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Hi All, I originally asked this via the Support Chat. Whilst a case has been setup, it was suggested that I also reach out to the community (thanks @steveatsafe). For a client we're setting up a dev FME Server install (and eventually test and prod). On the servers will be installs of desktop to do the publishing from. Each user that will do publishing will log on to the server using their own windows account. To keep everything organised, we would like to have one set of connections and shared folders for custom transformers. Internally we have a setup script that runs and sets the appropriate registry keys for the user to the shared location (each user has their own laptop). This way of setting the shared location will not work for our client as multiple users will have access to the server to publish workbenches. Our current scripts works on the user level and therefore would need to be run each time a new user access the server.Is there a way to set the global defaults for the share

Hi FME'ers, Last week's quiz was a huge loss for the users and resulted in @david_r remarking "I'm convinced that Ryan knows FME better than Don and Dale"! Perhaps he does. I wouldn't bet against it. But while we already knew Ryan was good, this week's Safer is perhaps more of an unknown quantity. Iris Gutoswki is a developer with the FME Server team. Iris' official title is Web Developer, Web GUI Lead, so it sounds like she's in charge of that excellent FME Server interface that just improves by leaps and bounds every release. Does Iris know about FME Desktop? I'm sure she used to work for a either the GUI team or an engine team (like Geometry or Formats) so there's a good chance she does. What's more, at the 2017 FME User Conference, she got quite the honour, being alongside Chris Hadfield in the event program: Even if it's on the basis of alphabetical sorting, it's pretty cool in my book (well done @bruceharold too, for being the other side). But does Iris know the mix of FME basics

Hello FME'ers, Here's a question-of-the-week post…Question of the WeekThis one wasn't posted as a "question", but was instead a comment from @sigtill on the tutorial for FME Server automations: Q) Can you create a Key within a workspace - expose it - and then use it in automations? For instance an AttributeCreator and the attributes myattribute = myValue - and then use the "myattribute" within the Automations? A) Yes you can! Below are the steps to pass attributes to a Server automation...Server Automations: A (Brief) ReviewLet's cover an automation in brief. An Automation in FME Server is a tool that helps carry out tasks automatically (yes, I know Automation = Automatically! Who knew?) So we can carry out a task at a set time, or as triggered by some other action. The task doesn't need to be just running a Workspace - there are many different tasks you can do - but it usually is a workspace because that's where we have the most processing tools. Here's a sample automation: We watch f

Hello FME'ers, This week's quiz matched you against Ryan Cragg, our chief trainer and someone I had complete faith in. Could you beat him? In short: no. He got 6/6. Unbeatable. But let's see what the answers were and if anyone got close, or tied...Answers1) If I type a value in to Quick Add, Workbench searches for transformers with that string in their name. How do I switch to searching for that string as a keyword? Right-click on the text and choose "Keyword Search" Copy the text, press Ctrl+F, and paste the text into the search dialog Turn on Tools > FME Options > Workbench > General > Include Keywords in Quick Add Press the Tab key on the keyboard Switch to drinking decaf coffee You simply press the Tab key. It switches from searching by transformer name, to searching by the transformer help documents. Also, if no results appeared in your original search, there's an option to pick "Search Mode > Search Help" in the dialog that pops up: You don't have to switch to decaf coffee. Who'd

Hi, getting the following error writing to filegeodatabase and or esri geodatabse. Our work bench work perfect in FME 2018, but ift fails in 2019.0, 2019.1 and 2019.2. If you disable the writer, and run with feature caching, up to the writer, enable the writer, and just run the last part it works. I have tested the same work bench today in 2020, and working perfectly also tested it in 2019, writing to shapefile and geojson - both worked OK the same happens when you use LineonAreaOverlay imsge 1 - shows success, image 2 show failure in 2019 Writer mode is 'INSERT' Transactions are being used by the Geodatabase Writer Geodatabase Writer: Truncating table/feature class `ShrubBedCandidates' Geodatabase Writer: The field 'OBJECTID' in table 'ShrubBedCandidates' will not be updated since it is not editable Geodatabase Writer: The field 'SHAPE.STLength()' in table 'ShrubBedCandidates' will not be updated since it is not editable An error occurred while attempting to insert a row into the tabl

Currently I use version 9.4 of Postgres and soon we will upgrade to version 10 or 11 of postgres, I would like to know if we can still keep the 2016 version of FME? in other words, is FME Desktop 2016 compatible with PostgreSQL 10? thank you in advance

OK, FME'ers, Apologies for the delayed quiz. You might want to review this article if you have FME Server apps that include a database connection. You have to review your token and give the app permission to access those connections. Anyway, back to the quiz and "the gloves are off" as we say. I'm putting you up against a real challenge this week to try and get a win back for Safe! This week your Safe opponent is Ryan Cragg. You may know Ryan from his FME training classes - I think it's fair to say he's trained more FME users than anyone else at Safe - and he knows FME inside-out. He should do: he's worked with it for over 15 years now. You may also know Ryan for his role running the FME certification programs. So can you send our chief inspector back to FME school? Click the link below and give it a try... https://demos-safe-software.fmecloud.com/fmeserver/apps/FMEQuiz If you're interested, the structure of the quiz is always: Simple FME question Fun question Easy FME question Fun que

Hello FME'ers, This week's quiz matched you against Myles Shepherd, a developer in our geometry team at Safe. Myles knows a lot about the inner workings of the FME geometry model, but does he know the sort of things about FME in general that I'll ask here? Let's see...Answers1) A simple question to start with. Which is the real data format? Spanish UFC German MfG Danish UFO British NME Belgian LOL The answer is Danish UFO, which is one of my favourite formats for the name alone: If only the file extension was .x, then the prompt could read "Select the UFO X Files"! Let's see what the other acronyms I used are: UFC = Ultimate Fighting Championship MfG = mit freundlichem Gruß (with best regards) NME = New Musical Express (a one-time music magazine, now web-only) LOL = Laugh Out Loud, LOL Interestingly, I have no idea, and can't find out, what UFO stands for! But I'm sure it's nothing to do with rumvæsener (aliens). Myles' Answer: German MfG (Incorrect) 2) Which of these FME World Tour ve

Well, FME'ers I put you up against two tough matches and you beat both of them. So for today's quiz I'm going back to the development teams, to see if they have better luck. You have a 50% record against developers (beat Paul, lost to Shelley) so let's see how you do against Myles. Myles represents the geometry team. They're the folks who get their hands dirty playing with coordinates. They love nothing better than working with weird geometries; like an island in a lake, that's on an island in a lake, that's on an island in a lake, that's on an island in a lake, that's on an island in a lake, that's on an island in a lake, etc, etc... Or the vertex normals of a self-intersecting, non-planar polygon boundary with a billion points, half of which are duplicates! I believe that Myles has worked on the CenterLineReplacer, TopologyBuilder, and ChangeDetector transformers, to name but a few. So he knows his geospatial algorithms... but does he know about the rest of FME? So... the link is the

Hello FME'ers, This week's quiz matched you against Brian Pont, the manager of our support teams at Safe. How did it work out for you? I heard this week was quite tough! Let's see the answers...Answers1) What will the new Safe Software Pay-as-you-Go program allow you to pay for? Additional users in the FME Data Express app Priority FME technical support The new FME geocoding web service Additional engines on FME Server Correct answers in the weekly FME Quiz The unofficial answer is that you can use my pay-as-you-go service to get the quiz answers, any time you like! Just send me your credit card numbers to my personal email address. OK, the official answer is that Safe's new pay-as-you-go program allows you to purchase extra FME Server engines on demand. I'm not sure yet how the program will work, but if that's something of interest then keep an eye on our web site, or contact our sales team at sales@safe.com We've been asked if it applies to FME Cloud too, but the answer is no. But I

Hello FME'ers, For today's quiz I have another tough challenge for you: try to outscore Brian Pont, the manager of our support teams. I can't say enough good things about Brian, and that's not just because he's my direct boss and responsible for my performance review! That's certainly a factor, but Brian has used FME for a number of years and knows a lot about both Desktop and Server, and tends to know what all the other teams at Safe are working on (the sort of thing I often ask about). On the other hand, you're allowed to research your answers; he's not. So... I think you're all up against a good contestant this week, but you still have a good chance of success. As always, the link is: https://demos-safe-software.fmecloud.com/fmeserver/apps/FMEQuiz Good luck! Mark

Hello, I need to generate a footprint (obtaining only one shape) considering just real values from many rasters (obvious 0,0,0 and no data from background) . The final shape should contain many features (each one with a field with the name of the raster). I tried Raster extent coercer but, it consider footprint considering 0,0,0 and attributes of raster is lost. Please could you help with the model? Many thanks in advance

Im looking to parse an email recieved by FME Server Topic via Imap The JSON looks like this { "imap_publisher_received": "Tue Feb 11 16:24:07 PST 2020", "imap_publisher_sent": "Tue Feb 11 16:24:00 PST 2020", "ws_topic": "RECIEVE_SURECALL_EMAIL", "imap_publisher_subject": "[EXTERNAL] Message from Surecall Contact Centres ", "imap_publisher_from": "updates@surecallcc.com", "imap_publisher_content{0}": "CAUTION: THIS EMAIL ORIGINATED FROM OUTSIDE THE ORGANIZATION. DO NOT CLICK ON LINKS OR OPEN ATTACHMENTS YOU DO NOT TRUST.\r\n -------\r\n\r\n| 2/11/2020 5:21:32 PM/5:21:32 PM |\r\nCall Type: Other\r\nRe: Customer got a letter that he has to take care of pruning his tree before February 6 and is not happy about it.\r\nAdvised caller to call during business hours.\r\n\r\n", "imap_publisher_to": "roads@xxxxxx.ca", "imap_publisher_content_type{0}": "text/plain; charset=us-ascii", "fns_type": "imap_publisher" } Im using a Json reader and an Attribute Splitter for the attribute " imap_publisher_

Hello FME'ers, How was your weekend? Did you spend it testing leap-year functionality in the DateTimeStamper, as the FME Lizard suggested?! Like I mentioned, I feel justified in putting you up against a tough contestant this week, and so I chose my colleague Xiaomeng Ren. Xiaomeng is an experienced FME user and, according to our org chart, her official job title is UX Advocate. That means she is involved in getting feedback from users on our product interfaces and experience, and promoting their thoughts and suggestions to our product management and development teams. If you signed up for the FME Explorers Program, you'll be on Xiaomeng's list to reach out and get your feedback at some point. We've run a couple of tests and if you haven't been chosen yet, it's because we don't want to overwhelm you with too many requests. Anyway... a good way to send feedback to Xiaomeng is to beat her in the FME Quiz, and here's your chance! As always the link is: https://demos-safe-software.fmecloud.

Hello FME'ers, This week's quiz involved challenging Xiaomeng Ren, who is an experienced FME user and involved in our user experience program. Did you have what it takes to win? Let's see...Answers1) This database format was introduced in 1983; it is probably the most-used of any FME database, without being selected by users; it only supports one table; we don't read or write indexes; it has no SQL settings; and yet it got flagged as a new format in 2019! What is it? Microsoft Access Ingres ODBC MongoDB3 dBase It is dBase! Why? Well, let's see... According to Wikipedia it was introduced in 1983. Is it the most-used FME database? Without anyone knowing? Well, yes, because it's part of a Shapefile. Shapefile is the most-used format, therefore it follows that dBase must be the most-used database! Each dbf file is a single table; it has some form of indexing, but I don't think we use it; there are no SQL statement parameters; and it was flagged as new in 2019 because it got remade at the s

Happy Friday FME'ers, Computers are fascinating to me because what you do in a piece of software doesn't often reflect what is going on underneath. As this article says,Computers operate in binary, meaning they store data and perform calculations using only zeros and ones... However, multiple binary digits can be used to represent large numbers and perform complex functions.So, although your computer is carrying out complex binary calculations for everything you do, you don't get to see that... except for cases like today's question-of-the-week, where it comes bubbling to the surface.Question of the WeekQ) I have some dates with fractional seconds and I want to truncate them to whole seconds. In the fme help it says the @int function converts by truncation, which is exactly what I want. Most dates I'm sending in are truncated. But ones of the type 20200220015759.999000 are getting rounded up. In the case of above, it's an invalid date because it rounds up to 60 seconds. Is this a bug o

Hello, I have a FME floating licence server. I can't use it FME2018 with DirectAccess. I have try this : https://knowledge.safe.com/idea/36924/fme-floating-licences-support-ipv6.html but this does not work. I have the error message : 2020-02-21 12:26:02 The FME license has failed, so FME will now attempt some diagnostics for the floating license2020-02-21 12:26:02 Checking for a floating license file in the locations: "C:\applications\FME 2018\licenses\fme_license.dat" "C:\ProgramData\Safe Software\FME\Licenses\fme_license.dat" "C:\Users\USER\OneDrive\Documents\FME\Licenses\fme_license.dat" "C:\Users\USER\OneDrive\Documents\FME\Licenses\fme_license.dat"2020-02-21 12:26:02 Found a floating license file: 'C:\ProgramData\Safe Software\FME\Licenses\fme_license.dat'2020-02-21 12:26:02 Reading the floating license file: 'C:\ProgramData\Safe Software\FME\Licenses\fme_license.dat'2020-02-21 12:26:02 License file specifies server # 1 as servername.domain (and port not specified)2020-02-21 12:26

It seems like that the cursor is misplaced in someway in FME workbench. When i hold the cursor over one window and scroll, it affects another window. fme-desktop-2019.2-b19801-win-x64. the server is running windows server 2012 r2 on which FME is installed.

Hey FME'ers, Today I span the wheel of fortune and it landed on... Carolyn Vantol, who is responsible for running our annual maintenance program. If you're involved in the financial aspects of purchasing FME, you may well have interacted with Carolyn at some point. She's not an FME user; in fact she says "I can't think of a staff member that knows less about FME than me" and "it'll be good for our users' egos"! But she put the apostrophe in the right place there, so you know she's detail-oriented and won't be a pushover. Think you can beat her score? As always, here's the link: https://demos-safe-software.fmecloud.com/fmeserver/apps/FMEQuiz Good luck folks.

Hello, I have an issue when trying to set up a scheduled task to run a workspace with FME Desktop 2018.1.SettingsConnectionsFME is installed on a windows server. I created a folder with the following files : fme_connections.data fme_publicKey.jceks This folder is setted up in the FME Options (default paths), with the full path "\\servername\path\to\folder" for the fme_connections.data and "\\servername\path\to\folder\fme_publicKey.jceks" for the public key. The connection is public (checkbox checked) as in https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/34678/making-database-and-web-connections-public.html I did this setting with my personnal user account. I opened FME with my colleague's admin user account and setted up the default paths too.Scheduled TaskThe task was created by my colleague with her admin user account.General tab "Run whether user is logged on or not" is selected. "Run with highest priviledges" is checked. "When running the task, use the following user account:" is set to my col

Well FME'ers, This week the quiz involved taking on our IT manager, John Lees. John isn't an FME user (at most he would have dabbled in it) so this should have been easy... right?! Let's see the correct answers and how well John did...Answers1) Which one of these is NOT a piece of FME documentation listed on our docs page? FME Readers and Writers Manual FME Server REST API Documentation FME Cloud Documentation FME Terminology and Localization Guide FME Factory and Function Documentation This is usually the easy question and this one should have been only a small obstacle. But it makes me glad to see that you do know our available documentation and where to find it. The Terminology and Localization Guide isn't a real thing... in fact they are two real things I joined together for quiz purposes, neither of them listed on that page. The terminology guide exists here on our web site, while I understand that a localization kit is given to users or partners who wish to translate the FME inte

Hey folks, Today I'm branching out to a different department to challenge you. This week your mission is to defeat John Lees, the manager of our ITOps team. That title means that John leads the team who oversee all of the technology and infrastructure that we use at Safe. I don't think John's team of stars get the same love as the developers who make FME, or the support, sales, and marketing teams who help out our users in a public way. So here's some kudos to the ITOps team. You rock! Besides, John is a black belt in karate so you might want to think twice about messing with him - or beating him in an online quiz (just saying)! As always, here's the link: https://demos-safe-software.fmecloud.com/fmeserver/apps/FMEQuiz Good luck folks.

How can i modify FME Quick translator .i want to add one more connect with source excel file i want to write field name so it will look for the name of this field in the source excel file and the code will work only depend on this name for each parameter inside the work space , so i want to add one more command line called write name on this page . Thanks for help

Hi, since my new update to FME 2019.2 opens the FME Inspector not automaticly. I can open it from "Visual Peview" Any Idea what to do?

Hi FME'ers, Your challenge this week, should you have chosen to accept it, was to pit your knowledge against that of Shelley Schoen, a senior developer at Safe. Let's see the correct answers and what Shelley got right...Answers1) What does the ParameterFetcher transformer do? Fetch the name of a user parameter Fetch the value of a user parameter Fetch the type of a user parameter Fetch the default value of a user parameter Stops FME trying to make Fetch happen This one's straight out of our training manual - literally: As you can see, the ParameterFetcher fetches the value of a user parameter. Imaginary bonus point if you get the film reference in the list of possible answers. Shelley's Answer: Fetch the value of a user parameter (Correct) 2) Which user on the FME Community has the most badges? takashi jdh markatsafe david_r fmelizard Ooh, was this a bit of a trick question? Maybe. Although @takashi has the most variety of badges (45) (@jdh, 41; @david_r, 39; @fmelizard, 25; @markatsaf