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HiIn FME 2025.1, can multiple feature classes containing the same fields and needing to be updated with the same data be developed to use a single DatabaseUpdater converter?For example;A function can be added that allows feature classes or tables to be selected in the parameters, as in the reader. The additions can be seen as a list above the Match On list.

Hi, I would like to know if there is any processing in FME as "Euclidean Distance" tool in ArcGIS. Thank you. Clara.

Hello!  I am currently Generating TIN surfaces from a pointcloud and exporting as a FBX.  I am having some issues with bad looking edges, aswell as vertexnormals looking like split normals everywhere (hard edges, see image below)As you can see from the images here, the triangulation is very rough. is there anyway to average those normals to get a more smooth experience? Think smoothing groups, from 3D studio max or something similar. i dont want to actually change the geometry, just the visuals. This was generated from a 4x4km pointcloud with a TIN generator surface tolerance at 0.5 (just to speed up the process).   Best Regards. Oskar Wallin

Hi all, Last year, I received my FME Certified Professional certificate.An achievement that I am proud of. I want to check if I am still the only FME Certified Professional at my place of work. The problem is: I can't find the Wall of Fame any more since the Safe Software rebranding. Does anyone know if the Wall of Fame still exists? Regards, Martin

I'm having trouble writing sharepoint users to a sharepoint list. It does not seem to matter how I'm formatting the user string attribute - it just wont accept it. The writer is configured as uploaded workspace. The sharepoint list adds a new, empty row.   HOW do I configure the writer, and what is supposed to be the correct attribute value? To my understanding, the attribute value is to be formatted asi:0#.f|membership|name.name@domain.se

As per ChatGPT, FME supports Draco compression and FME has a plugin 'Draco 3D Mesh Encoder/Decoder' in tools->plugins & transformers->dialogbox-> choose download tab->scroll down and will get the plugin. But even I am not able to see the option plugins & transformers in tools.So can anyone make me clear where to find it in FME Desktop, I am using latest version of FME. ThanksBasant Lal

How can split polygon into branch like this image?Each branch showed by a number. And the split positions are yellow lines like this Everyone has any ideas to solve this my issue, please show with me! Thank you so much!

Hallo FME community,I have many lines in a shapefile and some lines are connected to each other. I want to bring all lines that are connected together into one feature. I would be grateful if someone could give me an idea. 

When using Sharepoint Online Connector, this error message appears "timezone offset does not match system offset: -18000 != -216000. Please, check your config files." I'm from Mexico timezone, how can this be solved?

I have a vendor OData feed URL. It works fine in my Power BI, but fails to retrieve the feed in FME desktop (2020.1.3). Below shows the error. I am using the same credential in both Power BI and FME user authentications.  Python Exception <KeyError>: 'name'A fatal error has occurred. Check the logfile above for detailsFailed to obtain any schemas from reader 'ODATA' from 1 datasets. This may be due to invalid datasets or format accessibility issues due to licensing, dependencies, or module loading. See logfile for more informationUniversalReader -- readSchema resulted in 0 schema features being returnedReader Parameter(0) = >https://data.woodmac.com/query/upstream_weekly/imp-met/odata/field_geospatial_summary<Reader Parameter(1) = >AUTHENTICATION<Reader Parameter(2) = >Basic<Reader Parameter(3) = >USERNAME<Reader Parameter(4) = >allen.guan<at>bhp.com<Reader Parameter(5) = >PASSWORD<Reader Parameter(6) = >********<Rea

Hey guys, I'm not sure if this is the right forum to ask, but I'm at a loss as to what to do here. I'm still quite new to FME and have tried looking for solutions to this problem that I am having.I have read this https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/281/failed-to-connect-using-sql-server-2012-native-cli.html and installed SQL Server Native Client 2012 on my machine, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=50402, which wasn't installed before, but I am still running into the same issue.Details from the translation log:2021-06-05 13:14:39|   0.2|  0.2|INFORM|FME 2020.2.2.0 (20210111 - Build 20817 - WIN64)2021-06-05 13:14:40|   1.2|  0.0|INFORM|Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit  (Build 19041)2021-06-05 13:14:40|   1.2|  0.0|INFORM|FME Platform: WIN64  2021-06-04 08:28:55|  45.6|  0.0|INFORM|Creating reader for format: Microsoft SQL Server Non-Spatial2021-06-04 08:28:55|  45.7|  0.0|INFORM|Trying to find a DYNAMIC plugin for reader named `MSSQL_ADO'2021-06-04 08

I am trying to configure to run a FME workbench as in Schedule task. The batch file itself run fine. But something is happening when its run from Task Schedule. It seem to start a workbech, but it is not executing the workbench. This is the stout output i manage to log.          FME 2022.2.5.0 (20230329 - Build 22795 - WIN64)            FME Database Edition (floating)                Permanent License.           Machine host name is: xxxxxx   Operating System: Microsoft Windows Server 2022 64-bit (Build 20348)         Copyright (c) 1994 - 2022, Safe Software Inc.                Safe Software Inc. When i run the batch file through cmd it start logging "reading" etc after the first I assume is a license check initial License check. I have tried to multiple things alreadySet the "Start in" option to be the directory where the bat file (and workbenches) are locatedabsolute pathset the first line of batch file to cd into the directory of the workbenchI am running the batc

I have about 500,000 building footprints that are collected to varying degrees of accuracy. I would like to true these footprints so the corners are either 45 or 90 degrees on the polygons as depicted below. Is there a means to do this using FME desktop? The corners are typically within +/- 5 to 10 ground units of being true.  Before:After:

I generated TIN by TINgenerator.I would like to procedure to generate TINrelief of CityGML from the TIN.

Hello everyone, I've recently been doing some work using HTTPCallers to connect and authenticate to an API. The basic flow is that the first HTTPCaller hits the login endpoint. The credentials (username & password) are passed as application/x-www-form-urlencoded values. An XML response is sent which contains a Session ID. This is then passed through to all subsequent HTTPCallers via the header as Cookie - ASessionID=<Our session ID>. This all works very well, but I've been asked if I could move the whole authentication part into a nice secure easy to use Web Connection. I've done similar before, so thought this would be a fairly easy task, but alas, I've hit a bit of a wall when it comes to the Access Token Response. Unfortunately, the login call to this particular API only returns XML and will not return a lovely JSON response for FME to parse and handle. I was under the impression that FME should be able to look at a JSON or an XML response, but I'm having no luck.  Is ther

My goal is to read a directory of SDE connection files and then list out the database name and all the feature class names, tables, geometry types, etc. associated with each connection file. I've reviewed the articles below and can't figure out how to set the Feature Types to Read parameter since it only shows tables/feature classes from the one Reader as a Resource SDE connection. This isn't an issue if there is only one database but when there are multiple (like what I'm trying to do), it doesn't seem to work. Is this possible or is there another way to get this info? Here are the articles I've been using:https://community.safe.com/s/article/how-to-read-all-feature-classes-from-multiple-esri https://community.safe.com/s/question/0D54Q000080hHCASA2/read-multiple-sde-connect-file https://community.safe.com/s/question/0D54Q00008qzlJhSAI/how-to-dynamically-read-entire-schema-of-sde-geodatabase   

If i run this command in the command prompt (OS) it takes about 15 seconds.M:\\Survey\\'COGO DATA>DIR /S *.DWGIf I run the Directory and File Pathnames Reader with essentially the same parameters it takes 5 hrs! Why can't fme do this any faster?

Hello, I have a REVIT file which contains some cylindrical objects (e.g. pipes) and when I convert the model to cesium, it creates hexagonal shaped pipes instead of cylindrical ones. Is this intentional or can I bypass this behaviour somehow? NOTE: The Revit model is offset according to it's Reference Point. Also, the Data Inspector shows the cylinders correctly where it is an aggregate geometry with with many many IFMEFaces. 

Hi Team, I'm doing the training for FME Professional, using FME Desktop 2022.2 and am now at https://safe.my.trailhead.com/content/safe/modules/turn-coordinates-into-geometry/exercise-turn-coordinates-into-geometry-using-the-vertexcreator-transformer . The last question on this page is about VertexCreator making a line instead of a point geometry. The question gives the impression that creating a line using this transformer is "a feature" from that transformer (and values the answer given accordingly), while the page https://community.safe.com/s/article/Known-Issue-VertexCreator-creates-lines-instead-of-points clearly shows that this is a glitch that was corrected in later versions. I suppose it was never intended for the VertexCreator transformer to create line instead of point geometry at whatever Mode setting? Besides, in FME Desktop 2022.2 I can't reproduce the "feature" anyway (which makes sense as the "error" was supposed solved in recent ver

I'm running a workbench on FME Server 2017 and after running through some transformers, the data should be writteninto a database. I'm getting an error ans this message: An error occurred while flushing the cursor for the table/feature class 'xxx.yyy.zzz'. The error number from ArcObjects is: '-2147216072'. The error message from ArcObjects is: {Underlying DBMS error [[Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 11.0][SQL Server]Arithmetic overflow error converting float to data type numeric.] [xxx.yyy.zzz]} Am I right to assume that the error is possibly invoked by an incompatible value? How can I find out which value is causing the error? Is there a possibility to retrieve more information to start the search for the cause of this error?

I have several types of rasters in my folders (ecw, png, tiff..). Not all folders i want to process contain all of the types. In my workspace i created one reader for each type, but when one type is not available, i can not launch the workspace. How can i make a reader optional so it will accept no input data?

This week I looked at this question on the community. "I have a 100 ft line that curves and then turns back into a straight line. How can I use FME to only gather the straight line after the curve only. I basically want to cut out the curve and only grab the line after the curve." This isn't too difficult, but what's interesting is the contrast with last week's question. Last week (click the link to check it out) I took a linear feature like this, created a list of its vertices, and processed those numbers directly. This week I could do the same, but instead I'm going with a spatial approach. In short, I'm going to divide the line into two-part segments, calculate each segment's angle (bearing or azimuth), and test how much each segment differs from the previous one. Preparing the DataThe first step is to prepare our data by chopping it into two-point lines. The alternative is to just extract the coordinates and work on them (as I did last week) but this time it's just that bit easier 

AttributeManager_10 (AttrSetFactory): Bulk features are not supported because of the setting for 'If Input Attribute is Missing'. Changing this to 'Remove Output Attribute' may improve performanceI see no such setting in attributemanager_10. Where is this setting? Form or Flow I get the same message in both.I do have an sqlexxecutor directly in front of the attributemanager but do not see this exact setting in it. 

Basically here is the need: right now workbenches run (Using FME Desktop 2020.2 and Task Scheduler) and the email addresses are typed out within the Emailer Addressing "To" parameter.We would like things to be more easily updated. For example, if someone is no longer on the team, or if someone is new on the team, we would like to simply update a text file and ALL of our jobs will be updated. I tried reading the text file in, aggregating the addresses into one long string separated with a comma, but I wasn't sure how to assign the value to a User Parameter.(I tried a couple things and failed) Thanks in advance for your help.@danminneyatsaf​ 

Dear FME friends,Welcome to What's Up Wednesday. For reasons of space, this is an extract from the full version of this newsletter, which you can find here on LinkedIn. Streaming to a DatabaseThis week I saw a question about writing an incoming stream of data to a database: "I have a workspace that runs continually in streaming mode (receives from a connector). I want to write to a Spatialite DB while the workspace is still running. I've tried a FeatureWriter, but nothing is written out while the workspace is running. Is this normal behaviour for Workbench?" So there is a great article on the knowledge base about how to write to a database during a streaming mode. Writing is a little tricky because, generally, writers don't do anything until they have all the incoming data available, yet that's not going to work in a continuous stream. The article explains that you have to set Bulk Insert parameters, including the Features Per Transaction:  Here, the writer wa