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Ability to run a batch script using automation as an action
Currently, when editing an automation you can right-click on a Workspace action and go to View Workspace to see what the workspace is doing. When the automation is started right-clicking on the action does nothing. It would be very handy to be able to check this without having to navigate through the View Workspace menu.
The performance of USB 3 connected external SSD seems to be much better than internal HDD, so I'd like to use a directory in the external SSD drive as FME temporary directory. It's of course possible by setting the SSD directory to the FME_TEMP variable. However, the external SSD is not always connected. When SSD is not connected, I don't want to use system temporary directory as FME_TEMP since sometimes FME doesn't clean up temp files completely and therefore I would like to manage the remnant temporary files separately from other files.In my observation, this setting (use D:FME_TEMP if an external drive D is available, C:FME_TEMP otherwise) doesn't seem to be available. It's troublesome to modify FME_TEMP whenever connecting/disconnecting the SSD.D:FME_TEMP;C:FME_TEMPIt would be nice if FME could configure the temporary directory path from multiple paths set in the FME_TEMP variable.
Currently if using a FeatureWriter to write a shapefile, the information in the summary attributes includes the folder location (dataset) and the filename (feature_type) but nothing to indicate that it was a shapefile and associated sidecar files written. It would be helpful if this information could be automatically included/exposed
Please upvote GitHub Issue to develop Cesium Ion API so it is possible to update assets and FME be able to develop CesiumIonConnector for this kind of POST requests
It would be very nice if there were FME Server releases (and to a lesser degree, FME Desktop releases, though I realise they're tightly coupled) that received Long Term Support (LTS). As it stands without it, FME isn't really well suited to anything but a very small deployment to an organisation that is trying to follow proper development and system maintenance practices.Wikipedia has a full definition of LTS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_support), but the short version is - the release doesn't get new features, only bug fixes and security patches.Examples of software that do it: QGIS, CentOS/RHEL, PostGres, Python, FireFoxWithout this, an organisation with a large FME Server install-base that does proper due-diligence on service releases could easily end up spending tens-of-thousands of ($£€) doing acceptance testing just to upgrade FME Server from say 2016.0 to 2016.1 to get the bug-fixes in that next version.This is necessary because almost anything could have changed between .0 and .1, and if you've ever tried reading the change logs, you'll see a massive amount of changes.If I report a bug to Safe and am told "Yes, it's fixed in 2016.1", that's great, but a user shouldn't then have to get all the other 2016.1 stuff just to get the fix. That's not how corporate installs of production software work. It should just be able to get the fix.If however there's an LTS, the patches are considerably smaller and far less testing is required.
Add functionality in FME Workbench to within a reader/tester generate a query by graphically clicking on features to make a quick selection without having to write the conditions. Say I want to select a couple of objects that has nothing to do with eachother. By simply selecting them in a graphical UI inside a reader or tester.I know there are several other ways to do exactly what I want to achieve, but it requires a lot more steps.So this would be a more efficent way in some cases, without having to look to much into data.
Often I want to copy the name of the source dataset in the reader. Easy enough with the writers but not able to be done with readers.
Per this article: https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/87453/getting-started-with-automations.html Automations display their errors/warnings on the Automations management page under the Status column. The number of errors/warnings displayed is calculated from the total number in the log file. If you want to view current errors you need to view the log file and if you always only want current errors you'd need to remember to clear the log file.It would be great if there was an option (or change default behaviour) to only have errors/warnings from the latest Automation run displayed in the Manage screen. This would make it much simpler to tell at a glance if the latest Automation run has any issues, rather than having to remember how many errors were reported last time you looked at the page.If you need to see errors/warnings from previous Automation runs you can always look in the log file...
Hello,I wounder if it would be possible to develope feature query of sketchup trait for setting angle between normals and controlling smooth normals and soften coplanar. The intended usage is to write a sketchupfile as a template with buildings and terrain with different angle between normals for visual effect and easer reading of those geometries by controlling visibility of edges on object level. Another trait request, if it's not available already would be to set a sketchup group (geometry name in GeometryPropertySetter) to be locked. Manually done in sketchup by right clicking the group and choose locked. This would also add to the value of a properly set sketchup template written from fme.Thanks!
Snowflake cloud data warehouse is in use by some big customers and connects well with BI tools, so lets read and write it.
At the moment when you click 'update' in the Workbench 'Packages' UI, it immediately updates the package polling the web and grabbing the latest content. The first time I did this I was surprised because that's an inconsistent approach with the very risk averse approach that's been taken around upgrading transformers where you get warned about proceeding and you get to check what's changed in the UI. To find out the changes with the package you need to know to go to the Hub.Safe.com and go and look at the changes there. Can we have a 'View Changes' button for packages in Workbench please?
Along the lines of this idea and this idea, but I would really love FME to be able to support PBR materials as appearances.With modern 3D formats like GLTF (and 3DTiles) gaining popularity and wider use, it would be really nice to have some way to support PBR material types. I wouldn't expect the Data Inspector to render based on these, although that would be very cool. It seems like it is pretty difficult to interchange between the two types of materials so being able to support PBR materials would allow for better preservation of the original dataset.At the moment, there is no real way to properly preserve a file which carries a PBR material, I must convert these back into a standard appearance, losing information.
Related to the FME Server 2017 "running job expiry time" (tm_ttc) parameter that cancels a job if it runs beyond a specified length of time: https://knowledge.safe.com/idea/18984/configure-time-limits-for-a-job-and-alertcancel-if.html ----- I'd very much like to have the ability to set a global time limit. Would the same/similar functionality be available as system wide defaults (e.g. max threshold of like 12 hours).
Similar to how the Slack integration works, it would be nice to automate the push notification of x,y,and z to a channel within Microsoft Teams.
I'd like to see a mechanism to filter the advanced value handling in the AttributeCreator. If I'm reading in hundreds of features from different files, I would only want "feature[+1]" to read from the next row IF the filename matches too. I'm currently fixing this by saving feature[+1].fme_basename and running through a Tester, but a "Group By" or something on the AttributeCreator might be cleaner?
Hello,I'm wondering about data showing in the Visual Preview.Below an example. Two flows of data going to two Inspectors.When I select the SRC_RAW Inspector the Visual Preview shows the SRC_NORMALIZED data.I will have to use the drop down menu in the Visual Preview to retrieve the SRC_RAW data.That has annoyed me for quite some time now - why can't I just select the Inspector and see the proper data straight away?Cheers,Ed
Could you get a supplier first function similar to the feature merger for the spatial relator as this would help improve performance.
It would be nice to be able to lock the position of objects in workspaces, e.g. transformers, readers, writers. Sometimes when I am selecting and/or moving objects in large workspaces I move something unintentionally. It would be nice to be able to lock the layout of completed areas. It would be cool if this could be done at the bookmark level.
Currently after creating a Resource Connection on FME Server, in order to work with the FME Server macros $() when authoring workspaces I must create a Private Parameter or else transformers will display as red when I reference these. I would like the option to instead create an FME Server Parameter. This would be helpful as it means I can create a parameter for my new resource once only and it will then be available across all my workspaces, instead of having to create a private parameter every time I want to work with this.
It would be nice to see a drop down for version (required) and build (optional) for new questions added on the forum and displayed just below the topic in a small font. This would be beneficial for researching/answering questions in the correct context.
Has anyone considered providing a gridding algorithm other than TIN in the FME workbench? I would love to be able to grid using IDW or kriging or some other method. There is open source code available, see below. It would be great it this code or other gridding code could be included. Workbench already has grid math for 1 or more grids, so it would be great to be able to make grids which you can then combine together in a formula, or add, or subtract to create a new information product/grid.https://richdem.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
Writing in Excel files, Like the HYPERLINK (see https://knowledge.safe.com/comments/35259/view.html )It would be nice to define a commentary over a value fieldE.g. value -> measurement / value.comment -> remark about measurement.It would avoid too large sections between the lines for big comments when they are shown as a column.
Would love an easy way to show processing time PER transformer to quickly identify transformers that a performance bottle necks.The number would be the processing time of features being processed by that transformer.Either by a report, log or visually on the workbench when running in the feature caching mode.This would be of great help to prioritize work on performance/workbench timings to schedule data processes on time.
Try and make resource browsing experience closer to what you would expect from a file browser. - Altered UI/UX to a more familiar file navigation experience for users (similar to file navigation on the computer)- File tree to allow quickly dive deep into folders- Bookmarking folders for quick access from the file tree- Quickly create new folders in directories without the need of filling several fields- Right-click to quickly copy and paste files/folders
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