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Add the ability to generate Metadata for existing image files such as TIFF or JPEG. For example, I have a directory of tiffs, and I want to go ahead and generate Application specific Header files such as tabs, tfw’s and ERS. At the moment we are having to go back and use global mapper to generate these files.This is also Important to not re-write the image itself as if the format is lossy compressed, each re-write degrades the image.
The reader stops on an imbedded ^Z before the end of the file. This comes about because unicode character o-with-macron has char(26) in the pair of characters.Changing the encoding did not fix the problem. Since the Textfile reader does handle this, maybe a developer could pinch some code from there?See https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/97312/csv-and-control-z.html
The AttributeManager accounts for all attributes, including those without action. If I remove an attribute that is listed in a following AttributeManager, the transformer turns red, indicating an error. This should be ignored for all 'Do Nothing' and 'Remove' attributes - the list of attributes in the AttributeManager should simply be updated.
Licensing should allow more than 8 concurrent Desktop workbenches to run, and more than 16 background processes. For example one could buy an extra license to allow 8 extra concurrent and 16 extra background processes.
Often I stumble upon obscure and old raster formats that I need to save for future needs. FME has come a long way in supporting raster formats but there's still many formats that FME doesn't yet support. For these cases I use ImageMagick https://imagemagick.org/ often called from FME with a SystemCaller transformer.Now an idea has grown. Could there be a possibility that Safe, in some way, could incorporate ImageMagick in to FME to get native support for all the formats that the ImageMagick software supports?ImageMagick is distributed under a derived Apache 2.0 license so perhaps there's an opening to a partnership there?
Hi,It would be great to have the possibility into the Excel Writer to choose the Start Column value with an attribute value.See this post for infos : https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/96709/excel-start-column-value-option.html?childToView=96769#answer-96769
It would be great if there was an AttributeNameFilter transformer. I know that there are work arounds for keeping and removing Attributes with specific Names (eg. https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/35011/filter-by-attribute-names.html)But these are very cumbersome and not efficient for large files.
Garmin IMG is a proprietary format, many Garmin GPS users would like to add their own maps in their handhelds. Ability to write into this format would help a great deal .
I would find it helpful if it's possible in FME Desktop to find and replace a value within a selection of transformers (or within all transformers in a bookmark). Sometimes I copy a selection of multiple transformers to prepare data for a new feature type which needs to use the same transformers for pre-processing as a similar but slightly different feature type. However, I need to manually rename all the values, annotations transformer- and bookmark names in which the old feature type name is referenced.
The S3Connector would be useful if there could be a Writer that intigrates and uses the connection to an S3 bucket (i.e., treat it like a virtual drive. So anywhere you define a file path, an S3 bucket connection/path can be specified making S3 storage as transparent as possible.Also, within the S3Connector parameters that there are only two options for "If file exists": Reject or Overwrite. It would also be very useful to add an Append option so that the same zip file can be used for scenarios where batches of workspace runs can be captured in a single zip file... I'm hoping this gets into 2019 sooner than later.Thanks for all you do...Also, suggest adding a s3connector topic.
It would be nice if the Feature Joiner had the ability to scan for duplicates on the Left or Right entry point with the option of routing them through their own outputs. I think this would improve the ability to control what type of join is being created.
I would like the ability to expose (or create) on each feature the path that feature took in the workbench. I think this could be best executed in a list format, where for example, the first transformer a feature passed through is feature_path{0}.transformer. The second transformer would be feature_path{1}.transformer...etc.I think this could help with pinpointing errors in the workflow.
Currently (2019.1) you aren't able to upgrade the tranformer via the Navigator pane if the transformer is inside a closed bookmark. You first have to expand the book mark first before upgrading it. It would be nice to not have to expand each bookmark to expose the transformers before upgrading.
It would be nice if the PointOnLineOverlayer could include Elevation (Z) and Measures (M) coordinates for multiple overlaps when Generate on Point to a List is selected as the output. Currently, it only returns Z and M for the first route in the list of multiple overlaps. Then the logic you've build to choose the correct route/segment would have every element including M & Z stored together in a single List Element.My Example has multiple routes/segments returned:But only a single measure is available for processing:It would be nice if the coordinate information could be included in the output List if user needed it.
Finding log files is a bit of a pain and for speed it would be useful to have them in he user interface.
I have workbenches who works with a lot of data (1 million features). i combine the data from different sources. but if i inspect the result, the inspector takes a long time to build up all the features.I want to add an number of features in de inspector. so when the workbench works all the data it show only the given number of features. (no number it shows all features, of course)
It would be great if we can read Civil 3D corridors and featurelines
Could a parameter be added to insert a new line before and/or after a text line writes a feature/many features, for appending to existing files? E.g. appending FME workspace log files just to create that separating between successive process run logs. This can be worked around using e.g. creators, counters and sorters but an in-writer option would be tidy.A second idea would be that you could insert a header/footer block of text/more than one line.
It would be good to match ESRI JSON output format to ESRI Enclosed Format so that it can be used for AWS Athena tables.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: ArcGIS Online and Portal feature writers to support adding and updating attribute indices If you are maintaining large feature layers that will be queried with non-cached expressions then maintaining indices on query fields will prevent full table scans on query. At the REST level it means passing JSON to addToDefinintion or updateDefinition, like this setting up a unique index on a field 'id':{"indexes" : [{"name" : "idIndex","fields" : "Id","isAscending" : true,"isUnique" : true,"description" : "Unique index on primary key field ID"}]}If the writer could do this it would help a lot.
Suggested by @troelspe at the FME UC 2017:It can be a bit awkward to select a reader and dataset when importing attribute filter values, especially when that reader is probably already in the workspace.It would be nice if we could populate the dialog with a list of existing readers in the workspace, so that users could just select the reader of their choice and import its unique attribute values (in one or two clicks).
Hello,This is just a small thing but quite the trouble maker...FBX scenes can have its "up axis" configured in any direction (X,Y,Z). The default for the current FBX writer is "Y" and there is no option to change it.For various reasons, I really, reeeeally need "Z up".The FBX ASCII Version can be changed with a parameter (1,2,3 = X,Y,Z):But I'm getting a bit tired from changing it by hand. :(I need this:Pretty please.
Hi,We will be using workspace runner to perform running 1+ workspaces one-after-one or repeating the same workpace number of times in batch mode.For instance, if we have GDB with 10 million features and we have to use the same contents in more than 1 workspace then we have to read more than 1 times based on workspaces requirement.In order to eradicate this repeated activity (reading same data multiple times), if we have transformer which passes data from one workspace to other workspace such that we can run the workspaces in parallel as well one after other (based on preference). This transformer will reduce alot of hours (lead time).Pratap
In the FME Server 2019 beta, you can add triggers, actions, etc, but while you can add all these, there is no warning if you save them without altering anything. That is you can add a process to call a workspace caller, but never call a workspace in it. So it may be easy to overlook a piece of the puzzle.It would great if on save the automation was checked to see if the details are filled in, in all the automation and warned if not (e.g. type = trigger or type=sender means they are blank, while workspace types would have empty WORKSPACE). You could choose to save, but be aware that bits are missing.
Trying to troubleshoot jobs with the new workspace viewer is hard. Is it possible to include the actual name (which matches the log name i.e. TestFilter_28) in the popup or as the tab name like it does in desktop?
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