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I like to make the titles and other information (bullet points etc) in bookmarks to be bold, of varying colours etc. Is this possible in FME 2018 when creating a new bookmark? It doesn't seem to work for me. I create FME workbenches for a production team to use (many have little to no experience in FME) so I like to comment workbenches quite extensively.

Do you need to switch the rotation of your label from arithmetic to geographic or the other way around? You can use the RotationSwitcher I published on the FME Hub.

Hi Team,In my case, there are multiple geometries coordinates in one json file. I need to create multiple geometries and write to shp file. Sample json file attached.in this file there are multiple geometry blocks, I should iterate thru json and create geometris.help will be appreciated

We run the workspace using PERL. We have implemented a conditional check in the workspace for record counts BEFORE we update the table. If that TEST fails, we route to the Terminator transformer.The issue we are having is that Terminator does not set FMEException, thus PERL thinks it was successful.We need to terminate the STREAM of jobs.How do we do that? I do not see anything FME parms related to FMEException.

I can't find anything in the documentation about how FME Desktop stores published parameters that are passwords. Are these encrypted? Or does FME desktop store these parameters as clear text behind the password stars? For instance, in the workspace below, I have published parameters that are passwords (I've set the published parameters to password type) How is FME Desktop storing these?

I really like the new run control options, but feel quite strongly about them being in the reverse order. Since data flows from left to right, it feels more intuitive if the first button was "Run To This" and the last one was "Run From This" (as the data then continues to flow towards the right), with the center button remaining "Run Just This". Here's a I think the icons could also be a little clearer too. Reversing the placement will probably help as I find myself constantly hesitating and waiting for the tooltip since I keep picking the wrong option! But I think the bottom part of the green arrow graphic is the most important part and unfortunately it's the smallest and least readable. I'm attaching a of something I feel is more readable.Would love to hear your feedback if you played around with this. Thanks!

Hi all,I'm trying to send an email with an attachment. How my workflow works is it creates an excel spreadsheet for my QA-QC of the data. It then sends an email with the created excel spreadsheet. Is there any reason why the email wont send with attachments? The size is less than 25 mb.Thank you,David

I installed FME 2018 on Ubuntu 16.04 using this FME on ubuntu 16.04 install Knowledge page.Finally I managed to install FME 2018, but now it won't start.I have not so familiar with Ubuntu and therefore I need some help.

Hi all,we have really complected workspaces that have been left for support by another team and sometimes we need to find where specific attributes are used, created , read, written.It might help to see all attribute usages in workspace. Without such functionality it is really time consuming process.Thanks for any your answers.Alexander.

Hi,Do you see a way to have the Inspector read only features falling into the extent of the Inspector's view? So let's say that you are looking at some specific situation with Shape file data in the Inspector but you need to add a layer from a large worldwide PostGIS database in order to get more context. However as this set of data is quite large, you don't want to read all records but ideally only those falling in the active view. There is already a way to add the envelope definition but I don't necessarily want to enter the 4 min/max values for each situation I want to inspect.Thanks!Best regards,Olivier

It used to work fine. I had a workbench with inspectors, and after running the translation, the inspector would open up, displaying the data from al the inspectors.That has stopped.I tried doing what was recommended in here: https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/4186/data-inspector-will-not-open.htmlBut that doesn't work either. I can't even manually inspect a reader or writer. I have to write to intermediate writers to be able to inspect my data, and then open that dataset within the inspector. Running with inspection on , doesn't help either.Help.

I get this below error while writing to SDE from Shape file.ERROR |Cannot write a non-linear feature to a polyline feature class.Have tried using GeometryFilter to filter line type and GeometryValidator, but still I get this error. I don't see geodb_line geometry type in SDE writer.Any thoughts please?Thanks,

Hi All,I am trying to use workspace runner for one my task.i have around 50 GDB which i want to run using one of my other workbench output of this workbench is going to be in XML . that is reason why i had thought of using workspace runner. I am using path reader to specify the folder , where i had kept my GDB's . I want my output XMl's to be stored in folder with name of input file GDB. not sure how i can do that . the workbench which i will be running using the work space runner has already set for segregate the output XML base on other fan out criterion. any help will be appreciated on this on how i can stored my XML's in folder with input GDB name .

I am trying to convert skp file to citygml lod3 I have an old citygml file but its has lots of issues with coordinateate system and urn id I try my own but I am failed to convert for PostgreSQL database.@DaveAtSafe

It is not possible to download the beta version:https://downloads.safe.com/fme/beta/fme-desktop-b18254-win-x86.msiError-message:403 forbiddenCode: AccessDeniedMessage: Access DeniedRequestId: 9C36AF2984DC8A5AHostId: iRLO/HyVsdkzpKEppJOwDPuVRzEf64FQ5VMY+CKPWXCZXBGK8m7/GRKSYpBc5LXwbWCKqaoNWI0=

Hi @erik_janI'm using the Fanout expression(PLAN_NO) in FME writer to produce the DWG tiles, Fanout expression is working as expected(SD7527.dwg) . But all I need is to prefix the name 'GIS-' in the Fanout Expression, so that i need the DWG Tiles to display as GIS-SD7527.dwg . Is there any custom option in FME writer.Any help would be appreciated.Regards, Anil.

Hi everyone,I created a custom reverse geocoder using my own dataset and FME. Can anyone think of any transformers that I can add to my FME workspace to make it even more powerful and have extra capabilities?Thanks a lot in advance.

Hii'm doing the tutorial "Esri ArcGIS and FME Desktop (Advanced)" and i can not activate the FME Extensions in ArcGISYou can help me?

I have several scheduled tasks running FME workspaces from the Windows cmd environment. I determine whether the run was successful by checking fme.exe's return code, which is 0 on successful runs.This usually works but on rare occasions fme.exe immediately spits out the value "2", and produces no log file at all. I'm unable to reproduce this, but out of ~80 jobs running daily it happens a couple of times a week. My main questions/concerns are: 1. What are the troubleshooting steps for this? and 2. How can I make FME write a log file when this error occurs?This is how I'm calling FME:for %%i in (*.fmw) do (    fme %%i    if !errorlevel! neq 0 (        echo "The FME errorlevel was !errorlevel!" >> debug.txt    ))

I am creating feature class using geoprocessing tool, in that i have some columns with VARCHAR(2000), while writing features i am getting An error occurred while flushing the cursor for the table/feature class 'featureclass1'. The error number from ArcObjects is: '-2147216072'. The error message from ArcObjects is: {Underlying DBMS error [ORA-24816: Expanded non LONG bind data supplied after actual LONG or LOB column. But once i change VARCHAR(2000) to NCLOB its writing without any issues. i am not understanding why this happening. I have to use VARCHAR(2000) at any cost. Is any solution for this? I am using FME 2016 32 bit and ArcGIS 10.2.Thank you.

Hi,I have to maintain a large number of workbenches that run on FME Server 2013 SP1 (Build 13450). There are external dependencies and third party plugins that make upgrading to newer versions of FME Server not an easy task done in a swift.But after updating one of the workspaces, I now get this error:The clause 'REFERENCE_INFO ATTRIBUTES REFERENCE_TABLE Value_ortofoto_jpg_fil Valuepath_windows' within 'FACTORY_DEF * ReferenceFactory FACTORY_NAME FeatureMerger INPUT REFERENCER FEATURE_TYPE StringConcatenator_2_OUTPUT_1 INPUT REFERENCER FEATURE_TYPE Sampler_SAMPLED INPUT REFERENCEE FEATURE_TYPE AttributeKeeper_OUTPUT REFERENCE_INFO ATTRIBUTES REFERENCE_TABLE Value_ortofoto_jpg_fil Valuepath_windows MERGE_ATTRIBUTES Yes MANAGE_FME_TYPE Yes MODE COMPLETE PROCESS_DUPLICATE_REFERENCEES No OUTPUT COMPLETE FEATURE_TYPE FeatureMerger_MERGED' is incorrect. Only one value can follow REFERENCE_INFOBasically, "The clause [...] is incorrect. Only one value can follow REFERENCE_INFO".After googling 

HiI am still new to FME and would like to find out the best/easiest/quickest way to calculate lengths of pipe sections. In this case the distance between S01 and F01 (3.8-0.6 = 3.2). The tricky bit is that there are sometimes more than 1 pipe section per Inspec_ID which need calculating, ie S02/F02, S03/F03 etc.Thanks in advanceJ

Hello everybody!  I'm asking, if it is possible to use a Hadoop Distribution on FME Desktop's work. On one side, for storing input and output files but more importantly for sharing the cpu-usage of a translation into multiple Hadoop tasks on multiple Computers. I'm working on a project right now where the tranlation with 100.000 lines takes about 45 minutes. I can only imagine the time it will need on about 1.200.000.000 lines if I'm computing it on a single computer.  Thanks for reading!  PS So far I'm only working on FME Desktop, I watched some Youtube Videos about FME Server and could imagine that it could work with Hadoop quiet well.

Following on from this idea...It was suggested that I throw this out as a challenge, and so here it is.We would like to see your solutions for providing a word count for a set of text. The count should provide a list of words and their frequency.To make it fair, everyone should use this Wikipedia page on the Inuit language as their source. I chose this because it includes a number of non-standard words and characters that you will probably all be equally unfamiliar with. For example: ???????????????? or qangatasuukkuvimmuuriaqalaaqtunga (meaning "I'll have to go to the airport"). You obviously don't have to translate the words, but they should be included in the frequency count. I wouldn't worry about numbers or tables either. You can ignore those if you wish.Bonus points to be awarded for:A solution that can be published to the FME HubA solution that reads directly from the web site (otherwise just paste the content into a text file)A solution that is generic and

Hi, I received an old workspace which was created with FME 2008. I receive a warning message box stating that "Missing attribute reference detected in pre-2012 workspace". Is there an easy workaround to use it on 2017.1?1. I have opened the file in FME 2010 then saved it, a few issues where resolved but not all.2. I was thinking of opening the workspaces in each version of FME from 2009 to 2012, not sure if this would make sense. In my point of view I would ask the creator of the workspace to re-design it as many new/existing transformers can do the job much better now than before. Any pointers would be much appreciated.  Thanks. Lyes