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Hello Everyone,I am trying to produce a CIM XML document with FME Desktop. I found an example template here: https://community.esri.com/t5/electric-documents/sample-common-information-model-cim-xml-data-translation/ta-p/913831 The template is complex and I can't find any documentation on it other than some comments in the workspace. Are there any other documents related to the template, or a good resource for learning how to use FME for CIM XML? Thank you.

Hi, When writing XML as Text Writer I'm getting __FME_Encoding_Argument_Exception__ only in my output file. Literally only this set of string. Why is it happening and how to solve this issue. I'm using FME 2016.1

How can i transfer shp to s-57. The shapefile has attribut "Wasserstnd" with value 1 or 2 or nothing. The result must be slcons with attribute watlev =4 , if Wasserstnd is 1 or slcons with attribute watlev =3, if Wasserstnd is 2 or slcons(not specific value for watlev), if Wasserstnd has not value. How to make the workbench? Thanks!

error mesage - 2020-12-17 13:13:41 | Oracle client libraries (e.g. oci.dll) could not be loaded. Ensure that the 64-bit client is installed and properly configured, and the PATH environment variable includes the file path to your Oracle client. Refer to https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/FAQ/How-to-setup-an-Oracle-Instant-Client-for-use-with-FME for more information

Hi. I saw a workspace which has something called RiverCreator (not just a Creator). But then, the parameters are empty and help button is also empty... How does one create river lines with it?

Hello I'm running a workspace but this error is shown when it tries to write a table in PostGis: "Bulk copy failed on table 'nld.src_bag_q121' using delimiter ";". Error was 'server closed the connection unexpectedly. This probably mean the server terminated abnormally before of while processing the request.' A fatal error has ocurred. Check the logfile above for details. Do you know how to resolve this error? Thanks in advanced. 

Dear FME community. I need help for using the JsonTemplater transformer.I've multiple data source and I've to build a complex json with sub objects like that (this is with only one level but in the real case I've more sublevels) :I make an unperfect example join to this question :-) Thanks for your help.

I'm new to fme and wondering if I'm doing something wrong? I've tried setting the deliminiter to auto and tried other alterations but no success. There are no issues when I read in other csv files but with this particular file its causing this issue. Any help would be great!

Welcome to the first What’s Up Wednesday of December and the start of our Twelve Days of FME 2020 Contest.  Twelve Days of FME 2020Starting today, December 2nd, until January 8th, we will be having an FME contest that gives you twelve chances to win a prize! Throughout the month of December, various challenges and puzzles of varying difficulty will be released to the community. Complete the challenge or puzzle within the limited time frame to be entered to win. See the Contest Terms and Conditions for the full schedule or the launch page for links to all the challenges.  The first challenge has already started and goes until tomorrow, December 3rd, at 11:59PM PST. Note that all start and end times are in Pacific Standard Time (PST).  FME 2020.2.1 ReleasedA minor release of FME 2020.2 is now available for download. Key updates include:INSPIRE reader/writer: Switched schema locations from http to httpsMultiple fixes to the HTTPCaller including reading non-ASCII names and respecting proxy

Hi all,I’m currently trying to convert several separate ArcGIS vector feature services into a single mapbox vector tileset that reads each feature service as a layer within the MBtileset. What would be the best process for this? I’m also getting a recurring fatal error where FME reads features from the feature service, splitting the service it into lots of 1000 features, however FME cannot progress the reading as it timeout errors. Any help is much appreciated, thanks 

Welcome to another edition of What’s Up Wednesday.  Knowledge Content RevampThank you to those who submitted article suggestions for our Experts to revamp yesterday during our first annual (maybe quarterly) Knowledge Content Overhaul. Stay tuned for the updates to go live. All of the articles that were updated to 2020 or 2021 will be highlighted here in What’s Up Wednesday as they become available. If you didn’t get a chance to submit a suggestion, you can still do so at http://fme.ly/ArticleReporting. Technovation Girls BC Technovation Girls BC is a free technology-based program for girls ages 10-18 in British Columbia. Working in teams, girls are tasked to solve a problem using mobile app development, developing their collaboration, problem-solving, and leadership skills. Safe Software has been a sponsor and mentor for this program over the years. We recently published a video of encouragement from some of our female developers, check it out!  Data-Aware TransformersIf you’ve seen th

I seem to be having issues with the features service data types when I am updating a service with new data from a csv or excel. It appears that that some data types as read from the excel are not consistently translated to esri's schema (or are being assigned in some weird way in from the excel input). I get various errors trying different things. I thought I might try to force the incoming data to conform to whatever esri wants it to be. I might avoid all sorts of gotchas from the excel. In the schema file, can I set the data type to the expected esri one. I have tried but it seems to set anything I change to String.

I am need to extract the date of the Saturday of an given week, based on a yyyy/wk formatted number.  For example, I have an attribute with "202102". I need to convert this to be "20210109"...January 9th, 2021. (January 1st and 2nd counts as the first week).

A dynamic workflow from PostGIS to FileGDB Open API contains some boolean attributes. When writing the data, there are warnings stating that the objects containing boolean attributes are skipped. If I replace the attribute values true/false with 1/0, the objects are written. So, it seems to be that the mapping for the boolean attributes to FileGDB expects an integer instead of a text (the boolean type does not exist in FileGDB). So, I guess I have 3 questions:is there another way to keep the objects, because I would like to keep true/false?is there a way to automatically change the data type in the dynamic writer?should this be considered as a bug? 

I have a very detailed source dataset of buildings and roads. I want to create a an MBTiles file with data on z15 and z17 - our software will automatically overzoom from z15 to z16.  On z15 I want a subset of the features in the dataset to be written (mainly area features, leaving out detailed line features representing roof details and such). On z17, all features should be written.  I have tried to solve this by creating an MBTiles (MVT) writer with two feature types - one for z15 and another for z17. I then route the features accordingly. The layername is created from a value in the feature's attributes.  However when I inspect the result in the newest QGIS, it is not right. On z15, the subset of features are present as expected. On z17, instead of all features, only the features not present in z15 have been written.  So, to summarize, it seems that features written to one zoom level will not be written to another. I think this is in line with the philosophy of vector tiles, so

Hi everything, I encounter the following error while running PythonCaller on FME Server. Does anyone know how I can fix it? Thanks a lot in advance! 

Hi,  The additional attribute msExchHideFromAddressLists for one AD entry ensures in the LDAP reader in the FME application that the data (all users) cannot be read.Is this a bug in LDAP or FME?  This can be fixed by the statement "SELECT * FROM OU=... WHERE msExchHideFromAddressLists IS NULL". Best regards,Matthias

As the question describe. I have exported geojson to multiple files but I realize they are all missing the extension which make the program I will use the file in unable to read them. Is this a bug or how do I fix it?

FME 2020: “Schemamapper” tool fails to map Arabic fonts, I couldn’t figure out why the “Schemamapper” tool fails to map Arabic fonts 

I have an A.dgn file. A.dgn file transfer. to B.tab file (mapinfo) by FME. Then convert the B.tab file to C.dgn. Refecen file A.dgn and C.dgn, the error is deviation (about 0.004 meter- 0.009meter) .Cause the error! and how to fix it! Thank all for hefp!

I have many CSV tables (35) that share a common "GEO_ID" but have different attributes otherwise. There are about 1,600 records in each and every table. I want to join them together by GEO_ID with a resulting output XLS file of 1,600 records and 100+ fields. I've tried FeatureJoiner with a Left Join to a "geography.csv", but always end up with 53,000+ records.  Also tried FeatureMerger with similar results.  What am I missing?

i have a point dataset showing the location of road furniture, and also a line dataset showing the geometry of a road. I need to create a line between the existing point and the road line, but cant get my head round where to start. Any suggestions welcome...

Hi all, I've been asked to do a pretty simple task, but it's giving me a bit of grief.In simple terms, if a date is <= 31/12/2000, then it should be "Pre-2000", and anything >= 01/01/2000 it should be "Post-2000". I've attached pictures to clarify, but this one is a real headscratcher Any help is appreciated

I see similar questions on here, but nothing quite the scenario I have, so I will throw out this as both a question and a sort of challenge to the community.In a recent blog I created 3D buildings by extruding them to a known height. But that leaves a flat roof. In reality many roofs are sloped and the data (from the City of Vancouver) includes that information:So, given roof slope, roof type, and roof orientation, what's the best way to cut away the extruded building to create the proper shape of roof? I was thinking to create the roof as an angled surface, extrude to a block, then use the CSGBuilder to cut that part away from the building. But I ended up with about 15 transformers just to get a flat shape at the right orientation! I'm sure there must be a better way.Suggestions welcome, or if you want to have a try, here's the source data.

I have multiple SDE Connections files, which are used as datasources ("Reader") with the same workflow. Until now I have for every SDE Connection files a specific workbench. Is there a way to bring all SDE Connectionsfiles (as Reader) into one workbench (Loop?).