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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.htmlbut 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 12:26:02 

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/FMEQuizGood 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.datafme_publicKey.jceksThis 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.htmlI 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 colleague admi

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 ManualFME Server REST API DocumentationFME Cloud DocumentationFME Terminology and Localization GuideFME Factory and Function DocumentationThis 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 FM

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/FMEQuizGood 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 parameterFetch the value of a user parameterFetch the type of a user parameterFetch the default value of a user parameterStops FME trying to make Fetch happenThis 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?takashijdhmarkatsafedavid_rfmelizardOoh, 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; @markatsafe

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?