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messagemauriContributor

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How to assign a value to a new field when if condition is met

Using FME Desktop 2021. I have an existing field LicenseNumber with null values and with numeric values. I want to create a new field called License_Values into a table if the following conditions are met: Condition 1If LicenseNumber is null Then assign null values to License_Values Condition 2If LicenseNumber is not null (it has values) Then assign 123 to License_Values I tried AttributeCreator with a Condition value but it does not work at all. All it does is assign 123 to every record in the new field called License_Value (Condition 2) and it does not write the null values to License_Value (Condition 1) . My final objective is to have the new field with null values and 123 as long as the conditions are met. Thank you, much appreciated.

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spidermanContributor

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How to add points with numbers (1,2,3,4,......) over each point in pdf file

How to add points with numbers (1,2,3,4,......) over each point in pdf file .i have 20 points and i would like to write in pdf file but i have to count points and add the counting over each point .and what is the best method to resize the point ?How could i achieve that ? Thanks for helpFme 2018

etherscan data analysis to identify crime

looking to id crimes using etherscan. first to prove where crypto assets are stored, then to id who's wallet or new public address it is stored to. need to parse/sort through parameters asking and answering questions relavent and maningful to each parameters...such as staking, contract, send to, etc. looking for help to do this manually, and then to build an app that does it automatically. not a fancy tool, but, a manually directed tool.

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3 years ago

f.kemminjeContributor

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neighbour finder finding the same closest candidate, which is already allotted

Hi FME colleagues,Neighbor finder transformer finds the nearest neighbor and allotting the same candidate to multiple bases. In my requirement, I need to pair the points from two set of data, but one base one candidate, that means one candidate should not be paired with more than one base.for ex : I have two sets of data, one is Blue and the other is REd. Now, first, the blue base comes and finding its closest candidate (good). Now the second base comes in and finds the same candidate which is already paired with the first blue base. this should not happen in my case, if it's already paired(i mean the closest candidate to some other base) then remove it from the candidate set. the candidate set should go smaller and smaller through the fme process. now what our neighbor finder does is matching with all bases to first(1) candidates. many to one. can we achieve this using any transformer? or any workaround within FME using python caller?

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3 years ago

fmencoContributor

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Creating multiple 2D MIN/MAX boxes with one creator

As the title says, is it possible to creating multiple 2D Min/Max boxes with one creator? Or do I need to have multiple creators, one for each box/ string of coordinates?

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3 years ago

hannahwh05Contributor

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How to do I drop certain overlapping features based on a set of conditions?

I have 1 dataset with many overlapping features. These overlaps tend to have a different feature name. I have been given a list that tells me which name takes priority over the other. I want to find the overlaps and then just carry through the areas that take priority. For instance ancient woodland trumps everything. Building footprints trump everything else. Wetlands and pumping stations trump grassed areas. I have started with an AreaOnAreaOverlayer, generating a list (OverlapAttributes), AreaCalculator, Counter and Tester, where the _overlaps > 1. I've then added a ListExploder. Where the '_area', '_count' and '_overlaps' are the same, I want to only take the feature with the highest priority name. Am I going about this the right way?I'm a lost as to where to go from here! Attached is some test data and my workbench so far. Thank you!

Interaction between 3d Objects in KML with Google 3D Buildings

Hello All, very new to FME, at this moment, I'm generating some nice 3D models converting FBX to KML. The purpose of these is effectively creating a 'radiation' zone. Are there any clever tricks in FME for creating some sort of line/boundary/something when the edges of that KML intersects with a 3D Building in Google Earth? I think this is one of these things where someone says 'absolutely' or 'actually, that's a really good idea! ' Thoughts very much appreciated! TIA Colin....

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3 years ago

mark2atsafeSafer

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What's Up Wednesday: FME News for the Week Ending 3-September-2021

Hello everyone.Apologies for the lack of what's up Wednesday last week. It just means there is more to share this time! FME Community SurveyAre you a member of the FME Community? By "community" I don't just mean this particular site; it could be any site where FME is discussed, such as Twitter, Slack, Reddit, or YouTube even. Basically, if you talk FME or interact with any other users online, I'd be really grateful if you took a survey on the current state of the community. I'm working on improving our community offerings, and this survey will help to guide much of what I'm doing. The survey is available online until October 1st, 2021. Thanks 🙂 Recent TweetsOn the subject of community, I wanted to give a shoutout to Safe partner Red Geographics, who are celebrating their 17th anniversary today. So congratulations to Community Champion Hans and his team for their excellent FME work. Also on Twitter, partner IMGS mentions their upcoming FME Intelli

3 years ago

mark2atsafeSafer

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What's Up Wednesday: FME News for the Week Ending 11-September-2021

Hello FMEers,Here's your weekly look at what's new in the world of FME. Community UpdatesA very nice and just-released update to the FME online community is a reputation leaderboard: It covers the top 100 users, excludes Safers, and lets you sort by Rank, Level or Reputation. Thanks to Fahad at Safe for implementing this. I think there are more updates to come and I'm really looking forward to them. On the subject of community, thank you to everyone who has taken our community survey so far. The information is going to be a great help in moving us forward. If you haven't taken it yet, it takes about 10 minutes you can find it online here. New ReleaseToday we release FME 2021.1.2 (build 21627). I don't see any changes in the ChangeLog (What's New) file, so I looked at our developer logs and I see fixes for: composite tests in the Tester (valid tests flagged as invalid) a crash that was exhibited by the LogWriter hub transformerreplaced geocoder with a hub pack

3 years ago

jack_sk

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Custom coordinate system: no elipsoide recognized.

Hi,I have used the online tool to create a custom coordinate system. I use the WKT, where among other parameters, the ellipsoid is defined:........SPHEROID["GRS 1980",6378137,298.257222101,........ I also select GRS80 as elipsoid in here : I unzip the generated files at the "FME" folder inside the "Documents" folder, as stated: But when I go to the "Reprojector" transformer and search for my new custom coordinate system, I see that there is no defined ellipsoid: So, when I run the process, there is an error: What is going on?Thanks!

How would I read a table from multiple pdf if they are different and they are not tagged?

Hello, I am trying to create a workspace for doing a batch identification of information contained in tables within some pdf files, the thing is that the pdf also contains some other information as text, so I am a little bit confused on how to achieve that, and also if it will work with different tables, because the dataset I have was made by multiple authors so they are different tables on each pdf. I am wondering if it would be better to use a external application or a PythonCaller to achieve that, but before trying that out I would like to confirm first. I am attaching a sample pdf of my dataset so you can see the table that is in it. Thank you!

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3 years ago

larueContributor

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CenterlineReplacer misses some geometry

Hello,I am trying to generate centerlines from IFMEDonuts/Polygons derived from CAD floor plans. The majority of these lines are fine, but there are a handful of instances where it ignores the shape of the polygon or creates an anomaly. I understand that it does not bring the line all the way to the bounds of the polygon (maybe a setting in the next version? hint hint). This might account for a few of these issues, but not all. Here are a few screenshots with problem areas circled in blue:Any ideas? UPDATE: I was able to resolve a few of them by Intersector, Chopper, HorizontalAngleCalculator, Rounder, then TestFilter any lines not orthogonal. I also used the SmartCleaner to extend, join lines against the polygon, then Smartcleaner again on just the centerlines, but set Extend to 0 and Overshoot to 6. This cleaned up most of the anomalies, but the areas ignored by the centerline and others remain. Ultimately, I think CenterlineReplacer needs an update, but any workarounds in the m

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3 years ago

ienesaglam60Contributor

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Balcony thickness calculate

I have balcony drawings as attached files two sample data. I want to calculate the thickness of the balconies as seen in the picture. is there a transformer for that?

I have several sketchup files. I need to merge those files into single file. I am new to FME. can someone suggest easy way to do this?

Pros and Cons of installing ArcGIS Pro or ArcGIS Desktop on FME Server for ArcPy

We are new to FME and just have FME server up and running now. We are in the process of moving some of our existing workflows that we have built using FME extension for ArcGIS and so far we're having success publishing. We have some workspaces that error when we try and run them because we reference Python for Esri 3.6+ or Python 2.7. So far these particular workspaces haven't really needed arcpy so we just changed the parameter in the workspace and republished and they ran ok. Our server is a single, standalone machine with all components running locally. A little about the machine: We have 8GB RAM, 40GB free space on disk right now, it's a virtual machine running on hyperflex with 1 socket and 2 virtual processors (2.39GHz). So now I'm wondering if we should install ArcGIS Pro and or ArcGIS Desktop (for python 2.7) on the FME server machine so we can allow our GIS team to migrate some of their arcpy scripts to FME that do use arcpy. It would help them manage t

Hi all, Project with thousands of LAS files. How can I change all the header of each LAS1.2 file (only the Source ID) starting in a specific number? Thank you Alex

The LAS files are in different folders and unfortunately in each folder the Source ID is starting in 1, so in 100 folders I have 100 files with Source ID 1. I would like to keep all the other attributes but have an exclusive sequential number per each Sorce ID file.

Parallel processing for multiple Workspace Runners

Good morning to everyone!My purpose is to build a Workspace (father) able to divide in N equal subsets some zipped files located in a path, then pass every group to a Workspace runner that will call another dedicated Workspace (son) that will do the job I need.The question is: how can I parallelize this process?I mean, I have built the first Workspace (father) and it works quite well but unfortunately I'm able to process just a single Subset at a time (First Workspace Son), finished the first one the process pass to the second flow and so on, until the end.I would like to start all the Workspace runners simultaneously. Is it possible? How? Every Workspace (son) will write on a different Geodatabase.Thank you very much to everyone who will answer. P.S.FME v 2020.0 (Data Interoperability 2.6)I have uploaded a picture of the Father Workspace.

I want to convert a multipolygon layer in a singlepoint inside layer

Source Origin: Multipolygon layerDestinity: SinglePoint Layer If I use the CenterPointReplacer with the "Any Inside Point" mode checked the result is rejected.And if I use other of the two modes, the result is a singlepoint outside the ancient multipolygon layer, and I need only one point inside the ancient area. Does anyone know the correct way to obtain it?

3 years ago

dhaulagiriContributor

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How to change number format (float to numeric(5,1))?

Hello, I have to integrate geopackages in PostGIS tables whose schemas are strictly defined. After a first loading of the tables, I restarted the processing with the same geopoackages and all the objects do not leave through the "Unchanged" port. On closer inspection, some numeric values are formatted differently: for example, 20 in the geopackage (read as Real64 by FME) and 20.0 in the PostGIS table (numeric 5,1). Some decimal numbers also exist in geopackages (2.5 for example). Can you explain to me how I can handle this problem. I looked with StringFormatter but am not sure which syntax to use. Thank you!

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3 years ago

mark2atsafeSafer

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What's Up Wednesday: FME News for the Week Ending 13-August-2021

Hello dear FME users, and welcome to What's Up Wednesday. These are a few highlights of what's been going on with FME and here at Safe this week. Standards for Transformer DesignHere's an interesting question from user David Runneals on Twitter:Luckily Safe co-founder Dale was on hand to give a great answer, which gives advice on both how to design a custom transformer and how Safe designs its transformers too:In the earliest of days, we thought data was inherently good and so if we encountered anything in the data stream that wasn't expected, clearly we should shut down the translation then and there so the user could fix the input.With time, however, we realized that data is inherently evil and so we needed to put the decision of what to do with bad input in the hands of the workspace developer as much as possible. Then they could decide to ignore it, or shut things down, based on their needs.So the policy we have now is if there is some problem with the *configuration* of the trans

3 years ago

larsec

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is it possible to avoid reading all features but the ones specified?

Hi all,My question is regarding performance actually...I'm going through a process of reading data (shp) trimming it, doing change detection and writing it to a sde. Some of my data contains 5.000.000 objects, so it takes forever to run it, which is not a problem in production mode. In the testing fase, when tweeking and changing settings it is a big hazzle though. I have added a tester to both my original data source and the revised data source to filter out a small portion of data, but it still has to go through every single object when reading the data... So my question is: Is there a way to avoid having to read everything from both datasets? Thanks :-)

3 years ago

johnkContributor

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Building and Exploding Lists help needed!

Hi FME team,I want to create a list from attributes, retain the site IT and Metric - with the metric values. So effectively I will have a feature for each Site ID and Metric combination. I've tried ListBuilder and ListExploder but not working as I'd like. Attached is an example of what I have and where I need to get to. Any help would be very much appreciated! Thanks.

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3 years ago

larueContributor

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How can you remove unwanted centerlines ?

I am struggling with creating centerlines in wall geometry from CAD, where some squirrely ones show up:I was hoping that I could filter by # of vertices, or separating by angle, but this is not reliable. Any ideas? Thanks,@larue

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3 years ago

eisozanstraContributor

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Why does my workspace work in Desktop and on Server but not in Automations.

Hello, Dynamicly filling the Where Clause in a FeatureReader (Arcgis Online feature Service) only gives an error in Automations. I want to retrieve notifications (meldingen) of the previous month (maand) of the year (jaar) out of Arcgis Online (on a certain point in a month). I want to put this functionality in an Automation. I do this using the following steps:-In an AttributeManager I take the current DateTime; extract the month and year and calculate the prevous month (use conditional value for use in January).-This values are put in a privat parameter: Maand (month); JAAR(year)-The private parameter is then used in the where clause.EXTRACT(MONTH FROM "REGISTRATIE_DATUM") = $(Maand) AND EXTRACT(YEAR FROM "REGISTRATIE_DATUM") = $(JAAR) This setup works in FME Desktop and on FME Server > (from log)where 'EXTRACT(MONTH FROM "REGISTRATIE_DATUM") = 7 AND EXTRACT(YEAR FROM "REGISTRATIE_DATUM") = 2021' When putting the Workspace in aan aut

3 years ago

fluusha

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multiple rows to one row with dynamic columns

How can i do this? I tried everything i could.The number of columns needs to be dynamic.. if Town III is 5 times then there should be JB5 ZB5 and RT5.The RT1 Column is the Order in which they should be (see colour)

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