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Users of the HECRAS model often need to display their results visually using a GIS package. This entails having to convert the sdf file into shapefiles. FME does not seem to be able to handle the transformation of the HECRAS type sdf to SHP. That is an idea ripe for solution.
Hello,I suggest to add more aligning options in FME workbench such as align on top, left and right.What are your opinions ?
While using the Published Parameter type Date/Time in FME Workbench, a Prompt and Run offers the user an option to select the date via a calendar. When the same workspace is published to FME Server, this parameter is only configurable as a string in the format "yyyymmddhhmmss" in the Web UI. It would create a better user experience if the FME Server Web UI implemented the option of calendar selection for the Date/Time parameters.
It would be great if it was possible to specify the M tolerance value to be used when FME creates a new feature class in an ArcGIS Geodatabase.Example:
the SectorGenerator[v1] transformer currently ignores the Z location of the input feature points used to create the sector planes. it would be nice to have a flag to honor that placement 'treat features as 3D' or as 2D. But i would like it to honor the inbound data whatever that may be. I usually feed this transformer 3D points and have to reset the sector planes using the Z or calculated Z placement offset after this transformer using a 3Dforcer. Extra credit : It would also be nice to have the azimuth angle dialog box use either an attribute or *new option* to key in 0 as a default in this menu dialog box. @shapefile
I need a Scrollbar in DI Display Control Window.Please see screenshots belowMichael
Can we add the ability to get (maybe as an option) the S3 object Metadata provided by S3 (more info here) as part of the S3ObjectLister Transformer?
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I think it would be really great if the Data Inspector could have a slider option to view features. It could play through all of the features or let me click next and back.For example, if I had a bunch of raster images from the same location at different times, I could flip through the images and see any differences between them before I start processing in my workspace. It would be much quicker and simpler than hiding and displaying individual rasters to see all of my data. Would this be useful to anyone else? What other scenarios would this be helpful for you?
It would great if could create TOPOJSON format with FME. It is widely used in powerBI and different HTML pages. (Duplicate of https://knowledge.safe.com/idea/18867/topojson.html -- please vote over there)
Linear Referencing is in its unique category I believe and deserve to have its own separate hub category.
The WHERE and SELECT statements - I would very much like:To see some code colouring on the SQL view - it seems to just change it to fixed-width textTo be able to input line breaks so that I can understand the query next time I open itTo be able to import (and export) saved *.sql filesTo be able to test the statementIf SELECT is blank, I'd like it to automatically populate itself by building the query that FME is using, i.e. "SELECT * FROM [table] WHERE [where_clause]"It would be amazeballs if you could import the schema from the query and overwrite the attribute names in the reader properties
Nowdays alot of people uses cloud based remote computers for their work. It would be really benefitial to be able to access licenses for FME via a internet based licensserver. This makes it possible to utilize FME on remote computers that do not have access to the on-premiss license server.
Rather than changing the global config file for everyone it would be useful to be able to set the FME_TEMP folder in FME Server per workspace.One way of doing this might be to add a 'folders' connection repository similar to web and database connections. This would allow pointing to arbitrary file locations (local network, cloud-based), and ensure that FME Server can actually see/work with them before they are added.
To give the capability to disable inactive accounts which have not been accessing FME Server for a given number of days. Also reminding/alerting the users about the account expiery.
HiI often create scripts so other people can run them using the QuickTranslator. I wonder if there is any way to insert a description window in the Quicktranslator (see image).I want to be able to write a script description. What is the purpose of the script and how to use it. If the script is password protected the others can not access the description window in the Workbench.If this does not exist, can this be implemented in a newer FME versions?Best regardsFredrik
Complimenting the PDF writer (which is being unified from having separate 2D/3D variants), this one would read vector/raster features out of geospatial PDFs
"As of March 31 2018 the old freegeoip API is deprecated and a completely re-designed API is now accessible at http://api.ipstack.com."It would be nice to have the geocoder transformer updated to reflect this API change.
It would be great if FME could read MicroDrainage files (http://www.innovyze.com/products/microdrainage/ ).
I really like the engagement that Safe offer through the Knowledge center and the ideas page. I wonder though if the Ideas page could perhaps be split into two. Retain the Ideas page and create a subset, for "Small annoying things", for little things that would make a world of difference. Safe would need to retain the ability to promote or demote items between these two Ideas pages but it would give users the option to put small jobs into a separate list. Tasks that perhaps might take what they would guess to be less than a couple of days development. I just feel that some ideas posted have extremely large T-Shirt development sizes and there's not many at that size and yet others are super small and there's a ton. Separating these out might make life simpler for Safe too when it comes to prioritising or at least deciding if anything more can be squeezed into a release towards the end of a release cycle. I stumbled on Autodesk's approach which is what stimulated this 'Idea' here:Autodesk Maya
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: all distance parameters should be in meters/miles, not other ground units like fraction of a degree in case of lat/long system ground units inconvenient as transformer parameters or output in case of lat/long systems.
It would be helpful if FME Users could create a permanent free access to the FME Cloud just for testing beta releases of the FME Server. In our infrastructure beta tests are not possible, mostly for cost reasons. In addition, a new server would always have to be set up here.Apart from the beta tests, such free access would also be an ideal way to quickly test your own workspaces with new versions of the FME server before updating the own FME Server.In this way, the effort for updating the FME server can be estimated in advance.
Currently log files can be controlled between translations in the File -> FME Options -> TranslationI think it would be very useful if you could quick filter the log as a translation is running and select for example "Warnings only" or "Warnings, Errors". This would mean the log file would contain everything, but in the interface it would allow the user to change the level of detail visible in the log during the translation running.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Cleaning temp dir after closing FME, after running FME with full inspection mode. FME use the temp dir, to store the full inspection files, after a while FME left hundreds of files behind til you have no space left on your disk.
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