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Hello, I am trying to build a process where files are being generated on a Windows Server. I am wanting to takes these files convert them from .doc to .pdf then upload them to a SharePoint location then delete the files from their original location on the Windows server. I believe I can see to the the format conversion and SharePoint upload but am really struggling to figure out how to connect to the Windows Server which requires different permissions from my normal user account to read the files in the specific folder. What Reader/Connector should I use to be able to connect to the Windows Server to gain access to the files? Thanks

FME Desktop 2022.1 Build 22618: How to filter the content of a file geodatabase (gdb) based on its feature classes (layers), For example, in the screenshot below, I wanted to get the two feature classes (layers) from the geodatabase but couldn’t figure out the best practice to perform this         

I am. try to group all CellValue as you can see I am getting 4881593 records so I need group them please find the workspace

I have some workbenches that take a over a hour to run and I'd like to get the command line arguments to create a batch script without having to run the workbench

Hi everyone,I have a script with a reader that connects to an ArcGIS Enterprise database through a connection file.  My question is: Is the connection file information embedded in the script itself, so if I move the script to another location, that do not necessarily have access to the connection file, will it still work? Or is there a way to make sure that my script works whether it has access to the connection file or not? Thanks 🙂

FME 2022 Build22153: Calculating the value of an attribute fails, In the screenshot below, I wanted to calculate the “BuildingPercent” attribute field by dividing “BuildingArea” field on “BoundaryArea” field but appears not to work. It doesn’t perform the calculation. What could be the issue here? The data and the workbench are attached    

We just updated to 2022.1 and now I'm getting an error when using the Tester.That's what I did:I  used a Creator and created an attribute "attr1" with the value 5 in an AttributeManager.Now I add a Tester with "attr1 = 5" then I get this error: Tester (TestFactory): The clause 'TEST { @EvaluateExpression(FDIV,STRING_ENCODED,<at>Value<openparen>attr1<closeparen>,Tester) = 5 ENCODED }' within 'FACTORY_DEF * TestFactory FACTORY_NAME Tester INPUT FEATURE_TYPE AttributeManager_OUTPUT TEST { @EvaluateExpression(FDIV,STRING_ENCODED,<at>Value<openparen>attr1<closeparen>,Tester) = 5 ENCODED } BOOLEAN_OPERATOR OR COMPOSITE_TEST_EXPR <Unused> FEATURE_TABLE_SHIM_SUPPORT Yes PRESERVE_FEATURE_ORDER PER_OUTPUT_PORT OUTPUT PASSED FEATURE_TYPE Tester_PASSED OUTPUT FAILED FEATURE_TYPE Tester_FAILED' is incorrect.  TEST must look like: TEST <value> <operator> <value> [ENCODED]

Hi all,  I am trying to remove some keywords based on the value of another column.   What I am hoping to achieve: Removing Oxley & Victoria in Column A Can anyone please provide some assistance.  Thanks

Hi, Can anyone recommend a workflow to have measures generated across line multiparts with measure formed based on the order that the multiparts are stacked in the geometry. The measuregenerator is rejecting multipart line geometry items. I have valid multpart lines (roads with gaps) for which i need to run a measure across the gap (but not including the gap in the measure). If not possible using current FME transformers, could i please submit this as a feature request to enable multipart measuregenerator. With thanks.

Hi, Are GDAL raster processing tools available in QGIS also accessible from FME Desktop on the same machine? If yes, does someone have an example script of how to call and run such a tool from the GDAL library. In QGIS I would for instance use the tool itself with the following command line for generating contour polygons:gdal_contour -b 1 -p -amin minimum -amax maximum -i 50.0 -snodata -999999994.0 -f "ESRI Shapefile" <input path> <output path>How would the code need to look like for example in a PythonCaller on a typical Windows machine with both FMEDesktop and QGIS installed on it? Thank you! Best regards, Olivier   

Hi, I have a feature point with X and Y coordinates Attributs filled by using the CoordinateExtractor. I would like to know the adress of the point. So I have prepared an attribut called ADRESS. How can I extract the adress from X and Y coordinates?Thank you

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A Program I use can't export a GDB but can export a folder with shapefiles. The problem is the names of the attributes are truncated for shapefiles upon Export. I would like to Set a feature reader to pull all .shp from a folder I set as a parameter. Then I would like to batch rename attributes of the features. But different feature classes have different attributes that may or may not be truncated. When I export my GBD I need to set up the new schema somehow. Any Ideas?  

I have a dateset of polygons which I know includes some anomalies such as self-intersecting and spikes. I'd like to identify these and if possible count the number of instances of each type in a report. I have tried following the FME guide on self-intersecting polygons but it does not seem to be working as I expected on my dataset. I'm not sure if its my setting in the GeometryValidator transformer or my base data that is at fault. Any guidance would be much appreciated. I'll include some images of the types of issues I'd like to identify along with the workbench I created and some sample data:

Hi I've tried to use The Excel To PDF Writer but i have problemsafter some errors about phyton stuff i have installed pywin32 and pypiwin32  https://docs.safe.com/fme/2021.0/html/FME_Desktop_Documentation/FME_Workbench/Workbench/Installing-Python-Packages.htm fme.exe python -m pip install pywin32 --target C:\\Users\\<username>\\Documents\\FME\\Plugins\\Pythonfme.exe python -m pip install pypiwin32 --target C:\\Users\\<username>\\Documents\\FME\\Plugins\\Python fme.exe python -m pip list it was successfully but again an error message  ExcelToPDFWriter_ConvertPDF (PythonFactory): Splitting bulk features into individual featuresPython Exception <ModuleNotFoundError&g

Draw connectors to point I have a polygon with a pole and demand points. I want to draw lines from pole point to demand points in that polygon as shown in the image. Any help please

i have an excel file with a GPS coordinates that i changed into points using vertexcreatori'm tying to build a line between those 500+ points, i used linebuild but instead of one line i got a lot of emif anyone knows how to fix it please tell me !it should look like this ( same excel file just sorted by Date attribute ) :

hello, i'm interested to know the usual process in reading/getting files from FTP caller.I did make FTP caller run, however, I don't know the next transformers to use to read the csv (not in a zip file) from the FTP server. I tried attribute splitter and list exploder, but didn't work. Can you share a sample workbench for the same case, please?Thanks!

FME Desktop v2021.1.1.0postgresql v11.13 We have an expiration date col that we default to a hard coded high value on INSERT using a trigger and function. The value of that timestamptz col is:9999-12-31 23:59:59.000 -0600 SQLCreator or SQLExecuter will not allow the selection or reference of that column. However, I can select or reference the col in DBeaver without issues. This statement produces this error in FME:select exp_ts from test_table;POSTGIS reader: An error occurred. FME will attempt to obtain more information on the error, but this may cause the translation to be terminatedPOSTGIS reader: An error occurred. Here is the information that FME was able to find on the errorPOSTGIS reader: stk::ex::bad_expected_access Workaround was to change the col to timestamp.Any ideas?      

Hello, I am trying to figure out a way to schedule an ArcGIS API for Python Script form FME environment. I want to be able to use FME environment as a replacement of Windows Scheduler. Appreciate any feedback.  Thanks  

Hello and welcome to What's Up Wednesday,Here are some stories about FME news for this week. Accelerating your FMEI've seen a few training courses recently labelled "accelerators", and obviously, the aim is to bring users up to speed with key technology in a short time. So did you know that there is an FME Accelerator training course?  If you're a long-term FME user, who's already taken several training courses, then this might not be for you. But... it would be very useful for that colleague of yours who has used FME a little bit, yet isn't aware of the full potential of FME. It's 90 minutes of pure inspiration to bring you up to speed with FME potent

I am working with FBX files but this is the error I am getting when I am trying to extract the coordinates x, y, z. Because of this issue eventually I fail to create tileset. @kailinatsafe​ @chrisatsafe​ 

Hello,Ourorganization has a server specifically set up to run FME desktop workbenches. Wehave made the GIS connections public and have made every effort to have thesame user that saved the workbench also be the user that is triggering thewindows task scheduler. There is an excel file that is located on anotherserver that FME can access when the workbench is run manually. However, when itis run with window task scheduler there are two errors. 2021-07-3012:01:24|  7.9| 0.0|ERROR |Excel Reader: Failed to open thedataset '\\\\vmcognos\\GIS\\COT Inter Department Meters Consumption Accts-en-us.xlsx'. Errormessage was 'Permission denied.' 2021-07-3012:01:24|  7.9| 0.0|STATS |Stored 1007 feature(s) to FME featurestore file`C:\\Users\\COTAGS~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\CIS_GIS_Bridge_EDITSDE_GISFCTableCreation_PROD_120104\\inspector.ffs'2021-07-3012:0

I am reading data from a file geodatabase in my workspace. The data is huge and takes time to process data. I have set up a query to only filter data that ends with .2022 but the workspaces are still slow. Therefore, I intend to set up a query on a Date Modified column and a Create date column in the file geodatabase. This will filter only data modified and created within the last seven days. I can't figure out how to set up a query and filter data from the last seven days in FME. Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you,