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Please add support for writing external OVR Pyramid in GeoTIFF writer.See https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/81850/write-a-ovr-pyramid-file-with-geotiff.html@joshuadamron this is for you.
I would like to be able to deselect any attributes in the Reader based only on those needed and used by the transformers and writers.Example: I have a spreadsheet with hundreds of attributes and I need to load only a few. I like to apply null attribute and replacement filters, but only need these applied to the final attributes that I'm using.
Would be great to be able to read audio recording file(s) and have a transformer that listens and output as texts
Be amazing if the inspector had a better way of viewing and looking through json objects/arrays similar to online json editors such as - http://www.jsoneditoronline.org/.Currently opening and viewing json in FME is a little painful especially if you have a very large json response from an API.
Hi,I have noticed if you have editable layer and many peoples are working(and you have enabled edits tracking) then ArcGIS online puts username value in Editors Column .Problem -As a admin if you update data in that layer it will update username with your admin account (or account you are currently using) and it will remove existing username (in some cases people want to retain those values specially if data editing is outsourced to different company for billing purpose). So before editing admin need to disable Edit tracking manually in ArcGIS online.There are some other workarounds also to switch off and on (In my case I have used http caller and python). But it will we great if it includes in standard transformers , it will help to build clean workflow as well as easy to automate.Thanks & regardsManoj
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Bug: Excel Writer Removes All Worksheet Protections From Existing Excel Template File The Excel writers in FME 2016, 2017, and 2017 Beta will completely remove all existing Worksheet protections from an Excel template file. Even though FME doesn't currently support setting passwords on Worksheets to protect them (another useful feature that should be added soon please), the conversion process should not be stripping all protections from existing Worksheets, so that's a bug. In our use case we have a customer that has protected various pricing sheets with a password, and we are using FME to write out some data to other regular unprotected worksheets in the same template workbook, but in doing so all of the existing protections are being removed.It's easily reproduced by:1) Create an Excel file with 2 worksheets, add protection to one of them2) Add an Excel Reader to read it in as a template file and an Excel Writer for the same.3) Write out some values to the unprotected sheet, and then notice that the protections on the first sheet are gone.
I'd like to see a Creator that can take in a list, SQL Statement, etc... That will grab the first item and FULLY run through the whole workspace and then go back to the beginning , grab next and do again. I have massive amounts of shape files on an S3 bucket that I need to grab one at a time and process. The server wouldn't need a huge harddrive as I can delete before getting next item. Seems like a simple thing to do, but has been very tough to do. I still can't do it effectively.
In our company, we need to recreate the server every 3 months. I would be REALLY handy to have the new server get to old server's setup via a transfer.
I would like to read in Softree Terrain files (.terx) into FME. Sample file: https://support.softree.com/download_file/view/2716/792
Would be great to have a button on the scheduled job page (#/schedules/edit/CATEGORY/NAME) that you could click that would go to a filtered completed jobs page that shows the job history for that scheduled job.
I want to get the following dataFME 2020.0.0.0 Beta (20190920 - Build 20090 - WIN64)FME Desktop Professional Edition (floating)As Parameters within a workspace to be able to write which version of FME converted the file. Is this possible both on Desktop and Server?For instance:FME_VERSIONFME_BUILDFME_BITFME_PLATFORM
During a FME Advanced training a student asked how he could use the Sampler transformer to get a randomize sample of 10% of the features. As the sampler rate in the transformer doesn't support to be set by an attribute this is a hard task.So this request is both for:1. Make the sampler rate to be set by an attribute2. Support a percentage as sampler rate
I was running a workbench from G: and wanted to view my logs. So I set my writers to output a log file for G:Logs but it didn't want to do it. When I created the folder 'Logs' it worked fine.In future releases it would be great to have FME automatically generate the neccessary folder(s) to place a log file in
It's is horribly painful to have a complicated workspace running for hours (or days!) only to have it fail when the shapefile writer hits the 2GB file limit.It would be nice if there was an option to automatically close the original shapefile and start writing a new shapefile (filename_1) when either the dbf or the shp file gets too close to the 2GB limit.
In Automations, in order to use this functionality for workspace job chaining I need the ability to pass workspace published parameters along, as you do with output keys. In my scenario I would like the output dataset of the first workspace to be used as a source dataset in the second workspace and this needs to be dynamic as my original file will come in from a trigger. For this to work I need to be able to pass attribute values out from the workspace action.
Currently if the Feature Reader is set to Generic (Any Format) and the Input Format is set to <Guess format name from extension> and the format name is unrecognized then it reverts to a NULL reader.|WARN |Generic Reader: Unable to guess a valid reader name from dataset 'x'. A NULL reader will be used instead.A NULL reader produces no features, so this ends the translation successfully.The trigger feature should instead be routed through the invalid port so the issue can be caught and dealt with, or at the very least cause a translation failure.
Looking for a transformer to establishing the largest rectangle that would fit inside a given polygon. The mathematics behind it is extremely complex, though would be happy if it only worked with convex polygons to simply things.This idea isn't exactly new.Previously raised in a few questions:2015 - https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/4879/maximal-rectangle.html 2018 - https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/65011/maximum-inside-rectangle-from-an-polygon.htmlHowever, I don't believe it has been raised as an idea yet.
It would be great to have a visual clue on the canvas when redirect to inspector is selected, e.g. changing the colour of the writers
If I understand it right, the ArcSDEQuerier uses the Esri Legacy ArcSDE Reader to connect to an SDE and therefore is kind of a legacy transformer. Would it make sense to update it to use the newer SDE Reader? If not, I think it would make sense to add at least the "Populate from Connection File" option that was added in FME 2015 to the Esri Legacy SDE Reader. The other day it took me 30 min to figure out how to set up the instance string for the connection until I saw that option in the Reader and copied it from there.
When working with large 3D-models and objects you often need to deaggregate. Is it possible to speed this up? For instance by "reverse-group" this deaggregation? So if 1 terrain model consist of 10 terrain-tiles - FME can deaggregate all of them simultaneously. Without having to wrap the Deaggregator within a Custom Transformer and create a group by from that?
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Reading from ZIP files - extract only file specified to use less disk space in TEMP folder Reading files from inside ZIP files is a great feature of FME. But behind the scenes what happens is that FME extracts the files from the ZIP file to the FME TEMP folder and reads them from there. That's fine if it's a small file, but where the extracted files take up a lot of disk space, it can easily eat up your FME TEMP folder disk space.The problem is made worse if you have concurrent Workspaces running, because each Workspace will extract the ENTIRE contents of the ZIP file, even if you only want to read ONE file out of it. I spent most of today trying to figure out why a process was failing and eventually discovered that running 3 Workspaces concurrently, each reading a single file from a ZIP file that takes up 10 Gb when fully extracted used up all my FME TEMP space.I have a couple of suggestions:1) The FME log is not very helpful in this situation. It simply says that it failed to open the file for reading and tells you to check the file exists and that you have privileges. But it refers to the original copy of the file in the ZIP file, not the extracted version in the FME TEMP folder. It would be more helpful if it could alert you to the lack of disk space and/or refer you to the location in the FME TEMP folder.2) I'm using the Path Reader to get the list of files in the ZIP file, then sending one file name to a child Workspace to process. So it would be more efficient for the Workspace to only extract the file it needs from the ZIP file, rather than the whole lot.
The new Socrata reader/writer can see the location data type but presents it as varchar 255. It is a tuple of two address values followed by a bracketed coordinate pair, the three components are newline-separated, and its maddeningly difficult to parse. How about we expose all this by default?https://data.hawaii.gov/Transportation-Facilities/Map-of-EV-Charging-Stations-in-Hawaii/a4df-teiy
Would it be possible to add support for the built-in coordinate systems in both AutoCAD and MicroStation? Both let their users define a coordinate system, but I don’t think FME reads the setting?
It is now possible to produce superlight raster combining GPKG format and WEBP compression with GDAL. It could be great if FME could also support this.
For shapefiles, FME has the ability to create a spatial index for ESRI, but of course that requires an ArcGIS license to create (and another to use).Might I suggest creating a QGIS compatible spatial index instead/as-well? That way folks who don't have ArcGIS can still enjoy fast shapefiles.And as a bonus (probably a different PR), FME could probably integrate the spatial index handling with "search envelope" for shape reader and read the QIX file to speed up reading in those scenarios.
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