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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.
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.
I would like the ability to globally remove all extra vertices from all connections in a workbench.
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
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
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