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Hello FME'ers, Well, last week didn't go too well for you! Let's see if you have more success this week. This time I've gone back to our developers to find a candidate for you to take on. Today you're competing against Shelley Schoen.Shelley is a senior developer with our Desktop Authoring team. As you might expect, that means she is heavily involved in the design of Workbench and implementing new and improved functionality.For example, when you click a drop-down arrow and see the Text Editor and Arithmetic Editor windows, that was Shelley's idea and design (I believe our French partners even called it "Paramétrage de Shelley"). Shelley was also responsible for implementing how the colour of annotations changes to match bookmarks, and I believe also for the colouring of connections that is coming out in FME 2020.As always, the quiz is at: https://demos-safe-software.fmecloud.com/fmeserver/apps/FMEQuizGood luck!

When I set the WorkspaceRunner Number of Workspaces per FME Process parameter the last batch isn't run. For example if I set the value to 10 and there are 42 items to process then only the first 40 are processed. I have created simple Parent/Child workspaces that demonstrate the problem.I am using the latest Mac build of 2019.FME Desktop 2019.2.2 for 64-bit Mac OS XBuild 19817 / January 7th, 2020.

Hello We have for security reasons to migrate the application Safe Safe FME Desktop 2016 to our new license server (Windows Server 2016 in the cloud) Questions: 1) what are the steps to installation Safe FME Desktop 2016 on the new Windows Server 2016?2) do we have first to deactivate Safe FME Desktop 2016 on the old Windows Server 2008R or to stop it?3) do You have a documentation for these tasks? Kind regardsPascal BilatEmail:  

I'm using the OData Reader to process a larger dataset with over 3 Million features, however it always reaches the read timeout = 120 limit.I believe the OData reader timeout value was increased in one of the 2018 builds, but I'm wondering whether it's possible to increase the read timeout value manually or for specific readers.

Am trying to put Snakegrid coordination file and i come up with this error

Hi,Unfortunately I am still forced to use FME 2014. A lot of webservices that I frequently use have now moved to TLS 1.2, and I find that FME won't connect to them anymore, returning an error "SSL connect error".Based on this: https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/73167/what-http-client-does-the-httpcaller-use.htmlIt looks like the version of FME shouldn't be a problem, since FME uses what the OS provides (in which case I need to get my sysadmin working - we're on Windows 10). But based on this:https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/85353/esris-arcgis-online-is-removing-support-for-tls-11.html It might not be supported, although this sentence "FME has supported TLS 1.2-based connections to ArcGIS Online starting with FME 2015.1.1" could also reference AGOL instead of TLS, I'm not sure about that.Can anyone clarify for me what the problem could be? If the upgrade is the only solution, then I'm out of luck for at least the next few months I'm afra

Hello FME'ers, and welcome to February!Having seen you thrash one of our development team last week, today I've turned to the marketing team to hopefully win a point for the Safe team. In this quiz you're competing against Amanda Schrack, whose job title is Technical Content Marketing Specialist. That means she writes technical articles like this one on FME and Sensors, or this one on FME and Data Validation.As always, the quiz is at: https://demos-safe-software.fmecloud.com/fmeserver/apps/FMEQuizGood luck!

Hi FME'ers,Firstly, apologies for not posting yesterday, but I got caught up in a training course (and also forgot)!Anyway, this week's challenge was to beat Amanda Schrack, a technical writer in Safe's marketing team. A mixture of tech and product knowledge. How could she lose? Well.. let's see if she did, but first the correct answers...Answers1) There are two types of people who use FME. Who are they?The Creator and the InspectorThe Author and the UserThe Reader and the WriterThe Maker and the ConsumerThe Bold and the BeautifulA question of FME terminology, eh? The answer would be authors and users. It's very interesting to me that the person who authors a workspace is very often not the same person that uses it. In fact, given that running a workspace on FME Server can be completely hidden behind a web page, I imagine there are thousands of FME users who've never heard of FME at all!It's not The Bold and the Beautiful, which is a soap opera that I wish I

Hello,If I load a file .osm downloaded from OSM in Qgis I can see in the table all traslation present for admin boundaries.I tried to do the same in FME but I am not able to see these attributes.Sombody can help me to understand how to do?ThanksMaxthis is what I see in Qgis and what I would see in FME.

I have an access database that gets updated when data is checked in from a mobile device.which is set up as a FME Server workspace with directory watch protocol set to modify . I was hoping that adding new records would change the file size and the workspace gets triggered which in-turn triggers a child workspace. Unfortunately the size does not change every time data gets checked-in.Im looking for help on how to check for updated records in an access database since the SQL executor doesn't work on access database.The access database has valve exercising information ,which is used to create inspections in cityworks using the Cityworks API. The child workspace uses the API to make the API calls to Cityworks.

Hello,I have a set of lines that I converted into points using snipper. I want to find one neighbor of every point, so I used Candidate Only feature of NeighborFinder. However, I receive the same point as closest candidate.I tried the same workflow for other set of points which I hadn't converted from lines and it works fine for this input. I'm not sure why I'm not able to find neighbors of points I created from lines.Please provide some suggestions. I've added screenshot and workbench for reference.  

I am create a work bench but create highest FME version 2019.2 it is not working FME version 2019.0 missing some transformers. I want FME Version 2019.2 converted to FME version 2019.0 how to resolve this problem please tell me

Hi FME'ers,I found quite a few questions this week that I would like to highlight, but in the end I went with this one because it was something I was dealing with for the last couple of days. It's all about the FeatureJoiner transformer, and the oddities that make it a little different to other FME transformers.Question of the WeekQ) I have two tables that I want to merge using a FeatureJoiner. When I ran the program, I found that about 100 records went into the rejected output field. When I investigated I found that the column I used from the left table to join has null values. Could anyone guide me on how could I make sure that all records from left table come to the output table? Asked here by @muhammad_yasir A) It's not too difficult to sort this out - you just need to filter those records to bypass the transformer - but I think it highlights what makes the FeatureJoiner a little different, so let's take a look at those differences... The FeatureJoinerThe scenario i

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Hello everybody.I'm using FME for create an object with the transformer AttributeManager, but I would like to add values in each new field. Whait i the good transformer for that ?Thanks for your help.

I have a workbench which contains a WorkspaceRunner that calls a child workspace. When I set the WorkspaceRunner to wait until the job is complete, it calls the child workspace every time. Everything runs smoothly.But when I set the WorkspaceRunner to run the child workspace multiple processes of the child workspace at the same time, it just briefly calls the child workspace without starting it. Nothing happens. There is no error and I am not above the maximum of the FME licenses. I am using FME 2019.Any idea what could cause this behavior?

Hi FME'ers,This week's challenger was software developer Paul Nalos, who heads up the database team at Safe. Paul must have been working here for 10 years or more, but does he have the same knowledge of Desktop functionality - or the same luck at answering bizarre questions - as you do?!First let's see the correct answers...Answers1) Which of these is NOT an option on the Tools menu in Workbench?Browse FME HubBrowse Coordinate SystemsBrowse Readers and WritersBrowse Web ConnectionsBrowse Geographic TransformationsThis is simple question because you can just look in Workbench. Paul didn't have that luxury. He would know about the coordinate systems and geographic transformations because that's part of his team's responsibilities. I think for him it came down to either the Hub or Web Connections. A 50:50 call, and he picked the wrong one:So, the answer is Browse Web Connections. I guess it's not really necessary; you can just use Tools > FME Options > We

It's the third quiz for January 2020, and the Safer you are up against this time is Paul Nalos. Paul is one of our senior developers and heads up our database team. That team is responsible for not just all database development, but also CAD formats, and coordinate systems and reprojection! That's a lot of complex topics to master if you want to join their team.As usual, the quiz link is: https://demos-safe-software.fmecloud.com/fmeserver/apps/FMEQuizFortunately for you, I didn't put any database, CAD, or coordinate system questions in there! And remember that Paul wasn't allowed to look up answers, but you are; so you have the advantage there.So try out the quiz for this week, and see if you can beat Paul.

Hello FME'ers,I have a question-of-the-week today that's really more philosophical than technical; I'll lay out my opinion on the matter and bring in other thoughts from the answers to the question.Question of the WeekQ) Can a person who has never worked on FME, be tasked with migrating data from GE SmallWorld to PostGIS? Should we engage FME Certified Partners or can we learn this along the way? Asked here by @navraj28 A) Well, that's a fairly loaded question to answer when my role includes providing materials to bring new users up to speed. Plus the question was short on details making the quick answer... it depends! Let's look at some of the factors I'd use to make a decision...ResourcesPersonally I do think it's possible to dive right into a project when you first start FME. We have a lot of resources in the form of documentation, tutorials, knowledge-base articles, training, webinars, technical support, blogs, events, and conferences (did I miss anythin

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Hi FME'ers,This week's challenger was my colleague in the Tech Experts team at Safe, Andrea Eisma. Interestingly I also asked the questions on the FME Community webinar, so we have those results too!Let's see the correct answers...Answers1) The F11 shortcut in Workbench: what does it do?Enters "Full Screen" modeOpens an FME Hub browserRe-publishes the workspace to FME ServerCloses the workspace without saving changesToggle BreakpointsThis should have been simple. Just open Workbench and try it. It will enter Full Screen mode.Did you know there is an online PDF of FME shortcuts that you can download and print out? Me neither. In this case it would tell you that F11 maximizes the canvas to full screen. If you want to keep the title and status bars, then Shift + F11 simply maximizes the canvas size, keeping those elements.As for the other answers:The FME Hub browser doesn't have a shortcut key (use Tools > Browse FME Hub or select Alt+T, Alt+H, Enter if you ar

We have 12 engines in our FME server. I can see engine9 and engine9@39899, thus having 13 engines.What is this?

It's the second quiz for January, and this time you are up against my colleague Andrea Eisma. Andrea is a team lead for the FME Desktop tech experts team, which means she basically runs one of the support teams at Safe. You may have interacted with her through our support channels, and would likely meet Andrea in real life if you attend an FME World Tour stop in either Washington, DC; Springfield, MA; Toronto, ON; Ottawa, ON; Halifax, NS; Winnipeg, MB; or Regina, SK.Whew! That's a lot of travel you've got lined up Andrea!As usual, the quiz link is: https://demos-safe-software.fmecloud.com/fmeserver/apps/FMEQuizI think this is going to be an easier week, but then I know the answers so I would think that. Remember the rules say that Andrea isn't allowed to look up answers, but you are; so you have the advantage there.So go for it, and see if you can beat Andrea.

Hey folks,Happy new year to you all. I wish you all an exceptional - and FME-filled - 2020.So... the weekly quiz is back! The first one this year pits you up against Safer Kris Majury. Kris works with the technical publications team, and is responsible for most of our transformer documentation. Like me, she works out of her home office, in her case somewhere in the islands off the coast of British Columbia.As usual, the quiz link is: https://demos-safe-software.fmecloud.com/fmeserver/apps/FMEQuizKris put up a good score, but then I never really know how hard the questions will be. Remember the rules say that she isn't allowed to look up answers, but you are; so you have the advantage there.So have at it, and see if you can beat Kris.

Hello friends,It's a new year but there's still unfinished business from the old one: it's the results of the 2019 Holiday Hackathon.As noted before, I scaled it back a bit this time, so entrants were in it for the fun and what little glory they get from this post! But that didn't stop us getting six fantastic entries.So without further ado, I announce that the winner is: National Hockey Ligue Visualizer by @philippebSecond place was the Holiday Lights project by @gazza and then everyone else was close enough together to call them joint third place.Well done everyone. I awarded you all the Hackathon badge and when I get some more tangible rewards, you're on my list! But I hope that most of all you'll bask in the respect and admiration of your FME peers, because these were some seriously good projects. Kudos to everyone who took part.And to everyone else on the forum, happy new year to you all and here's to some great FMEing in 2020!