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FME Desktop 2020: How the “dissolver” tool can aggregate the result? I couldn’t figure out if the “dissolver” tool can aggregate the result without the need to use the “aggregator” tool In the screenshot below, when dissolving and aggregating according to the “autocad_color”, the result should be two features      

I have a single fixed license that I use for development work and a floating license that I use for production work. How can I easily switch between the two? Right now I have both added, and when I'm off network, it takes FOREVER for FME to presumably timeout with the floating license and try the fixed license.

The question is about , the process of transferring FME Desktop licenses from one department to an other in the same organization with two different license servers. Do we need to give the license that are being transferred back to Safe again and ask a new licenses on the same account? Are there differences between a floating an single fixed in this operation? Are there other things to take into account in this operation? Thanks in advance.

using neighborhood find we need the workspace when the candidate find the base we don't want this base to be used again in the process even if it fit the transformer setting Ex: I have 4 polygons and 5 Points we need to find a point within a distance of 1 m to polygon, 2 of those points are within the distance, our goal is the process when we found the first match the second one should not be considered the parameter( number of neighbors to find ) is not working since each point will find 1 neighborhood, if one point find polygon, that polygon shouldn't not be used by another point Thanks 

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Hi,We have just upgraded from Desktop 2019.1 to 2021.1 and I can no longer view the cached data when the FME_TEMP local variable is pointing to one of our network shares, I have changed the local variable to a few of our shares with the same result. If I change the local variable back to the local C:\\temp area, 2021.1 version works fine and can view cached data again. I have tried this with 3 users on the network and all are getting the same result. Version 2019.1 is still working fine, caching the data to the network shares?? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Brendan

FME Desktop 2020.0.0.0: The “clipper” tool fails to proceed and gets stuck, I couldn’t figure out why the “clipper” tool fails to proceed and gets stuck, What could be the issue here? The workbench and data are attached            

Hi everyone. I have a XLSX files with field for the name of a PDF. I have also a folder with the PDF. I want to compare if all the name in the XSLX file have a PDF on thr folder (with the PDF). Thank for help :) 

Hi Team,While synchronising the data between 2 enterprise GDB (2 separate SQL Server virtual Nodes) getting following error and terminated the FME process. Error info:2021-12-10 10:13:48| 281.5|197.2|ERROR |Error while updating feature in the table/feature class 'DBO.DESIGN'. The error number from ArcObjects is: '-2147207419'. The error message from ArcObjects is: {} Note: There are not indexes, constraint rules on Both DBs. Kindly assist us. RegardsVIPLAW

I have a workspace that reads from a very large table in MSSQL, unpivots the data and does some minor/simple processing in FME, then writes the data out to postgres. This workspace takes around 3 - 3.5 days to finish on FME Server. Reading the data doesn't take long, but processing and writing does. In an attempt to speed up the process, I tried to apply parallel processing by wrapping the entire process in a custom transformer with FeatureReaders and FeatureWriters instead of 'native' readers and writers to concurrently read different sections of the table, then process and write the data. I wanted to test the performance on FME Server with the writers turned off and minimal parallel processing (4 child processes) but it fails rather quickly with the following error: 3682021-12-13 14:55:51 | Error in child process '1', exited with code '1'3692021-12-13 14:55:51 | f_38 (TransformFact): Error in child process '1',

Hello FME'ers,Welcome to the last What's Up Wednesday post of this year. FME and the log4j Security Vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228)You have probably heard that a security flaw exists in the Apache library log4j, and that it is so serious that it has a 10/10 rating. In short, FME is NOT affected by this flaw. Although this library is included with FME, my understanding is that it's not used in a way that can be exploited. Of course, we'll still update it to a secure version as soon as we can, and may offer a patch for older FME versions. Plus in some cases, you can remove the library to ensure that there is no problem. For more details, see

The documentation for the counter transformer references parameters that are no longer available in the latest counter version. How should the new counter be configured to pickup the count start from another counter in the same workspace?

I have a workbench that reads multiple Microstation files, and for some of the files, I need to remove some of the cell's so they are not written, and I have done this. I then have to write all the files to one Microstation file.  My issue is the remaining cells are not coming through into the Micostation output file. Each file being read has a different cell library and I have not had any luck combining them to 1, for the writer to read. so in the documentation I read that  "the cell members are assigned a unique cell sequence number in the igds_cell_sequence_number. This number can be used to later regroup the cell components if that is required." But I can not find anything in documentation on how to regroup them. I would like to try this to see if it helps me once I expand the cells. Has anyone done this before, and can offer some help? As this is my first time working with FME and Microstation files

Hi,I have FME Server 2021.1.2 Build 21627 - linux-x64.I have a problem with the filter jobs by user.It's impossible to find some users. For example with the user "generic".It's very embarrassing... As you see, it's works fine in the menu User Management 

-Because while the new data coming from httpCaller should be written to AttributeFileWriter, first the file starts the parse process. In this case, it causes old data to be processed instead of new data. -If I delete this file from desktop then run the workflow from fme server;-Fme server run workflow and see engine logs;Why do it works first parsing file then httpCaller ? True way that is it gets httpCaller new data firsly and write to file.

Error: An error occurred while installing package 'C:\\Users\\<accountname>\\AppData\\Roaming\\Safe Software\\FME\\Packages\\21789-win64\\PackageFiles\\safe.emailer': An error occurred while installing Python package with 'pip install --force-reinstall --no-deps --no-index --find-links C:\\Users\\<accountname>\\AppData\\Roaming\\Safe Software\\FME\\Packages\\21789-win64\\PackageFiles\\safe.emailer\\python --target C:\\Users\\<accountname>\\AppData\\Roaming\\Safe Software\\FME\\Packages\\21789-win64\\python\\safe.emailer --upgrade --no-compile fme-emailer' : Process crashed. Done both as a std user or an admin. Same issue. Any assistance greatly appreciated.  

I have a very old file while contain contour lines. And then I obtained a new DEM from which I generated new contour lines. Visually I can see that between 2 files, the contour lines of the same elevation differ in distance and they differ from one elevation to another. Is there any way I can get a statistical result about max, min, mean between these files? And is it possible to visualize this?

Hi!, How to create geometry from x,y coords received in .shp file? we need to migrate these coordinates as geometry in smallworld. Thanks

related to https://community.safe.com/s/question/0D54Q00008q2P5rSAE/fmeserverjobsubmitter-unable-to-connect-to-fme-server?t=1638881772264

How to Identify if an intersecting route is from Left or Right . I have my routes data as polylines whichever which i am testing out. How can I achieve this in FME? Thank you!

On our machine running FME Server, we have both ArcGIS desktop 10.6.1 and ArcGIS Pro 2.7 installed.  When we run workspaces that require an ESRI license, FME Server can get a license, but pulls a license from the ArcGIS desktop 10.6.1 license pool (As shown below). The same thing happens when the same workspace is run in FME Desktop. 2021-12-14 01:10:07 | The ArcObjects license 'Advanced' is being selected from the Windows registry2021-12-14 01:10:18 | FME has checked out an Esri license. The product checked out is 'Advanced'2021-12-14 01:10:18 | Installed ArcGIS version is '10.6.1' How can I configure FME server to check out a license from the ArcGIS Pro pool? Preferably the advanced concurrent use license. We followed the step by step instructions for using ArcGIS Pro with FME server in this article without succes:

I am loading in a large address data set in CSV format The reader has wrongly classified my coordinate columns as "time". This causes the VertexCreater transform to add incorrect geoemtries When I click "User Attributes" on the Reader I cannot change the column type from time. Everything is greyed out. How can I best override this  

Hi FME altruist, I am a new member of this community and trying best to strive on using FME for my new job. In a task, I am asked to assign a percentage value (computed by area on area overlayer) of a parent lot to its child lot. For example, in this image, I have first dissolved the two child polygons (1 and 2) and computed the percentage value. But now I cannot assign the value to its child lots. I have tried different tools (e.g. SpatialRelator, NeighborFinder) that can return like 'select by location' and then create a field :)

XMLUpdater is changing all " to " when I'm updating a single path within an xml document. Is there a way to prevent XMLUpdater from doing this?

MapInfoStyler parametersFor a Region, how do I set the Fill Background Color to be transparent?For example, Fill Pattern 30 is diagonal lines. I want the spaces between the diagonal lines to be transparent, so I can see the layer underneath.