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I am trying to figure out how to parameterise the layer name for a Portal Feature Service reader. In the screenshot below you can see the highlighted Layer Name field. However it does not seem to have the ability to set it as a user parameter. You can see it is possible to set other layer variables as parameters, eg Input Geometry Type, etc. Just wondering how I might do the same for the layer name?

I upgraded a workspace with a dynamic writer from FME 2022 to FME 2024. When inspecting the schema before writing there is fme_date and fme_datetime time fields. When writing to geodatabase it created dateonly fields from the fme_date fields when using FME 2024. When writing to SDE we get a ORA-210 / ORA-308 (invalid field type). What is the solution to this problem? I posted this before as addition to another forum topic. However someone from FME suggested to make a new topic.

Hello Forum, Does FME Form have the concept of creating a layout which could then be saved as a image file or PDF? So, think about how in QGIS I may bring several vector layers and some base mapping together and post to a ‘print layout’. Into that print layout would go the vector layers and base map. I may then add a title, north arrow, map, legend etc. I would then export that layout out as a png or PDF. Does FME Form, have a similar concept. I’ve been looking in FME Form and running online searches but have found nothing, which is surprising. Any thoughts? Thanks, Stuart

Hi all, I'm working on a workflow using FME where I want to use the SQLExecutor transformer to query data from a File Geodatabase I've set the input to point directly to the FGDB file, and tried several SQL queries — even very simple ones like:

We have several Database Connections for our workflows, and most of them are for our county ArcSDE geodatabases. Each one has a Default version and a Sync version for editing, and we have all of the connection strings saved with the Sync version. We use FME through a Data Interoperability license, and after FME updated to 2025.0.0.0 (with the ArcGIS Pro update to 3.5 from 3.3) the Version Type is now set to ‘NONE’ for all of them instead of ‘Version from SDE Connection’ like it was before, and the Transactional Version is set to Default automatically. Plus, it seems to us that our connections strings have changed too. We found this the hard way, after changes were written straight to Default. So I guess I’m writing to see if anyone else had this problem, or to see if we’re missing something - I haven’t found any posts or fixes in the changelog about it yet. And, are there tips for how we should be storing these database connections? (I am aware it could just be a Data Interop issue - w

I have logged a support case about my problem, but figured I might as well check to see if anyone else have encoutered this problem: I am writing a workspace to geosynchronize a Feature Service with a database. The Feature Service contains about 30 layers that need to be updated, so I have put my bet in for a dynamic workspace, since the operation is the same for every layer. This saves me a lot of transformers and makes the maintenance of the workspace much simpler. My challenge here is that both the FeatureReader and FeatureWriter requires the name of the layer to be passed in as a parameter, not the layerid, which would not be a problem. Almost all of these layers have names containing, at least, one space, and this is what is causing my trouble. On the reader side, I can enclose the layer name in double quotes, like “My Layer”, and this works without problems. On the writer side, however, things are messed up. I have so far tried three different approaches: Enter the name “as is”,

Hello to all,3 months ago, kailin told me that the 2024 version did not allow writing zones. I would like to know if it is the case now. If not, what is the planned schedule because for the moment we are blocked for the enrichment of our models Best regards Bruno

Hi, Anyone used the i-twin model API to download data? Any advice?

Hello, i saw this in FME documentation : “... The ACAD format writer will look for custom hatch patterns in custom <filename>.pat files located in folder specified by the ACAD operating system environment variable, or in the related folder for any installed AutoCAD product. The REALDWG format writer will look for custom hatch patterns in custom <filename>.pat files in the <FME install folder>/plugins/realdwg/Support folder. Predefined patterns can be found in the acdb.pat file in that folder, and additional patterns can also be added to that file.” The Autodesk AutoCAD DWG/DXF Writer is fine : i get custom hatch patterns in my dwg file. (didn’t try REALDWG Writer) But when i use the Autodesk AutoCAD Map 3D Object Data Writer, i get the warning : “AutoCAD Writer: The combination of pattern type 'Custom-defined' and pattern name 'MYHATCH' was found to be invalid. Using a default predefined hatch pattern of value of 'SOLID'” How are custom hatch patterns managed in this case ? (using FME

From the attached image, I am running a workflow for QAQAC for 2nd Level Check of Electricity Data, and I discovered that some of the transformers is showing under Incomplete Transformers, and also I am having an error showing (ERROR_2.1B:Wrong QA/QC WorkflowKindly run data with the most recent workflow) based on the way the FME Administrator developed the workflow. My question is this, if a workflow is developed with older version of FME like 2 years Gap, does result to some Transformers been listed under Incomplete Transformers, and how can I resolve such Transformers.

I am trying to set up a process that downloads new zip files containing shapefiles from a Google Bucket. The bucket contains four folders at the top level and in each of those folders are folders for individual project areas. In those project folders there are mp4s, pdfs and zip files with the shape files. I would like to just download those zip files, and keep them grouped by project, and none of the others every time the flow is triggered. So far I have figured out out how to list the files and filter out everything else not a zip file. The list is great but I want to download them and not just list them. This is my first time working with Google Cloud Storage buckets.

I have a workspace in 2023.2.1 that is writing to ArcGIS Portal. What I am finding that in some cases the original layer that is in portal had spaces in the layer name i.e. Layer Name. When it is written to Portal either FME or Portal replaces the spaces and with underscores i.e. Layer_Name and when I try to update it, FME can’t find the layer as it is looking for the original name with the spaces. The only attribute that is available is fme_feature_type or my user parameters. Is there a way to create a parameter prior to both of these writers that replaces the spaces with underscores and is then available to the FeatureWriter layer name attribute?

Has anyone resolved the workspace log Warning for coordinate system when working with Snowflake Spatial Reader? Coordinate system of reader identified by keyword `SNOWFLAKE_SPATIAL_1' has changed from `LL-WGS84' to `' If you set the coordinate system on the Snowflake Spatial reader to LL-WGS84 the warning changes to. NOT changing coordinate system of reader identified by keyword `SNOWFLAKE_SPATIAL_1' from `LL-WGS84' to `' -- mapping file setting of `LL-WGS84' overrides coordinate system `' read from file. If you set the coordinate system on the Snowflake Spatial reader to EPSG:4326 the warning changes to. NOT changing coordinate system of reader identified by keyword `SNOWFLAKE_SPATIAL_1' from `EPSG:4326' to `LL-WGS84' -- mapping file setting of `EPSG:4326' overrides coordinate system `LL-WGS84' read from file. Ultimately the Warning has no impact on the workbench or translation, the data is definitely LL-WGS84 and a CoordinateSystemExtractor will confirm this but best practice for me

I have a Microsoft Access Database Table. I need to delete all the records in it and just keep the schema. Basically, the output will be an empty table. There are 10,000 records in the table. Delete all records in Table A. Table A will be empty. Just keep the Table A schema. I know I can use the SQLExecutor with a SQL Statement to do this, but how to do this using Transformer(s)? What is the best way to go about this?

I have a road network (lines) that i need to convert into points for labeling reasons. I have managed to do this using DistanceMarker but I want to be able to save the orientation angle of the line as an attribute in each point. So that when i use the points for labels, I can tilt them correspondingly. Since the lines are rarely straight, I want the orientation in the specific point. Any advice for how to apporach this?

Hi all and Safe. I just revisited some INSPIRE docs, that specifies the projections used for data here. In Denmark we often use UTM 32N, but there are two basically identical EPSG-definitions: 25832 and 3044. We normally use the former, while INSPIRE only uses the latter. The only difference is that 25832 is given as Easting,Northing, while 3044 is given as Northing,Easting. I tried a simple reprojection workspace, entering a 25832 point, reprojecting it to 3044, and extracting its WKT. And it was still Easting,Northing ! Doesn’t FME handle such coordinate value swaps when reprojecting, or is my setup flawed ? Cheers.

Working with FME Form 2023.2.2. Comparing features using a ChangeDetector transformer I see a weird behaviour. It does not always happen though but can’t see a pattern. I see features correctly output though Updated and Inserted ports but all of them have value ‘INSERT’ in fme_db_operation attribute. Has anyone experienced something like this?

I have a list and with ListSearcher i found that element with id {_list_index} needs to be removed completely from the list. How can i achieve this.

I am trying to intersect 3D Polylines and Solid Cubes to determine which cubes are touching the polylines. So far I tried Clipper, intersector, SpatialRelator and SurfaceOnSurfaceOverlay. All the features are ending in the rejected port as invalid geometry. What is the right way to accomplish this task?

Hi all, I’m exploring a workaround to split a polygon based on a 70/30 area ratio: 70% area → Type A 30% area → Type B Some visual explanation is included below. The geometry of the split doesn’t need to follow a specific direction — any orientation is fine as long as the 70/30 ratio is maintained. Has anyone come across a method or workaround to achieve this? Thanks! 😊

i have an excel sheet and want to make some sums and write them in another new attribute i want to sum row O from start to line above an attribute in row M wich is VU or VD...so e.gsum 1 = light bluesum 2 = light blue + dark blue and so on till the next line which is one above a line with VD or VU…...i hope i have explained it not to difficult…...i think the hard part for me is that i need always a sum from the beginning again Thank you and greetzfranco

I have a point location and I would to find the 20 mile extent from that point across a road network. Effectively, I want to create a 20 mile buffer around my point but it must use the road network to determine the distance in all directions. I have tried creating distance isolines using the NetworkCostCalculator and ContourGenerator but this didn’t seem to work very well with a large distance specified (contour interval of 20 miles equivalent). Does anyone know how I might be able to do this?

I have a problem. First my FME: It is partly in Dutch, but it doesn't matter here. It is about spatial data with some features. There are two feature readers: the first one to select features which fall within a pre-defined contour, the second to select features. The attribute manager to add some attributes. The featurewriter to write the data in gdb format. In the FeatureReader you can see attributes for “pand_v” and for “scheiding_v”. The attributes of “scheiding_v” are standard, hence the same for other features, except for “pand_v”. The difference is that in “pand_v” BGTPlusType is replaced by “identificatieBAGPND”. The features are of several geometric types: lines, polygons and points. In the output of FeatureWriter all the attributes as given in the AttributeManager are shown. I'd like to see that for “pand_v” no BGTPlusType is given (there is no value here) and that for all other features no “identificatieBAGPND” is shown. And that some other attributes like fme_…, attribute{}…

Hereby a short description of my workflow with the questions at the end. I have created a TIN from points. (TINGenerator) Then clipped it with polygons (water area). (Clipper) The water polygons have been lowered to -1 meter with the 3DForcer. With a Junction I collect both the water (3D Polygon) and the TIN (surfaces). Here are my questions: how do I properly merge those geometrytypes together? how do I fill up the (vertical) gaps between the lower water and the surface. I tried many transformers and different steps, but as you can guess, with no results. Using: FME2024.1

Hi all. Is it possible to use a scripted parameter in a workspace to populate the items for a choice parameter ? So far I’ve had to manually edit the choice list whenever new items needed to be added, but potentially it’s possible to create all the items automatically with a query to a database. This would release me from having to update it manually. The example I’ve found only talks about returning a single text, but a choice parameter needs a list of display+value pairs. Any insight is welcome. Cheers