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Hi,Is there a hidden Zoom limit which can be changed in the Geometry Parameter setings which prevents users to zoomin further than a specific level like (z21 in Google)? Or is this a “feature” of the Leaflet source code behind the this function? I can understand the limit for Google Maps but when using our own custom WMTS layer we shouuldn’t be stoped by this limit. And no  I cannot see any references to this in the online doco:  https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407744364941-Using-the-Geometry-ParameterCheers,Baris

Using generic feature reader to access a JPEG via a URL, that is an attachment for an ArcGIS Portal feature layer and requires authentication: this works well when explicitly stating the URL as the Dataset as the reader has the option to network authenticate in this mode. However, when the URL is supplied within an attribute, the reader has no authentication option and so the self same JPEG as above will fail with the message : 2022-06-29 16:47:51| 0.1| 0.0|ERROR |JPEG reader: `\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\1\\wbrun_1656380366772_18540\\fmetmp_4\\TempFS_1656478070812_2916\\4' exists but could not be opened. File contents may be invalid, or the file format may not be supported2022-06-29 16:47:51| 0.1| 0.0|ERROR |JPEG reader: Failed to open the dataset '\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\1\\wbrun_1656380366772_18540\\fmetmp_4\\TempFS_1656478070812_2916\\4'. Please ensure source data is valid and correct reader is selected2022-06-29 16:47:51| 0.1| 0.0|ERROR |A fatal error has occurred. Check t

Hey all, I often receive multiple AutoCAD drawings which I need to convert to ArcGIS feature classes. I configured my reader as 'Single Merged Feature Type' to read all the features in one input port. At the end of my workflow I want to save the features by dividing them over the feature classes of the unique combination of autocad file name (fme_basename) and GIS geometry type.  I tried to use the geometryfilter to filter on point, line & polygon features followed by a string concatenator to then create a new attribute that contains the combination of fme_basename and geometry (point, line, polygon). I then tried to use a fanout by setting the feature class or table name in the writer to the created attribute and ticked the dynamic schema option and set the fme_feature_type as schema definition name. The result is however not completely what I wanted because I end up with for example different feature classes for arcs and lines while in arcgis these are both considered lines. Exam

I have a filegb that I want to append a value from an oracle non-spatial dataset where the address and postcode match. But keep getting the error “The SQL query contains an expression or a global parameter so cannot be evaluated without a feature. Please run translation instead.” Any ideas please how I can resolve this? 

​Hello, Would anyone know if there is a way to use the Search Envelope by updating from a choice parameter? For example, I have these certain polygons that delimit the area I want to analyze:Every time I want to analyze an area I have to change the values ​​of the X,Y parameter (min and max):  To solve the problem, I created a choice that shows the area number on the Display but the values ​​read are the bound coordinates. And I created hidden parameters called Xmin, Xmax, Ymin, Ymax, These parameters look at this choice in the following way: @GetWord($(Choice),0)Attributes read from parameters with the expression aboveBut even if the combination is a number, FME does not accept using this value in the search envelope, as it tries to read the entire written parameter. Below is the error log: Invalid search envelope specified: GEOTIFF_1_SEARCH_ENVELOPE keyword must be followed by four numeric values (minX minY maxX maxY). Got '@GetWord(-42 -20 -40.5 -19 454,0) @GetWord(-42 -20 -40.5 -19

Hello All,  I hope you all are doing well. I am trying to figure this out - I have to align points on the lines without overlapping with each other. I have used Anchorsnapper(segment snapping..group by line global id). I have passed lines to anchors and points to candidates. The results have some overlapping points (using matcher). To disperse along the line, using sampler and offsetting by 5 ...and still some points are overlapped...so tried to -5 offset the points and then snap to line. I am still ending up with some overlapping points.  Is there a better way to achieve this?Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,Naveen

Hi,Is it possible to change the skins of FME 2016?I installed FME 2016 and I would like to return to the classic skins (FME 2015 or 2014).It is not ugly, but it is not my style.It would be cool to have several skins for FME :- FME in DOS- FME dark- FME pink- FME comicsI like to program XML or JavaScript into a black background, I think my eyes would like it for FME too.Thanks.

Hi, and of course “HELP!” 😁I need to take some values in a column and create column names from them, taking the associated values with them.My starting table looks like this (note this is in Excel, but the table exists within an FME workflow, I am just showing it like this to make it easier to understand… hopefully!!!!!):  Asset_ID is my unique identifier. You will see there are either 3 or 4 duplicates of that number.Column B “CHAR_TYPE_CD” has the values I want to turn into new column headings, combined with the existing column headings in C, D, and E.This is ultimately what I want it to look like: Note The values from the original Column B are transposed and combined with the previous column names. There are 4 individual attribute values in the original column B, namely:CM-ELCNT; CM-GRPNG; CM-VOLVL; and CM-VNOriginal column C “EFFDT” now becomes “EFFDT CM-ELCNT”Original column D “CHAR_VAL” now becomes “CHAR_VAL CM-ELCNT”Original column E “SRCH_CHAR_VAL” now becomes “SRCH_CHAR_VAL C

Hello everyone,I was wondering if there is an environment variable available for the R interpreter.If I look at the following post, there appears to be an environment variable for python, but not for R.It would be nice that the R interpreter would be able to look at a certain folder on the C disk for example and when there is different version of R, then the R interpreter would automatically change it.For now, I manually changed the interpreter, however ideally I would like during an update of R, that the R interpreter would automatically change the R interepreter.Does anyone know whether that is possible or might be possible in the near future?

Hi everyone!Curious if I could pick your brains on how to achieve the workflow:I am connecting to an asset via API as well as another separate GIS Feature Class in an EGDB. The workflow will start with a user editing the GIS Feature Class. When a user updates or creates a new record in the GIS Feature Class, I am pulling it into the Change Detector, and wanting to write to the API table only if the asset_id does not exist in the API table. The asset_id field in the GIS FC = unitid in the API Table, as the field has a different name than the same column has in the GIS Feature class.Here is how my workspace is looking now, with the top line connecting to my API as the original source in the Change Detector, and my GIS FC as the Revised source in the Change Detector.  That’s one of the main prediciments here is that the data schemas are different as the original source is a Hansen API table whereby the fields have different schemas/naming conventions than the fields in the GIS FC (by desi

Curious if I could pick your brains on how to achieve the workflow:I am connecting to an asset via API as well as another separate GIS Feature Class in an EGDB. The workflow will start with a user editing the GIS Feature Class. When a user updates or creates a new record in the GRI_TEST1 Feature Class, I am pulling it into the Change Detector, and wanting to write to the API table only if the assetkey does not exist in the API table. The assetkey in the GIS FC = unitid in the API Table, as the field has a different name than the same column has in the GRI_TEST1 Feature class.Would I be going the right route here in using the PythonCaller to achieve this? Right now my writer is writing to a xlsx document and not the API table yet so I could test out the logic. # Import necessary modulesfrom fmeobjects import *# Function to check if asset key exists in feature classdef assetkey exists(assetkey, feature_class):    # Implement the logic to query the GIS feature class    # Assume 'feature_c

Hello,I am using the SQL Executor to read two tables from oracle using a join.I would like to use Oracle Spatial Object as Format to have the geometry included.This is my sql query:select a.nm, a.fid, b.mlpst, b.featfrom t_csm ajoin t_fl bon a.clss=b.clssBoth table a and b have a geometry (GEOM). When I use SQL Executor - Oracle Spatial Object, how can I know the geometry of which table will be used ? I want it to be the geometry of table b but I don’t how to specify it. The geometries of these two tables are not the same and my next transformer is the neighborfinder so it makes a big different if I use the geometry of table a or table b.Thanks for your help.

Hi All, I’m having a bit of headache to get my worflow working: I need to load some attribute data into a template GDB but for some reason fails becuase of the data type (I asume). Below some screenshots that explains the issue:ErrorValue 4510069419 can’t be written into table UPRN_Lookup_Monthyear_FulSupply Raw data valueFME reads value UPRN as unit64 data type see below: Template GDB in FMEFME reads the template GDB (in the FeatureWriter transformer) as Float Template GDB in ArcCatalogUPRN value is Float in the GDB template What value can’t be written?Thanks

Hi,I have 100 polygons that state the population within each polygon, I'm essentially trying to break it down 1 stage below where I have that population essentially scattered across the polygon boundary in the form of points to then get a rough estimation of the population in small selections (and not for the entire polygon) I saw a question asked very similar to what I need where I have the population value in a field and I would like to add that as an input into the RandomPointGenerator (however this transformer does not accept inputs (aside from the fixed value you state), and this does not seem to have been changed in the 5 years since raising this question). Someone had mentioned the use of workspace runner, but I am not sure how to incorporate that into what I'm trying to do.

Hi all,When using a FeatureReader, FeatureWriter, or any other transformers, I can’t seem to access the Coordinate System Gallery. However this doesn’t seem to impact readers or writers (when accessed through parameters anyway).Excel ReaderReprojector (note that Source Coordinate System does use the Coordinate System Gallery)I’m currently using FME via Data Interoperability through ArcGIS, is this a limitation of the extension? Or have I missed a setting to use the gallery in all cases?Cheers for any help.

The last few weeks I have been getting an error message whenever I try to frequently run my workspaces. Since I am testing transformers, and attempting to find the ones that create the most appropriate outputs for my task, which is converting a shapefile to match with a preset schema. If I run the full workbench and then change something because the output did not match what I needed, then run the workbench again. I get an error that says “Failed to write to file” with the file path pointing towards a .dbf filetype in my output folder. The only fix at the moment is completely closing FME and reopening. But doing this for every small iteration is not feasible long term.

I am using the HTTPCaller to interact with an API, for that I use the setting Multipart/ Form Data. This is the way another user got the Endpoint to work for them and I just always used it. This works pretty well, the API does what I want, the connection is stable, but there is one problem. Sometimes it takes a lot of time to configure the Multipart-part.For some jobs I need to configure dozens of parameters, this leads to a lot of typing, proofreading, etc. For this particular endpoint I don't just need to give parameters about the object I want to edit (some inspection), but also something like a table definition. The row (row_id) and the value, for each attribute of my dataset. Since this API endpoint doesn't like it when I send in null values as values, I need to run several configurations of the same HTTPCaller one that drops each variation of Null values in the dataset. Now I was wondering if I could somehow build the whole statement about the rows and their values with something

Greetings, I should read and write features one by one, namely in the feature reader I have a condition by which I retrieve data from the database, more precisely the ID. But every time I should first write a feature in the database that gets a new ID, and when reading the conditions for the second time, it should select that new ID, and not immediately select that first ID for me. how to create this?

Hello, I am working on a project which will fetch information and save to local machine, then I use xsd-driven-xml reader to read in the files to parse data down streams. I noticed that reader activate before HTTPCaller task and caused the httpcaller failed to create file in the designated location. How to specify the reader to activate only if my HTTPCaller successful? I have already have the tester set up and will be able to tell either failed or success, but xsd-driven-xml reader did not have condition parameter setting or anything for me to make sure it activate after tester passed. I can separate this into two workspace, or create custermized transformer to encapsulate some condition tester and xml reader together, but thought there might be better way and would like to ask for help here. Any information is appreciated. 

Hi!I have a shapefile with a lot of lines with the same geometry, but different data. They are the fibers of an optical cable.How can I shift them parallelly to each other?

Hi All,For a project I need to write a geodatabase with a time_only field in one of the objects.To be able to do this I had to change my Python Compatibility to Python 3.9, which only works if Arcgis Pro 3.2 is installed.Otherwise I get this very helpfull error:But I don’t want to use 3.2 as default. Now I have 2 folders:C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro2_9C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro3_2I manually renamed the Pro folder to include the version number.The issue now is that FME can’t find my Arcgis Pro, which makes me very sad 😥. How can I tell FME to just use C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro2_9 and stop looking for  C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro.Only when I want, I manually will change the folder to 3_2. 

Hi,I would like to write custom hatches in a DWG file. But our FME Flow is deployed with Kubernetes.So the OS is Linux.Since the RealDWG writer is only available on Windows, I will need to use the other DWG writer (Acad).Where should I put these .pat files to write these custom hatches successfully?The documentations says:The ACAD format writer will look for custom hatch patterns in custom <filename>.pat files located in folder specified by the ACAD operating system environment variable, or in the related folder for any installed AutoCAD product.On windows, I have tried to create an “ACAD” environmental variable, pointing to a folder where I placed my .pat files. But no result.Secondly, will this be possible on a Kubernetes FME Flow?Thank you in advance Jasper

FeatureReader does not recognise attributesHello all, I am having problems with a FeatureReader that does not recognize the attribute columns of a CSV file.The background is, I regularly download the GNAF dataset from Geoscape Geocoded National Address File (G-NAF) | Datasets | data.gov.au - betaThe GNAF arrives as a zip file containing a large number of CSV files. I only need five of them.I have built a Directory and File Pathnames Reader that returns all of the CSV files, which I then filter down to just the five that I want.I am attempting (but failing) to build a FeatureReader that reads the CSV file.I should point out that the CSV file is actually a pipe-separated-value file. The separator is a pipe “|” and the file extension is “.psv” But I have confirmed that a normal CSV reader does successfully read the psv file.Now, the FeatureReader is successfully reading the correct number of features. And FME automatically recognises that two of the columns are LONGITUDE and LATITUDE and

Hi !I don’t know where to post that so sorry if it’s the wrong place 😊When I use the button “alignment Middle” the alignment is vertical and when I use the button “alignment center” the alignment is horizontal. The action seems to be the opposite of the picture on the button.Do you have the same thing? On FME 2018 is the reverse and it look more logical.FME version : 2024.0.1.0Thanks !

Hi,I’m on the version 2024 of FME Workbench, I have to calculate a number of neighbor between points (let’s say 5) in a distance (of 20 for example).But the issue is that I don’t know how to export the 5 distances in specific attributes…If someone can help me I’d love that !