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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 

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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?).

Hello,  I am currently working at a script that must generate an HTML report based on data from multiple sources.Among many other elements, my HTML report has a table with 3 columns:Column 1 is an ID, column 2 some description (not important), and third column must contain links to local html files. These local HTML files have in their name the ID from first column and I used a FeatureJoiner and tested if  “name of the file” = “ID”.I tested for one task with an ID and 4 files that contain the ID (if file contains the ID, link to the file must go in the third column).The issue is that after running the script, only link to one html file appears in third column, not all 4 of them.Steps performed in the script for inserting links to local html files inside a table from an HTML report.Using “Directory and File Pathnames ” I read data from local (html files I want to insert in table ).I create a new attribute “doc_dir” and I set the value to “path_filename” in order to keep name of the file

Hi guys I am checking for image classification transformers in FME Desktop, and I can't seem to find anything. Specifically, I want to segment an image and classify using object-based image analysis (OBIA) Here's a guide I found on exactly what I want to do - https://gisgeography.com/obia-object-based-image-analysis-geobia/ Does anyone know if this exists in FME? If not, how about the other image classification techniques like supervised, unsupervised or machine learning methods?

Welcome to the first edition of What’s Up Wednesday for 2021. Hopefully, you had a chance to participate or check out the Twelve Days of FME Challenge over the holidays.  Upcoming TrainingOn January 13 & 14, the Integrating your Data with the FME Platform course will be presented online for free. Tune it to work through exercises in a virtual machine and ask questions to the live instructor. Then on February 17th, we will be presenting our Getting Started with the FME Platform course. Interested in more comprehensive or advanced courses using FME? Check out all of the courses offered by our Partners.  Upcoming WebinarsWant to learn how we migrated our entire community from one platform to another using FME? Check out our migration webinar on January 13th. Interested in data integration and/or business trends, check out Don & Dales’ predictions for 2021 with an extended Q&A where you can ask your burning data integration questions, the webinar will be presented on January 20

I have 5 postgis db with same schema and having same layer names. I want to merge all these five db into new db in new projection. I am trying to do it with by adding reader into single merge feature and adding reprojector and output to writer postgis new db.​I am getting the error :Fanout feature type public.roads failed to find feature type template public.roads.​How to do this? Any clue. I am using FME 2020.2​​

Hi there, I am trying to find a simple way to append an asset code to a list of facilities. I am running into trouble because there is no standardization of naming for these facilities leading to slightly different names (short forms, etc). I have a master list that I would like to use to compare and append the asset code to when given tabular data that 1) does not include the code and/or 2) does not match the master list naming convention. I can't wrap my head around which transformer to use and would appreciate the help!

having "A" and "B" two files compare and identified in both files unique values

Starting translation...Unable to open log file `C:\\GIS_Data\\Internal data\\Fire_Compliance\\2020_21 workspaces/letter_sent_Dates_20_21.log'Program TerminatingTranslation FAILED. Renamed workspace saved to same folder as originalRunning FME in a Remote Desktop environment.FME desktop 2019.2

Hello!How to handle multipart polygons in Spatialrelator when "Support all predicates" is checked (because they are not supported with this Support mode). For example I have district with islands and I want to check if it belongs only to one higher level district (or it overlaps more then one higher level districts).