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In a lot off my workspaces I need to fetch some 'global' values based upon user input. Example: user needs to provide project name: first check if projectname complies with the rules, once that is ok, use some api's to fetch global values for that project.Now those global values are in an attribute and need to keep track of those when using attributekeepers, list builders,...I can set them as a global variable with variable setter but it means that I need to use a lot off variable retrievers (10+).  Is there a way that I can put that value in a private parameter so that I can use it across the workspace without the variable setter and retrievers?

Hello everyone! I'm a new FME Desktop user seeking some guidance. I've successfully managed to join tabular data with an existing GIS layer and write the data using the ArcSDE Geodb writer with the "truncate" option to update an existing feature class. Now, I'm looking to automate a new process in FME. Specifically, I want to join a table to a feature class and calculate one of the fields in the feature class using a value from the table I've joined. Is it possible to achieve this without overwriting the entire feature class, only updating the specific field's value? Your insights and assistance would be greatly appreciated!

Hi Everyone, I am relatively new and in my current position I am replacing someone who was a bit more advanced than me. I understand a lot of what the workspace is trying to do (and it worked in FME Server) but once we migrated to FME Flow, the workspace no longer works. The premise is similar to the FME Demo "Map Based Data Distribution". The difference in our workflow has an Input Project Area instead of an Area of Interest which allows the user to upload a shapefile or use our municipal boundaries which is stored in our Repository. We also create a waiver for our Digital Licensing Agreements, but that's a User Parameter with "yes/no" and with either setting, the workspace/app fails. I've included images for the parameters for the FeatureReade

Hello everyone, I am currently exploring the generation of displacement vectors between two sets of coordinates in a point cloud, with the aim of creating graphical representations for further analysis. My current situation involves the availability of two distinct pairs of coordinates for each point, and the aim is to create arrows indicating the direction of displacement, with a length proportional to the displacement of each point. However, I am facing a major difficulty concerning the scale of these arrows, which must be adjusted so that they are visible on screen or on a plane. I've appended the script I've developed so far, but I notice that it doesn't take the notion of scale into account. More precisely, the problem lies in the inability of the "Scaler" transformer to allow individual definition of the X and Y coordinates of each point, which is necessary to determine the origin of each arrow. Does

I have geodatabases, which can contain strictly structured data of linear utilies and related objects, such as powerlines, utility poles etc. However, geodatabase sometimes contains only powerlines, sometimes only poles, sometimes powerlines, poles, power plants and more. So, one geodatabase may contain two layers of data with strict and specific names and attributes, the other may contain all of defined layers, and so on. I convert this geodatabase into an XML file through XMLTemplater provided with an input from XSD file. Since the structure of the geodatabase is always the same, XML Templater allows me to set the template beforehand, and XMLTemplater just writes the attributes afterwards. The reduced ROOT template looks something like this:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><geodatabase:Utilities xmlns:gss="http://www.isotc211.org/2005/

Hello Everyone im still new to FME i been given a task to run a topology rules by referring all the rules from esri gdb as shown in the image that has been attached with. My problems is that i already did some reading that FME is capable to do topology rules checking by using TopologyBuilder but i have no experience on how to operate the builder to do topology checking on Area, Line and Point, Can anyone help me with this situation ?

I have switched from using a custom transformer to a linked custom transformer for the sake of reusability. While there were no errors when I ran it with the local custom transformer, I started encountering an error message randomly after seeing the "Translation was SUCCESSFULLY" message, which reads "Error missing translation." after I changed it to a linked custom transformer. Here's some additional information that may help:1) The number of records outputted by the custom transformer in both cases is the same.2) In both scenarios, they were executed in "Moderate" mode with parallel processing.3) Debug logs are enabled, and although there are some "BADNEWS" messages, they were present in both cases. Can anyone provide me with some hints or guidance to resolve this unknown error message?" Here below is the screen capture for the error message.

I'm using FME Workbench 2022.2.4. I have a couple of workspaces that I run daily  (via a batch files) to generate public facing data (a dashboard and a downloadable csv file). When I open and run one of these workspaces in FME Form 2301.0, it had 123 errors.  I noticed that Upgradeable Transformers did not appear in the Navigator Pane, and discovered that this is a know issue. The notice says that the issue is fixed in 2023.1.0.1 but, I don't think that version is available.https://community.safe.com/s/article/Known-Issues-in-FME-2023-x In the 2023.1 log file, the first error I see is:2023-09-22 12:15:35| 118.0|  0.1|ERROR |DateTimeConverter_2_1 (TeeFactory): DateTimeConverter_2_1: @Tcl2 -- failed to evaluate expression `DateTimeConverter_2_2ec7b318_cca9_46ee_ac8d_5fa555c5bb630_DateTimeConverter {DateTime_FME}' -- F

I am TRYING (without success) to build areas from parallel horizontal and vertical lines. After MUCH work i finally have 2 areas that will simply not create areas.I started with parallel lines.use Intersector and others.but end up with 2 areas that are missing because of one line that the intersector chopped that is always incomplete in AreaBuilder.

I have a tree canopy coverage layer where tree canopies are overlaid. The layer contains around 5,000,000 entities and I need... :1) remove the overlapping area of the entities (I've tried with the space and overlap cleaner but it takes too long, I have 32gb RAM)2) merge all entities into one, and for display performance reasons, the resulting layer must be cut on a 1 km or 500 m grid. In attached an exemple of the layer  Any idea how to proceed? Thanks to all

@Dale Lutz​ @donatsafe​ Hi Guys - can someone tell me if the home use licence is still available. I have just tried to get a new licence and been told that the home use program no longer exists. However, when safe did their rebranding the question was asked about the home use licences and Don and Dale said it would continue. Can someone please confirm which is correct...

HelloIs it possible to create user parameters and save them for use in other workbenches?I have numerous workbenches that all load different data however some of the parameters will be the same and used in every workbench.I have looked at the documentation, but cant see anything obvious. If these created parameters could be saved to either a database, or file to allow sharing with others that would be even better...RegardsAndy  

I have a viewer with layers in ETRS89 and want to add a WFS layer in ED50. I need to convert the co ordinate system in the cloud before it reaches ArcGIS Online so that everything is in ETRS89. What writer and transformer should I use? Is there a relevant tutorial (name please!)

I have created a workspace which reads all CSV files from a zip file selected for a file user parameter by using $(ZIPFILE)[**\\*.csv] as the dataset in a FeatureReader. This works as intended in Desktop, but will not run on our FME Server (tried with FME Server 2021.2.5 and FME Flow 2023.0.2). In both cases, the CSV reader fails to open the file, which is being stored in a temp upload directory specific to the workspace file name, including the ".fmw" extension. I currently believe that the ".fmw" in the directory path is causing the issue, as I am able to run the workspace successfully when I add the file to another FME Server Resources directory and browse to the file instead of uploading when attempting to run the workspace. Is there any way to specify where the file gets stored when being uploaded from the Run Workspace page or via a server app? Any other way I might be able to get this to work as intended?

how can I adjust the tolerance or script to account for the hard turns with the wind radii and wind forecast graphic? I want it to get rid of the extra space when there is a turn see below picture:

Hello,I have an sde database containing hundreds of feature classes, in which each feature class has an attribute containing a document reference.I would like to be able to read the first row of attributes from each feature class so that I can check the document reference.My current workflow uses the SQLExecutor to extract all of the feature class names. Then the names are passed to a FeatureReader to read in each feature class, with the 'Max features to read' set to '1' to save reading more attributes than required.However, this is still taking a long time to process all the feature classes. Is it possible to do all of this in SQL?

FME Flow cannot delete File GDB, but the FME Form can delete and succeed, is there something I need to do for Flow to work correctly. I have added my domain svc account for Flow to the output directory with full privileges.

I have about a hundred or so .csv files. They all live in different folders on the same network. In a database table I have the path and name of each file (something like: "M:\\ExampleFolder\\Example.csv"). As I process each record, I just want to copy each source .csv file to a folder called "D:\\Temp" and rename it "Final.csv". So "M:\\ExampleFolder\\Example.csv" would get copied to "D:\\Temp\\Final.csv" when that record was processed. The next record in the table might be "D:\\ATotallyDifferentFolder\\Different.csv". When that record gets processed I want that file to replace/become the new "D:\\Temp\\Final.csv". I can't seem to figure out how to use the File Copy writer to do this. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

Normally the MSWordStyler works in sequential order. But in my case the transformer works in a different order and I have a table that doesn't seem to take the style that is defined in the MSWordStyler .

HiBeen struggling with this for the last hours now and I cant get it to work with gpkg, with shp it works fine. But this file i need to download is gpkg. The data is open road data and the zip is around 2.7Gb big. This is the error I getOGCGEOPACKAGE reader: Dataset 'C:\\FME_TEMP\\wbrun_1694624249590_18024\\fmetmp_0\\1694627133694_13812_d\\tor050\\http_download_1694627134354_13812.zip.gpkg' requires file extension '.gpkg'. Using dataset 'C:\\FME_TEMP\\wbrun_1694624249590_18024\\fmetmp_0\\1694627133694_13812_d\\tor050\\http_download_1694627134354_13812.zip.gpkg.gpkg'OGCGEOPACKAGE reader: C:\\FME_TEMP\\wbrun_1694624249590_18024\\fmetmp_0\\1694627133694_13812_d\\tor050\\http_download_1694627134354_13812.zip.gpkg: No such file or directoryOGCGEOPACKAGE reader: Failed to open the dataset 'C:\\FME_TEMP\\wbrun_1694624249590_18024\\fmetmp_0\\1694627133694_13812_d\\tor050\\http_download_1694627134354_13812.zi

Hi,New to FME and creating a workbench converting CAD to GIS. I am trying to get the structure fields to match and eventually join them after more clean up. Id like the structures field to be abbreviated. I was thinking Attribute manager could do this. but when I use conditional formatting I loose the "-#". another thought would be to add an alias? but again I am not too sure of a solution. Thanks!

I'd like to calculate the total sum of points associated with different asset IDs that fall within a specific polygon. My desired output should resemble the table provided below.

I have two separate files, one containing GIS pipe data, and the other with pipes exported from a model. Both of these files have lines, and I want to identify the GIS lines that overlap spatially with the modelled links. I've attempted to convert the GIS lines into polygons and then check if the modelled pipes fall within these buffered polygons. However, I've tried transformers like LineOnAreaOverlay, SpatialRelator, and more, but none of them seem to be working for me. Can anyone assist me with this issue? I eventually need to compare the diameters between both files and it would also be good if can merge attributes from both files

I want to upload several pdf maps to AGOL, which I am downloading from Sharepoint. How can I upload over 20 pdfs on AGOL using ArcGISOnline Connector transformer?