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eetmyhouse

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Is it possible to storke Arcs the same way as in 2016 MSQQL writer?

In FME 2016 there were a possibility to set how geometries would be stored in the MSSQL writer. For instance, Arcs could be stroked with a setting within the writer when stored in the table, without using the Arcstroker-transformer.However, in recent version this isn´t possible any more. My problem:I have a set of polygons in a MSSQL-database table (let's call it table 1) that was written thru the 2016 MSSQL-writer. (The original data is stored in a different database (oracle) which i use to update and create new data) I then use FME-server to write all the data (edited, new, untouched ) from Oracle to a different table i MSSQL (let's call it table 2) each night . The MSSQL database then comapers the areas of the original table (1) and the comparison table (2) which I'm writing data to each night. I do this check to see if I got any new, deleted or changed geometries (area comparison) before posting them to the "correct" MSSQL-Table (1). When I changed to a newer

4 years ago

jvickrey656

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Convert linestring text to line geometry

Greetings, I'm pulling from a datasource that has a column of linestrings (example below) and i just need to convert this to line geometry in order to derive a polyline shapefile. which transformer(s) can i use? Thanks "Geometry": "LINESTRING (-107.726325 39.50062, -107.72632501 39.50062042, -107.72632492 39.50062061, -107.72632458 39.50062097, -107.72632481 39.50062182, -107.72632666 39.50062407)",

CoordinateConcatenator bug for fme_donut

Hi everyone, The transformer Coordinateconcatenator return non closed ring geometry for donut featrues (fme_geometry: fme_donut, fme_type: fme_area). It means the first coordinate is not equal to end coordinate. Is is a bug? I use Fme Workbench 2018.1. I need the closed ring coordinates, but I don't know how should I solve the problem? Thanks in advance for any help.

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4 years ago

rudy_vContributor

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Packages install into APPDATA folder

Hi Safe,I just want to mention, the idea of packages for deployment are great, but the execution are really not that great. It is major pain deploying it to users on the network. Another issue it tries to write the fme_connections file - which in our case are readonly directory - so this fails miserable in our environment Reason for read-only - so that user don't break connections I don't know why it installs into APPDATA, why can't we have it install once, into fmeshared - or even into FME Desktop install folder. It would be great - if it could be enhance or improved Regards Rudy

4 years ago

dominik

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Fade-out WMS image and write to pdf-File

Hi FME community I would like to fade-out raster image created with WMS and write to a pdf-file. For this I first create my WMS image and then overlay this image with a prepared png-File with the fade-out effect. Within FME everything works fine and the result before the pdf-writer in the Data Inspector is what I expect. But in the pdf-file the fade-out effect is no longer visible (see attached screenshot). I guess it's a problem of the pdf writer. Does anyone have an idea how I can fix this? Thank you very much and kind regards from Switzerland. Dominik

Hi, I have polygon vector data I'd like to overlay on an existing raster. VectorOnRasterOverlayer works fine, but how do I select which vector value where more than one overlaps a pixel?

The vector data is a continuous set of numerically classified polygons (1 through to 6). I've used used VectorOnRasterOverlayer to do this but the output is not ideal. For some pixels there will be two or more different vector classes. I havent yet found a way to select which to use. If, for example, there are vector classes 1, 3 and 6 for a particular pixel, I'd like the highest value, 6, to always be used. Any suggestions?

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4 years ago

LizAtSafeSafer

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What's Up Wednesday: FME News for the Week Ending 30-October-2020

Welcome to the last What’s Up Wednesday in October Community Appreciation DayOctober 27th was the first annual Community Appreciation Day. We wanted to say thank you for being a part of the FME Community and making it what it is today. From the long lost years of FMEPedia to our new community focused community, thank you for contributing! Mark Ireland posted a blog post yesterday highlighting some of the awesome community members as well as some new swag! Cloud Integration ToolsStewart goes through different ways to store your data in the cloud while using FME Cloud in a new blog post about cloud integration tools. He also provides useful benchmarks from different storage platforms to help you choose what is best for your company. Work for SafeDid you know we are hiring? With the on-going pandemic, we’ve started hiring remote positions, so now you don’t need to be in the Vancouver/Surrey area to work for Safe! Our only stipulation to work remotely is that you live in Canada. Check ou

4 years ago

robertoContributor

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Python lib. Properly install for both 2.7 and 3.7

Hello experts,I'm stuck in an installation problem that I'm not able to solve.I need to install a library (i.e. cx_Oracle) for both 2.7 and 3.7 python interpreter.I tried to install both cx_Oracle versions in:C:\\Users\\myself\\Documents\\FME\\Plugins\\Python\\python37 andC:\\Users\\myself\\Documents\\FME\\Plugins\\Python\\python27Trying to configure both interpreter in FME, it seems FME 2020 is not able to find the library. Error: Python Exception <ImportError>: No module named cx_Oracle.So I tried to copy the python37 content into C:\\Program Files\\FME2020\\python\\python37 folder.Now the error is "Python Exception <ImportError>: Module use of python27.dll conflicts with this version of Python".Any idea on how to properly configure where to install libraries and let FME looking for the correct version?ThanksRoberto

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krienContributor

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FME Desktop in App-V checking out Floating License on startup

Hi All, One of our customers is running VID's with FME Desktop in an App-V.It seems the App-V is checking out a Floating License on startup, even there's no FME (workbench) process opened and after all FL's are checked out other users can't start FME Workbench anymore.Why is the FL checked out on startup of the App-V and how can this be disabled until a real FME process is started.Can this be arranged by removing the fme_license.dat, or perhaps using Non-persistant VID's? Kind regards,Krien Guijt

4 years ago

torbjornd

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Numbering segments of line

Hi.In one of my FME-workbenches I'm splitting lines at several points (water lines and devices) by using a PointOnLineOverlayer. After the splitting, I want to create a numbering of the new line segments according to the direction the line has been digitalized. I've tried using a counter with the ID of the lines as the countername, so I get a count based on the ID. But the result is not what I want. The numbering seems random. As you can see from the first example (just a mockup), each line has an ID and you can see where the points are.After I split my lines and calculate a new ID, I get this:The segment IDs are not numbered in the direction of the lines. What I want to achieve is this: Do you have any suggetions?

CsmapReprojector fails with vertical datum (3D reprojection)

Hi,I have two raster files, DEM_epsg25831_orthoHeights.tif and GEOID_epsg4326.tif, and I have to convert from orthometric heights of raster DEM to ellipsoidal ones. I am using CsmapReprojector [3] with FME Workbench 2019.1 but I have problems with vertical adjustment. I always get this error:CsmapReprojector: Reproject: Could not reproject the geometry of the preceding feature: Program TerminatingTranslation FAILED. These are the steps that I follow for vertical adjustment: 1) I have converted DEM_epsg25831_orthoHeights.tif into dtm_epsg25831_orto.asc (Esri Ascii GRID), because CsmapReprojector can only reproject raster files in 2D (that is, with Ignore heights and leave them unchanged) [1]. This is the content of dtm_epsg25831_orto.asc (sample data for test),NCOLS 3NROWS 3XLLCENTER 398955.000000000YLLCENTER 4624395.00000000CELLSIZE 5.00000000000000NODATA_VALUE -9999252.71 252.38 251.94252.97 252.63 252.26253.23 252.89 252.55 2) I also, I have convert

Creating a new custom projection system using FME online tool is giving an error

I wanted to create a custom new projection system with below ESRI WKT string using the FME online tool and getting " FME Data Streaming Service Failed to Complete" error. PROJCS["Exelon_Custom_NAD83",GEOGCS["GCS_North_American_1983",DATUM["D_North_American_1983",SPHEROID["GRS_1980",6378137.0,298.257222101]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION["Lambert_Conformal_Conic"],PARAMETER["False_Easting",40000000.0],PARAMETER["False_Northing",0.0],PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",-77.0],PARAMETER["Standard_Parallel_1",38.18],PARAMETER["Standard_Parallel_2",39.27],PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",37.4],UNIT["Centimeter",0.01]] I have tried earlier this online tool to create the same projection system and it did created a projection system. I have the custom_projection.prj file from the ESRI and tried to place it under

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4 years ago

hlouieContributor

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Email test for specified attachments types, then save these attachments to UNC

Started to build a FME Workspace that would test in-coming email for 2 files attachments with a specific pattern. I'll email reply back if the 2 files are not found, if found then save them to a network UNC location. I've got reading email json -> into 2 ListSearcher (1 for each file) This is where I'm hung up as testing for the 2 specific files (it has 2 files and very specific for each to the 2 files)?

Hello, Within my workbench I need to obtain the values from a cell in the row above. But first I need to do some form of grouping and sorting to make sure I get the right values. Can anyone help me with how I can do this? Thank you!

The data I have looks like the table shown in the appendix 'Current format'. I want to come to the result shown in the appendix 'Needed result'. So I need some form of grouping based on the ID column. And also a sorting based on the BOTTOM_DEPTH or based on the DBK column.Within each group, the first row needs to get a top depth of zero. All following rows need to get the BOTTOM_DEPTH value of the row above.

4 years ago

moset22

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How to merge autocad text string with points?

Hi,I have points in autocad layer and two text strings (both in different layers). I need to connect those strings to points and create two new attributes. I tried to options: (1) to first merge two text by using NeighborFinder and that to use second NeighborFinder to connect them with point, (2) to first merge two text by using NeighborAggregator and that to use second NeighborFinder to connect them with point. But in some cases it does not work correctly. Is there any other transformation that can be useful in this situation? or any suggestion what may be wrong?

How to use WorkspaceRunner with multiple multiple input files?

Hi! I have a workspace which reads 2 tif files and 1 shape file and writes a kml file. I have about 100 pairs of tif and shape files that I want to process in an automatic way. I am trying with Workspacerunner but can not make it work. Any tips on how to proceed?

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jan-henkContributor

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Hi, How can I copy data from say a CSV file with one record too many records from another file? If you have a common record header you can use the feature merger but I don't have anything common. Is there a way to do that?

4 years ago

michiedemContributor

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Statistics calculator transformer result makes no sense

I have a very simple workbench: An excel file as input and straight after it a statistics calculator. Only: the results make no sense. Example: one column has a sum of 78000 in excel and an average of 68. In FME the sum is 1500 and the average 1.8. It is very clear that the results in excel are the right results. What is happening?

Specifying between elevation data and colour data for geotiff writer

I've noticed that when I deal with GeoTIFF files exported from FME that I need to specify whether the raster is filled with elevation data or colour data when loading into other programs. I believe other software's specify in the TIFF header/metadata that the raster is elevation data but I dont think there's an option in FME to do so. Is anyone aware of a way to set this parameter?

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4 years ago

robertoContributor

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Python - Update standard NumPy lib

Hello,I'm trying to install Pandas lib but it depends from a NumPy version newer than the one installed with FME (1.15.1). Pandas pip installation includes the correct NumPy library but the script fails because FME looks in the default \\FME2020\\python\\python37 folder instead of the custom one.Is it possible (without side effects) to upgrade that library? ThanksRoberto

Error in json encoding

Hi guys,I am trying to send a few request for every featrue individually using a Rest url (include spatial overlay) to the server in order to intersect between data in DB and input data. Then save the result in json file for every feature.It might be genereted some duplicate features , therefore I saved the results a json files. Then the json files are read using FeatureReader. But the problem is some of json files format, which were generated using HttpCaller, have been changed to Ansi encoding instead of utf_8 encoding.I dont know, how should I solve the error.Any help, I would be pleased.Thanks in advance

Output filename generation

Hi, I'm traying to automatically set that output .dwg filename is same as input filename but in different folder. I was using FilePathExtractor and fanout. FME generates the .dwg with appropriate name but it contain only one point and all my data are omitted. How to resolve this?

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4 years ago

fme_hansContributor

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Objects in this class cannot be updated outside an edit session (ArcGis SDE)

Hi, With FME I want to update one column of an ArcGis sde data table. The table is a non versioned feature class with enable archiving and an active service has been created.I get the following error: Objects in this class cannot be updated outside an edit session I have tried all the different transaction types of the writer but it makes no difference.What could it be? Greatngs, Hans

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gisbradoklaEnthusiast

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how to run from transaction#

I had a fatal that gives me the following...2020-10-21 16:26:33|1678.6| 0.0|ERROR |An error occurred while attempting to add a shape to a feature buffer. The error number from ArcObjects is: '-2147220936'. The error message from ArcObjects is: {No spatial reference exists.}2020-10-21 16:26:33|1678.6| 0.0|STATS |Storing feature(s) to FME feature store file `X:\\__FME_Workbenches\\COGO_SCAN\\path2fgdb_wksp2_log.ffs'Saying no spatial reference exists. following the error feature list is a section that tells me to "Rerun translation specifying transaction #88 for the keyword 'TRANSACTION'" I assume this would be using a commend line but know nothing of particular parameters and steps to accomplish this.any idea what i need to do?

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4 years ago

sashalContributor

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FME Workbench with Python Startup/Shutdown fails on task scheduler but works when ran with command line manually

My FME Workbench has a python startup and shutdown script (Esri ArcGIS 3.6 python interpreter) that works fine when running in the software or in command line with arguments. When I put the workbench on a windows task scheduler, the workbench does not run and I get a 0x1 error in task scheduler. If I remove the python startup/shutdown the job runs fine on scheduled task. Any ideas on how to resolve this? Thanks in advance! More detail:FME Desktop Version: FME 2020.1.0.1 (20200710 - Build 20596 - WIN64)FME_HOME is 'C:\\Program Files\\FME_64\\' Command line to run workspace: "C:\\Program Files\\FME_64\\fme.exe" "D:\\SOE\\FME Workbenches\\GRI\\GRI_Guardrail_AssetID_Creator.fmw" Python Interpreter: Using Python interpreter from `C:\\Program Files\\ArcGIS\\Pro\\bin\\Python\\envs\\arcgispro-py3\\python36.dll' with PYTHONHOME `C:\\Program Files\\ArcGIS\\Pro\\bin\\Python\\envs\\arcgispro-py3'

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