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Can you convert a Polygon M shapefile to a Polygon shapefile?

I have been getting the below errors while trying to send HTML file in FME workbench 2023.2PythonFactory output feature was rejected downstream. Check the logfile above for detailsAn error has occurred. Check the logfile above for detailsError encountered while calling method `input'Emailer_CALLER (PythonFactory): PythonFactory failed to process featureI am using Generic SMTP  

Before I updated to Form 2024.1.2.0, when I added a writer it would automatically name the Feature/Table and assign the geometry type. Also, if there were multiple readers in the workspace the add writer function would prompt to select individual or all feature/table names associated with the readers. Now the writers have to be individually added, named, and assigned a geometry type. This can be very tedious and time prohibitive in many cases (which goes against all things FME). Is there a default setting that I’m missing?

I am using FME Form 2021.In the Emailer Transformer Message - Body (Text Editor), Can someone tell me the proper HTML syntax to make text bold?<b>Total Number of Vehicles:<b><br><br>Number of Vehicles by Division- Using the above syntax, the email sent shows all the text is bold, including “Number of Vehicles by Division-”. I only need “Total Number of Vehicles:” to be bold. 

Can someone please sanity check me.The example in the google developers for animated updates is https://developers.google.com/static/kml/documentation/kmlfiles/animatedupdate_example.kmland it works fine.However the same code embedded in a kml generated by the FME KML writer does not work.As far as I can tell, the issue is with the name space declaration.the example uses <kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2"  xmlns:gx="http://www.google.com/kml/ext/2.2"> whereas the FME kml writer produces<kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:gx="http://www.google.com/kml/ext/2.2" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> Am I going crazy or does changing the declaration break the animation for anyone else?

Sometimes and non-reproducible changes I have done in source code are not saved.Mostly it works but in estimated 5% my changes are lost.If I change text I always type ctrl-s, mostly two or three times. If the changes are big I type spaces and save again. I reenter the source code and look for my changes.BUT whatever I do, sometimes FME "forgets" my changes, today it forgot it, even when I ran the translation (in the control before my changes were made).Has anybody else such problems? Is there a "correct" way to save the sources or a workaround for it?I actually use the version 2016.0 (in former versions the problem was the same)Hope, anybody can help

Firstly I combined my building objs by Aggregator, then I separated them by Deaggregator, finally to b3dm. I have coordinates of those building objs but All building overlapped in Cesium, How can i locate the buildings according to coordinates.

The scenario is as follows: We are able to get the dynamic segmentation done using Feature Merger & Snipper transformers based on event table and routes, but we also want to capture "LocationError" field values like similar to "Make Route Event Layer tool in ArcGIS" Any thoughts are suggestions like how do we achieve it in FME? 

 Hi, I am retrieving data through an API using an HTTP caller. The data consists of points and lines. My plan is to pull this data, perform some attribute mapping, and then POST it to a website. However, I'm having trouble extracting geometry after flattening the JSON data. I used a Geometry Replacer, but it fails every time I run it. The error message says:INVALID_PARAMETER_GEOMETRY_SOURCEI would appreciate any assistance with this!

I am in the process of working on an integration between Cityworks and ArcGIS Urban. While I am well-versed in using the HTTPCaller transformer for REST APIs in FME Desktop, after s few hours of working with an HTTPCaller, the only way I was able to make a GraphQL API call was using a PythonCaller with some custom code using the requests library. For now, the PythonCaller route will work well enough, but I would rather lean on the HTTPCaller for when others have to take over this integration who are not Pythonistas.

I’m trying to write data from one ArcGIS Online hosted feature layer to another using schema mapper for field mapping. I’m finding that the features from featureclass1 are being appended to featureclass2, but there isn’t any data written into the attribute fields for these appended features. Am I missing a setting in schema mapper?This is the result of my workspace (featureclass2). Features 4-7 were appended from featureclass1 to featureclass2, but the data didn’t come through.This is featureclass1, you can see there is data for those features.I’m using a csv file for my schema mapping. The schema mapper is mapping one → newfour and two → five. I’ve tried this keeping the source attribute and removing it with the same result.Thank you!

I authored some scripts years ago that use the ArcSDEQuerier transformer to query for records in a versioned 10.1 ArcSDE Geodatabase. The machine that FME resides on has FME 2019.3.1, both ArcGIS 10.1 and ArcSDE 10.1, and both Oracle 32-bit (ArcGIS) and 64-bit (ArcSDE) clients installed. The scripts have worked for years without issue. Recently, I’ve had to modify them a bit and on a development FME machine, the ArcSDEQuerier transformer works fine, but promoting them to another same-build FME machine has had some odd results. If I use the exact scripts/workspaces from the dev machine, the ArcSDEQuerier throws the error seen below. Or if I open scripts that were already on this machine, untouched, the ArcSDEQuerier also throws the same error: However sometimes, and I stress sometimes, if I open a brand new workspace and add a single ArcSDEQuerier, I can connect to the same DB using the same credentials without issue: I know the obvious answer is that something has changed with ArcSDE,

Hi Everyone, I tried to make use of the schemamapper transformer to create a new output excel spreadsheet which takes a customised schema csv file as an input. The problem is that the schema file sits within a random folder (date time stamp temp folder name - e.g. 20190903100000) each time the workbench run. (PS: the randomised folder is created at the beginning of the workflow and being passed through as an attribute value).Due to the randomised temp folder name which i tried to pass into the schemamapper as the dataset, I am not able to pass it through. I then tried to create a custom transformer where i can pass the temp folder name via attribute value > published parameter for the custom transformer. The new problem I have now is that the custom transformer does not appear to be able to pick up the attribute value (which has become a published parameter) in the dataset field within the schemamapper.It always throws an error shows "ERROR |CSV reader: Failed to open file &#39

Hi,I have a file of points which correspond to buildings. Each point or building has a number of apartments (total 9000). from this layer, I would like to create zones for every 500 apartments, without intersection. I tried the neighbor finder with sorter assending on the distance then range mapper attributes but the result is not good because I should not have any intersection between the polygons. Help please :) Thanks a lot   

Hi there,Has anyone found a solution to FME Hub connection in Version 2021? 

Hi Team, I'm doing the training for FME Professional, using FME Desktop 2022.2 and am now at https://safe.my.trailhead.com/content/safe/modules/turn-coordinates-into-geometry/exercise-turn-coordinates-into-geometry-using-the-vertexcreator-transformer . The last question on this page is about VertexCreator making a line instead of a point geometry. The question gives the impression that creating a line using this transformer is "a feature" from that transformer (and values the answer given accordingly), while the page https://community.safe.com/s/article/Known-Issue-VertexCreator-creates-lines-instead-of-points clearly shows that this is a glitch that was corrected in later versions. I suppose it was never intended for the VertexCreator transformer to create line instead of point geometry at whatever Mode setting? Besides, in FME Desktop 2022.2 I can't reproduce the "feature" anyway (which makes sense as the "error" was supposed solved in recent ver

Hello,does anyone know why the Truncate Existing Function in Esri SDE Writer does not reset the OBJECTID Counter of a registered Table. (Table is not Versioned).SDE Writer File is based on World Parameter (not SID) and I am using ArcGIS 3.1.4 and FME 2022.2 (but had the Issue also in constellation ArcGIS 2.6 and FME Desktop 2021)The data is written on Oracle 19.15BrGoran

I have three separate CSVs (readers below in yellow) to which I have added several transformers. I first added a “AttributeFilter” to filter through two values. I then connected to an “AttributeValueMapper” to map the previous two values to given names. Then I added a “StatisticsCalculator” to sum the values within these two values. Then an “ExpressionEvaluator” to convert the values from feet into miles and after an “AtributeRenamer” to rename the field names. Lastly, I added an “AttributeCreator” to add a third field of data. This is seen in the picture below of my workflow. At the end of the workflow, I added an “AttributePivoter” in an attempt to merge all of these together before attaching a Writer and exporting the results as an Excel Sheet. I am not sure the AttributePivoter might be the best way to merge all of this. What would be a better approach before adding the Writer?Thanks!

I have a raster wherein the values are in epoch time (number of days since 1970-01-01)Is there a way in FME to convert these values into different date formats, such as yyyyddd?DateTimeConverter seems to only work with attributes, but translating all pixels to polygons with attributes for the pixel value is not optimal. I would guess this could be possible with RasterExpressionEvaluator, but if someone can give an example that would be really helpful. Thanks!

Hi folks, I had some urgent need at my workplace, as the GIS database administrator working in a electricity distribution company, I was required to draft out various district data to be used by another department which will require me to decode and clean the data to enable them understand the data format based on their needs. I tried using manual method of copy and past after extracting this data from the database but it was time consuming.I tried FME and I was able to create a workflow using two transformers FeatureJoiner and Matcher and I am happy how this workflow was able to query the two excel files added to the left and right part of the FeatureJoiner transformer thereby giving me the output based on joined attributes file, one is coming as a number and varchar.  Feel free to connect with me on linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-ezema/ 

Hello Folks,I am working on a use case where I need to retrieve data for retail shops closest to my current location or a given set of geographic coordinates.I am attempting to implement this using an FME Form; however, I am encountering difficulties in obtaining the current location dynamically.If anyone has experience or insights on how to effectively retrieve the current geographic location within FME or through any integrated approach, I would greatly appreciate your guidance. Thank you in advance!

Hello, I want to cut raster data with a shape data. There are 10 objects in the shape data and 10 raster data. Sometimes the objects in the shape data overlap. There is a column in the shape data that contains the names of the raster data. I want to cut each raster data with only the object with this name. I couldn't find the result despite trying very hard. I am using the clipper transformer. If you have any advice on this subject, I would be very happy.

Hello, I’m trying to create a custom chart (waterfall, combination, etc.) and I couldn’t find a transformer that could accomplish this other than PythonCaller. I’m having trouble integrating my code within FME (2022 version) which requires me to use a few packages to execute. Has anyone been able to accomplish this? I’ve already reviewed the existing FME material out there.

Hi AllA few learned gotchas in regards to GDA2020 transformations.- Dont use the Navigator to convert datums GDA94 > GDA2020 as it defaults to 7 param (unless thats what you want)- Reprojector Transformer is seemingly default to 7Param when it should default to gridshift (have a call logged with Safe)- CSMapReprojector - if you are using Desktop this is the best to use as you can force the transformation from the dropdownHowever if you are going to server and you want the user to select the output coordinate system which may or may not include a transformation you need to automate which method you use by setting it with either a parameter or a conditional value based on the selected coordinate system code  Lots of fun to be had but some caution as well. No transformation is the same.

A column name that I am trying to SELECT in the SQLExecutor is titled: STATEThe line in the SQLExecutor that contains it is as follows:I receive an error message that leads me to believe that it is not grabbing this column, and instead trying to grab the alias that I am trying to establish:Is there a reliable work around for this reserved word? I have tried using the following, to no avail:[STATE][“STATE”][state]“[STATE]”