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Hello Forum, I have a polygon dataset of railway land, but it contain holes where items such as buildings, tracks and signal boxes would be. I need to fill in these holes to form a continuous polygon. The image below shows a sample of the data. I’d want to fill in holes like those marked in red. But I do not need to close spaces such as those marked in gold. I’ve seen….  … but I don’t think that’s suitable for the task. I’ve also looked at Dissolver, but I’m not sure if that's the right way to go. Any ideas, please.  Thanks,Stuart

I want to be able to use the feature reader transformer for scene layer packages (to combine multiple files) but the format doesn't seem to be supported at the moment. Are there any plans to include this format in the future?I have come across this request but it doesn't seem to have gained much traction:https://community.safe.com/s/idea/0874Q000000Tku4QAC/detail 

I'm having a hard time determining which version of OGCGEOPACKAGE that FME produces ? It's not in the writer doc, so I'm asking here.And subsequently, what version of SQLite is produced? (newest is 3.39.4 from Sep 29 this year)As far as I can gather, the versions has been fixed since 2020.0? Is this true?In the "gpkg_extensions" table I found a reference to "spec120", which may (or may not) indicate, that the Geopackage version is 1.2.0, a fairly old version (newest is 1.3.1).And the real question is what extensions are the SQLite database born with? Clearly not "foreign _keys".Can one update some template database if one needs a newer version/more extensions?Cheers.

HI i'm sure there is a very simple answer to the question. I have a polygon with many small holes in it that i want to remove.i'm running a DonutHoleExtractor followed by a tester to select holes <2m squared. i want to merge only these small holes to my main dataset (so only the larger "real" holes are left)i've tried running a Dissolver however this takes ages to run. can anyone think of another tool that would just merge these small holes into the larger polygons they touch?

Hello all,I have an Oracle Spatial table that contains some records with a Point geometry and some records with a Polygon geometry.Considering the large number of records, I would like to take advantage of the ability of the Oracle Spatial Reader to perform a SELECT within the Oracle database and return only records with a Point geometry(This is preferable to Reading all records and then using a GeometryFilter for performance reasons)How to I write the SELECT statement?I assume it has something to do with SDO_GEOMETRY, but I just cannot get the syntax correct

I’m using the ArcGIS Portal writer to publish point data to a portal. The dataset publishes successfully in FME and all of the points appear on the map, but the attributes don’t show up in the table. Removing specific fields doesn’t seem to help. Has anyone seen anything like this before? 

Hi everyone,I am brand new to FME and created my first workbench. In a nut shell it does this:Brings in 6 different enterprise geodatabase feature classes using 6 ESRI Geodatabase (ArcSDE Geodb) readers Each reader is connected to a tester to only select ‘active’ values in a status field Because I selected ‘resolve domains’ in the reader, an additional field for every field that had a domain was created. It was suffixed with “_resolved”, so I used 6 bulk attribute renamer transformers to rename the fields without the ‘_resolved” I then did 6 attribute removers and removed any fields I did not need when it came to exporting (note, many of the fields between each feature class were the same, but there were some differences) Finally, I used 6 different feature writers to export each feature class into a single geodatabaseAs you can see, I repeated the process 6 different times for every reader/feature class that I had. I was thinking to myself while doing this, ‘this cannot be the right w

Hi,I would like to create a workspace that reads all tables that start with the same prefix. I then want to save the result per table as a shape file. If a table is modified by a add or remove an attribute, the workspace should pick this up automatically. Is that possible? My first thought was to work with a dynamic reader, but then I get stuck that it will retrieve all tables, including in other schemas within the database. The second approach is, I create a query that generates select statements and puts these statements in a text file. I then read the text file with a textline reader and install an SQLExecuter. That's all going well.What I run into is that the SQLExceuter cannot automatically expose all attributes.

Hi, I need to find into a network of GPS lines the location where 2 line overlaps or where a single line overlapThe problem is that of course the lines aren’t exact the same (the lines derived form GPS points so I don’t have a duplicate geometry) and only a portion of this lines overlapssee picture attacherd If you need the sample of shape dataset let me know thx Francesco 

Hello Everyone, I have two datasets, which I essentially want to stack on one another. One datasets has data on rivers, streams, and brooks, while the other has information on ponds, lakes, and reservoirs. They all have the same attributes, so I just want to add the pond, lakes, and reservoir data as new rows in the river, streams, and brooks dataset. Can someone please help me figure this out?

Hello everyone,I encountered a similar issue as the one described in the following post:https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/95574/problem-with-postgis-reader-in-fme-2019-infinity-v.html Basically I had an invalid date in my PostgreSQL table (no idea how it got there). It had a value of 201910-11-10 which of course is not valid whatsoever. FME 2020 ( Build 20238 - WIN64) throws an error when you try to read this table using a Reader, a FeatureReader or an SQLExecutor/creator.I was able to bypass this by adding a where clause upon reading (e.g. mydatefield < '2021-01-01').I'm not looking for a solution for my problem here. I just wanted to add this to the forum so that people who encounter a similar issue know how to solve it. The FME software currently throws an error which is not really useful for debugging purposes (POSTGRES reader::bad_expected_access).

Hi,I’m using XSD Driven XML Writer with XSD’s specified in schemaLocation. When I use absolute paths it works fine. When I try to use relative paths to the schemas I receive a error message.http://www.company.de/example file://${FME_MF_DIR}schemas/app-schema/somename/5.1/somefile.xsdEnds up in an error:XML Parser error: 'Error at file: '' line: 0 column: 0 message: unable to open primary document entity 'C:\Windows\System32/file://${FME_MF_DIR}schemas/app-schema/somename/5.1/somefile.xsd''An error occurred while attempting to parse the XML Schema document 'file://${FME_MF_DIR}schemas/app-schema/somename/5.1/somefile.xsd'No idea why System32 is there since my FME_MF_DIR should be c:\projects\myproject 

Dear FME Community,  I have a FME Form and also ArcGIS Pro license. I am new to IFC format and also new to FME Workbench. I want to view and work with the IFC Files in ArcGIS Pro and later publish it as a WebScene in ArcGIS Online.I do not have Data Interoperability Extension License for ArcGIS Pro. To achieve this i need to clarify below questions :  Using FME 2023.2 and ArcGIS Pro 3.4.0How to convert IFC files to ESRI Geodatabase using Workbench ? Should i change the Coordinate system (Gauß-Krüger) of IFC files in order to view and work with the files in ESRI Geodatabase (ETRS89.UTM-32N) ?  Which coordinate system should the output files have in order to work in ArcGIS Pro ?Please find the screenshots for more information.IFC Files with Coord.System Writer Format with Coord.System A detailed solution with working steps would be helpful. Thank you. 

Hi,I created a simple StringSearcher in FME Form and want to use the resulting “All matches” list in consecutive transformers. I can access / log the results properly in FME Form. However, when I publish the workbench to FME Flow, the list isn’t exposed and cannot be accessed. Can You reproduce the behavior?RegardsStefan FME 2024.0.1.0 (20240328 - Build 24202 - win64)FME Flow 2024.0 (Build 24187 - win64) 

Hi! I have been using the HTTPCaller Specify Upload Body to upload files to Saleforce. It has been working smoothly with only one problem, which is the size limit that can be uploaded via this method. Saleforce advises that I need to use Mutipart method instead. If I’m using Python, below is the data that I will be sending with Multipart method (basically I just wanted to upload this file called test.PNG):[('entity_content', b'\n------boundaryString\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name="entity_content";\nContent-Type: application/json\n\n{\n    "ContentDocumentId" : "",\n    "ReasonForChange" : "test upload",\n    "PathOnClient" : "test.PNG"\n}\n\n------boundaryString\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name="VersionData"; filename="test.PNG"\n\n'), ('VersionData', ('test.PNG', <_io.BufferedReader name='<file_path>test.PNG'>, 'application/octet-stream')), ('', b'\n------boundaryString--\n')] However I’m not sure how to populate those da

Using the same polygon the Generalizer (Douglas, tolerance=0) returns different results depending on the orientation of the polygon.Any explanation?

I'm trying to use the WHERE Clause in a FeatureReader. I'm reading in an Oracle SDE featureclass and want to only select those records that match an attribute in a csv file I've loaded. I'm assuming that I have everything setup correctly where the attributes from the csv file are FME Feature Attributes. It seems when I add the @Value(col0) to my WHERE Clause, it breaks. How can I check to make sure it is setup correctly?

Hi, I have downloaded, installed and uninstalled all versions of FME Form from 2024.0 up to latest 2024.2 and still having issues reading and or creating a new reader from Microsoft SQL Server. Every time I create a new and or update reader transformer, the reader disappears. Same when I create a new reader, it never show up. I have another machine that runs (2023.1.1.1 (20231011 - Build 23636 - WIN64) and it runs fine. I want to update my version as this old version is unable to read from Amazon RDS. Has anyone experienced this or experiencing this?Update * after further investigations. I have found the below. There seems to be incompatibility with the versions and I could not find a version that can read both version of MSQL. Microsoft SQL Versions FME Form 2023 (x64) FME Form 2024 (x64) Microsoft SQL Server 2017 - 14.0.3480.1 (x64) TRUE FALSE Microsoft SQL Server 2019 - 15.0.4410.1 (x64) FALSE TRUE

Is it possible to know that the relationship class "C04_EjesVia_LS_Rel" links the feature class "C04_EjesVia_LS" with the annotation class "A04_EjesVia_LS"? Any specific Reader configuration or attribute that I'm missunderstood?I attach FGDB sample. 

It appears the LabelPointReplacer removes the z-value from 3D point features and replaces it with NaN. I’m using FME Form 2024.0.3.0 as our IT-department isn’t fast enough with the updates 😑. Does anyone know if this is fixed in a newer version? Now I 3D-force it with the old z-value.

I tried generating measures on street segments but the measuregenerator is not calculating it right. It starts every segment  from 0 instead of calculating from the end log. Any ideas how to resolve or calculate measures on segments with no measures? Thanks in advance!

I have a Geometry column that includes an easting and northing that is separated by a space in the middle as follows: I want to split this data up so that eastings go into one column and northings go into another. I have tried using an AttributeSplitter with a space as the delimiter and then a ListExploder to view the results but unfortunately this doubles the number of records in my data instead of creating two unique columns. How can I create two separate columns from my data?

The three readers need to match up exactly. I would like to be able to see how many are perfect and how many need to be fixed. I would like the ones that don’t match to be dumped into an Excel spreadsheet that I can look at and make the necessary corrections. This is what I have so far. Top and bottom do match, middle one deliberately does not. What do I need to do and how should I proceed?

Hi, we have a dwg file and we wanna use this file in a gis software. We are aware that the fme cannot do georeferencing.Our approuch ist to use the Offsetter transformer to “move” the data to the correct place!That would be enough for us! So fist we used the AutoCAD DWG/DXW Reader to read the dwg file.Do we now have to set a coordinate system before using the Offsetter?Inside the inspector tha coordinates looks like this: Can anyone help us please?

Hi, i’m working on water treatment facilities. I’ve to categorize them in order to write a excel file which lists the existing and some deliverable.  I’ll try to explain the best i can : basically the data are from a gdb,  i’ve a tester to sort depending on categories. Some cat can have missing/null values, i need to “force” those missing values into the translation in ordrer to write the corresponding categories in the excel files.my situation now is that the missing values given they’re not written shift the writting in my writer and then do not correspond with their according row.i’ve 9 differents categories so 9 row but when i’ve just 5 filled categories, i’ve those 5 written but it change the alphabetical order in the written row so the categories dosent match the row. How can i say to the translator “if i’ve no values write the default value “0” else “no action”” Thanks, hope i’ve been clear enough