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Hello,

I'm converting a ESRI gdb (of 21 layers) to shp with FME Desktop. Seventeen of the layers contain map objects - they're all good. But four layers do not contain map objects (2 x points, 2 x polys).

For a very good reason, that I won't go into detail about here, I need to force at least one map object into those four empty shp datasets (a point into the point layers, a polygon into the polygon layers). The point can be in a random location, or one I specify. The polygons can be absolutely tiny. The values can be null.

Is this possible within a FME workflow?

Certainly! With a Creator you can create a dummy feature with a geometry, and some attributes if you want.

If you know beforehand which layers contain no data, you can connect the Creator directly to a Writer.

If you want more flexibility, you can check any data stream for no features. Look at FeatureDetector, NoFeaturesTester, or NoFeaturesReplacer (and there may be other useful transformers).

NoFeatures2

Thanks for that, Geomancer.

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