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Hello, I have just updated FME: 2022 -> 2023 (2023.0.2 (20230727 - Build 23338 - WIN64). Checking that this upgrade doesn't cause errors when running several important processes, I see this warning message in the log of one of them: POSTGRES Writer: Renamed user attribute 'attribute{0}.fme_data_type' to 'attribute{0}_fme_data_type' based on format constraints for invalid characters, length, and casePOSTGRES Writer: Renamed user attribute 'attribute{0}.name' to 'attribute{0}_name' based on format constraints for invalid characters, length, and case This message was absent with the previous version. The transformer concerned is a FeatureWriter whose parameters are shown below. It has two upstream branches: one for table schemas, the other for features. Adding all these entries to the log file slows down processing considerably and, when many features are processed, the file can even saturate the disk (up to 40GB!). I've temporarily deactivated t

Hi Support, Just wondering when the official FME 2024 version is expected to be released. Thank you

Hi there, Just wondering if anyone else is getting locked out of Sharepoint with the connector transformer....it seems to have started last week when MS further eroded support for IE but we dont know if it related...basically, we have been using the SharePointOnlineConnector for months without issues...but now all of our workbenches are failing with the attached error message. --We can/have re-authenticated the connection with no problems, but it just keeps throwing this error...any thoughts anybody? Thanks very much!

Hi There,After a recent upgrade of ArcPro (to v 3.1.0) I am now seeing this notation in FME Desktop and FME Server logs....Current installed ArcGISPro version '3.1.0' is unsupported. Minimum supported version is '2.3.0', and maximum supported version is '3.0.0'....what does this mean exactly?...do I need to upgrade FME?...on Desktop it doesnt seem to make a difference (I can still successfully run operations), but now some Scheduled Services are failing in FME Server and I am wondering if this is the reason. Thank you 

I am running a translation in batch and it is failing when it attempts to cleanup temporary files. Is there a setting that will allow it to continue when this is encountered? ERROR |Failed to delete the following files: 'D:\\Projects\\temp\\fctspatrel1688832115746_12608_1'. Please ensure that the files are not in use and that you have sufficient privileges to delete them. ERROR |Failed to delete the following files: '%0'. Please ensure that the files are not in use and that you have sufficient privileges to delete them.

I have installed FME form (2023.0.0.3) and am trying to run workbench or licensing assistant or any of the suite but I run up against the Qt6Gui crash. The articles in the FME community forum have mentioned that this has been a known issue and have suggested upgrading to the latest version to resolve this.Unfortunately at this time there is not a later version. After several reinstalls and deleting every FME folder I can find I still get the same error.To get around this I have reinstalled FME 2022.2.3 and workbench works as normal. Is anyone running into this issue with the latest version?Do I need to wait for the next release to resolve this?Has anyone had luck with replacing the dll to get around this? The below is a screenshot is what I am seeing:The only thing I can think of is that I was running the 2023 install while a 2022 workbench was running at the same time and locked the dll file. Thoughts?Michael.

Hi all, We are trying to configure Azure AD SAML authentication for FME Server 2022.2 . We have used the express installation and then configured an IIS reverse proxy. We are getting the error in the attached image. Is Azure AD SAML authentication with an IIS reverse proxy supported? https://community.safe.com/s/article/Configuring-FME-Server-for-Azure-AD-SAML-authenticationhttps://community.safe.com/s/article/using-iis-and-arr-as-a-reverse-proxy

Today I cover a frequent issue: how to run FME from the command line, specifically with Windows Scheduler. Question of the WeekThis question was asked in Live Chat by a user with a problem with database connections and Windows Scheduler. Q) In my workspace I use a writer that connects to SQL Server via a SQL Server account. In Workbench, the workspace runs and data is inserted. But run through Windows Task Scheduler, it fails with SQL Server issues. I've set the username and password in the writer, but in the log file it appears to be not set! A) This type of issue appears quite often. In short: if a workspace works in Workbench, but fails in a different environment, it's 95% likely to be a permissions issue. Let's look at a few sticking points and - in particular - this scenario, which is harder because there's a database connection involved. Who Are You?The absolute number one issue when running a workspace from a command line is the account used to do that. It's important to realize

I recently upgraded to FME Server 2022. As I'm creating new workbenches for publishing or modify existing workbenches, I'm transitioning to Desktop 2022 as well.I have a process with three (3) identically configured Feature Writers (ESRI SDE/SQL Server) that first truncate three (3) tables and then insert into those tables. I have updated and republished this in 2022. When I try to run it in my new environment, it stalls at TRUNCATING one of the tables... literally sits there for almost 2 hours, then resumes. I should add that this is not a super large table - 150K records maybe. My understanding of TRUNCATE does not suggest this size would have an impact, nor have I seen this before.  Nothing has changed about the database/table. Nor the Writer configurations or workbench "logic". What could be causing this hang-up? Has my Writer gone south?   

Hi there, I wonder anyone can help me to resolve the issue I am having with FME 2023.2.1 installation on Windows 2012 R 2 Server. I have the following error opening FME.

This is how the initial output from my ftpcaller looks like ( calling a csv to attribute)and this is how it looks like when i sort it by file contents.Any transformer that i use after calling the data uses the first screenshot, thereby inhibiting me from automating any process.I have to download to file, open and save it and then re add it to a second script to manipulate it and push it to AGOL ( which is my end goal)

HelloI would like to create 3D objects, I have footprints, DEM, LAS file of building. Roof of the buildings are pretty unique, so It's hard to use Extruder on it, do you have any idea to create 3D objects with unique roof? And then I would like to separate roof and the body. Could you help me?

Hello - I am retrieving value from "date" field using ArcGIS portal services . It seemed to be in this datetime format ( YYYYMMDDHHMMSS like below screenshot) on UTC time. I would like to change this to local time. Please help on how this can be achieved. Tried using datetime converter, but does not seem to work . Thanks,Naveen

I'm looking at some floating license logs for FME, hoping to build a reporting tool for it. What I've noticed is several cases where one user/machine checks out a number of licences in a short amount of time and check them back in after a while:I assume this is either the user starting multiple instances of one of the FME application on the same machine (or Workbench and Data Inspector) and/or using a WorkspaceRunner. Can anybody confirm that? And more importantly, does every checkout correspond to a checkin? I also assume that as long as there is at least one checkout active for a user/machine that counts as a concurrent license being used, correct?

Hello Community, I have a points dataset containing 17 records. Some at stacked at shared locations. Some are isolated in one location…  I need to separate this into two different streams. Stream one: all records that are at shared locations (i.e: sharing an XY co-ordinate pair)… Stream two: all records that are the only records at that location…   How is this achievable? Thanks,

Hi,I was wondering if there is a way to format text that is used in the "Message" User Parameter in FME Form. There is no Text Editor available for the "Message Configuration" option and when I use the Parameter in a FME Flow App, line breaks are removed, although they show up when prompted in FME Form. Is there a way to keep line breaks?

PostgreSQL database login detailsHost: postgis.train.safe.comPort: 5432Dbname: fmedataUser:fmedatapassword: fmedata (not sure if it is that password) (getting ***) 

I have a question, i am trying to join in a pythoncaller Only i am getting this error:BADNEWS: Cannot convert null string into an integer(C:\code\fme\foundation\framework\util\stf\stfutil.cpp:347) class StatusInfo *__cdecl STF_stringToUInt(const class ObsoleteString &,unsigned int &)Python Exception <AttributeError>: 'fmeobjects.FMEFeature' object has no attribute 'getAllAttributes'Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 14, in inputAttributeError: 'fmeobjects.FMEFeature' object has no attribute 'getAllAttributes'Error encountered while calling method `input'PythonCaller_FeatureMergerReplacement (PythonFactory): PythonFactory failed to process feature  The script i am using is:import fmeimport fmeobjectsimport pandas as pd class FeatureMergerReplacement(object):    def __init__(self):        # Initialiseer de DataFrames        self.primary_df = pd.DataFrame()        self.secondary_df = pd.DataFrame()     def input(self, feature):        # Voeg rij t

I have an FME workflow that extracts planning overlays against the cadastre/properties. Some properties could have 5 or more planning overlays. I am currently using AreaOnAreaOverlay transformer and then a ListExploder to get all planning overlays against each property, otherwise not all overlays appear for some reason. ListExploder seems to show all overlays against each property but it duplicates certain overlays. It doesn't matter which transformer I use to remove the duplicates, the result still has duplicates. Also, when joining the result to the rest of my workflow I have a feeling it chews up too much memory due to the listexploder as I get a non-descript translation error, which online forums suggest it is due to memory usage. What's the best way to show all distinct overlays without duplicates?

Hi, I'm prepared my fme as the picture attach. I use the transformer Offsetter to change the Z value. My sequence of the Z value is 0.01, 0.02, 0.03 etc. Can i know how to define Z offset based on requirement that I have been mention.

Hi all, I have a dataset that contains a _dirpath attribute that I would like to use as the Destination Fanout Directory. My workflow injests CSVs from multiple different folders, and I would like to output the Writer data to the same folder that the data originally came from. Does anyone know if that is possible? I can't seem to set an attribute as an input for the Destination Fanout Directory. Any suggestions?

Version - FME 2020 How to import values in the user parameter dynamically(EX. Read the data from Text file(values in the text file keeps changing)

Hi, We recently upgraded from FME Server to FME flow and I've noticed that a few workbenches that contain only one python caller and a creator, are taking up to 10 times longer. Both environments hosting Flow and FME Server are identical in specs. Here are the workspace statistics from each environment FME Server:Average Elapsed: 12 minutes 44 secondsAverage % CPU: 96%Average CPU time: 12minutes 20 secondsAverage Peak Memory Usage 256mb FME flow statistics:Average Elapsed: 53 minutes 42 secondsAverage % CPU: 19.4Average CPU time: 10 minutes 42 secondsAverage Peak Memory Usage 264mb Does FME flow utilize CPU differently when using python, or is there some setting I can change in the form workbench? I can see from the logs that simple arcpy commands are taking 10x longer and the CPU is being under utilized in FME flow. I've looked into the transformer and can't find any processing settings - Is there a setting in FME flow that I need to configure? I can't figure out why

Is it possible to use FME to monitor servers and services that include the following: Request Failure Alarms (example includes when an internal or external website gets a 502 error) Response Time Alarms (example includes if a website takes longer to respond than usual) Available Storage on a server (example if storage gets to 20 percent then send an email notification) Server Unavailable (example is if a VM goes down) I know I can do these things using VertiGIS Analytics for the GIS side; but am curious to know what FME Form along with FME Flow can do, if it is even possible to do at least one or any of the things I list above? what transformers would be useful? maybe creating a few workspaces and publishing them to FME Flow.    

In the Desktop User Parameters dialog there is the option to "Save As User Parameter Default Values". I have server app and I would really like to use this feature so that the parameter information the user entered is retained for when they run the app again. I haven't been able to find a way to do this - is this possible? Many thanks 😁