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Hi, I'm curious if anyone has found an efficient way to calculate the X nearest neighbors in a pointcloud or a set of 3D points from a single 3D point.  My current method is mathematically calculating the distance from point 1 to every point in my pointcloud with the following formula and then sorting by distance. d (P1, P2)= ((x2 - x1)^2 + (y2 - y1)^2 + (z2 - z1)^2)^1/2   It works but it's not efficient at all. I'm curious if anybody has a more efficient idea. Thanks,Mark   

Hello FME friends, Server Apps and AutomationsFME 2022.2 is coming out shortly (my estimate is about 4-5 weeks), and one of the new features is called "Automation Apps":  Automations can be started on a set schedule or by a certain event, but can also be started by a manual trigger. An Automation App is how you can set off that trigger through an app or webpage. As I understand it, it's like a workspace app, but the end user supplies information through keys, instead of parameters:  We're already working on articles and videos to go with the launch. But if you've already tried this functionality in the beta version, we'd love to hear your opinion. In fact, if you use apps of any form in a production project, it would be great if you left a comment below. We'd like to get some feedback on the value that Server apps provide to your workplace.  Best Practice Guide SurveyI recently suggested to a few users that we work together to create "A Community Guid

for examole,I have some 3d point,how I can get near point for one point,thanks

I'm looking for some ideas on the best way to update an existing SDE feature class that I'm using as a reader in my workspace. Let's call it FC 1. It's a compilation of active and inactive parcels. I'm using FC 2 as a reader as well and I need to compare the two feature classes. If parcels have been removed from FC 2, then I need to update a field called "Inactive" in FC 1 to "YES". So as I'm writing it out, how do I get that end result to also be the reader for the beginning of the process? This is something that will run nightly. Thanks in advance for your ideas!

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According to the current political situation here in Europe, we want to work out a plan B if gas supply will end, and for that case, how to get our gas network back working.  For that task, we would like to analyse our gas network (trace?) in dividing the network in zones/branches. The idea behind that is to use major valves as "stop-object" for the network trace, because you need to get back the gas network in little branches. (vent these parts, before going back on pressure) Our Gas network is topologically correct, and I would use the specific stop-objects (disconnect slides/valves) to divide theses network parts/areas. Is there any way I could use FME transformers to get these resulting network-parts? thx in advance, Christian  

Hi Everyone, I'm looking to read a password protected Excel file and copy specific data to another Excel file. Is this possible?  

Hello! I have a basic scenario where I need to batch move point features, while also dragging line features snapped those original points. The model is a network of split lines with a "station" at every line endpoint. We can assume every endpoint or intersection has a singular station. The sequence of lines and stations make up the backbone of the model. Maintaining that consistency is critical.  Now let's say I've received GPS data which places these points more accurately. A subset of stations now have fields for "Current XY" and "New XY". I need to physically push the points to the new location and this part is simple. Looks like I can use VertexCreator to reset their geometry. But I also need the line endpoints to automatically move with the station. Any thoughts on making this happen? Note that the stations and line endpoints generally have the same XY coordinates, but we assume a tiny spatial buffer is needed to catch everything.

I am trying to understand differences between FME and smallWorld and what can one do with them. It's the first time I have touch with smallworld and I am especially interested in analysis of the distribution grid. To be more specific, I am interested if and how would be following possible: 1) Distribution grid operator exports part of it's grid to some file2) This file is provided to me3) I can open this file to access distribution grid details What I need for this, is it possible to do it with FME?

I'm using FME Desktop version 2022.1. I'm not sure what the "request denied due to lack of license" is referring to. The workbench is writing to a hosted feature service. The writer is configured to truncate the existing data and insert new features. The web service and connection have been verified as well. Thanks,Frank

I have a table containing ten lines (each one a street). Each street has a name and a zone value. But there are some duplicate records…  Street_name                       Zone_nameSt James Street                  Zone BHigh Street                         Zone BHigh Street                         Zone BHigh Street                         Zone DHigh Street                         Zone DAcacia Avenue                   Zone BAcacia Avenue                   Zone B Acacia Avenue                   Zone B Acacia Avenue                   Zone C Acacia Avenue                   Zone C  How would I reduce these down to unique records only. So, I’d end up with this… Street_name                       Zone_nameSt James Street                  Zone BHigh Street                         Zone BHigh Street                         Zone DAcacia Avenue                   Zone BAcacia Avenue                   Zone C   Thanks,

I know that I am missing something obvious, but if I have a point that is on a line dividing two adjacent polygons, how do I select both polygons. At present I am using the point on area overlayer transformer and just getting one picked up?? The image below should make this clearer..Regards...

In the source file, i have 4 files but when I aggregate the fields it gives me only two files please anyhow help me where I doing wrongSource fileAfter Aggregate the fields

I'm working with the SchemaScanner transformer and trying to compare two similar schemas for differences.  However, one of my datasets is a shell and has no features in it (the top feature reader and stream in the workspace screenshot) This seems to be causing SchemaScanner to output different results than my dataset that has features.  I'm basing my workspace off this article here - https://community.safe.com/s/article/How-to-SchemaScanner-Transformer How can I compare the schemas in this case?  Here's the list exploder output from the feature class that has featuresWhile here's the list exploder output from the featureclass with no features

Hi allTrying to generate watersheds based on input points and a DEM. The ESRI Create Watersheds tool does what I need but I haven't been able to figure out how to do it in FME. Any pointers? Inputs: DEM + PointsOutput: Watershed areas per pointESRI tool https://doc.arcgis.com/en/arcgis-online/analyze/create-watersheds.htmThank you

I have one column with this values. I would like to filter only words that contais ABC letters. But can´t be JACABC or RDABC. Sometimes the ABC is stay in second or third word after the comma, like image below:  Thank´s

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Hi, I'm trying to insert a decimal into a string of numbers, so 123456 becomes 1234.56  Thanks!

Hey there, So I recently set up a Data Distribution service on FME Server using this tutorial https://community.safe.com/s/article/data-distribution-fme-server-app . Everything works fine and I can use the area of interest box to draw an area and download all the relevant layers. I am trying to add a second option in the User Parameters to allow the user to either draw a selection or choose a layer to clip by.In user parameters I added a 'Choice' option and added a layer as an option to clip by my thought was I could add a second geometryreplacer, set the encoding to OGC well known text and the source as $(LAYERCLIP) by when I run it and select the City Boundary to clip but FME gives me the error INVALID_PARAMETER_GEOMETRY_SOURCE. Is it because FME doesn't know what GISOWNER.city_boundary is? Its a layer in our enterprise SDE. I tried adding in a featurereader to read the layer before it goes to the replacer and had no luck. Thanks!

I am wondering about how it works if you want to have mulitpled editons of FME Desktop using the same Lic seerver, so floating lic. So say if we had 10 floating lic, and had 8 ESRI Editions, and 2 professional Editions how does that work on a Lic server, can users pick an edition when they start FME Desktop ?, or do you have to set up user groups for specific edtions, or would you need 2 lic servers, one for each edition ? Just trying to understand how this would work and what the options are for users to be able to choose an edition.

My organization is upgrading to FME Server 2021 (from 2018), and we'd also like to update our authentication method from Windows Directory to Azure.  I restored the backup configuration from our FME Server 2018, so all our user profiles are coming from the Windows Directory. I have successfully set up a connection to Azure and can import new users (the user says Type = Azure AD), but is there a way to migrate my existing users from Type = Directory Server to Type = Azure AD? Alternatively, I could re-import all my users from Azure AD and re-assign roles, but I was hoping there would be a way to switch the authentication.  Thanks

Hello FME friends, Server Apps TroubleshootingAs I mentioned previously, I'm getting a weekly report of new and updated knowledgebase articles, and the one that stood out this week is FME Server Troubleshooting: Server Apps. Besides simple troubleshooting steps, there are a number of FAQ-type issues, such as "Why don't users have the ability to upload files to my app?" Solution: Ensure the "User Can Upload" setting is enabled.  Also, there's an interesting issue where the OK button doesn't work (answer: there's a user parameter that's hidden, but is required and has no default value). I think that's definitely worth knowing about. Also on my list this week:Known issue launching FME Server 2022 on a Cloud Starter instance (new)How to make a Minecraft world with FME (updated) Server Automations DemoSomething I tried for the first time last week was FME Server Automations. I only made a simple two-workspace chain, started by a schedule, but

Hi! I just want to know if this is possible before I start to dwell deeper into it.  What I have is a web-application created in ArcGis Portal. I can select points within the app using a polygon. What I need is to be able to send only the selected points to an FME-script that should run and do an analysis on the points, all from within the web-app. The point layer is published to ArcGis portal and its stored inside a PostGis database. Is this possible at all?  

I need to use a unified database connection string which contains primary and secondary/DR database. Secondary /DR database is an exact replica of primary database. When the primary database is down , it should automatically connect to secondary database. All my existing workspaces are configured considering a single database connection . With the change to include primary and secondary db connection, can you please suggest how I configure this FME with least number of changes since it has an impact on all the existing workspaces.

I have Workspace where shapefile has polygons they overlap so i want they should be no overlapping . lowest values are normally on outside so I start clip with the next highest values then you move from low to high