thanks in advance for any guidance!

Hello,I have a workbench that converts GIS data to an AutoCAD Map 3D object data file. In this workbench, I’m creating new layers that don’t exist in the template file being used, and would like to set their default lineweight of these new layers to “Default” or “ByLayer”. I am able to successfully define an “autocad_lineweight” attribute in the workbench and set it equal to -3 or -1 and the GIS line features that are translated receive the correct lineweight value.However, the layers themselves do not. The layer default lineweight appears to be controlled by the “Default Lineweight” parameter in the writer feature type. Unfortunately, there doesn’t appear to an option to select -3 or -1. Additionally, attempting to set that parameter to the previously defined attribute leads to a failure w/the following messages (xyz is the path & file name of the output):AutoCAD Writer: An error occurred for dataset ‘xyz’ in function RealDWGWriter::checkToCreateDynamicObjectDataTable. Unknown exc

When I attempted to upgrade to StringPairReplacer, Show Changes displays:StringPairReplacer Version 2 replaced by StringReplacer Version 6StringReplacer Change Log, version 6Added multi-attribute string replace support.My Replacement Pairs in StringPairReplacer v2 has multiple lines and quotes. This has worked great for years, and now I can’t upgrade. My first impression is that StringPairReplacer was changed so dramatically that it might have been better to leave it alone (and not replace it with StringReplacer). Here’s what my old StringPairReplacer looked like. And here are my Replacement Pairs (using the Open Text Editor). I use multiple lines and quotes, and it works great.Apparently, the upgrader is not expecting multiple lines or quotes. It’s a mess.I tried creating a csv file but, I couldn’t figure out the proper format.Finally, I removed the quotes (replacing spaces with underscores) and put it on a single line. Now, the upgrade works. I wouldn’t call this success. It will be

Hello ,I would like to create a complete review list of all FME workspaces and processes in our environment.The first requirement is to generate a list of all FME names available in FME Server, including: Which users have access to export them Whether they are automated If automated, on which day and at what time they run  Where is the FME output stored? If they are manually exported, which users have permission or access to perform the export The second requirement is to create a list of all FME workspaces built and stored on local Windows environments.I would also like to export all names and related information into Excel files.What would be the best solution or approach to manage both requirements and create a complete review list of all active and working FME .Thanks in advance 

I got this error when trying to add attachments to AGO: The ArcGIS REST API returned an error: HTTP Error Code: 413 : '' Message Code . Further details: 'The page was not displayed because the request entity is too large.'Esri community has a solution to edit the header, but there’s no option to edit header on transformer? 

With the now depreciated IFC with Data Views, I was able to extract colour properties using an Appearance Extractor which I could then write to the resulting multipatch. Having looked at the IFC_API reader, it doesn’t seem to have any of the colour properties and all fail in the Appearance Extractor. Can anyone advise on how to access the colour using this reader? 

Hello FME-Communtiy,With the advent of the new IFC-Writer we wanted to update and hopefully slim down our FME Workspace, which reads Multipatch Geometries via an Esri Geodatabase (File Geodb) Reader and writes IFC-Features via an IFC XML/STEP (deprecated) writer. Sadly we’ve not managed to get the new writer working as needed and have found the documentation rather lackluster, which is why I’d appreciate any pointers from the knowledgeable people on here.The new workspace has managed to correctly export the feature geometries, but the attributes seem to be missing/not written at all. Inside the new Workspace the features have the correct attributes and values up until the very end where they are sent to the IFC-writer (In this Case I tried Slab as the Element Type, BuildingElementProxy gave the same results and SpatialZone doesn’t work at all anymore).New Workspace final export inside Data Inspector (red color intentional)Old Workspace final export inside Data InspectorIn the old Works

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Hi there, I have about 230 workspaces that run daily to import data using the ArcGIS Feature Services Reader. The issue is, with every run I get warnings that don’t seem to be a problem, but make it seem like the workspaces aren’t running right.NOT changing coordinate system of reader identified by keyword `SAFE.ESRI-AGOL.ARCGISFEATURESERVICE_1' from `EPSG:7844' to `LL-GDA2020_FME' -- mapping file setting of `EPSG:7844' overrides coordinate system `LL-GDA2020_FME' read from fileThis warning just seems to be stating the coordinate system will not be overridden by FME’s LL-GDA2020_FME Coordinate System. It is logged for every reader feature type ArcGISFeatureServiceReader: Querying feature server 'https://public-services.OrganisationURL.com/public/rest/services/ServiceName/MapServer/This warning should not be a warning in my opinion, as it's just stating that the reader is querying the feature service. This occurs once for every reader feature type as well. Debugging is disabled, however