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it would be nice to get a hint of whats selected on the canvas in workbench. Sometimes it is hard to figure out whats selected in a big workspace if you want to delete some connections and transformers. -use the satus bar of the workbench?-add a chapter in the navigator?-pop-up with a summary of current selection?(the next step would be to be able to right-click on a selected category and e.g delete them)
Lots of municipalities are managing assets and property data through the use of flat files with extension .tps (Keystone software). Currently, ArcCatalog is able to access the data using a paying ODBC connector from Softvelocity, but we're not able to to use this in FME.Being able to read/access the data directly in FME would greatly improve current workflows.
The excellent Workspace Viewer (FME Server) should be released as a mobile app. That would allow us to view and share FMW(T) files.
Hi,Qgis is becoming more and more used.It would be convenient if FME contain a QgisStyler transformer and that FME writes in output the .qml styles files.Also in output, the writing of the .qpj projection files would also be appreciated.
Currently, using DWGStyler to rotate text and output to DWG, you will find that the angle of the text is not changed in the output DWG. But if you use FME Data Inspector to view the text before the output, you will find that the text has been rotated. I tried a lot of methods, including using Rotator, setting autocad_rotation, autocad_text_rotation, but all got the same result.Finally, the comment of mark2catsafe in the following QA was inspired. I gave autocad_original_rotation the value of autocad_rotation output from the Rotator, and finally got the desired result.How to define the rotation angle of annotation? (SHP to CAD)If the user have to set autocad_original_rotation to be able to change the angle of the output DWG's text, it will be confusing to the user. Because it is a property unique to the DWG format, I think that the setting of autocad_original_rotation should be implemented inside DWGStyler or inside the DWG Writer, rather than having the user manually set it.
In case if someone would like to take a look at a workspace which is stored in FME Server without having to download it on FME Desktop; forinitial debuggin purposes for example.
It might be useful if the ListExploder had an option parameter to control a condition of the list elements to be extracted. e.g.Unconditional (default)In Range (and negate)Exact Match (and negate)Regular Expression Match (and negate) etc.
Recently I was working on a shp to fbx job and found a need,which is "How to set normals on surface".Thank you very much for help of @ takashi and @ DaveAtSafe.When Shp's 3D Ploygons are closed geometry, such as the door(test2.shp) in this example, I suggest that there is a conversion tool that can modify the direction of the polygon's points set in shp so that changing the direction of normals in shp is perpendicular to the surface outwards, while this conversion tool is not only applicable to polygons, it should also be applicable to other 3D formats,At last,I suggest FME to use a conversion tool to convert the normals of closed three-dimensional bodies?which normals direction is perpendicular to the surface.The following links are the ones I found and similar to my experience.CityGML GenerationHow to set normals on surface ?How To Set Normals On Polygon of shp?Surface Normals Bad OrientationCityGML-file with LOD1 and LOD2
Hello,I propose adding the following options to FME Inspector transformer :Visibility order (an integer value ranging from 0 to x) ;Visibilty default value (On/Off) (I often want some details to be present in the Data Inspector but not toogled visible until I need to visualise them for some special operations, to do this I have always to toogle them Off after each translation and On lately in case of need)
I find my workspace looks a lot cleaner when the majority of the bookmarks are set to 1 colour. It also allows me to highlight specific areas e.g. 'needs updating', 'testing', 'external source'. Credit to @adrianp1spatial
Being able to adjust my call and quickly verify the result would cut out a lot of the time for using this transformer. It would also help for using things like the XML/JSON transformers down the line. I imagine this to be in the form of a collapsible window at the base of the Transformer. I think this would also help in addressing parts of this idea: https://knowledge.safe.com/idea/55826/make-it-easier-to-work-with-jsonxml-result-from-re.html
Give the AttributeValueMapper the ability to map more than 1 field at a time... go on... you know you want to! It'll save having to do this kind of thing:https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/71480/attributevaluemapper-equivalent-to-lookup-and-repl.htmlThank you...
Currently the column width specification need to be specified within the CAT reader. Can the CAT reader read a schema/column specification from another file?
I wanted to read a strata data (.dta) so as to perform some operation and write it out in another format. This was not possible because no strata reader.
It would be great if the Orientor could have an option that fixes the orientation of all faces of a solid so that they all orient one of outside or inside.
It could be great to add a color to a transformer et put a label or legend to the color. Sometimes in big projects (really big) I search some specifics transformer, but I have to read each comments to know where there are. (No ctrl+f is not useful in my case). For example, to know exactly how many transformers can be in error in our project.
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
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?
Llike this:
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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