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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

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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

Dear FME community,is there a way to change the line width in the Inspector? I assume that there isn't currently such function, because it was suggested here as well:https://knowledge.safe.com/content/idea/28191/inspector-transformer-parameters-for-line-width-an.htmlHowever, perhaps somebody has an idea how to "style" the lines in the workbench, so that they are displayed differently in the inspector. I want to change for example the line width and the appearence, e.g. to have continious or dotted lines. There is for example the MapInfoStyler which we use for MapInfo data sets, but the style is only displayed in MapInfo itself, not in the FME Inspector. Our purpose is the distinguish the original lines of the former dataset and the transformed lines, which are displayed on top of each other in the Inspector. The only way I know is to buffer them, to make the one data set wider, but then they are no longer lines which is not suitable for us.Perhaps somebody has an idea of

Hi User's,I have a Workspace that needs to search in ( Folder and Subfolders ) the files in shapefiles Polygon01.shp and Polygon02.shp. Two differents Folders:C:\\SAFE_Base_Conhecimento\\ZIP_Procura_arquivo\\Files\\Folder_01C:\\SAFE_Base_Conhecimento\\ZIP_Procura_arquivo\\Files\\Folder_02The Folder_02 doens't has any files, the folder is empty.When the Wokspace is run a error happened after the transformer FeatureReader. The reason is because didn't find any SHP files in Folder_02.My question: Its possible to configure the FeatureReader to run and search SHP files without this error? Or has another option before to configure and check if the Folder has any SHP files?I'm use FME Desktop 2016.Thanks in Advance,

Is there any why to upgrade version of old translator to new(current version)? not by delete and re insert new one.I have some workspace writen by old version of FME, so I want use them in new version of fme, but I found some times can not work fine, so I want find a way to upgrade to these workspace to new version quick and easy.

Hi All,I have a DBF table/geodatabase table wherein for each feature there is 7 entry. there are two ID fields one is the feature ID and There is another field where some ID's are given called IN_GRP these are given by source provider. I want to create files from this which has 60 feature each with same IN_Grp and with all the 7 entries of that feature.

Hey FME'ers,It's been a while since we had an online challenge, so I thought I would throw out something to test you - especially now that we have FME home licenses available!If you remember, in a previous challenge I gave some names (Alf, Max, Ben, Ann, etc) and challenged you to find the transformer that they represented. The solution is that Alf is the SpatialFilter (because it is the only transformer containing that name), Max is the RasterBandMinMaxExtractor, and so on.Type Alf into the FME Workbench Quick Add to prove it:See? There can be only one!Well, today I was helping out on transformer documentation and wondered how many transformers in FME could be identified by a unique three-letter string in Quick Add. Not necessarily names, but any three-letter string; for example the Clipper could be "CLI" and the AttributeFileWriter could be AFW (because the search dialog allows Camel-Case entries).But you can't have "EME" for the ListElementCounter, be

Hello User's,I have a folder with two differents schema Shapefiles. My Workflow has a transformer Creator and FeatureReader, and i would like to extract the attributes through the transformer FeatureReader.Has the configuration inside transformer FeatureReader the Generic Port:I can't configurate manually the attributes from the source datas because on this folder will have a differents datas with differents schemas.My question: how can i configurate to be dynamic?Attached my template file.Thanks in Advance,Danilo de Lima

My desktop administrator has installed the FME on the PC with Esri ArcGIS desktop. I'm not the administrator of the PC. After FME desktop installed, the FME Data Interoperability is listed in the Esri ArcGIS desktop extension for the administrator. When I login, my ArcGIS extension list doesn't include the FME data Interoperability. I'm not the administrator on the PC. Thus I don't have right to install any software. How can I use the FME Data Interoperability installed by the administrator in the ArcGIS desktop? Thanks in advance.Helen

I am sing FME 2016 and have polygons dataset that are spread in an irregular fashion. I want to create a fishnet(grid) wherein the geometry is as per the density of the polygons. So, first of all, I have to convert the polygons to points, so that the original polygon file is not occupied by 2 different grids and then create the tiles thing and save the output in multiple polygon gdbs (outputs as per the tile). it would be really amazing if the number of polygons in one grid could be controlled.Thanks.

Hi.I have a workspace that uses the ArcSDE Writer. It works perfectly in my FME Desktop, because I have ArcGIS installed in the same machine.But now I have to upload it to a FME Server. In that machine, there is not any ArcGIS installation and I've been told that there is no plan of installing one. So... my workspace won't work.I'm aware of the ArcGIS Legacy writer, but it's an option that they don't want to use due to its lack of maintenance.So... is there any other solution? I've been searching in this forum and I haven't found anything else.Thanks for any help provided!