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When I leave the PythonCaller unintended with the Cancel button or with the Esc key and I have done a lot of programming, everything is lost.It would be great, if FME asks me if I want to save the unsaved changes in the PythonCaller.
Hi,An extension to the current Choice parameters is to add a parameter where you can select multiple choices and if the choice isn't inside the list you can add your own one (or multiple ones).Currently to achieve this it's necessary to work with 2 different parameters, making it sometime very complicated.As the Workspace developer I already know certain options, as such I can put them already in the list, however new choices can be developed every day (theoretically speaking), with the Multiple choice + text, I don't need to update the workbench everyday.So the multiple choice or text would be a cleaner way to provide this than working with 2 different parameters.
Currently it is rather cumbersome to manipulate schema features using the attribute{} list to e.g. remove or rename attributes. It would be great if e.g. the AttributeRemover / AttributeRenamer could auto-detect if a schema feature had entered (based on the presence of attribute{}.name) and then do its magic directly on the schema definition as well as the feature itself.
We would create three.js javascript from 3D objects. This could then be output directly in a text file for later inclusion in a webpage, or wrapped into a .html file and output by FME. Some samples made by a prototype in FME: IFC->three.js at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/173473402/threejs/ifc.html and go to Paris with https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/173473402/threejs/eiffel_tower.html .
I'm running a WorkspaceRunner associated with a workspace which intentionally has enabled Inspectors. However, every time a workspace is completed and another View tab is added to the FME Data Inspector it wrenches the window focus away from other windows very unpolitely. FME Data Inspector should play well with others and update when not in the foreground...
FME’s Minecraft implementation is fantastic, but as someone attempting to do very large translations, as well as making use of programs external to Minecraft, having support for schematic files, a more compact, but still NBT based file for storing combinations of blocks, would be incredibly useful. Schematic files are fairly simple, and I’ve already built a rudimentary prototype for reading them as point cloud features, however as an inexperienced FMEer and data manipulator in general, I don’t feel equipped to tackle this one on my own. I wasn’t sure whether to post this as a question, or a suggestion, but any thoughts are appreciated.
Dear Mr./Ms., I work in a Portuguese Government Institution: Direção-Geral do Território (Directorate-General for Territorial Development). My Institution is the Central and National node of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and is responsible for monitoring and reporting information to European Commission (INSPIRE - Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe). I am working on a project for the Portuguese Government and the coordinate reference system is EPSG: 3763, PTTM06 - ETRS89. Unfortunately the FME Software does not have this coordinate reference system in the options. Therefore, I request your attention and help in the creation and availability of this reference system in FME Software, because all the data and projects in which my governmental institution works at national and international level (INSPIRE), are in this coordinate reference system. Best regards,Sérgio Ferreira
FME Desktop includes limited options to customise the interface to support people with impaired vision for example, other than alterations to the font.I frequently work with colleagues and customers with some level of colour-blindness and the ability to discern the difference between a red and green attribute port arrow, or a transformer parameter button, or a featuretype connection arrow (the main offenders) colour is difficult or impossible. This means that 'issues' in the design or setup of an FME Workspace can often be overlooked with the resulting data problems.This makes interesting reading regarding some of the challenges:http://www.colourblindawareness.org/colour-blindness/types-of-colour-blindness/The ability to apply a blanket colour change to some of these port colours would be very handy I'm sure.
Consider adding support for Survey Figures in Civil 3D.
We saw it at the FME Days 2019, the problem to show a lot of people in a presentation a big workspace. Would be nice to have a Prezi like Workbench presentation mode. Or to get a from up to down dataflow mode where you can add comments for presentations also for Powerpoint.
It would be very useful if the tester Transformer would provide a preselection of the attributes depending on the selected attribute on the Right Value page.
It might be useful if there was a transformer that kicks a post process after completion of the main translation. A potential use case is to upload writers' outputs to a web server in the same workspace without writing shutdown script. The FeatureWriter coming in FME 2016 may also be used to embed such a post process into a workspace, but the expected transformer can be used not only for writers' outputs but also for outputs from transformers such as XMLFormatter. The transformer doesn't have input ports. It outputs feature(s) after the main translation has completed.The transformer works only in the Main workflow. It does nothing in a custom transformer and custom format.The executing order of two or more ones should be controlled through their parameter settings.Adding the ability to some existing starter transformers (e.g. Creator, PythonCreator, SQLCreator) is also a choice.
I think it would be an enhancement if one could give the KMLStyler not only a hardcoded name but also a name via an attribute. This makes it easy to give different features it's own KML-styling according a feature's attribute.
It would be great to have an "attributes that must differ" option in the LineOnLineOverlayer (and probably the intersector too). It would make it more straightforward, for example, to find lines that intersect between discrete datasets without reporting intersections within the same dataset.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: ARCGISONLINEFEATURES and ARCGISPORTALFEATURES to support setting a coordinate system by WKID Hi all, to link a KB question I had about how to do this (you cannot yet), when creating a new feature service the underlying API supports specifying a coordinate system by specifying a well known ID (e.g. EPSG number) but this is not exposed in the writer, and the default Web Mercator projection is used. Feature services are more likely to contain 'real data' captured at large scale or tied to survey control, and not features tied to a web tiling system. The portal will attempt a suitable geographic transformation but even so this can move your data. Lets support a WKID so coordinates go in accurately.
To be able to fully automate the FMEserver it is nescecarry to be able to create the Automations by API methods.The idea is to extract all sources and targets of all workspaces or a set of workspaces on the server.Put them in the correct order of dependency and try to parallelize as much as possible.So the FMEserver is used most efficiently.If yoou think about cloud and effincient use of Fme engines this is the most optimal configuration.
Route 3D objects to this video gaming format for end users to walk through and explore
It seems FTPCaller uses these ciphers on SFTP: aes256-cbc,rijndael-cbc@lysator.liu.se,aes192-cbc,aes128-cbc,arcfour128,arcfour,3des-cbc However some of these are insecure and not recommended to use and therefore not possible to use on newer ssh2-servers. Supported ciphers currently is: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com,aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com,aes128-cbc,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc ref: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?sshd_config(5)
This is not an idea, but a publication of a new reader format: (Borland) Paradox. Hope it may come in handy for someone.It's (still) not possible to upload custom formats based on Python to FME Hub, so here's my take on how to publish it.Attached is a ZIP with all the necessary files. All files are stored with paths relative to the FME_HOME of your installation, so they should be unzipped with that in mind.The reader uses the "pypxlib" library for handling the Paradox tables, and ought to handle all parameter types. However, my test data set is limited, so please report any problems with other data sets to me.Although there are template files included to support both writing and geometry handling, it's sofar just a pure alphanumeric reader. But with FME it's easy to generate geometry using embedded coordinates. Maybe writing and geometries will be added in the future.It supports a single parameter, the code page of the DB file. It defaults to "cp1252", i.e. Windows Latin1/ANSI. Please refer to available Python docs on code pages if cp1252 doesn't work for you.paradox-format-lifa.zip
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: RasterExpressionEvaluator should support duplicating rows and other copy/paste functionality The various tester and attribute creators allow one to copy/past or duplicate a row in it's entirety. It would be nice if the RasterExpressionEvaluator had the same right-click context menu as the other transformers.Currently right click does nothing, you have to go into the cell and select the contents to copy, and then go into the subsequent cell and paste and then set the interpretation manually.
It would be super handy to land on the FME Server scheduling page and tick several schedules and then push a "Run Now" button. The button would sit with the New, Remove, Duplicate etc buttons to issue the selected job schedules immediately, rather than having to click into each one and tick 'Run Immediately'.
Recently my FME Server encountered an unexpected shutdown.As a result my daily scheduled job did not run.I did not check that on restarting my server what caused me to loose information.I would like to be able to schedule a job to run after the FME Server startup.That would allow critical jobs to be run after an unexpected restart of the server (which according to Murphy always happens at the time a job is scheduled to run).So next to "Immediate" and "Interval based" I suggest "At startup" to be an option for a schedule to run.
When I upload a file with sidecar files, this triggers the directory watch to start a workspace for each file which I don't want and uses up my engines. It'd be great to have the option to add file type filters so that the workspace is only started if I upload a *.shp for example.
A workspace subscribed to multiple notifications, fires on every notification. Effectively the multiple-subscriptions are evaluated as a logic 'OR'. A workspace runs on notification '1' or '2' or '3'.As described in my forum post the usability of notifications would greatly improve for me if I could evaluate them as 'AND'. A workspace should run when notification '1', '2' and '3' have been given.With this I could improve the distribution of tasks and workloads in a large transformation process.e.g.: When the new populationdata is available AND the new boundaries have been processed, I can recalculate the population density.Please read the linked forum-post for more details about the nature of this idea.Kind regards, Martin
I find it quite easy to whip up a workspace to use in FME Server in about five minutes, but it takes me way longer to create a way for an end user to run it.Currently I can:Have users run it through a simple URLGive users access to FME Server with a guest account to run it thereCreate my own custom web page with a form/interface for parametersBut a URL doesn't work when I want the users to provide parameters (most of the time) and I usually don't want to give users access to the FME Server interface because it gives them access to other workspaces and functionality they don't need to see (and forces them to log in).Creating a custom web page is good, but it can take a long while to set it up (plus where do I create it?)So, I'm thinking it would be useful to have a "Run Only" page on FME Server; i.e. I can provide a link to a user and it takes them to an FME Server page. The page allows the specified workspace to be run, but it doesn't require a log in, and it has no menus or advanced content.Something like this:Any thoughts or votes? Does anyone else find it hard to create a quick way to share a workspace to run it, or have any ideas on how it might be implemented?
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