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I need to write datetime to a comment on a SQL table after my postgres SQL writer is complete.This can easily be done like when using a featureWriter like so:COMMENT ON SCHEMA "my schema" IS '@DateTimeFormat(@DateTimeNow(), %Y-%m-%d %H:%M)';This is not possible if i use a regular postgres writer. Only SQL functions are available. This alone is not enough to set a timestamp.Tiny but frustrating neuance between almost identical transformer/writers. What other ways can i inject a datetime into my comment on schema syntax?  

Hello there we have Millions of JPG Photo we want to geotag all the metadata is located in an excel file is there a way to do this via FMEThanks 

Hi communities, I need help for above post which has not been solved yet. I’m totally stuck on this.

Hello, I am configuring FME to receive file uploaded from website through API - POST method. We want the api to directly pass the uploaded file from website to FME for processing. Note that the file is not saved into any DB.The issue I am facing is the the configuration of HTTPCaller Transformer to receive file datatype. Anyone can help suggest on this? Would be very helpful if I can get any advice to configure it the correct way since I’m stuck with this. The logs: The api test through postman has give success response to upload file.The file type I am testing to upload is excel file. Later will need to test with CSV & Shapefile.

Hello,I was wondering if FME can read in  data from Oracle SQL Views?If yes, great. How?

Why i am Getiing this warning and error when i try to run workspace on desktop and on server 

Hi all, I am currently using a Dissolver with Attribute Accumulation > Accumulation Mode set to ‘Use Attributes From One Feature’.How does FME decide which feature's attributes are used? I assumed it would be the first one to enter the transformer, but I couldn't find anything on this in the documentation. Kind regards,Joep

The polygons below have corners that are 90 roughly degrees. I would like to split them at the corners so that I get four lines from each polygon for further processing.The two areas below are only examples, but the rest of the data have similar elongated, bent shapes. I tried finding the corners by intersecting against a bounding box but the result was not very useful because of the irregularity of the shapes. My guess is that I would get the best result by measuring where the vertex take a 80-100 degree turn. Any suggestions on how to achieve this? Or other clever ways to breake the polygons appart? 

Hello,I have a workbench which includes Databrick JDBC Connection. It was working fine with FME 2024.0.3.0. However, after upgrading to FME 2024.1.2.1, it starts throwing error “java.sql.SQLException: [Databricks][DatabricksJDBCDriver](500151) Error setting/closing session: Connection not obtained from this manager.”Feels like something is missing with the upgrade. Has anybody seen the same problem? Could Safe support team please check? thank you.Full error attached below.java.sql.SQLException: [Databricks][DatabricksJDBCDriver](500151) Error setting/closing session: Connection not obtained from this manager. at com.databricks.client.hivecommon.api.HS2Client.openSession(Unknown Source) at com.databricks.client.hivecommon.api.HS2Client.<init>(Unknown Source) at com.databricks.client.spark.jdbc.DowloadableFetchClient.<init>(Unknown Source) at com.databricks.client.spark.jdbc.DownloadableFetchClientFactory.createClient(Unknown Source) at com.databricks.client.hivecommon.core.H

Hi there!I want to create polygons from an attribute that contains a string of coordinates and other information. My problem is that I don't know how to only extract the coordinates from the string and then create the polygons by their ID attribute.  The string in the coordinates attribute looks like this:“{"type":"Feature","properties":{},"geometry":{"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[13.707920553133594,60.03475791657763],[13.708950521395312,60.03304306231432],[13.705474378512012,60.03160680337132],[13.702513219759567,60.02997753853561],[13.702255727694139,60.030577803349054],[13.703929426119434,60.03184261136259],[13.706161024019824,60.032571461785544],[13.707920553133594,60.03475791657763]]]}}” ID attribute 1 to 10 Regards,  Ricardo :) 

I have just installed FME Form 2024.0. Previously, I have added the option of sharing my connections by setting up the neccessary registry enties.When I open the Database Connections in FME Options I get this message:Which means I have no available Database connections. When I “upgraded” my FME Form installation from 2022.x to 2023.x, this was not an issue.I also see that my Web Connections have the same issue. Is this expected behaviour from FME Form 2024, have I missed some important steps when upgrading/installing 2024 or is this an error in 2024? My 2024 install is in parallell to my existing 2022.2.8, 2023.2.1 and 2023.2.2 installations.We have customers running different versions of FME, so I need FME Form installations in parallell.

I have a DXF file that consists of multiple geometries and attributes. I want to convert this DXF file to a file geodatabase with multiple layers based on each geometry type in the DXF. The different layers also need to retain the same attributes as the DXF files. I attached the file as a zip to this post.I tried loading the DXF file in FME using the Autodesk Autocad DWG/DXF reader and splitting the geometries using a GeometryFilter. That worked fine. However, the attributes disappear when I read the DXF file in FME. Do you have any suggestions on how to retain the attributes of a DXF file when reading it in FME and converting it to a GDB? The data was gathered with a Leica gs18T in case that helps.

Hi.Is there an authoritative list somewhere of which versions of FME uses which versions of Python ?So far I have: 2020=3.7, 2021=3.8, 2022=3.9+3.10, 2023=3.11, 2024=3.12I’m assuming that the Python executable is located in [FME_ROOT]\fmepython###\python3.exe (or the dll’s). Is this correct ?And where is this executable’s site-packages folder located ?Is it at [FME_ROOT]\python ? Or [FME_ROOT]\python\python312 ? Or somewhere entirely different ?And is this location the same in an FME Engine for Server/Flow ?I’m contemplating adding a special Python package for use in both desktop and server.Cheers.

Hi FME World,Anyone having this issue ? Every $%?&* time I open FME I have to replace the Navigator bar correctly through the right side. Kind of annoying.I’m using 2024.1.2 and Windows 10. 

Why do I get the message: The following potential problems were detected in this workspace:Transformers are used that are not installed: 'AttributeExposer (version 2)', 'Clipper (version 16)' The install/machine that created this workbench, and the install/machine I’m trying to run it on are different, is it a version mismatch?  How can I fix it?

Context: Feature Type with a WHERE clausePurpose: To only read records relating to a user defined Iwi (Maori Tribe).When the WHERE Clause is, for example: "IWI"='Whakatōhea', the transaction is successful and returns the expected records. However, when the WHERE Clause is set with a User Parameter "IWI"='$(IWI)'and the User Parameter is set with the value Whakatōhea, the transaction is successful but no records are found.This behavior is only affecting records with macronated vowels, which is common in Maori language.  Users need to be able to input their Iwi of interest for this workbench.Can anyone suggest where the WHERE clause setup might fail?Many thanks  

Hi,I’m trying to use the mgrs library in FME, but the following error is shown:Message Type: fme::internal::_v0::py::ExceptionPython Exception: <ModuleNotFoundError>: No module named 'mgrs'If I run it in a standalone script, it works very well. The library has been successfully installed on my machine.Thank you.

Hi,I have a workspace that reads a shapefile. My workspace has around 450 transformers. I defined published parameters for the user to insert the row quantities of the shapefile.How can I automatically get the number of features from my file and save it in a published parameter to use in the middle of my workspace, simulating the values inserted by the user? 

Hi all,I have a set of JSON files which return an error upon trying to read them in - that it encounters an unexpected character "\\". If i open the JSON in a text editor and remove all the \\ characters it reads successfully in FME then.As i have a batch of 300 JSON files i cant do this manually. I have tried reading in each one as a text file and using a StringReplacer but it is incredibly slow.Has anyone got any suggestions or solutions?Kind regards,Jack

Hi,Suddenly, the feature count in FME Desktop disappeared, even with the "Enable Feature Counting" option ON.The log shows: Cannot connect to feature count server "65051."Why does this happen?The problem occurs with all formats.Thanks.

I need something like the AttributeManager but it needs to work only on a limited set of attributes. What I need is a transformer that sets values (conditionally) to a handful of attributes. I need the ability to copy paste this box to various places in a workspace or to other workspaces. I’ve been using AttributeManager but the problem is it gets overwhelmed with other attributes and the transformer changes based on the input stream. I need something that’s sort of shielded from what’s in the pipe. These limited set of attributes are common to various workspaces or workflows (eg, datemodified, lastuser, datecreated etc) and are always guaranteed to exist. So naturally I need them handled in a simple, separate transformer that can be reused. Is there any way to achieve this? Thanks 

Hello,I am writing to ESRI geodatabase that uses MS SQL. Every time I get "Unable to convert value taken from Z_ORIGIN keyword to a float data type". So far i have:Used a 2dforcer,changed the "z scale and z origin" to 0 or 0.00000under table creation parameters set "Contains Z Values" to No (also set to yes, and blank on other trys)Recreated the writersSet the writer geometry to table, not a point file.Nothing has worked. I am under the assumption that the writer is passing a "Null" value to the writer which in turn says that "null" cant be a float value.Finally I have looked at the other posts on this and nothing has helped. Any suggestions? Just to update, I used a vertex creator to make new geometry, and still didn't work, but i can insert all of this into a file geodatabase and then import that to my enterprise database. If anyone has any help please post it, this issue doesn't have a good answer on the forms yet.

I have a whopping great big table in my workbench with 2100 attribute fields in it! 😯The data originates from JSON files, and I need to write it into several csv files.The csv files need to pick up the schemas of tables in an Oracle db. These tables have a couple of hundred attribute fields / columns in, so many of my attribute fields will be dropped from the massive table in the workbench when creating the csv. This is good!The Oracle tables do not feature in the workbench at all, so I just need to grab the schema of the existing tables, bring them into the workbench, and use them in the csv writers.I’ve tried to use Schema Scanner, and Schema Mapper but with no luck. I am sure the answer must be really simple and I am doing something wrong.Any help will be much appreciated.Stuart

HiI have a spreadsheet (see table below) with a start and end point coordinates for different road sections and I'm trying to extract the road segments between the start and end points from another dataset containing my road geometry. Unfortunately the start and end points do not always lie on the road so I would need to snap it to the closest road. The road directions (road ways) are stored as separate features in the dataset with a common road id.Section IdStart LatStart LongEnd LatEnd LongA-33.938..., 151.151.-33.935...151.131...B-33.949...151.138..-33.931...151.154...C------------E.g. For Section B, I want to extract the two segments in green from the underlying blue road. The eastbound (EB) and westbound (WB) road features have a common road id of 1.I tried using two vertex creators, a point on line over layer, a topology builder and feature merger, but I haven't had too much success. Any ideas on how this could be achieved?

Has anyone tried running the ExcelToPDFWriter in an FME flow? I’m encountering an issue where Excel cannot open the file when I run this transformer in the FME flow. However, I don’t face this issue when running it directly in FME Form. Any insights or solutions would be greatly appreciated!. I found the sloution here : Microsoft Excel cannot access the file (Java -> cmd /c python -> Excel) - Stack Overflow