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Would be very nice to send a workbench with a token using FMEJobSubmitterBye Bye the username and password !!
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Integrate Desktop and Server more closely. Execute tasks on Server thru workbench gui.
XMLXqueryExploder and XMLXQueryUpdater are very powerful transformers when you use XML inside FME but they lack an easy starting point. It would be such an improvement if the "XQuery Expression window" had code samples in the left panel (similar to the XQuery Functions) providing the user with basic code snippets that would help them forward quickly.Such snippets for example could be- How do you count child-nodes - Replace content of a property- Replace content of a node based on a string in child-node- Find domains from an XML
I have around 60 scheduled FME Server jobs and I find it quite hard to keep track of what job starts at what day at what time."Start Time" and "End Time" are not very helpful since they only show a date maybe 2 years ago, when I first set up de task.Therefore it would be nice to be able to set up schedules with weekdays and time of day and show this on the schedules site as well. For example I set up three scheduled tasks:workbench 1 / Tuesday, Thursday / 20:00 / every weekworkbench 2 / Sunday / 13:00 / every second weekworkbench 3 / Mo-So / 22:00 / dailyThese informations should be visible (and preferably sortable) on the /schedules site as well.
FME ought to natively support ECW version 3. See also https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/24065/i-cant-open-a-version-3-ecw-in-fme-data-viewer-err.html@jlutherthomas @Mark2AtSafePR#54009
While the HDFS Connector and Hive Reader can be useful, an Hbase Reader and Writer are essential to our Hadoop workflow.
Adding authorization header token support to data streaming, job submitter, data download services. Possibly by aligning or incorporating them into the REST API via the transformations api. For example:POST /transformations/submit | transact | transactadata/<service>/< repository >/< workspace >Or maybe through a new Services Manager API?
Currently the tester allows you to use a comparison mode of Case Sensitive/Case Insensitive with greater than and less than operators. There may be good valid reasons why someone would want to consider 111 to be less than 20 whilst also considering 20 to be greater than 199 but I'd hazard a guess that these use cases would be far more rare than someone wanting to do a numerical comparison and having the incorrect comparison mode selected. Currently the In Range operator is only available when the comparison mode is set numeric or automatic, but greater than and less than are not restricted in the same way.Additionally, it means that if you send string characters to a greater than/less than test that is set to automatic the test is attempted when it might be preferable to produce an error.
In addition to @courtney_m's idea to replace WorkspaceRunners by FMEJobSubmitters (https://knowledge.safe.com/content/idea/33203/ability-to-replace-workspacerunners-with-fme-serve.html), I would like to suggest a hybrid Transformer handling both. It might be a technical hassle because of constraints of the two platforms, but if it existed it would save time both during development and maintenance of the Workspace.
It would helpful if the FME Server System Share could deployed to an Amazon S3 bucket. This would remove the use of a fileshare, increase user options during fault tolerant deployments as well as assist with automatic backups. For users already leveraging AWS EC2 machines as their server component host this also allows for seamless AWS deployments. If the ability to leverage Azure and Google Cloud equivalents to S3 could be implemented that would also be useful for those who want to architect cloud agnostic deployments while removing the dependency on a fileshare.
In the same vein as some tools like 'make', and the APT (aptitude / apt-get) ecosystem of Debian, I think it would be useful to have a dry-run mode for workbenches. It would have to be really simplistic, and would probably only be useful in simple workspaces (i.e., without workspacerunners, etc). I imagine in the most basic implementation a system that when activated, replaces any Writers with inspectors. The idea is to assist with gaining a more rapid understanding of how a workspace works. Many times I am presented with something made by someone else, and want to run it, but first have to spend a bit of time disabling parts of the workspace, or attaching a few inspectors, etc etc. Instead, with dry-run mode, I could safely hit F5, and be confident that no files or geodbs would be overwritten, hidden output files clobbered, and so on.
I have a hard time finding the ideas I proposed to see what happened to them.
If you have a large area for which you generate Aircom Enterprise Files and you make smaller subtiles to speed up calculations, a new export overwrites the existing files. At the moment, this can only be solved by exporting to different subfolders. It would be ideal if the Aircom Export could update the index file in a existing folder and add more entries corresponding to existing *bin-files.
Stanford's Temporal Tagger - SUTime - would provide the ability to recognize, extract, and normalize time expressions in textual data. It will convert next wednesday at 3pm to something like 2016-02-17T15:00 and would be an extension of the Natural Language Processing (NLP) functions that have recently been implemented in FME transforms.https://nlp.stanford.edu/software/sutime.shtml
The Bufferer transformer has the parameters Dissolve On Attributes, Dissolve On Attributes Mode and Generate Dissolve List. It would be nice if the GeographicBufferer had these parameters as well.
It would be nice if there were a parameter on the ListIndexer to remove the ListAttribute similar to the one on the GeometryReplacer.80% of the time I have an attributeRemover immediately after the ListIndexer.
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.
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