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We often build up quite complex test conditions using the Tester, TestFilter etc. It would be fantastic if there was an easy way to export this as a WHERE statement in SQL (and maybe even other syntax...) that could be used in other applications and workflows.
When clipping a raster it would be nice to specify how to deal with pixels that are crossed by the clipper boundary.The options could be:include pixels that are entirely within the clipperinclude pixels whose centers (and/or origins) are inside the clipperinclude pixels who intersect the clipper - not that this should not include pixels that only share an edge.As it currently stands, minor (floating point) differences in raster extents and/or resolutions can lead to differing results
Hello,I think it would be a good idea to have another parameter for the SQS publication: Max Number of Messages.My scenario is as follows:Multiple FME Servers are polling new messages from SQS. Each message should trigger a FME Workspace, which will eventually remove the message from the queue if successfull. Basically, a load balancer for FME Server.Current Status:If multiple messages enter the queue very fast, the first FME Server to poll for new messages will basically grab all messages. Therefore, you have to work a lot with SQS visibility timeouts and FME queued job expiry times to achieve an equal job distribution.The parameter MaxNumberOfMessages should be available in the SQS API: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/APIReference/API_ReceiveMessage.html What do you think?Kind regards,Dennis
The LDAP reader in FME Desktop for Windows is currently unable to read objects that contain characters from other languages (e.g. Å? and Ä?) and therefore fails to load. I work for a global organisation and the usernames in our LDAP server contain characters from many different languages, therefore the workaround to change the locale of Windows is not feasible. I believe that this issue is also preventing our instance of FME Server from connecting to active directory, which is a significant barrier to the deployment of FME Server across the organisation.I therefore suggest that Unicode (UTF-8) support is added to the LDAP reader to enable multi-national organisations to connect to LDAP using FME Desktop and FME Server.
It would be great if FME Cloud came in a "Home Edition" free of charge for hobby use. Any plans for that?
Currently even if the Ignored Failed Readers is set to Yes, "If all readers in the workspace fail, FME aborts the translation, regardless of this setting."Given that we have multiple ways to read data, including the FeatureReader, the various SQL transformers, HTTPCaller etc. It would be nice to have this parameter setting observed if there is at least one Creator type transformer in the workspace, even if all the readers failed.
The option to search by user has been added to the Knowledge center.Lately this function is not working anymore.I would suggest adding "My Questions" and "My Ideas" to the selection in these lists:That would make it much easier to keep track of the questions and ideas you submitted.
It would be nice to be able to to do a few bulk actions on schedules from the schedules page. Be able to change the sharing options of the schedules in bulkBe able to execute multiple schedules in bulk. Currently you have to open each one to "Start Immediately" and then go and update the scheduled time again back to the original time.
Please add a possibility to List the Reader Sources. This would be especially helpful for workspaces that use many Readers.In this way, you can quickly get an overview of the used sources!Currently it is very cumbersome, because you have to open each item in the Navigator to see source.
While preparing the Workbench, doing calculation with two or three attribute columns its working fine, but in future the source data if its comes with null values the FME workbench is getting failed.To avoid failing the workbench currently we need to use filter transformers to success the process, so that the workbench is becoming big.If we have any option to filter null values and redirect to null port in each calculation transformers like ExpressionEvaluator, DateTimeCalculator and if possible in Arithmetic editor.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Add option to include block definitions as a separate feature type when reading dwg I would love the ability to read the definition of AutoCAD Blocks as a separate feature type, relative to their inset points. This would allow for the easy creation of relative (or shared) geometries. Formats which support this kind of functionality (for example CityGML) would benefit significantly. Currently one must reverse the explosion process with scaling and rotation to get a consistent starting block which seems like wasted effort and a lot of things can go wrong.
Normally when jobs are run, there is something identifiable about them, for example, they are a job for a tile, a postcode or a feature. If we could label a job with a name that was also visible in the web interface, then it would be easier to identify which job is currently processing, which ones are complete, etc.. Currently, the only way of identifying a job from the web interface is to drill into the summary page, find the parameters that were sent and interpret them to work out which item is being processed.
The Geocoder transformer supports ArcGIS Server but doesn't let you supply a token if the service is registered in a Portal, please add support for generaring a token or supplying one in an attribute.
When taking an input list and turning it into a concatenated attribute of strings, it would be nice to be able put ' or " in as prefix/suffix values to fully wrap the string rather than having to throw in an attributemanager to add apostrophes ' or quotes " to the start and end of line. Useful when crafting WHERE clauses for stuff like WHERE blah IN ('listval1','listval2','lv3') or serverjobsubmitter value lists where the string must be like ""listval1","listval2","lv3","lv4"".
Currently only the "find" query is supported through a feature type parameter called "JSON Query" in the MongoDB reader.It would be great if FME could fully support MongoDB CRUD Operations, not only the "find". A transformer something like the SQLCreator/SQLExecutor would be required, maybe.
Support "unlimited" sizes of *.ffs files. It seems to be an issue now if you have a huge (yes!) single geometry - for instance a Brep which contains terrain data with texture for a very large area the geometry takes more than 4 GB of ffs-space and it can not be split between several *.ffs - files. Because it is one geometry and have to be threated like that to be written again as a Sketchup for instance.
Like the XML/JSON reader, it would be nice if the AttributeExposer would have optional functionality to expose flattened attributes from an existing XML/JSON document.
Hi, When I am using feature cache and inspect data from - say - a couple of transformers, each cache is shown in a separate window in the Data Inspector. Is it an idea to create a function "Add Cache to current Data Inspector Window"?
It would be great if it was possible for the matcher to consider line direction but allow use of an interior vertex tolerance and an extra vertex tolerance. IDGeometry1LINESTRING (0 0,50.05 0,100 0)2LINESTRING (0 0,100 0)3LINESTRING (100 0,0 0)So for the above lines, I'd want it to consider 1 & 2 a match if i was using a tolerance of 0.1
I think you should be able to further enhance the documentation of your workspace with some kind of graphical support. Arrows to show the flow, as well as some lighter icon / non-rectangle features, to get a "high-level" flow going. Ideally, this documentation layer should be able to be toggled off as well.I'll apologize in advance for the look of the suggestion, I'm not an artist and I'm not good at yEd either (which was used to set up this example)
With how much hype there has been around various indoor mapping solutions lately, I think a transformer to take an indoor or indoor/outdoor point cloud and produce a 3D model from it would be really cool. I could see this being written to 3D CAD software like Revit or the yet to be released ArcGIS Indoors Information Model, FMEAR, or AVF. Units like GeoSLAM and KAARTA Contour are cheap enough to make this a reality for helping to jump start existing buildings into this active indoors market.
It would be a nice feature for the navigator:Pressing Ctrl + MouseClick to open or to close multiple tree elements at once. For example similar to the one in the ArcMap TOC.
Please make it possible to add Database Connections to a Shared Folder. And make the user choose to store new database connections either locally or in the Shared Folder. In this way many people can use the same connection. Ideal for moving from FME Desktop to FME ServerDatabase Connections
Sometimes Crossover connections in workbench can't be avoided without using tunnels which hide the connection and make it all a bit messy. What would be good is if you could create a crossover display in the connection (or perhaps even coloured connection?) to show easily where the connection goes. At moment I am getting around this by adding vertices to connection to create a crossover like following to show the clear path but if you could select connection and do insert crossover or change colour of connection that would be neater.
Would be nice to have an option for if a job got aborted/cancelled (similar to how you can post notifications if jobs succeeded or failed.
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