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Similar to this idea: https://knowledge.safe.com/content/idea/87500/process-started-by-the-systemcaller-should-end-if.html I think more should happen when a user has aborted a workspace (or at least it could be an option workspace parameter).In this case I think that a defined python/tcl shutdown script should run even if the user aborts the workspace.As mentioned in this Q/A https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/87933/python-shutdown-scrips-when-workspace-cancelled.html there is a limitation when it comes to live streams, the only workarounds being pretty ugly in nature.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Portal Reader Feature Service Parameter - allow portal items shared to the connected user to import the service's layer list In the reader's Parameters Constraints box, when a feature service list is displayed in the dialog, only the feature services owned by the connected user can display a Layer list pop up. If a selected feature service not owned by the connected user and the Layer ellipsis is clicked a Python Exception <KeyError>: u'items' appear.
It would be great if FME could support open location codes like Google's Plus Codes This would be a really useful alternative for places that aren't easily located otherwise. I'd like to see this functionality supported in the GeometryReplacer or GeometryExtractor.
Inspired by https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/74227/smooth-line-keeping-vertex-positions.html
Hyattached the dataset that I used to test center line replacer
Original Title: Extraer geometrías de las anotaciones de un PDFOriginal title translated to english for improved searchablityPara agilizar trabajos, con base cartográfica, sí se tienen que dibujar áreas sobre una cartografía existente. Usando las anotaciones del PDF, se podrían exportar también al igual que el resto de información.English translation: To expedite cartographic-based work, areas do have to be drawn on existing cartography. Using the PDF annotations, they could also be exported just like the rest of the information.
I've been experimenting with the System caller to run third party command line tools. It works great for the most part, however, when you stop the workspace the called process keeps running.It would be nice if the call could be killed/cancelled when the FME process is aborted. The problem is compounded when the sub process leverages the folder created by the TempPathNameCreator - If the FME process is aborted then these files do not get cleaned up.Idea comes from this QA: https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/87473/process-triggered-from-system-caller-does-not-end.html
InfluxDB is fast becoming the most popular Time Series Database for DevOps, IoT sensors, financial data,etc. It is an Open Source platform that composed of 4 services called the TICK stack. Telegraf is the "T" and is has a plug-in architecture for reading and writing to many different databases and data sources. InfluxDB is the "I" and is a NoSQL DB but supports SQL style queries, a scripting language called TICK script and a newer fuller featured language called Flux. Chronograf is the "C" and is a browser based client for configuring, visualizing and creating alerts. Kapacitor is the "K" and is and is a real-time data streaming and processing engine that allows you to do simple and complex operations on your data. I use InfluxDB to capture GNSS data in real-time. It would be great to be able to read that data directly and process it with various translators to calculate volumes, generate contours, convert to different coordinate systems, etc, etc. It is also great for downsampling and thinning data and even has fill methods for interpolating over data outages if you want.
Currently when writing an excel file with multiple sheets, the last feature written controls which sheet the file opens to by default. It would be nice if we could explicitly control which sheet it should open to.
It's baaaacccccckkkkkk. FME 2017 -- Build 17156 or later...
Just a small thing that's annoying me in the Data Inspector. My numeric fields are always sorted alphabetical by default when I click on the attribute name to sort (1, 10, 100, ...). Is it possible to detect if a field is completely numeric and sort it as such?
In the Data Inspector view filter, if you have many Feature Types and you filter by one attribute which only one FT has, all others are filtered out, since they don't have any value for that attribute. If you could specify which FT you are filtering this would be solved.
I'm generating files with my FME workspace for ingestion into another data management platform. In order to get the data ingested I need to also create a file containing a checksum (MD5 currently) for the data platform to check file integrity.As I'm already using the FeatureWriter to create files before pushing them to the platform I would like to see the option of being able to create a checksum for the written file and adding it as an output summary attribute, then I can easily use the same workspace to perform the complete upload process.
I'm working with FME Server 2018.1.1.1 running on Linux (CentOS 7).In my observation, if you created or uploaded a resource folder and files to an FME Server via its web interface, the owner of them would become "root" and their permissions would be set to "rwxr-xr-x" (folder) or "rw-r--r--" (files).It may not cause any problem in most cases, but sometimes a workspace requires to update a resource file, for example updating an SQLite database. In such a case, you will have to change the permissions of the folder and the file via console of the OS or other tool like WinSCP.It would be more convenient if FME Server web interface would have a function to change the permissions of a resource folder and files.
CGAL is an open source C++ library for powerfull geometry calculation. I would be nice to have some of it embeded in transformers. I'm thinking of something similar to the "TesseractCaller". info on https://www.cgal.org This could be very usefull to transform CAD-BIM-GIS data.
The FeatureReader currently doesn't support a where-clause for the FILEGDB reader, although the regular FILEGDB reader does. It would be great if the FeatureReader could also support a where-clause.See also: https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/54705/select-statement-using-file-geodb-open-api.html
It often happens that my workspace runs for a decent amount of time only to crash upon accessing the writer (e.g. the excel file I want to write to is opened by another user). It would be useful if FME checks the accessibility of all writers/featurewriters upon starting the workflow and not only when it wants to commit the result.
I would like to see the log of R in the transition log because; - Sometimes functions in R can take a long time. For some functions you are able to keep track on its progress by Verbose=T. - For debugging, it is useful to use print statements for intermediate results- At this point, custom transformers using Rcallers are a black box to other users. Exposing intermediate results can prevent this. Now the print statements only occur if an error is found.
Reading large XML can be quite time consuming, even with FME! My idea is to upgrade the XML reader to use the feature tables technology to speed up things.(hopefully this is already on the roadmap...)
I would appreciate UPDATE button on Attributefilter transformer, similar to Featuretypefilter. It is really strong weapon to get attribute values when I use more than one data source...
Hello,as I work with customers, they still more and more use MS WORD writer, so there are still more requirements to develop functionality of this writer. Two of requirements are placing text and image next to each other - so there is necessary column divider functionality. Secd requirement is placing of watermark to .docx document. It would be great to use these functions! :-)Thank You so much!Lubo
OBJ Reader - add option ignore texture/materials to make it faster to load files when no texture is needed,
Huge LandXML files takes a long time to read. Is it possible to change the readaer for LandXLM to be read as Feature Tables to speed up reading? Would be great!
For those of us in other hemispheres, it is often difficult to catch your guys online (9-12 and 1-4 just doesn't cut it these days).Have you got any plans to increase the hours? - perhaps using global partners?Thanks
I am currently using custom pushbullet transformer with in my workbench to send messages to users for desired coordinates in the event of an earthquake. But I am really looking to have some other transformer which can alert the users with voice calls instead of the messages.
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