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As an FME user, I want a section for common code snippets (math, string, date expressions) to be more accessible because it can be difficult to find exactly what you are looking for by sifting through the Q&A forum. It would be great if there was a section on the FME Hub that made it easy to search for these expressions.
An out of the box transformer to transpose features as new attributes (user picks the attribute whose values become the new attributes) and other chosen attributes become the new features. There is already a custom transformer by @sander that achieves this: https://hub.safe.com/transformers/attributetransposer
I would like the ability to globally remove all extra vertices from all connections in a workbench.
We need to read data from a CouchDB, the problem is that the server is secured by using JWT in HTTP-Headers and FME does not support custom HTTP-Headers for CouchDB (not that I know of anyway). It would be nice if it would be possible to add your own custom header to the reader/writer.
Not a dealbreaker but inconsequent.Please add possibility to change order of outputports outside of transformer, like for example in FeatureMerger.
ShortestPathFinder can currently handle either one-way or two-way streets, but it doesn't handle a mixed network well. Setting Cost Type to "By Two Attributes" and setting the reverse cost to a large number for one-way streets works as a workaround, but it's not very elegant and not foolproof. It would be great if we could indicate that a street is one-way by setting the reverse cost to negative or null.
Please add a reader for drone flight path log file - UBX format. Thank,WL
It would be great to be able to use the DateTime functions into the default values when we create a user parameter.More explanation here
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Extending FME Desktop floating license to an AWS On demand/Spot Windows instance Hi,I have a use-case of making use of FME services on an AWS instance especially with large GIS datasets (for ex: 20 million points) .For this, my current practice is that after I boot up my AWS instance, I install FME Desktop version and then license it with a trial license code which comes with a validity of 30 days.The problem I run into is,With the termination of the AWS On-demand / Spot instance, I lose out on to the trial license,some times, within a day or two. So every time I boot up a new instance it also calls for a fresh license code.I have tried the following but unsuccessfully.- Create an AMI (image) of the instance before terminating it. -Try to connect my FME floating license server with the Windows instance on AWS.Can a provisioning be done to extend the valid FME floating license to the AWS Windows instance ?Thanks
I don't think it is possible to do that in FME right now, but it would be cool to be able to modify the attributes font when writing a XLS file. I like my attributes to be in BOLD when I create and share a XLS. Thanks Safe!
Is it possible to add the Tolerance parameter for the Spatial Filter as well? I have some issues with the 12th decimal number in an AutoCAD file. So, I was disappointed not to find this option for this Transformer.
would be cool if we could write a point cloud to potree format. http://potree.org/
Apply styles to your the HTML output of the HTMLReportGenerator or other HTML before writing out via the HTML writer. This could include numeric precision, font styles, heading levels, list bullets etc.
Add support for different shapes for annotations and bookmarks. Different shapes could include e.g. circle, rectangle with rounded corners, cloud, arrows, etc. Changing the shape could work by selecting a bookmark or an annotation, and a row of shape icons would appear above it, and the user could select the shape.
Currently it is possible in fme to read a mosaic dataset with the Esri Geodatabase (ArcSDE Geodb Raster Dataset) or Esri Geodatabase (File Geodb Raster Dataset) but there no native fme writer for the same dataset that is being read.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Database writers: support Handle Multiple Spatial Columns per table instead of per writer It is not possible to write multiple spatial columns to some tables and one to the others in the same writer.Using 2 writers (or the single and multiple spatial column tables) makes the first writer to write the tables on the fly but the 2nd (and subsequent) writers to hold all the features and write out when the 1st writer finishes. It eats up memory when both writer gets huge amount of features (eg. updating basemap).Would it be possible to set single/multiple spatial columns per table so no 2nd (blocking) writer is required? (SQL Server and Oracle writers in my case but PostGIS and other databases could work the same way)
Your ideas are extremely valuable to us! They help us make the product even better, and give us insight into the common or innovate ways you use FME in your workflows. We take these ideas seriously.To help us understand your idea, please consider addressing these key questions:1) What exactly is your request? Explain the idea in as much detail as possible. Examples, mockups, and comparisons can really help illustrate your vision.2) What challenges does this help solve? Tell us exactly why this idea will help you and your organization – and of course, benefit the thousands of other FME users! We want to understand where this fits into the puzzle and how its value can be measured.Does your idea already exist? If you really like the sound of an existing idea or have something to add to it, please use the voting and commenting capabilities. Votes and comments help drive product development and increase our understanding of the problem.An Example of a fully formed Idea:I use FME every day at my job managing water resources and struggle to find relevant data for my region. To help my mission, I want to be able to read daily satellite imagery and associated metadata from the Planet Data API so that I can use it to analyze vegetation data for my area of interest which will help my organization to prioritize areas requiring more resources.We believe that following these suggestions will give us excellent information and lead to important improvements in FME. Thank you for contributing!
Currently, the only way to access the majority of the FME Server REST API functionality via Workbench is to use the HTTPCaller.The problem with this approach is that you need to hard-code the server URL into the HTTPCaller (or use a published parameter) but this is not dynamic between environments. If I want to publish a workspace from DEV to PROD, I need to go in and update the server URL.It would be nice if a named FME Server Web Connection (which already includes the FME Server URL) could be used for both authentication and base URL configuration.A simple wrapper around the existing HTTPCaller would probably be all that is required, so that the base request URL is automatically supplied from the web connection.If the above is too difficult, please create a transformer to allow for the web connection URL to be queried in the workspace, so that this can be passed in to the HTTPCaller.The ultimate solution would be to have a full FMEServer_API_Caller transformer that would allow REST API queries to be dynamically built within the transformer... but that's probably asking too much. :)
The FeatureWriter releases the features to the output ports when all of them are written. Holding a large number of features eats up memory.It is normal for some formats. However there are formats (eg. databases) where features are written one by one or in small groups. Releasing the features from these writers would make the FeatureWriter non-blocking and could decrease memory usage. The summary port could still be released at the end like Cumulative and Summary ports of the StatisticsCalculator.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: AttributeRenamer transformer should have an option of choosing Data Types while renaming any attribute.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Expose FME Excel Writer attributes to control behaviour of image placement wrt cell size As has been confirmed the Excel writer does not expose attributes to control the behavior and placement of image placement wrt cell size. Such an attribute in Excel i.e. xlMove (exposed by VBA, and in the user interface) is used to control the behavior of the image. This would be useful to have as default behavior in the writer.
Hi, I produce Collada and GLTF files on both of local and world coordinates with FME. My purpose is preparing untextured Collada files, edit them with Blender or 3D Studio Max and finally reproduce GLTF files using Collada format. I would say that FMT files are very useful in our progress, because whenever we try to represent Collada or GLTF files in world coordinates, it is cause to some rendering problems. 3D files in local coordinates with 3D transformation matrix solve both of real-coordinates and rendering problems.How ever, We noticed some issues with FMT files. One of them is FME could not copy FMT files into folders which created by "Fanout Dataset". We copy FMT files manually or by help of batch scripting.Also there are some other issues, occurs during multiple reading of Collada with FMT files process, which i could not remember for now.I suggest that FMT files should share same name with output files, just like additional files (CPG, PROJ) in a shape file collection. Same formal logic for 3D geometries and objects. So, FMT files can easily adapted in batch progresses with 3D geometries.
Hi,I want a function that can predict the total running time the FME job going to take in hours, minutes and seconds.Because sometimes I wait for many hours when I trying a new job and then realize that that job is going to take many days to complete...It´s a total waste of time!Best regards,Jonas
Hi,I want you to develop a "Natural neighbour" as a interpolation method in raster transformers in FME.The function is in the arcgis program, see more here Natural neighbourBest regards,Jonas
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Data inspector improvements. control styles of points, lines, areas so can see overlapping items.
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