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Hello FME'ers,Here is your weekly update on all the news related to FME. New 2021 (2021.2.4)Of course, we're all looking forward to the release of FME 2022, but fixes are still made to 2021. In fact, a new version of FME 2021 was released last week, 2021.2.4. As usual, there are few highlights (because it's not meant to be a spectacular release) but you should consider looking into this if you have experienced problems with either the ArcGIS Portal Reader or Excel writer. The changelog file has more information. Dmitri and Lena's AR SpectacularOtherwise known as the Exploring Outdoor Infrastructure with AR webinar! This took place yesterday a

Hello there we have a set of points getting to the line builder, not in sequence how we could organize them to build them straight line we are getting this from the line builderI think the line builder is connecting the point in the order they enter the linebuilder Any ideathanks  

I am reading a JSON file and converting into File GDB, here using Attribute Manager, but in Attribute Manager list of attributes are not updating accordingly when ever I change the JSON files. In order to update is manually update the reader and feature type, then only it is updating. So. requesting you please suggest a way to auto update this.

We need to move our FlexNet License Server for FME Desktop to a new machine. What is the best way to move the licensing from the old license server to the new? Thank you.

Hello,  I have a shape with points and a shape line. I want to create the shortest path between my points which have the same trip_id with the stop_seque field but the shortestPathFinder doesn't work.I don't understand ? Please do you know what is a problem ?Thank you

Hello, I need your help please my pdf after conversion is too heavy. do you have an idea to compress these pdf please? 

Hello there we are building line from multiples point using line builder we get this using line smoothness we get thisas you can see still there is some pics there the line is not very street how could we improve the result to get a straight lineI played with the tolerance but still the same result 

Hello Friends, I'm new to FME. I have two shp (Line) files. one with old data and another one with new attribute field data. in the new file its falling on exactly on the top of old lines, but some places its little shifted approx. less than one meter.  I would like to transfer All attribute data to the old file from new one, and copy new lines where ever old data is not their.Not sure which are the transformers to use for this string. Hope someone can help Regards, Ps. Old data is in black color and new data in orange color

Now i receive errors, as a workaround i tried to save each web page as html file, how can i bulk read inside info of 

Hello !  I got a script wich is working under FME Desktop but I'd like to make it an executable. I know that this is possible but as soon as I have to set some user parameters manually when the script is executed, is it still possible ?Moreover, the script uses two different postgis DB (One for reading AND writing, the other only for reading, don't know if this information is useful tho) If you have any information on deploying a batch/exe that prompts for user inputs and keeps DB logins please let me know 🙂 Thank you in advance,Regards,An fme rookie

FME Desktop: filtering based on two fields fails to bring the expected results, In the screenshot below, I wanted to filter all features that don’t take the 11 or 10 colors and exist in “UMP_Background_Hatches”. I couldn’t figure out why the feature with 11 color is filtered                

Hi all.I would very much like to trick my FME 2020.2 into using the 2021.2 Data Inspector instead of its own.The reason is that there is a bug in DI 2020.2 wrt. background maps, which is solved in 2021.2, and our national base map repository has just switched to another service, that makes the base maps unusable in DI 2020.2.I still need to use Workbench 2020.2 , as our FME servers are still running version 2020.2.Has anyone tried this, and if so, how to do it ?I've looked at the registry, but is not sure whether this is used for this.

FME Desktop 2020: The “clipper” tool fails to generate the expected result, In the screenshot below, I wanted to clip the blue color from the red color. As there is not intersection between these two colors, the result should be the red color itself. However, the result not exactly the red color. What could be the issue here?                  The dat

Hi, I am reading data from SDE and doing some joins and field mapping and I am writing data into my SDE version. I don't mean to alter Global Ids, in the destination but it changed when I write my output to the destination. i have set Preserve Global Ids to yes in the wirter parameter as well. Any support and idea to get this achieved would be appreciated! 

FME Desktop 2022: The “clip” tool fails to produce the expected result,  In the screenshot below, I wanted to clip 14 polygons from 1 polygon (the 14 polygons are contained in the 1 polygon). The expected result should be one polygon that represents all what is outside the 14 polygons. However, the clip result is shown in the 3rd screenshot What could be the issue here? The data and workbench are attached         

FME Desktop 2022: Disaggregating two polygons gets them unexpectedly three, In the screenshot below, I got two polygons. However, as they are disaggregated I got three while they should remain two in this case as they are physically two from their native source with no reason to become three. What could be the issue here?                    

I have an SDE geodatabase. I need to load a shapefile and replace all of the data in a layer with the new data coming in. For example there is a roads layer in the geodatabase and once a month I get a new roads layer. I'm looking to just replace the entire layer and add the new data that I have received in a shapefile format. Is there an easy way to do this?

FME Desktop 2022: How to use the same “reader” multiple times in the workbench without repeating adding it? In the screenshot below, I got an excel file as a reader. I need to use it multiple times in the workbench. How can I do that without repeating adding it each time?           

Hi FME:ers!My task is to find a way to create polygons at the bottom of each solid geometry classes. The created polygons should follow the solid geometry classes bottom edges (x, y and z). I have marked a dark line in the picture for more understanding.  

FME Desktop 2022: The sequence of records numbering before and after aggregating don’t match, In the screenshot below, the symbols are numbered and it appears that the numbers start from top to bottom. As the features are aggregated and re-numbered, it appears that there is no logic based on what they are numbered Then based on what "counter" tool work? The data and workbench are attached        

Dear Team,I really appreciate the data inspector for z visualization of the point cloud, but I can't find how this color grading works inside fme data inspector.In my case I wanted to bring cloud points to the shapefile by color gradation based on z value. so my output shapefile looks the same as fme data inspector view. how can I do this ? is there any tool available for color gradation for feature color (based on z value)

We have a pipeline that is reading .dgn files, it seems to be working fine on a local machine where we actually have Microstation installed but once we deploy it on the server we are getting this message:It creates some output, the pipeline is not failing but the output on the FME Server is almost half as big as locally and has missing features. So my question is: Is this a bug or what's causing this? Because I was under the impression that FME does not require additional software. Our FME Server is hosted by us, not on FME Cloud if that matters. Thank you in advance!

I’m trying to build something to automatically compare control points for mobile laser scanning/lidar to the final point cloud to validate it (and also validate other point clouds that I haven’t collected, but where I have overlapping control).  Generally, for this type of point cloud I control it in another software package using 3D control points mainly, but I do collect extra independent ones for validation that are suitable for comparison of the three different planes. Such as height, along (front/back), or across (left/right) compared to the direction the scanner is movingIn the past I have done this manually in another software package which is quite time consuming. I’d like to make something to do it automatically. The result I need to make are some separate statistics of the differences in easting, northing, height that I can use in reports.  I can work out a way to compare the vertical (By making a clipped cloud around each control point,

"Orientation" is desucribed under "Area: IFMEPolygon".Could you tell me how to extract it to attribute, or the way of filtering by the "Orientation" value.?

Hello FMEers,Here's your Wednesday roundup of FME news... The FME 2022 RevealYou might have seen my FME 2022 Sneak Peeks, but yesterday we got the official reveal of FME 2022 from co-founders Don and Dale.  In case you missed it, the video shows a lot more of the new updates and functionality and is presented in the inimitable Don and Dale style. So go check it out. 12 New Features Blog PostBut if you prefer to read, rather than watch, the Safe Software blog has a new post that highlights 12 of the FME 2022 highlights.