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Hi,It seems that the SpatialFilter does not always work as expected when the Filters First option is enabled. I have taken several steps to fix the incoming data (such as using the GeometryValidator and applying reprojections), but the SpatialFilter only works consistently when the Multiple Filters option is enabled.Below, I have included an image of my workbench, where—after multiple test attempts—only the top SpatialFilter suddenly works as expected.Is this a bug?I am comparing .dwg files with a feature class in a geodatabase (area)I work with the DataInteroperability extention by ESRI, in a workbench created outside of ArcGIS PRO,FME(R) 2024.0.1.0 (20240328 - Build 24202 - WIN64)  

Hi,I would like to use a simple function in the SchemaMapper for Attribute value for a new attribute. In an AttributeCreator I would use @Value(Lat)#@Value(Lng). This concatenates two values seperated by a #. I can't get it to work in a SchemaMapper. I tried @EvaluateExpression(@Value(Lat)#@Value(Lng)), but the SchemaMapper interprets this as a string and not a function. How can I make this work?Btw, I use FME 2023.2.5.Thank you, Arno

Hi,Is it possible to choose a line “connector” between a polygon and text object using MapnikRasterizer?Similar to attached image where the black text and lines are desired layouts. It would be good if an auto placement could be used for no overlapping of text, lines and polygons.   

Hello,I am generating an orthophoto from a point cloud using the ImageRasterizer transformer, with intensity as the input for pixel values. However, the only available option is grayscale, and I would like to apply a high-contrast color scale (e.g., green to red) instead of grayscale.Is there a way to change the intensity palette before rasterizing the point cloud, so the resulting raster already has the desired colors?Alternatively, can I modify the color palette during or after rasterizing to achieve a similar effect?Attached is an example of the desired output, where intensity is mapped to a high-contrast color scale.Thanks in advance for any suggestions!High contrast with colorsGreyscaleOrthophoto in greyscale 

I disconnected my external monitor to work on my laptop (not external monitor) from a different location. When I open up my FME Form workspaces, the transformer parameters font and icon sizes are really, really, tiny.  I saw the way to fix it was in FME Form go to Tool - FME Options - Appearance - Advanced Option and check “Enable automatic scaling for High DPI Monitors”. I have enabled this, closed FME Form, and re-opened it. I have unchecked it and did same. Nothing seems to make a difference. Is there another way? I am using FME Form 2021.2.0.1.   

HI, I have a problem to solve where I need to extract the coordinate system within the header information of the ECW image (not the sidecar files).  Our internal systems only work when the ECW header has “EPSG:7855” as the coordinate system, and I need to identify images that sometimes possess “GDA2020” & “Zone 55” information (as shown below).  The software “ECW Header Editor” can distinguish between the two, but FME seems to use the two values interchangeably, so my workbench can’t identify potentially problematic images.  The FME output for both “EPSG:7855” and the below entries are always “MGA2020-55_FME”.  Is there any way for FME to identify the below values hidden inside an ECW header? 

Hi,I am not able to use the ESRI GDB reader, as I am not able to open a layer from my database.So I created a reader reading a layer from GDB and then later this layer was removed from GDB, now I am not able to use the GDB reader at all, even if I open a new workbench and press the three dots button in the parameters of the reader, used to select the “Tables” , it gives me a message “Failed to retrieve feature types” “Layer not found”, but the layer mentioned in the error message is the old layer which is already removed from the GDB. And i didnt even got a chance to select a layer. What to do? Please do help.

Hello, I am currently running into issues when reading a gml file.I have two files, build exactly the same way.It reads perfectly well the coordinate system from one file, but not from the other.File 1File 2It seams to me that the the connection is not beeing read perfectly.cables is a table “CableElectrique” whereas “my” is the geometry I am sorry, I cannot provide more than snippets :(

hello,3dtiles writer support front and back texture? How can I achieve it？

Hi,I have a point dataset of vehicle locations being turned into lines using the LineBuilder and self-intersections are being created. While I can write successfully to the MSSQL SDE using the SDE writer, I’d prefer to use the SQLSpatial writer (due to speed and licencing). SQLSpatial fails due to what looks like the self-intersections.  GeometryValidator can’t seem to fix the issues, with the repair failing.The source points are the last hour of locations so they’re continuous being added and removed per vehicle.I thought this would a common situation for FME users to be in.  Processing tracking data.Also, would it make more sense to add the line segments on to the end of the line rather than rebuild the line?  I’m not sure how to go about that in FME.Thanks 

Hello!  I am currently Generating TIN surfaces from a pointcloud and exporting as a FBX.  I am having some issues with bad looking edges, aswell as vertexnormals looking like split normals everywhere (hard edges, see image below)As you can see from the images here, the triangulation is very rough. is there anyway to average those normals to get a more smooth experience? Think smoothing groups, from 3D studio max or something similar. i dont want to actually change the geometry, just the visuals. This was generated from a 4x4km pointcloud with a TIN generator surface tolerance at 0.5 (just to speed up the process).   Best Regards. Oskar Wallin

Hello:This is probably a simple use case to many of you, but I only have basic experience with FME Form and Flow.One of our programs has the ability to generate standard excel spreadsheets which contain reservation data (Date, Name of Room, Description of Room activity, Organizer contact info) GOAL: We would like FME to take that excel spreadsheet and post that data as a table on an html webpage.However, before that html webpage is generated, we would like the user to visit an FME Flow App (? I think) that will allow them to select from a dropdown list of rooms culled from a column in the excel spreadsheet. Once selected and submitted, the app would only show the list of active reservations Things to note:This excel spreadsheet data is updated once a day and will only show the current day’s data and will need to be uploaded to FME Flow each day. It’s being stored on a network location.I’ve managed to create a FME Desktop app that uses Excel Reader > HTMLReportGenerator > HTML Wri

I have a JSON-schema. A part of it looks like this:     "dct_license_sm": {      "type": "array",      "items": {        "type": "string"      }    } I feed data into a featurewriter pointed at the schema-file. The corresponding data from the input looks like this:dct_license_sm (string: UTF-8): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/So - a string, but in the schema it is declared that this is to be an array with string-items. Then I would expect the output to be like:  "dct_license_sm": [    "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"  ],Obviously declared as an array containing a single string. But my results in FME via the FeatureWriter comes out like this:"dct_license_sm" : "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",In the FeatureWriter I can't change the datatype.What would be a good way around this?   

Hi ,I am ussing a sqlexecutor for update or insert data in tables. But how do i get the rows updates, inserted ??so i use this in a Emailer ??  

I am outputting many rows to an excel table, some of my columns are numeric, I am hoping to add a total row at the bottom of my table, to sum these columns. I have found the Statistics Calculator, but I have no idea how to apply it (if at all possible). Any thoughts?

Hi All,I have read a few posts on the community already but can’t understand why the area calculated using Area Calculator is different to the SHAPE_Area in the Feature Class after exported to a GDB.An example below:Any ideas why does this happen?Thanks :)

Hello,I have a csv-file with the position of trees and additional information like the height of the trees. Further I have a sketchup model of a tree which I want to place at the position of each tree and scale it using the height of the trees.I can manage all steps from the different files, but not the scaling of the trees. If I use the example from https://hub.safe.com/publishers/con-terra-lab/templates/citygml-create-solitaryvegetationobject-with-implicit-representation and export the workbench to CityGML, the scale of each tree is right. If I want to export my data to Cesium tiles, the scaling is missing.Where can I set the scaling of the tree models for a proper output to Cesium?Thanks in advance and best regards,Andreas

I have a multitude of ring buffers and polygons for which I need to figure out what polygon intersects with what buffer. The task should be easy, but I am stuck here.All data come from the same feature dataset in a file geodatabase (so the spatial reference system is by default the same), however, to be absolutely sure I projected all data before they get into the SpatialFilter to the same EPSG.The settings for the SpatialFilter can be seen hereand to show that there are certainly intersecting areas and buffers that contain candidates I add the graphics view of the ‘Passed’ port and from the ‘Reprojected’ port of the Tester and the Reprojector.The candidates are in red…I did try an AreaOnAreaOverlayer, and that one finds overlaps but the request of merging the attribute data is unsuccessful. Meaning all the attributes are in the attribute table, but values from the buffers are not merged to the intersecting polygons, or the other way around. The list I create to check for what buffers

I was trying to compute the distance between a TINSurface and some horizontal polygons (which have a z value, but they are horizontal). I have been trying multiple things to try and get the distance between this two objects. I am kind of surprised that there is not a given transformer to compute the distance or the intersection between 2 given 3d polygons. Maybe a TINSurface is a little complex, but the triangles that compose them should not be complicated.I am a programmer and I think I can program a solution to this problem in a PythonCaller transformer, but I am really surprised there is not a simple answer for this.So if someone knows the answer to this I would appreciate it. If not I think I’ll be forced to program it myself.

I have added an FME Web connector towards Autodesk Construction cloud and have managed to access folders from my project. The list request seems to work in the AutoDeskDocsConnector-transformer, but fails when I want to download a file from the folder. I get the following error when translating: I use an ordinary Creator to connect to the AutoDeskDocsConnector. Does anyone have any tips what I’m doing wrong?

Hello all! I am stuck and unable to create a formula in FME. It involves an Excel formula that I can't seem to replicate in FME. I know there's likely a simple way to achieve this. I need to subtract values. Here is a screenshot for reference: I would greatly appreciate any help!  

This is probably a simple question, but I'm having difficulty rounding values within the xml editor of the XMLTemplator.With the root template set to:<feature>    <number>{fme:get-attribute("NUMBER")}</number></feature>The NUMBER value is written in the output. But when I use:<feature>    <number>@round({fme:get-attribute("NUMBER")},3)</number></feature>or even:<feature>    <number>@Evaluate(@round({fme:get-attribute("NUMBER")},3))</number></feature>the xml returned contains an empty string:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feature>    <number/></feature>I could round with an AttributeRounder prior to the XMLTemplater, but although that rounds the values in Visual Preview, the xml output can and does contain the floating point representation errors.I'm guessing this might be a syntax thing but I've had no joy yet implementing this in the editor.(FME 2020.1 b20620)

Hi everyone,I am working with a large dataset (over 500,000 records) stored in PostGIS, which I am reading into FME and writing to ArcGIS Online (AGOL). My goal is to automate this process by publishing the FME Workbench to FME Flow, so the AGOL feature service updates every few hours.When I overwrite the data, the Workbench runs without any issues. However, I want to truncate the existing data instead of overwriting it. When I attempt to do this, I encounter the following error:413 Client Error: Request Entity Too LargeOccasionally, I receive other request size-related errors as well. I tried adjusting the Features Per Request parameter to 500, but the issue persists.I’d like to ask if anyone has experienced this issue before and what possible solutions or workarounds exist to efficiently truncate and update the AGOL feature service without running into request size limitations.Any insights or recommendations would be greatly appreciated!Thanks in advance.

Hi, I have a Civil 3D CAD model and need to extract information from the Drawing Settings. However, the available data comes from the Drawing Units window instead, which can be very different from what’s in the Drawing Settings   

Using an Esri FGDB Reader (an Esri FGDB FeatureReader) in a Workbench, I would like to apply a where clause using the last_updated field.  I believe that because this is a date/time field that it is causing me troubles as I am able to run tests on other fields.   What is the correct syntax to enter a where clause on a date/time field from a FGDB?