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It would be great if FME Workstation could support Powershell (Open Source runs on WIndows and Linux/Max) to extend itself similar to how Python is used to extend FME's capabilities.
Featurewriter truncating a key column should issue a error.When featurewriter is writing to ie Oracle, the columns are truncated to the length spesified of the featurewriter format, before the insert is done in the database.If you update features, you specify a key column for the update. If the featurewriter is truncating the data to match the feature definition, then the data entering the database is not what you feed into the featurewriter. This is difficult to detect and cause ie deletes and updates not to happen because the key is altered, and no match in database is found.So when data entering the featurewriter that exceed the length in the format definition, is a key, then a warning or error should be issued. Or, if the column is a key, it should give an error, or if not a key, it should give you a warning.
I would like to be able to expose attributes based on a list element. For instance, when extracting attributes and values from the "kml_description" attribute, the attributes are not exposed but exist in a list. Rather than manually typing the attributes to expose, I'd like to be able to reference list element 0 as the attribute name "td{0}".
Allow parameters to be used in the attributes to expose field in following transformers(Just to name the ones i use):RCallerPythonCallerAttribute ExposerSQL CreatorXMLFrafmenterXMLFlattenerXMLFeatureMapperJavaScriptCallerTclCaller
Rather than reading exif data from a specific image file format e.g. jpeg could a universal exif data reader be developed similar in functionality to the ExifTool by Phil Harvey. With the ExifTool you can point it at a directory, single file or a variety of file formats (supports approx. 186 formats) and it returns a table of image metadata. It works really well and I've created a FME custom transformer that makes a system call to the tool (https://hub.safe.com/transformers/exifreader). Other FME users might find this tool useful and it would be great as it's own reader.https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
If using Populate From SQL Query within the SQLExecutor or SQLTransformer the published parameters should be requested if the sql query references them. Or it should use the default values.
Would be nice to have a transformer for writing errors out within the Workbench, but also on the server side of writing logs to Seq.https://datalust.co/seq
Currently, a custom transformer can have numerous Inputs, but when the user is setting a parameter value with attribute assignment permitted (or of the "Attribute Name" type), all attributes from all inputs are listed. This makes it difficult to use any type of dynamic merger/joiner inside the transformer, and significantly limits the user's ability to control how the transformer operates on different data. It can also lead to issues when both datasets have an attribute by the same name... or when they don't! It would be ideal if, instead of "Default" and "Off" for "Attribute Assignment," we could select a specific input port and only that input's exposed attributes would be listed.
FME Cloud already has the ability to attach a Static I.P and open and close security ports which is fantastic functionality. With the addition of FME Server APPs having the ability add a new domain to our account would be really nice. For this we would need to be able to add a new certificate to the server. I would really love to have something like fme.<outcompany>.com/<myApp>where fme.<outcompany>.com is the fme cloud host?
At present, Microsoft Azure hosted virtual servers running FME Server do not read Azure hosted share paths when redirecting the FME Server System Share path
It would be great this functionality (import cached attributes) in the JSONFlattener and similar transformers:
Hi,There should be an transformer for scaling or evaluating measure values, The "MeasureExpressionEvaluator"If you (like me) have a line with measures in metres but them in kilometres, I need factor 0.001 to the existing measures.Currently the workaround is to extract to measure list, multiply each list element with factor 0.001, then a MeasureSetter to re-insert
Currently, Fme server job log is scattered, very difficult to trace thru. when we trace thru some transformer names, it jumps to another transformer's log or some other info is printed over there.(not like fme desktop log, fme desktop's log is very sequenced one compare to server's log) So We need to work on arranging fme server job log, so that user can trace / troubleshoot his error very easily.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Alternative URL field for Azure Blob Storage (and perhaps some more cloud-services) At the moment, the Azure Storage Connector is permanently fixed to the default url suffix 'blob.core.windows.net'. So is the Microsoft Azure Storage Webconnector-template.To me the usability would greatly improve when I would be able to enter an alternative URL.Please add a URL-override field to these functionalities.I currently work for a client which uses their own ip-adresses/subnet to access their Azure services, as part of security measures. So from the standpoint of FME Server, there is nothing interesting at blob.core.windows.net, but at some company-wide DNS-entry.There is nothing I can do about it, but override the Microsoft-URL to the IP-address locally in the hosts-file. Overriding Microsoft URL's is tricky and from a management perspective it does not feel the way to go.I can imagine more services / cloud infrastructure will have the same local subnet-treatment at companies, so perhaps the same can be true at companies for e.g. ArcGIS Online or the like.Kind Regards,Martin
The new format looks great. Just one suggestion...when clicking on "View More" at the bottom of the list of topics, the page refreshes above the button. So you are scrolling up to see additional topics, and then scrolling back down if you wish to "View More" again. It would make it easier to browse topics if the list were to refresh down the page after clicking "View More", so that you keep your place in the list of topics, and simply keep scrolling down. Hopefully this makes sense.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Bentley MicroStation Design (V8) writer having the ability to create cells with annotation scale I'm having to do additional processing in MicroStation using cell replacement and replacing with a cell that has annotation scale setting because the cell output in FME doesn't have the ability to use/set the annotation scale.
For many analysts, finding statistics/histogram by visual preview would be immensely helpful. Right now, you have to add statisticscalculator in the workspace. Perhaps, this functionality can be embedded within visual preview and in the data inspector automatically.
setting customer template license to run
If I add a new parameter in a workbench that I call from fmeserverjobsubmitter all works with the default parameter until the fmeserverjobsubmitter is not refreshed.After the refresh of the fmeserverjobsubmitter I have to specify the new variable with a value and I can't leave it blank in the hope that the value is replaced by the default.I'd like the programming approach:def myWorkbench(param1, param2 = False):The param2 is set to false when I call myProcedure(value1) .The goal is to have the auto set of the value from default parameter in the called workbench.Now my solution is to set a published parameter, read it from pythonscript parameter and set it in function of the published parameter.
I wanted to create an attribute that depended on a condition in variable 1 to chose which attribute to use in a given column. This would require a Conditional Value operator, and I found it very hard to find where to do that.Can the Attribute Manager be updated in such a way that it is easier to find the Conditional Value editor?
I recently needed to use a RandomNumberGenerator in a workspace but I needed to have no duplicate values in the random numbers. In my case I was creating a Bingo Sheet but I can see how having no duplicate values would be handy for anonymizing data.I got around this limitation by adding a duplicate filter and a loop in a custom transformer.Has anyone else encountered this or is interested in this functionality? Please leave a comment below with your use case.
Hello @daleatsafe, @donatsafeThis to notify in latest release 2020 FME desktop under View “Connection style” option is missing (Curved , Squared, Straight ) .
Just found C:UsersUSERAppDataRoamingSafe SoftwareFMEStartPagestart.htmlIf you edit this HTML and restart FME Desktop you can edit the startup page and add your own content! What could be useful and some features that should be added?- A FMECloud / FMEServer dashboard?- A link to knowledge.safe.com ?- A link to your own companys intranet?Or similar to the video below?Add your suggestions in the comments below!VIDEO of changed FME Desktop startup page
Setting up FME Server to receive and send e-mail is sometimes a hassle. Would it be possible to include a lightweight e-mail server in the FME Server installation so that test/dev versions of FME Server have the capability to send/receive e-mail without connecting to an official account?
FME Server 2020.0: Accessing published services (App) without credentials,It would be great if the published services (App) by FME Server can be accessed without the need to login. This is already implemented for the services published by ArcGIS Servers. These services can be approached without the need to login unless otherwise configured. The link below, for example, displays services that can be approached without the need to loginhttps://adaptor.geomolg.ps/adaptor/rest/serviceswhat we are looing for is to have all the published App by FME Server displayed though the link:http://jamalnuman:2020/fmeserver/apps/
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