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Hi everyone,I’m encountering an issue with the migration of Smallworld collection records to MSSQL using FME. I perform a differential migration of Smallworld records daily, and I need a way to identify and log any failed records during this process.In a previous migration project, I handled this situation using a post-validation Magik script, which compared the migrated objects in the external database. This database had a version control mechanism managed by an additional date column, making it easy to track if records were inserted, updated, or deleted.However, in the current case, there is no such versioning column in the MSSQL database, making it challenging to track failed records.I’ve decided to log the failed records directly in FME. After exploring various resources, most suggestions point to using the Logger transformer, custom transformers, or Python scripts to read the FME log

Hi, I’m using FME 2024.1.I want to write xls files out where my field names appear in Column A (with their corresponding value pair in Column B) instead of in rows. Sounds simple, right?!Writing the data out with an Excel Writer produces a default output like this:Field Names in Row 1, values in the corresponding column....this doesn’t make for a particularly human-readable output when you have 250+ fields in the output dataset.This is the style I would like the output to be in:Field Names in Column A with matching values in Column B.I have tried using an AttributeExploder to create n

Hello : ) I have a Form workbench that first deletes some records from two tables in a geodatabase and then inserts new records into these tables in the geodatabase. This worked fine in FME 2021 but after upgrading to FME 2024 the delete creates a lock on the geodatabase and causes the process to fail: An error occurred while attempting to open an insert cursor on the table 'Total'. The error number from ArcObjects is: '-2147220947'. The error message from ArcObjects is: {Cannot acquire a lock.} Any advice on how to fix this problem would be great. 

I am new to using FME and am currently facing an issue. Here's the situation: I want to use a FeatureWriter to create a new file of type Esri Geodatabase (File Geodatabase), and I want to include the value domains of certain attributes when creating the Geodatabase. Thank you!

Hi FME Community!Does anyone know how to create a web service in FME form to connect to ArcGIS Portal?i see this article (https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407635174285-Web-Connections-and-FME#h_01J0S3JP9A7W1TX5B2GG56ZX8S) but could not figure how to properly fill all the parameters to get it working. my goal is to create a token based web connection to authenticate requests to endpoints stored in ArcGIS portal.Thanks in advance!

We have two different buffer results from the same road network and I’m doing some work on identifying what is differentThese are large multipart polygons and I wanted to chop them up to give common parts (overlay > 1) and individual parts. In the picture I want to separate the red hatched bit and the solid blue bits from  the combined data. Running the area on area overlayer with no grouping but creating a list of parts results in…Where the orange hatching has created a fill in on the closed triangle  and the roundabout. This is not what I was expecting but I cannot find a setting on the transformer to avoid this.Help!!!! ThanksRob

Hello FME Community,I am trying to convert annotations from a CAD (.DWG) file to a GIS (.GDB) file in the form of points, in such a way that each line of annotation text is a separate point with an attribute of this text. Everything seems to work fine in my workbench, however, after attaching to GIS programming and loading the resulting points, it turns out that in many cases additional points have been created in each line of text, which prevents me from using them correctly.Has anyone encountered something like this and would be able to help.I attach screenshots of sample annotations in AutoCAD and after conversion in GIS software.FME version: FME(R) 2023.2.1.0 (20240104 - Build 23774 - WIN64) 

I’m fairly new to FME and I’m not sure this is possible. I’m attempting to add a MS Word doc. to multiple zip folders (from a fanout) that contain shapefiles. It’s basically a data dictionary that needs to accompany the shapefiles.  Is this possible?

Does anyone have a sample Workbench (WB) for creating a replica using the ArcGIS REST API?

Hi, I cannot convert Epoch time 1717500804837 to 20241210. I have change the format using @Evaluate(@Value(_created)/1000)and run DateTimeConverter but it failed Null, empty, or missing datetime was found. Enable the passthrough parameter to disable this What am I doing wrong?

After spending all morning trying to set up a Data Stream example in FME I think I’ve got it. It’s a basic geofencing setup:I have a GPX file of one of my bike commutes and use a WebSocketConnector in a sending workspace to send one location per second to a websocket.In a second, listening, workspace, that I’m running as a Stream, I’m using a WebSocketConnector to listen to that websocket and compare the locations coming out of that with a polygon. If it falls inside the polygon I then use a HTTPCaller to send me a message via Whatsapp.This is working fine:However, some of the documentation / tutorials I found, such as Websockets and FME Server, seem to imply that

UPDATE 06/01/25:  It does indeed appear that once created, the index is automatically rebuilt on writing to the GDB with truncate existing.Steps to recreate:Add SQL statement to create attribute index after writeCREATE INDEX <name_INDEX> ON <table_name> (<attribute_name>)Run the writer either to create new GDB or update existing GDB Remove SQL statement Continue to run writer as normal going forwards-----------------------------Hi all,This is driving me crazy trying to figure out. I have a GDB writer that builds an attribute index after write.CREATE INDEX <name_INDEX> ON <table_name> (<attribute_name>)Unbeknownst to me, each time I updated the data, an additional index was being created instead of overwritten which led to a bloated GDB and blown out write times. Note: The GDB table handling is set to truncate bef

Hello, unfortunately I have repeatedly problem with exporting to Excel in Workspace. I checked log, there is following message: 2016-11-24 10:05:57| 67.6| 0.2|ERROR |Excel Writer: Failed to save changes to the spreadsheet 'D:\\XXX\\XXX\\XXX\\new.xlsx'. Check that you have write permission to the file, it has no password protection and is not opened by another application. Error message is 'Permission denied.'It looks, that there is error on Excel side, right? I just want to create new Excel file...

I have 501 polygons of various shapes and sizes. I want to split it up in clusters of roughly 20 polygons each. But I wan the clusters to be located together. I have tried the spatialsorter, which gives good results. But not quite what I’m looking for. Is this possible? Any help would be greatly appreciated.  ThanksB

Morning,I have access to the bucket and can read files. However, when I attempt to download a file I receive the following error:My admin insists I have the correct credentials, and I can download this file using WinSCP. Are there are settings I might be missing on the connector? 

Hi all,  i've got a strage error. I have about 30 ArcGIS Online readers that i want to read, update and write back to ArcGIS Online. Now, the update part with the Changedetector workes fine. (Dont look at the mess ;). The problem:When i run the workspace, it gets all the 41K features that are in there. The other ones are skipped because it is not found. This works as it should work. After that it tries to search in groups accessible to the user, and then it says "error running translation”.  Does anyone know how to fix this? I have attached the log file and the workspace. Thanks in advance!  

Hi all, I've got some confusing to clear, and hope to find an answer here. I have 2, completely the same datasets, uploaded to ArcGIS Online. Now, i want to update them. To test it, i took 2 completely identical layers, read them from AGOL and now, it shows differences. Can someone explain me what the problem is? If i only check on attributes, then there is nothing wrong, but if i also check on geometry, there is somewhere a change, and the Changedetector gives updates as output, but it should be unchanged. All the data is 2D, there is no 3D. In the update detection key attributes, i selected all the attributes, but left GlobalID and OBJECTID out of it. same for check attributes. Even more confusing, if i do the same process in a new workbench, with the same sources etc, i get different results. Sometimes it igeve met 900 updated, and somethimes 1322

Hi I am doing migration testing from 2023.1.2 and 2024.0.3. It seems to completely fails on 2024.1.I have tested it on 2023.1.2 and 2024.0.3, worked perfect - no issues.It fails on FME Flow and FME Form on the server - but works OK on my local PCon the server - oldeb 2019, clr 2019, are installed, as with .net 4.7, 4.8 andIt is just a simple sql server spatial reader - and a bit of reprojection - it fails on reading the reading the dataCheersRudy

So, our organisation has a maintenance management system for our roads, which now for some reason, no longer works with geometry which has duplicate nodes within the same polyline. I’ve been able to narrow this down to two cases where our road polylines layer violates this rule:Some roads have duplicate consecutive nodes due to mapping mistakes, which I’ve fixed with GeometryValidator. Some roads (such as roundabouts and parking area outlines) have the same start and end node. This is where I’m getting stuck.The potential solution that I’m looking for is something that can determine the polylines with the same start and end point with a small tolerance (0.1m would do the trick) as I could only get GeometryValidator to work as expected with this tolerance, then offset the end node by a small figure (perhaps 0.5m) back toward the penultimate node. This way, the polyline still keeps enough of the line to be usable, but will work with the management sys

Hi,I’m wondering if it’s possible to create a list of layers included in an online application like Geoportal Map. I tried using the HTTP Caller, but I’m only getting general information about the webpage and no details about its content.Do you have any suggestions for extracting this data?

I am trying to read an ALKIS data file coming as XML file. I have two files, the first one come with version 6.0 and FME opens this file without any problem (xmlns="http://www.adv-online.de/namespaces/adv/gid/6.0"). However, when i try to read the version 7.1 (xmlns="http://www.adv-online.de/namespaces/adv/gid/7.1") I got an error as following:XML Parser error: 'Error at file: 'K:\……..line: 1 column: 1 message: invalid document structure'An error occurred while attempting to parse the XML Schema document 'file:///K:/Geodaten/Projekte/ALKIS/2411_ALKIS_NAS/NAS-Operationen.xsd'The XML Module halted on error, see the logfile for detailsA fatal error has occurred. Check the logfile above for detailsFailed to specify the feature index as cons

I am trying to use the duckdb summarize commandhttps://duckdb.org/docs/archive/0.9/guides/meta/summarizein an in memory duckdb using the sqlexecutor:SUMMARIZE SELECT * FROM read_parquet('/Users/x/Downloads/Address.parquet');This doesn’t return any results/attributes but ‘runs’ successfully in FME. In DBeaver it runs no issues.Any idea is there is a trick to get this working?Many ThanksQ!

Hello,I’m having problems trying to write into a Azure Storage Table using the Azure Storage Table writer.It works for all text fields read from CSV but not possible both from Parquet file or Oracle connection where I include also floating or integer fields. The error is always the followingMicrosoft Windows Azure Table Writer: Failed 'INSERT' for rows in table 'xxxxxx'. Server response: 'HTTP Error Status Code #400: 0:One of the request inputs is not valid.'Suggestions?Thanks in advance,Roberto

This week I looked at this question on the community. "I have a 100 ft line that curves and then turns back into a straight line. How can I use FME to only gather the straight line after the curve only. I basically want to cut out the curve and only grab the line after the curve." This isn't too difficult, but what's interesting is the contrast with last week's question. Last week (click the link to check it out) I too

Hi, I’m trying to calculate the volume of various areas of beach using point cloud data. I want to calculate it above a horizontal plane at a level input as a user parameter and I have individually references mif/mid polygons demarking the areas.I have been using the method at the below link as a starting point, but the problem is the beach is sloping, not flat, meaning using the z.median value gives an incorrect result.https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407483031053-Volume-Measurements-with-the-VolumeCalculatorAny suggestions for a solution would be gratefully recieved!