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schulte.a
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schulte.aContributor
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Is there a way I can set up an order of operations?

I have a workbench that's converting 3D CAD files to 2D shapefiles, and some attribution changes. After reading in the CAD data, there's a test filter that separates the data into 4 separate paths, in which each path has a separate Shapefile it writes to.My goal is to have 1 path run, and successfully write before beginning the next path. This functionality would need to happen after the test filter separates the data out. Is there anything way to configure this? I could split this into 4 separate workbenches and automate on Flow, but wasn't sure if there's a fancy transformer that has this sort of functionality before spawning a gaggle of separate workbenches.Thank you!

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oscard
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3 months ago
marta.podsiad
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marta.podsiadContributor
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Extract geometry from pdf and preserve geometry dimentions

Hi, I have a pdf from which I can split into vector data (points, lines, polygons) and raster (pdf_rasterized_pages). I know the paper size of the pdf (A1) and scale (1:500). I would like to save the vector data in gdb and preserve lenght, area and position of the shapes. In general, once the shapes are opened in ArcPro they should have the same geomety and dimentions as on the printed on A1 paper. I have tried scaler but the outcome did not match printed pdf. 

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3 months ago
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kael112
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Multiline string to Linestring

Hello,I have lines (linestring) that intersect forming Multilinestring. I would like to know if it possible to "force" them to keep the Linestring format? Example: here is a network with a loop (in red)On FME, I tried a deagregator which gives me 3 polylines , 3 linestring. Ok it's good! But I want juste one line and impossible for me to find how to merge these 3 lines without convert all in Multilinestring. I tried the LineCombiner but nothing happens, I still had my 3 lines.Any help would be appreciated :)Thanks you

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panda
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3 months ago
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bijant
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12 Days of FME 2022 data lost

Not sure which forum to post this in, feel free to move it if not relevant here. I'm revisiting the 12 Days of FME 2022 challenges, which were great fun last year and i wanted to challenge myself again this year. (https://community-fme-server-support.fmecloud.com/fmeserver/apps/FMEUCCommunityCafe/12Days-Details/streaming/fmedatastreaming/12Days2022/ContestDetails.fmw)  It seems that the datasets aren't available anymore though. Does anybody have the input datasets for each of the challenges that they could share please?

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BANNED
3 months ago
tb09114
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tb09114Contributor
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How can I authenticate my ArcGIS Enterprise Portal web connection in FME Server / Flow?

When I publish my workspace to our FME Server, and run it it works. After a while, published before Christmas 2023 -> ran now again, FME Server return with the following error: ArcGIS Portal Feature Service Reader: Authorization error. See http://fme.ly/AGOL401Error for more info. FMEException: 928221: ArcGIS Portal Feature Service Reader: Encountered an unexpected error. The error code from the server was '498' and the message was: 'Invalid token.'. Details: '' Trying to fix the issue I attempted to re-authenticate the web connection. The issue is, when I click on the 'Authenticate' button, then I get a browser window where I can authenticate myself against our Enterprise Portal and the portal returns a token. In other applications such as Jupyter the token needs to be copied and handed over to the requesting application. This would be here FME Server. However, FME Server does not offer any place where to place the token. How can I authenticate my w

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hkingsbury
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3 months ago
smithgk
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smithgkContributor
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Testing an integer length?

Hello, is there a way to test an integer's length within the TestFilter transformer? I have an integer column that can be freely populated with values, but I need to flag rows that are not 6 characters long. Is there some operation in the Test Clauses window that I can use to test for this?

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smithgk
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3 months ago
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kuangk
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Getting memory not enough errors when opening larger data layers in FME data Inspector

It seems ok when adding smaller data layers but couldn't add bigger layers. I was getting memory not enough error message but my memory is only used one third.

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3 months ago
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olivierbeguin
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ZipExtractor says always "Unexpected error: "Unexpected error: File name in directory 'gwrli_Spaltenerklärung.pdf' and header b'gwrli_Spaltenerkl\\xe4rung.pdf' differ."

I ve got some problems with expandig of an Zipfile. With HTTPCaller i download the (free available) file "https://service.geo.llv.li/download//gwr/gwr_li.zip". after then i try it to expand with ZipExtractor. As a result it rejects it always with the error_message: "Unexpected error: File name in directory 'gwrli_Spaltenerklärung.pdf' and header b'gwrli_Spaltenerkl\\xe4rung.pdf' differ." How can i resolve this?

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3 months ago
mattwilkie
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mattwilkieContributor
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So much for direct support. Well, so long, thanks for all the fish.

Very disconcerting that Chat and Phone Support options have been removed from Safe's website. I guess now that you’re all full of Flow and Form you don’t need to handle people anymore. Note to self: should I ever run a business, find the demarcation line where things grow too big to provide decent customer support and ensure it never goes past that bound.

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mattwilkie
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3 months ago
boomer87
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boomer87Contributor
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Insert Truncate Existing Option

Hi everyone, Happy new year :) I have created a series of FME scripts that translate DWG file to a feature class in a FGDB.I want to ensure that any time the DWG source file is updated, that the feature class is updated accordingly.Would the "Insert" and "Truncate Existing" option in the Writer be the correct option to choose here? Essentially the user would be updating / adding/ removing polygons from the layer in the source DWG file and I want to ensure that the feature class in the FGDB is also updated.In this case the feature class in the FGDB already has been created and exists currently.  Thanks so much in advance!

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hkingsbury
Celebrity
3 months ago
anasgholamgis
anasgholamgis
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how to Prepare a statistical report on what was worked on in each layer workbench in Excel form

Thus, the work of each work area is reported dynamically with each work time. For example, work was done on the plots layer on 1000 plots, 800 were updated and 200 were deleted in Excel form.

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redgeographics
Influencer
3 months ago
vxn43
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vxn43Supporter
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Tester send Email for Passed when Passed has returned no records?

The data I am working is real time vehicle AVL GPS data that is dumped into a Feature Class using ArcGIS GeoEvent Server. The Point Feature Class has 104 records.  My objective is to have my workspace act as a "listener" and send me an email every day M-F @ 10a letting me know that GeoEvent Server is reading these records.  Of the 104 records (more records are added each month, so 104 is not static), there are 17 that are not the current date so they are routed to Failed in the Tester. There will always be records in this data that are not the current date.  My question relates to the Tester, the way I have my workspace set up now, is if there are no records in Passed and all 104 records are routed to Failed, I will not get an email. Is there another transformer that needs to be added or maybe a parameter change in one of the existing transformers in my workspace? I want to also get an email if no records are routed to Passed, is this possible?

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DanAtSafe
Safer
3 months ago
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ivl
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Avoid if else() structure in FMETemplater to generate empty lines in the output.

We used an XMLTemplater (2022.2) to generate an xml message using Excel file input with some optional columns.The XML template contains some if structures like this :            {            if (fme:has-attribute("STATUS")) then <Info> <keyName>STATUS</keyName> <value>{fme:get-attribute("STATUS")}</value> </Info>            else()            }The output xml is correct, but contains empty lines for every missing column, which we want to avoid.Leaving out the else() clause is not allowed as it results in a parsing error.How can we avoid those empty lines in the output xml ?

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3 months ago
asmith
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asmithContributor
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How to Remove Workspace Parameters from the FME Server Job Submitter

Is there a way to remove an existing Workspace Parameter from the FME Server Job Submitter? 

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asmith
Contributor
3 months ago
myadegaryiutac
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myadegaryiutacContributor
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I need to convert Revit to SPLK/I3S to be used in ArcGIS Pro. I used the following simple transformers in FME 2024.0.0 but once I import it to Pro the location is not correct and all attributes get disappear. Can someone help me please

This is the original uniquevalue Data with the number of existing features. 1140 Metadata.Worksets203 Metadata.ViewInformation182 Metadata.FamilyInformation105 Metadata.MaterialInformation20 Electrical.CableTrays16 Electrical.CableTrayFittings8 Metadata.PhaseFilters7 Metadata.LevelInformation6 Metadata.StyleInformation5 Metadata.LinkInformation4 Metadata.PhaseGraphicOverrides2 Metadata.ProjectPhases2 SitePoints1 Architectural.Railings1 Metadata.FileInformation in Tester transformer I used (Architectural.Railings / Electrical.CableTrayFittings / Electrical.CableTrays)  The Original coordiante system was : XY-MMI used CoordinateSystemSetter and set CRSM.MTM-10 and then chang it to EPSG:3857For the writer I used I3S with i3s_3d_object Geometry     

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daveatsafe
Safer
3 months ago
geographygeek
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geographygeekContributor
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Move polygons to become adjacent without changing shape

Hello FME Experts! I have been struggling with this for several weeks and I'm hoping someone may have some insight.  I have a set of data that contains buildings that were manually digitized from roofline data. From this set, I have scaled the polgyons based on the type of roofline (scaling factors predetermined). This resulted in some properties with multiple roofline types to separate from each other. Think of a home with some steep and less steep rooflines - the scaling was done on each polygon. In addition, I used @Takashi Iijima​ 's workbench and modified it slightly to right angle polygons where possible.  Now, I have an issue because I have polygons that should be adjacent (have shared boundaries) but because of the scaling, they are no longer attached (and because these were manually digitized, there were previous gaps in the data).  I would like to physically MOVE the polygons to allow them to have a shared boundary without changing the shape (much).  I tried using a c

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geographygeek
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3 months ago
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rscsevilla
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Error at AttributeDecompressor

Hi, I have compress a text with AttributeCompressor and stored it in an XML file. The text should be a password, so I don't want to store it as plain text. Then, I read the XML file and try to decompress the password with AttrributeDecompressor. But I only get this:2023-12-15 14:31:40|   0.6|  0.0|ERROR |@CompressAttributes: The 'Compressed-table.Compressed.password' attribute could not be decompressedBy the moment, I'm only compressing, not enconding. But I cannot make it work.I'm using FME Desktop 2022. I'm attaching both workbenches, (compress and decompress), the xml written by the first and readed by the second, and the logs of my execution.Thank you for your help.Best regards.

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3 months ago
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sanghostevielee
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TextEncoder failing to encode Roman numbers and special characters

Hi all, I need to extract the Hex Code Point of multiple letters using TextEncoder.However, the transformer fails to encode Roman numbers and some special characters. You can see in the below screenshot that it successfully encodes Bengali letters and some special characters, but not the others. Anyone has an idea how to solve it or any workarounds? Thanks! 

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david_r
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3 months ago
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rob_nason
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OGCGEOPACKAGE writer: Unable to write feature, aborting write process

I'm trying to write ~20m records to a Geopackage format file. If I remove all but a unique identifier column the output is created and FME runs correctly. If I try adding the original columns the process fails with the following errors. What can I do to fix this? 2024-01-04 10:57:31|  1.8| 0.0|ERROR |OGCGEOPACKAGE writer: sqlite3_exec(CREATE TABLE "Table1" ( "id" INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT NOT NULL, "geom" POLYGON, "Toid" TEXT(20), "Version" MEDIUMINT, "VerDate" DATETIME, "FeatCode" MEDIUMINT, "Theme" TEXT(80), "CalcArea" REAL, "Change" TEXT(80), "DescGroup" TEXT(150), "DescTerm" TEXT(150), "Make" TEXT(20), "PhysLevel" MEDIUMINT, "PhysPres" TEXT(20), "Broken" SMALLINT, "LoadDate" DATETIME, "OBJECTID" MEDIUMINT, "OSMMSTYLE_NAME" TEXT(70), "Style_Code" SMALLINT, "SHAPE_Length

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pimc
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3 months ago
gvatin06
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gvatin06Contributor
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Silen install FME Form 2023.2

I followed the procedure for silent installation of FME Form 2023.2, but without succcess. Here is the command I write in the console, with Admin rights :fme-form-2023.2-b23764-win-x64.exe -d"C:\\FME\\installer" -s -sp"/qn /norestart" The fme-form Logfile which is created notes a successful installation in the end:Product: FME Form 2023.2 (Build 23764 - win64) -- Installation completed successfully. However, I cannot find the software installed... No shortcut and no program in the default C:\\Programs\\FME.Could you explain why the installation is not finished?

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DanAtSafe
Safer
3 months ago
larue
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larueContributor
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Lack of precision with Arc Intersection Points: They Do Not Actually Intersect

I am trying to generate a point coordinate at the midpoint of Arcs. These Arcs have a very large radius and a tiny sweep, so they look like lines, but they are parts of a larger Arc. Whether I try the arc.GetMidPoint() method, or use Intersector with a crossing line, the point is always off. When I run the features through the SpatialRelator, it returns 0 _related_suppliers. It looks fine at first glance, but zooming in reveals that the intersection point really is NOT intersecting. My hunch is that this is due to the Point being calculated as a float. When using the Intersector or PointOnLineOverlayer, it actually changes the shape of the Arc! Here are some pics to illustrate:Midpoint of Arc at a distance Intersection point at a distance."Intersected" Point from Intersector lines (purple), with actual Arc (grey) close up. It intersects with the Intersector-created Arc, but not with the input Arc:Here is what I am running the features through to verify. Note: If I

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larue
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3 months ago
marta.podsiad
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marta.podsiadContributor
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AutCAD - Xref issue

Hi, I have Civil 3D AutoCAD model with XRef attached. I cannot find the way to read the XRef layes as autocad_entity=autocad_xref. The only place that tells me that is an xfer is stored in the autcad_layer as apart from the layer name has the name of other model. What am I doing wrong?

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jovitaatsafe
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3 months ago
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petergoedbloed
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Trailhead account seems to be reset.

Hi all,Please help!  From January to April 2023 I worked through most of the FME Desktop/Form Advanced and Server/Flow advanced course. Now, December 2023, it seems my account and the progress is lost. All the badges I gained etc. In addition, some of the trailmixes I followed seem to not exist anymore. Anyone had a similar experience? Or know how this could be solved. Kind regards,Peter Goedbloed

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milo89
Enthusiast
3 months ago
larue
Contributor
larueContributor
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Using DateTimeStamper with FeatureWriter

Is there any easy way to add a date stamp to output file names when using the FeatureWriter? I am outputting Excel files that have multiple tabs with multiple separate inputs, from multiple data sources. The only way I could figure out how to do this without the FeatureWriter splitting up the different feature types into separate files is to add the DateTimeStamper to each data source, make sure it is kept all through the Workspace, and then take off the _timestamp attribute from each Feature Type in the Attribute list on the FeatureWriter. What a pain! Surely there is a better way? I tried to create a User Parameter, but it did not work. Any hints on this?  Thanks, -L

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nielsgerrits
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4 months ago
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ingridantonsen
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Set up the HTTP Caller to extract data from rest API

Hi!I am trying to get data (exchange rates) via a Rest API. I am a very beginner in using Rest API:s.By now, I start with a creator and connect than the HTTP Caller. However, I have difficulties to set up the HTTP Caller and get a connection.I use the following url: https://api.riksbank.se/swea/v1/Observations/SEKEURPMI/2022-01-01/2022-12-31 HTTP/1.1 The API needs a so called Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key. It contains of 32 numbers and letters.I guess this should be defined in the header, but how would I do this in FME? There is no such parameter available, is it?To access the API portal username and password are required. Do I have to use this username and password in the "Use Authentication" section or does it refere to the username and password of the API itself? Thank you so much in advance.  

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4 months ago

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