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Hy,i'm a Beginner in working with FME and now i have a little question to the forum.  I have to transfer a pdf-file (without a geometrical raster) into a GeoTIFF-file. Is it possible to do that and do you have any ideas how i can do that? At the Moment every time i try to transfer the files a error occurs:"GEOTIFF writer: Failed to obtain raster from feature. Only features with raster geometry are expectedA fatal error has occurred. Check the logfile above for details" Thanks for your help

I'm having the same problem as the user here, but I'm using 2020.0.3.0 (20200605 - Build 20252 - macosx). Hove can I redock my Visual Preview window after accidentally undocking it? Hovering isn't working.

I'm trying to build a workflow as such:A user is presented with a HTML file showing a web map with features that is created by the HTMLReportGenerator. The user can click on a feature on the map displaying the tooltip which has a hyperlink as set in the Label Attribute setting in the transformer. The user can then click the hyperlink to be directed to an additional webpage or form. Is it possible to have a hyperlink in this setting? Whenever I try it, the HTML page returns with no web map at all.

Hi. I have a lot of features in my workspace and want to group them based on the region, they are falling in, and then run the workspace for each region separately. How can I set up the workspace to do that automatically ??Many Thanks

I am needing to read a comments field and replace the double quotes with 'inches' and replace & with 'and'. I tried my hand with regular expressions, but am very new to this and it did not work (user error I am sure). I also just tried Replace Text and it doesn't seem to work either.

I have reviewed the Loop articles and I successfully created a custom transformer to loop and create additional group sets of data (basically I had 462 records that I needed to replicate 66 times). I now need to add an account number to each 462 group set. There is no like attribute to merge with. I can't think through how to perform this? A push would be greatly appreciated.

Hello FME'ers,Welcome to What's Up Wednesday.  If you're a sports fan like myself, you'll have a lot of Olympic activity to follow already - not least the upcoming women's football/soccer final between Canada and Sweden. So good luck to our Swedish users... but not too much!If you can tear yourself away from watching those events, here are the events taking part in the world of FME. FME Hub UploadsAs always, the start of the month brings a recap of the previous month's activity on the FME Hub. The Hub itself seems to produce a great monthly digest page automatically, but I did want to highlight what looks like a very interesting addition: a Vintage Map to 3D Art template from user janrykr.I only have the above thumbnail image from the template to go on, so if you try it out please do post your results below. I'd love to see them. GeoHipster Calendar MentionSpeaking of arty maps, FME gets a nice mention from user Owen Powell on the GeoHipster blog today. Owen

Hello everyone!I create an app for field reports, not something very complicated.I want to produce the reports in PDF format.I used this guide:https://community.safe.com/s/article/creating-pdf-cartographic-outputMy question is for writing in Hebrew.For some reason, I can not write the text in Hebrew in PDF.This is what it looks like in workbench, the caption I want to appear as a title:And this is the output in PDF:I tried to manipulate the PDFStyler, including setting up the writing system: HebrewAnd nothing helped. any suggestions?for example, this is how it is supposed to look like: Thsnks! Dor

I am trying to automate a process that I currently accomplish using Autocad Map 3D, manually. That is to say create a dwg that referenced a raster and when added to Autocad will pull in the raster in the correct location. At the moment I insert a raster into Map 3D , zoom to extents and save as a dwg. This produces a dwg with the same name as the raster. I have not been able to find out what is in the dwg, so I don’t know how to do this in FME.I am presuming there would be a reference to the raster, it’s extents, scale …Does someone know what FME. Autocad attributes I would need to write ? I am also assuming there would be no geometry in the dwg, but again I don’t know. thanks for any assistance,Ian 

I have a detailed mesh that is concave in parts so there are multiple surfaces for a given x,y coordinate. What is the best way to filter the mesh so that there is only the lowest surface at any given point. 

Hi all, I try to extract the center point of lines by snipper. I get it, but values are visible in row only by FeatureInformationWindow. I can't extract this values by any ListBuilder, ListExploder etcIn Documentation I find only below information:https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Desktop_Documentation/FME_Workbench/!FME_Geometry/Points.htm?Highlight=IFMEPoint Input file: Lines.gpkg Expected output: CSV with coordinates for center point (or middle point located on line) those Lines.  Can anyone help with this simply issue? Thanks in advance.

Hello,I am trying to do some cleanup work of some Polyline Features where densified curves have been created due to loading the data into a Shapefile at some point in the past. I want the densified or stroked curves to be turned into true curves. I know there is the Curve Fitter transformer but I want to limit the amount of linework that the Curve fitter is run on to help eliminate unnecessary manipulation of the data. I have some approximate curve selection parameters in a Python Caller Transformer to help select the appropriate lines to select the lines I want the Curve Fitter to run on. The issue is I need to know which lines are connected together in sequence to allow the Curve lien selection algorithm to work. The lines have OID fields that are randomly generated based on the copy and past functionality of ArcGIS Pro. So far I have tried the Attribute Manager Adjacent Features but that appears to work off of table rows which is OID based(I think) not spatially based so that doesn

Welcome to What’s Up Wednesday, your weekly source of FME and Safe Software news! Today it's Mark taking over from Liz, who's away this week. FME ReleasesA new FME hotfix build was released last week (version 2021.1.0.1/build 21614). I'm told key bug fixes are to the AttributeManager, AttributeFilter, and FeatureJoiner. All look like very specific issues that probably won't affect you (they haven't affected me), but you may still want to check.Alternatively, you could wait until next week when a scheduled release (version 2021.1.1.0) is likely to be made available on Tuesday. Upcoming WebinarsA series of new webinars have been added to the upcoming list. They are:August 19: Data Integration Basics: Merging & Joining Data (Replay)Sept 9: Managing Changing Data (Replay)Sept 16: 5 Ways to Improve Your LiDAR WorkflowsSept 23: Metadata Matters! What it is and How to Manage itSept 28: Managing Changing Data: Part 2See them all at safe.com/webinars. I'll also menti

Hi,  I am trying to work out the best way to send an email if a workbench fails. I have searched through the forum and found someone asking something similar, and they seemed to achieve this by using WorkspaceRunner and Emailer: Send email if translation fail (safe.com).  However I can't seem to get this working. I know my emailer settings are right, as I just tried it within a different workbench and got the email notifications, so I think the problem is with WorkspaceRunner.  It is the first time I have used this. Initially I tried creating a new workspace, adding WorkpaceRunner, configuring it to look at my main workbench, then attached the succeeded and failed outputs to Emailer. So all I had in the workbench was the WorkspaceRunner and Emailer. But when I then go and run the main workbench, I don't get any emails. Does the WorkspaceRunner dynamically read the other workbench, so when that's run this should also run? I then tried adding in my main workbench as a reader

I have an input "A" and an input "B" I would like to join. I want to join them based on two columns from input "A" and three columns from input "B". Column Aa matches up to column Ba while column Ab will fall between Bb and Bc. So, say Aa=6.5. I need to find the correct match Ba based on the the value in Ab that falls between Bb and Bc.

Hi, I have converted 70 + GeoTiffs that have world files in same directory to ECW format, but the writer does not write and twf files alongside the new ECWs. Am I missing a step or do ECWs embed this information in the ECW file??

Hi there, I'm having some trouble with the transformers counter. I don't know why, but the digits seem to be in another font or something like that, still I can't fix it. I've already tried to reinstall the sofware, clean the memory of my GPU. Has anybody experienced anything like this before?... I would appreciate any help.  

Have updated the Apache listening port to 8080 and updated the virtual host statement.http://192.168.1.???:8080/ does return the Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page http://192.168.1.???:8080/fmeserver returns 404 Not found message. I get same behavior on other Windows boxes with other browsers. Thank you in advance!

Hello there I am using the aggregator transformer to combine 1M features into one feature the input data is point when I try to use the HTML generator ist not working due to the size of the data even if I have only one feature it take a very long time is there a way to aggregate the geometry as well this way we have only one feature  Thanks

Hi,  I have a huge dataset to write in text files.Each line has a file_id and an identifier. This identifier is not unique and can be repeated. I must write everything in a maximum of 100 files. I must write a maximum of 250 lines per file. To do that, since each file must have an id, I thought I could simply use the file_id in the file name when writing. Here is what I did : I use a Counter to add a _count attribute to each line.I divide this _count attribute by 250 to create the file_id attribute.I use AttributeRounder to round the file_id.I write the text files with a FeatureWriter and by setting the name : "file_@Value(file_id)".Once I've done this, I can write a maximum of 250 lines in each text file.However, all lines with the same identifier must be in the same file, and with just the steps above, that's not the case.So I thought about :using Agregator to group by the identifier and create a list of file_id.using ListRangeExtractor to extract the maximum file_i

17302021-7-26 00:00:58 | Python Exception <TypeError>: '<' not supported between instances of 'str' and 'NoneType'17312021-7-26 00:00:58 | Traceback (most recent call last):17322021-7-26 00:00:58 | File "AttributePivoter\\__init__.py", line 163, in close17332021-7-26 00:00:58 | File "AttributePivoter\\__init__.py", line 268, in generate17342021-7-26 00:00:58 | TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'str' and 'NoneType'17352021-7-26 00:00:58 |17362021-7-26 00:00:58 | AttributePivoter (PythonFactory): PythonFactory failed to close properly17372021-7-26 00:00:58 | AttributePivoter (PythonFactory): A fatal error has occurred. Check the logfile above for details17382021-7-26 00:00:58 | AttributePivoter (PythonFactory): A fatal error has occurred. Check the logfile above for details17392021-7-26 00:00:58 | A fatal error has occurred. Check the logfile above for details

Is it possible to publish a workbench to FME Server that will?Let an end user upload a random (Esri) GDB with any type of content and random naming of features.Be able to choose (dynamically) a feature within the GDB and transform that selected feature to example SHP.Key points the choice dropdown list can’t be predefined/hardcoded, standard GDF formats to be used such as points, polylines, polygons, rasters not Datasets, Annotation, Topologies etc

Hello !I'm completely blocked in finding a solution to be able to do the quality control of data. I have an autocad file in reader which I've transformed in GML and Esri Shapefile in writers. Now I have to do a quality control to know if there is missing lines, curves or areas in the final datas compared to the initial DWG file. Actually, it happens to have few missing elements in my transformed data. I've used change detector, matcher, spatial filter, but no successful result. Can FME perfom such control on two data sets to identify missing elements or disparities ?  Thank you.

I have 3 Transformers (StatisticsCalculator) at the end of my workbench. They all sum up some values. As the output of the working process I would like to create a log file or text file that show the results of the Transformers like Humus: XXX m3Volume 1 : XXX m3Volume 2: XXX m3Values are the output of StatisticsCalculator. I used Text File Writer where I collected all info in text_line_data. However, the output does not look how I imagined. It repeats it 3 times https://i.imgur.com/2OpR3lg.pngAny idea how I can avoid repetition? https://i.imgur.com/9ejOMzh.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/IrG2xcL.png

Hi I am looking for the best practice where to save an sde connection file when publishing to FME Server. I am thinking to determine the location of the sde connection file using scripted parameter as below.However when I run the workspace, I get ERROR : Python Exception <KeyError>: 'FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_DATA'Any suggestions? import fmeobjects if FME_MacroValues['FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_DATA']:  # Running on FME Server  return FME_MacroValues['FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_DATA'] + 'connectionFiles/sdefile.sde'else:  #Running on FME Desktop  return '../config/sdefile.sde'