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This is either going to be a very stupid question or a very silly bug.I want to check if MyUserParameter has a value, so I put a Creator and a Tester on my canvas checking whether MyUserParameter does have a value. It tells me it doesn’t, whilst it clearly does! Hmm, what’s going on?Am I being dumb? Why can I not test a User Parameter?I can get it by using a ParameterFetcher, so it’s not a big issue.We recently upgraded from v2023.1 to 2024.1, and I thought this used to work, but I could well be mistaken.EDIT: It does work if I check if MyUserParameter is of type string or when using RegEx. It sounds like the ‘has a value’ and ‘is null / missing / empty’ doesn’t work with user parameters.

Recently I put different tables into a PostGIS database. One of these tables contains 23M unique records and does not contain spatial data. I would like to read them into a FME workbench. Do you have some suggestions how I could improve my reading process?Is it possible for example to preselect already a set of columns I need while reading my table using 'SQL to Run before Read'?’ If so do you have a example SQL querry?   Is there a performance difference between  'SQL to Run before Read'?’ and the WHERE clause option in the Constraints menu? 

I am looking to have a workspace run by a workspace runner to parse out some data to be grouped by individual tabs based on an attribute name.i have an excel workbook with a dozen or so sheets, each sheet is a type of mechanical system with 3 columns - Column A is BLD which is a string building name. Column B is System Type which had data validation in place with named table references and Column C is System Name which is a string value.i am using a feature reader with the read formulas checked:i want to have the workspace runner pass a value for BLD and search all of the sheets for matches - for instance, it looks something like this once run: 

I have several rasters with varying Z values and thousands of parcels. I’d like to extract the lowest z value from multiple rasters by parcel. Any help is appreciated!

Hi,I'm using two SentinelDownloaders in my workspace: one to download data from a specific year and another to download data from the previous year. At the end, my workspace shows a "FAILED" message in the API after completing the first SentinelDownloader. I understand there is a conflict because it's the same transformer being used for different dates in the same execution.How can I run this workspace without problems?Thank´s

Hi! I have a workspace with a runtime of effectively 28 hours (this workspace controls slave workspaces, that get 50 million rows of external data). The runtime is only this long for the initial running of the workspace, However it is possible to get severe peaks in runtime due to hystorical data recalculations. I finish the workspace with a SQL executor that merges the retrieved data with already existing data and does some other cleanup. At this point this transformer fails though, forcing me to run the queries manually. I have not saved the log due to my brilliance :). the error given is paraphrased: there is no connection with the oracle server. I think the issue is that a connection is established previously with the oracle server, than put on hold for about 28 hours, than necessary again, with an elapsed acces key. Is there a way to circumvent this? I have not tried, due to time commitment, to untick persistent connection

i”m unable to create the web connection despite all the documentation.  

Hi,The below python code works in ArcGIS Pro:But returns the below error in FME:What would be the ‘FeatureProcessor’ python symbol?Regards

Hi there I have been trying to extract the contents of a webpage the Facilities Masterlist which is on our internal sharepoint. I have downloaded a local copy of the page I am trying to extract contents from and attached it. I haven’t had much luck extracting the contents to replicate the table on the page. This is what I have so far. 

Hello,When using Featurewriter with a template excel file, i encounter en error when trying to open the written excel file which indicates a problem with the Named range "Named range from /xl/workbook.xml part".This happens only since updating to 2024.1.2.0, if I use the same workspace with 2022 version it’s fine.Has this happened to someone else ? is there a workaround ?I’ve tried a lot of things but couldn’t find the issue so for now we run this workspace with 2022.Thanks for your help.

I am writing a workflow that refreshes data within a hosted AGOL feature service.To enable continuity of service, I have 2 hosted feature services for the same layer.  eg.  Playgrounds_A and Playgrounds_B.    There is a view defined called Playgrounds_View whose source is either Playgrounds_A or Playgrounds_B My workspace plan is to refresh the contents of the ‘non-active’  feature service, and then set the Playgrounds_View to point to it.I have managed this previously with Python for ArcGIS scripts using commands like item.add_relationship() and item.delete_relationship()How can I recreate this functionality in FME workbench ?

Hi there,I have placed few VIEWS on Oracle Database changing TABLE column names. ie: ID as PLANT_ITEM_IDWhen I connect the VIEW via FME 2023.2.1.0 all column names are showing as what is recorded on Oracle Tables. It is ignoring column names I have set up on VIEWs. How do I get around this issue?I don’t want to use “attribute manager” to change the names. I have already done that on my VIEWs.Is there a way I can see the Column names on VIEWS through FME?thanksRegards,Pushpa  

Hello everybody! some weeks ago I asked for help with our project: calculate the distance to all schools in the city having as input one address. (Server App - calculate shortest route to several schools | Community (safe.com)) I have done it using FME Desktop (2022.2) and the result looks pretty nice:In addition I get the shortest paths to each school (each school has more than one entry).Now I have uploaded the GDB with the streets and the Shapefile with the school entries to the FME Server Ressources.I have created a server app (workspace) and run the project.There I receive this error:2024-9-30 09:01:48 | Una

HiI would like to extract some info from a website that are inside a p tag inside a div class = paragraphs_item__body_paragraph_bundlethe website is https://www.padovanet.it/notizia/20221025/strade-chiuse See picture belowthx for support Francesco 

Hi,I need to extract pixel with value 3 ,8 and 9. Have some transformer that filter the pixel value? Thank´s

I have a very basic dynamic workbench that is reading data from SQL Server. Before writing data to a postgis database it is changing an attriubte name with SubstringExtractor. But it is extremely slow doing so after almost 3 hours 150 000 objects has been read by the reader. Typically 100 000’s of objects is handled in matters of minutes. It is reading about 25 different feature classes I need to migrate daily.I cant wait hours for the workbench to be complete. 2024-09-27 15:11:02|6056.7|  0.8|INFORM|Reading source feature # 470002024-09-27 15:11:53|6106.9| 50.2|INFORM|Reading source feature # 47500It takes 50 seconds to read 500 features? What is wrong? Why is the process so slow? I cannot understand where the bottle neck is.  

Hi! I have a FME workspace using FeatureWriter to write record to some tables. When running it from desktop, it populates the tables as expected. However, if I look at the log after job is completed, the "Features Written Summary" section at the end seem to be misleading by show "0", while I know that there are actually features written.Do I need to do any change in my FME workspace to add the count to the summary? Thank you!Below is the summary part of the log:Below is the part of log for FeatureWriter, which does give the count:

Hi! I’m new to FME. I’m trying to replace an existing feature class with data from a SQL query. I got it to work by using a Reader that specifies the existing table, SQLCreator then a Writer. When I add the writer, it’s using the “Copy from reader” option. Is there a way to use the FeatureWriter transformer and specify an existing feature class instead of using a Writer?

Hello,For the logged known issue in FME Form “FMEENGINE-82549” with “Excel Writer: Field Names row not written” the solution described is to Set the Row Height to 0 on the Feature Type, as discussed here. But what are the steps to do that?  Is it to simply just use transformer “ExcelStyler” and use setttings for “apply style to”?  Thanks!

I was wondering where the FME wallpapers are moved to? The old link does not work anymore.https://www.safe.com/support/support-resources/fme-downloads/wallpaper/

Dear All, Could you please let me know is there any transformer to do Radiometric calibration and Atmospheric correction in FME?  Kindly let me know the details. Thanks, Siva 

Is there a solution to correctly read sharepoint list attributes that are multi-select columns?When reading a sharepoint list with relevant permissions to read,write etc. the data table returned shows only <NULL> values for any column that has multi-selection enabled - adjacent columns with single select settings that hold the same data type (username) are returning the expected values - only the column settings differ.[Note the column setting for allow selection of {people only / people and groups} may also play a part in this question]The column that is returning NULL only has settings as below: List columns that return the expected values have settings:

I could use some help in understanding how donuts are stored in OSM XML. Or more specifically, why FME Data Inspector is not constructing the donut from the XML. Here is the simple shapefile test data I’ve created.In FME, I’m writing out the OSM using the normal writer:When I read that OSM back into Data Inspector, it doesn’t recognize the shape as a multipolygon. The geometry type is fme_no_geom:The XML code is below. I’m seeing the relation present, so I’m not sure what else is required.<?xml version=

I was able to do a cumulative count of duplicate values (where duplicate is “-1” only) using a Group By on a Counter transformer shown below. (Added note: I should have added this to remove ambiguity - SORRY. The output as shown below in the Preview is the desired output. I only care to know the number of consecutive sequential values when the value is “-1”. If the pattern changes and another series of duplicate “-1” appears, the count starts with “1” again. I don’t care if the pattern for duplicate values are greater than “0”, like “2420” on the Preview.)  Since I have more than a dozen of these attributes, I’d like to use an AttributeCreator instead but I can’t seem to use the CurrentAttribute() to accumulate duplicate values.In addition, everytime a sequence of “-1”s begin (as shown in row 143 abov

Hello everyoneI need to run a test process that reads a file in netCDF format and clips it using a Clipper. I am using a shapefile for clipping, but the Clipper is giving me the following error:Clipper_<Rejected> (TeeFactory): Clipper_<Rejected>: Termination Message: 'Clipper output a <Rejected> feature. To continue translation when features are rejected, change 'Workspace Parameters' > Translation > 'Rejected Feature Handling' to 'Continue Translation'' Here is an example of the process I'm trying to test.I want to write two output files, one in NetCDF format and the other in Geotiff format.Afterwards, I need to open one of the result files and the original netCDF file in QGIS to check the values.The goal of this test is to verif