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The new format for the Argumeted Reality (* .fmear) gives many possibilities for beautiful mobile applications. Unfortunately, we do not want to recommend the general FMEAR-app to our customers. We would rather implement our own native apps. But an API would have to be available for that. Are there any plans from Safe Software?
I would love to see a Bentley MX reader, or actually a Genio reader.
Add the capability to search for columns and values in the Feature Information window in Data Inspector.
It is currently possible to download individual (or multiple selected) files from the Resources page of the FME Server Web UI. Please vote for this idea if you would like FME Server to support downloading entire folders.One example would be to download the entire Logs folder.
As an FME Desktop Author, I want to be able to create workflows that connect to and process up to 1,000,000 messages per hour from an Apache Kafka stream, so that I can manage and enrich data from my IoT devices that use this protocol.
If the FeatureReader fails to read a file, it outputs 1 feature from the <Rejected> port.But sometimes, the FeatureReader fails to read only some features. I would love to be able to report somehow that a certain amount of features failed to read. I can imagine a <Skipped> port would be very helpful for this. It could output all skipped features (with Null geometry and an attribute specifying the reason it was skipped), or 1 feature with a list attribute containing the dataset name, failure reasons and the number of occurrences.
Connecting to HDFS is now in FME Desktop 2018As of the FME 2018.0 release, we have added the HDFSConnector transformer as a technology preview. This means that while it’s not quite ready for prime time yet, it is available to take for a test run.We’d like to call on anyone interested in this new transformer and especially anyone who voted on any HDFS, Hadoop, Hive enhancements for this to try this transformer and let us know what you think.Give us your feedbackWe’re actively working on developing more integration with Hadoop systems and we want to hear from you!How would you like to use FME in a Hadoop setting? How are you using Hadoop and what formats are you using to store your data? Does the HDFS connector meet your needs or do you need some more functionality like a Hive, Hbase, Oozie, or Spark connector? Would you like to be able to trigger a Hadoop command or execute a query once an upload was complete? If so, what would that look like?Please post your feedback as a comment back to this idea.How does it work?The HDFSConnector uses your HDFS account credentials (either via a previously defined FME web connection, or by setting up new FME web connection right from the transformer) to access the file storage service.Depending on your choice of actions, it will upload or download files, folders, and attributes; list information from the service; or delete items from the service. On uploads, path attributes are added to the output features. On List actions, file/folder information is added as attributes.https://www.youtube.com/embed/85RxCTjdquo
It would be nice if there is an option to upload the output data to wetranser and sent it automatically to the people you want.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Automatically create a commit when publishing/republishing a workbench to Server The current version control implementation in FME Server is pretty good. I'd like to see it integrated into the FME Desktop publishing workflow too. If you have enabled version control on the FME Server, it would be nice if each publish/republish from FME Desktop automatically resulted in a commit. That would require allowing the user to enter a commit message somewhere in the publish/republish dialog boxes.
I like to use the Insert Junction shortcutCtrl + Alt + JExcept it's really difficult to do with one hand - almost impossible with just left hand - can it be made easier please?
I have many entities with DATE attributes.When I have no value, I set them to null (NullAttributeMapper).But DateTimeConverter generates a WARN for each null value and rejects entities, so the logfile is very big and its very slow.I would like a parameter to ignore null values in DATE attributes (don't log them) and maybe a new output port for null values in DateTimeConverter.
When a Translation is very involved and contains multiple transformers, organizing it on the canvas in a way that does not tangle connections is sometimes difficult. Hidden connections and/or tunneling are options, but not always the best as sometimes you would prefer to see where the actual connection(s) lead visually.What if the ability to "Halo" a connection line with a color could help differentiate connections that cross over one another. The connection line would still be black or grey showing that it is enabled/disabled, but a 1 or 2 point line of 50% or greater transparent color straddling both side of it would make it stand out.Give the user the ability to choose, the color, transparency/opacity, and width and they are set. It is a "creature feature" and does not improve performance or anything technical. But, the value of assistance in "self documentation" of a workspace is great.See Example Below:
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Add snapshot button on the toolbar, to capture the canvas content, easy to share with colleagues I usually use the free snipping tool, to send snapshots and collaborate with colleagues. I wish there's a Snapshot button on the toolbar, it will be less buttons to use and just easy to take the snapshot of the canvas and send to email, Slack or Skype messaging..etc, may be just call it Camera, haha..
Hello,I think it's time for the SpatialRelator to get a well deserved upgrade to work with 3D surfaces and solids. I would love to use FME for our daily BIM workflows, but get frequently frustrated because all the spatial join tools are obviously designed with 2D in mind.8/10 of all my BIM workflows are just about 3D containers:Generate container objects for rooms, grids, sectors, levels, buildings.Collects all non container objects using containers.Assign container ids for relations.etc.Please, dear FME gods...Basically just a mesh/mesh collision test.Needs a tolerance.A speed/quality setting would be amazing.I know, I can work around this by using a CenterPointReplacer with a Clipper for an inclusion test, or by reducing the problem to a 2D plane, but a mesh/mesh test is way better. So many possiblities...
It would be nice, when viewing an individual Idea, to see its state without having to be logged in. When viewing the list of 'All ideas' the state of each individual Idea is shown regardless of being logged in or not.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Sync the CRS (and datum transformation) list with the lastest version of EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset (http://epsg-registry.org/) Hi, the idea is to be possible to automatically sync (or update) the list of CRS and datum transformation that exists in FME with the EPSG Dataset (http://epsg-registry.org/). In that site (http://epsg-registry.org/), is available db dumps with all the info necessary (crs parameters, names, codes, datum transformation etc)
Since the introduction of caching and the tools on bookmarks to "Run Just Contained" and "Between Selected" I find myself almost writing 'multiple workbenches in one' and only working with them interactively.Which has made me think it would be neat to have a way to actually Run them in a traditional FME sense.Original IdeaI've only thought about this a little bit, but maybe it's a mix of:a property that we can set on the bookmark to state its 'Run-able' a section in bookmarks where we can order run-able bookmarksShow a hierarchy of linked bookmarks that would run after one anotherInclude an option to set bookmarks to run between to handle forking in a data flow.A step that allows disabling bookmarks to prevent running un-wanted upstream sections when running betweenFrom the traditional Run prompt, add an option that allows you to set specific bookmark(s?) to run or 'All'Example"Bookmark One" runs some transformers to generate an AOI to a database"Bookmark Two" reads this AOI to download and generate more data saved locallylinked "Bookmark Processing" runs some initial processing that generates results and errors that require manual tweaks on the downloaded data"Bookmark Three" reads the downloaded in "Bookmark Two"Linked "bookmark Processing" runs again against the corrected data, generates results and errors ...Evolved ideaAs I've typed this out I'm thinking maybe rather than run-able bookmarks we create "named run-instances", which has a similar concept where bookmarks are ordered within each instance but de-couples the bookmarks themselves.Now you could create a separate tab view for each named instance which shows just that data flow and links between bookmarks that don't have feature-flows connecting them etc..'Named run-instances" is a much better idea and I've changed my draft title from "Run a workspace by bookmark"ps I've now ended up thinking about this more than just a little and I left this as a stream of conscious because I think there's value in understanding how people get to ideas (and I didn't want to rewrite everything!)
Adding support for vector images. For example: SVG file type (and output port based on vector)
The option to deactivate Desktop License with the licensing assistant through the internet when moving a license to a different machine. (For fix license)
I would really appreciate if you could use your own geocoding services with the FME GeoCoder. Here our service as an example : https://digitransit.fi/en/developers/services-and-apis/2-geocoding-api/
The Windows installer offers three file-location options when doing an Express installFMEServer componentsFMEHome for all data related stuffLocation for the PostgreSQL database filesThe Ubuntu 18.04 installer offers two:FME installation (both components and the FME Home, mixed as by default in the Windows installer)Location of the database files.Having the option to configure a separate FMEHome would be appreciated (without the need of tedious manual config-file editing). Also this feels a bit inconsistent across platforms.
Then we can chain the trainer and classifier easily...
When writing to Excel I would like an option to set a range (referencing the template file & Feature Type sheet) that will set default values and formatting for each new row FME will write.Use cases are:Sheets where you have to click a button to add 5 more rows of template/formattingSheets where the first 20 rows are formatted but we have more rows to writeHow it could look:In "Sheet Settings"property: "Row Template Range" values: A12:XX12Result:Any new row written by FME will first take the cell ranges A12:XX12 and paste that as the template before writing the feature values. It will copy in:formattingvalueslookupsetc...Possibly related tohttps://knowledge.safe.com/content/idea/23780/set-excel-template-sheet-in-feature-type-propertie.html
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