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Hi everyone,  I've just installed FME Desktop 2014 (64 bits and 32 bits - I always have both versions) and it all works well, but the first thing I noticed is that the application start/close and workbench loading time has dramatically increased. This is the case for both the 32 and 64 bits version and it also happens after I restarted my machine for instance. When I shutdown the application for instance, it takes up to 10 seconds for the application window to actually close. I never had problems with this before. What has changed?  Cheers, Sander  PS: I'm running Windows 7 64-bits on an Intel i5 with 8GB RAM

Is there a way to get the username of the user who is running the workbench and populate this to an attribute?  Essentially I want to populate a feature class field named Last User with who ran the workbench.  All that I've been able to find is for FME Server - not for Desktop.

Is it possible to set the (default) FME options so that they propagate to all users on a pc?  We have a production machine with FME installed, and many different people will be longing on, I need to change the default paths, add shared resource directories and set some runtime options.  I don't want everybody to have to change these settings themselves when they first log on.

I would like to be able to send an email once a workspace has completed from FME Desktop.  I have tried PythonEmailer which failed and DirectTweeter which got stuck in a look and sent 56 messages and stalled the workspace.   Any other options?   Thanks seb

Hello  I want to transform tables and at the same time add unique ID-Fields to them with a counter-transformer. As identical tables are saved in different oracle users, I set up a workspace for one user, parameterized it and run it out of another workspace for all users, using the workspace runner. My problem now is to get the start_count of the counter dynamically, so that at the second run of the workspace runner the counter continues with the last value of the first run. I found this: http://fmepedia.safe.com/articles/How_To/Get-the-Start-Count-for-the-Counter-from-a-different-dataset, but what I have is not really a different dataset...Isn't there a possibility to save a value temporarily when using a workspace runner?  Thanks in advance Vera

Is it just me or did the Filename/Directory difference on input/output-files moving from Desktop to Server just get a little bit better on FME2013 SP2 vs FME2013 SP1 ?  Also I just discovered the File Copy WRITER - will for sure be handy!

Hi! On installing said version, build 13499, my Avast AV 8.0.1489, virusdef 130621-3, fired an alarm on the file spatialrelationshipfactory.dll and put it in the quarantine. Avast says the reason is Win32:Evo-gen [susp] The file date for the file was 2013-06-05 12:15:16  Has anybody else seen this? Most likely, the alarm is false.

FMEers,  I'm using FME2012 to create IGDS V7 symbols, from a resource file (.rsc), for example, font 85 OCT032 50 feet by 50 feet.  UORS / FT= 381  The output range block is not correct in MicroStation.  The y-extent is fine, but the x-extent is about 30% too short.     I believe this is causing FME not to calculate the correct lower-left origin of the symbol from the insertion point.  Text-nodes (type 7) appear to have the correct range block and so do "normal" text strings, type 17, font=0.    It appears that the symbols are the only things with a screwy range block.  Anyone know how FME does symbols?  Tips, tricks, suggestions for getting the right output?  Brad

Is it possible to upgrade our desktop to 2013 64bit from 2012 sp3 x86 even though it's installed on the same machine as a Server 2012 sp3 x86?  Just going through our upgrade to 2013 and 64bit.  We want to keep our server running while we upgrade.

Hi, I have a problem workspace that runs fine for most datasets but for one dataset it just stops, with no error indicated in the output log.  I've tried turning on the "Log debugging information" option in Workbench. I've also tried adding "FME_DEBUG BADNEWS FME_STACK_TRACE" to the workspace header but I'm still not getting any error output at the point the translation hangs, it just stops.  I've let the translation sit overnight, so it's not just a matter of me being impatient!  I assume it's some bad geometry but it's hard to know where to start looking, there's a fiar amount of data and the translation runs for 1/2 hour before dying.  Originally the translation looked like it was dying on a FeatureMerger so I exported the inputs to that transformer and then ran them through in a seperate translation but they ran through fine. I replaced the FeatureMerger with a Matcher

i have two readers( Old & New) with different attributes , now i need to compare the old one with new one & check for the  Added New Features , Modify Changed features & Retain old features . the change dector wil not work as there are no same features. So need a suggestion

Hi David,    Thanks for ur reply , i need to match Attributes in both readers i have only one common field Source_ID  with that i have used feature merger as well as spatial filter but i was unable to get the result, for eg i have around 30000 data in old reader & 17000 in new so i need to figure out the Added New Features , Modify Changed features & Retain old features .  thanks Nish

Hey all,  I have a problem starting FME Desktop (2013 SP1) when connected to our network by VPN.  As workaround I checked out a license, this worked until I connected by VPN because I needed my mail / network directory...  Always worked like a charm until the 2013 versions.  Anyone a clue?  Thnx alot!  Niels 

Can FME 2012 be integrated with a 3rd party tool like ArcSight to help manage the logs? Or is there any other tool/options that FME be integrated with for the log files?

Has anyone noticed the efforts of the documentation team at Safe Software in improving the FME Desktop help with the nice automatic sync with the ToC?  The manage bookmarks,index, advanced search all add value to the documentation user.  Now most dialog boxes have Help buttons and in some cases "i" icon to let the user jump to the relevant section of the help (readers, writers, transformers,feature representation, reader/writer directives etc.)  Thank you Safe Software for your attention to nitty gritty details.  Regards SRG  

Hello FME Community,  I have been looking at FME for some time and have been contemplating putting together a purchase justification for management. So,  I have searched all over the website and done many Google searches, but I am having a hard time finding any concrete quantitative benefits or value statements to use in my justification.  As well, I could also benefit from some information on ownership stats. For example, I work for a city gov't in Vermont.  Does anyone know if other local cities own FME or if there are any other FME installs in Vermont ?  So long story short, I want to buy FME but need some ammunition to justify the purchase. My bosses have no idea what I do (or really care) as long as they get their maps.  So, any simple / high-level ammunition would be greatly appreciated.      

At one point there was a press release http://www.safe.com/about/news/press/archive/41/ but I don't remember hearing anything about this since. Now I think there's MPSuperShape and a couple other third-party tools from tiny vendors, but I don't know of any major vendors providing support for import into MapPoint.  

Is there any advantage in using UNC paths rather than mapped paths in FME Desktop? Wouldn't UNC  be better for batching and portablity?  Cheers, Jeff N