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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.
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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...
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!
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,
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.
Hi everyone,I'm currently creating a workspace that reads other workspaces and reviews them against our development standards. Unfortunately there are a whole bunch of things I need to test that don't seem to be available in the Workspace Reader.Can you just give us everything? :) I can filter out anything I don't care about, but I can't create what's not available!e.g.All of the information about a database connection (server name, database name).Whether an annotation is attached to a transformer and if so, its ID.Location on the canvas of any particular object.Whether a transformer is inside a bookmarketc etc etc.Thanks!
Suggestion: on a busy canvas, being able to rotate a transformer through 90 degrees i.e. from horizontal to vertical might make for a more ergonomic workspace.
The ability to write DTMs for use in Bentley Microstation InRoads.
I would like to be able to have multiple instances of Workbench open in my Mac OS. I could use that in order to refer to other workspaces while I'm creating a new one. I often copy and paste parameters and transformers from another FME workspace. It's more difficult to do that when I can only have one window open at a time. I'm also just looking at the flow in different workspaces from different projects. I'm not always plagiarizing myself from just one workspace. I also tend to work on more than one thing at a time. Because people in the office will ask me to change something in another workspace that I made while I'm creating a new one. I don't know of any way to open multiple FME Workbench windows on OS X now.
It would be nice if a parameter is shown in bold or another color when the value of it has been changed from its default value. For example, if the default value for Max Features to Log : 200 under Workspace parameters have been changed to 300, this would be shown in bold text.This could be changed in the Logfile and the Navigator.
The original CSV reader had the option to sort, and it was pretty quick too!
We are currently managing about 500+ workbenches, some in the filesystem some on FME Server. We try to name them based on the datasets they are working on and the source and destination systems/databases. We do not know if it´s the best way to keep up with finding them again, but up to this scale it works.A best-practice HowTo or tutorials about workbench documentation and management at larger scale would be great, maybe there are better ways than we do.
I can press Ctrl and + on Windows to zoom into text that is in the value portion of an attribute.Example steps to reproduce what I'm referring to:Set up HTTPCaller to make a GET requestOpen the resulting data in Data InspectorWithin the Table View, double-click in the _response_body area at row 1 to view the response in Code View.Press Ctrl and + to zoom in on the textOn the Mac, in Data Inspector, I'd like to be able to press ? and + in order to zoom in on text but I'm not able to do so, making the text difficult to read.
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