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I would like to manage my output. Before i connect to a featurewriter.In my latest case I wan't my output to look like an excel file I already have. So I wan't to import de column-headers of this Excel file into my attribute manager. This way i have controle over the output order and naming of my columns.Then I wan't to connect something to my input, so i see which attributes I already have.Then I wan't to connect the input attributes to the output attributes with lines. Like connecting one transformer to another. So a attribute will be renamed when connected to another named column. Will be deleted when not connected. And will be added when not connected as column.I ones used this functionality with Talend Open Studio. And you have this kind of functionality when using a writer. Is it possible to introduce this connection style to the AttributeManager.
Include an additional option to show the total number of characters (including spaces) for an attribute. This would be in addition to the word wrapping, line number, invisible characters, and other options available when viewing a specific attribute. This would be helpful for a general idea of assigning a character width to an attribute in the writer.
FME now have support for Tableau, i think that many companies also using other BI softwares like QlikView. I think that specification for QVX format is open and support for that would be very useful for many FME users.
From this Q&A: Comments in END_SQL statements ?FME ignores errors that occurred while executing a SQL statement if you added a single hyphen preceding the statement. As far as I know, this FME specific SQL syntax can be used anywhere you can set SQL statements in a workspace, but I'm afraid that many users don't know the syntax since it is documented only in the help on the SQLExecutor. It would be good if the Workbench Help would contain a section commonly describing how FME handles SQL statements set in a parameter, including the behavior on the hyphen.In addition, it would be better that FME could treat a line starting with two consecutive hyphens in a SQL script as a comment statement (see the question above).
Logging into server has got to be improved.When I save credentials, the server login page doesn't recognize it, so I have to modify the saved credentials before getting in. It seemed to work better on 2016 than 2017, so it appears something changed.
Sorting by column name in Data Inspector, the NULL values are ignored, what ever sorting algorithm you choose and is displayes at top. Pleace include the NULL values in the sorting, or add a choice to include them or how to deal with them.
A lot of my projects include reading layer names from DWG-files and check if they are consistent with a layer standard or if they are empty. As I'm both interested in the data features (for other tests) and the schema I need to retrieve both from the DWG files. There are various ways of doing this and the different techniques varying in speed pretty dramatically.For my test purpose I created a DWG-file (Release2013) with 500 point features, each on an unique layer (so the DWG-file has 501 layers with layer 0). Using FME 2017.1.2.0. Win 64.Reading the Schema with a FeatureReader transformer, Autodesk AutoCAD DWG/DXF-reader, just reading the Schema Features. Group Entities By "Layer name": 5 minutes 21.6 secondsReading the Schema with a FeatureReader transformer, Autodesk AutoCAD DWG/DXF-reader, just reading the Schema Features. Group Entities By "Attribute Schema": 35.5 seconds (this options is useless for me as the Schema reader just read layers that holds entities and I need to check which layers that are empty)Reading the Schema with a FeatureReader transformer, Schema (Any Format)-reader, choosing Autodesk AutoCAD DWG/DXF as input format: 3.1. secondsReading the Schema with a Schema (Any Format)-reader, choosing Autodesk AutoCAD DWG/DXF as input format: 3.2 seconds (one interesting thing here is that the reader says Successfully opened the 'Release2018' AutoCAD file even if the file is a Release2013 file)(there were no major time differences when choosing the RealDWG-reader/format instead)This means that the most efficient way of reading the Schema is by using the Schema (Any Format)-reader stand alone or inside a FeatureReader transformer. This means that I need two Readers/FeatureReaders in my workspace as I'm also interested in the data features. This seams a bit unnecessarily as the FeatureReader can read the Schema while I'm reading the data.Is there any chance of tweaking the Schema reading inside the FeatureReader transformer while reading the data with the Autodesk AutoCAD DWG/DXF-reader so it gets a big faster?(the test dataset has 500 layers but the real files I verify right now has over 1700 layers...)
@akoning,Do you think it would be possible to add filtering to the completed jobs by repository? You can currently filter by user and the webinar for 2018 showed filtering by status. It would be nice to see the jobs within a repository that succeeded or failed.Thanks, Tyson
Currently the JSON writer (or via the FeatureWriter) writes an array. It would be nice to have the option to not assume you want an array. As an example I was working through something where I would use an HTTPcaller to get a token from a REST API of a particular service. Since this token doesn't expire for about 24 hours, I don't need to keep requesting a new token, so I wanted to write this info. to a JSON and then use that file as the Upload Body for another HTTPcaller. However the [square brackets] were getting in the way! I can hack my way around it by using the CSV or Text File writer to write the .json file in the correct syntax, but that just sounds so wrong :) I can also read the JSON file and clean up those brackets before sending the data, but again...just trying to cut down on unnecessary steps.
Read Planet Basemaps and also display them in the Data Inspector
It is easy to enable/disable a scheduled process in FME Server and I would like to see the same ability for notification. This means you would be able to disable a notification when it doesn't need to be used for whatever reason.
Ability to disable a publisher.This would be nice if you want to disable it on a test server when you move the project over to a production server and don't need the test one to keep running, but only to be there for future testing.
The Form Example in Developer Information (in Run Workspace) is quite basic. Every input in the sample HTML form is <input type="text">It would prefer to see a form sample where the type of the inputs reflect the public parameter type, eg:Date/Time: <input type="datetime"> or <input type="date">Integer: <input type="number">Password: <input type="password">Color Picker: <input type="color">Choice/Choice with Alias/Multiple: <input type="radio">, <input type="checkbox"> or <select> <option value="volvo">Volvo</option>... </select>In Choice/Choice with Alias it is also possible to expose all the options with both values and aliases from the Configuration of the ParameterNow you need to do it manually even it is basically an automatic (and boring) task.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Automatically disable the option redirect to FME data inspector when posting a Workspace to FME server. When you have a long chain of workspaces and you have updated a workspace at the beginning of the chain and saw in the datainspector all data is correct you will be blind to annything else and post it as soon as possible to the server. But after hours of waiting for the result you see the process went wrong because the data wasn't written.
Hello FME Community: My suggestion is to provide the ability to send one e-mail notification listing all failed workspaces on daily bases. This will help admin to pick up what failed with a quick glance at a single e-mail message. Example: jobs A,B,C,D, and E are scheduled to run daily If jobs A,C, and E fail --> send a single e-mail stating that jobs A, C, and E failed.
I stumbled upon this today again, wishing the option existed, because I'm a bit tired of specifying @LowerCase(myAttr) = 'myvalue' (or something like that) every time.So I'm bringing it up as an 'official' idea this time: I would love a Match Case option for all transformers that deal with attribute testing. This includes the ones in which you can set conditional values.It could look something like this:When checked (=default), it behaves the same as it would do now: it checks for the exact same string as the user entered. When unchecked, it ignores the case, so that 'MYVALUE' or 'myvalue' would also match 'myValue', for example. Naturally, the setting would be ignored if the Mode is set to Numeric.PS: @lars_de_vries also posted this idea earlier, which is similar but applies to the Joiner only.
With the DEBUG option in FME Desktop on, the log file will contain a number of additional information lines.That can be very helpful in solving issues.But it will also contain some additional errors that can cause customers to panic.I spend almost a day explaining to a customer (who had the debug option on) that this could be ignored if the workspace does not fail:BADNEWS: File D:FMEDesktopmetafileMULTI_WRITER.fmf could not be opened (tabrdr.cpp:161)It would be great if the messaging could be cleaned up, so unneeded messages do not appear.
Add an option to the FME Server Web Interface where you can point to a customized connection storage location (as in FME Desktop)
primavera p6 r/w or an adaptable reader and writer with XML soap schema discovery. https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E16281_01/P6_V7_WebServicesDocumentation/ReferenceManual/whnjs.htm
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Active Directory interface 2.0. Look at ArcGIS Server interface. Might be better.
In FME Server (2016.1) it is easy enough to manage named database connections. The capability exists on the "Manage Database Connections" page to create a new connection and edit an existing connection.However, the same cannot be said for named web connections. The only current capability on the Web Connections page is to remove an existing connection. There is no support for editing existing connections or adding new connections.This problem is compounded by the fact that there is no simple way to sync connections between FME Desktop and FME Server (See my other post: Easy upload of named connections from Desktop to Server).I would like to see support for named web connections improved in FME Server.
I'd love to see FME have the ability to push modules/custom transformers/bookmarks up to the server that automatically gets copied to all workbenches on the server containing that module. If you could create a bookmark in the usual way and then save it as a module. Then on the push select if you want to push the entire workbench to the server or just individual modules. That way if you have lots of shared functionally between workbenches you can push to all the FME workbenches in one hit rather then making multiple small changes.We have multiple complicated workbenches that share functionality but wouldn't want to have just one workbench doing everything due to unwanted complexity. However, ensuring bug fixes and small changes are equal across all the services can be painful. If this could be put in place along with a more GIT based versioning system FME server would be a lot easier to work with.
Hi,The current state of the UI in Knowledge Center is broken, imho.For some reason, "All" always means all Safe posting first, regardless of relevance and creation/update date.And if one chooses filtering "Ideas" or "Questions" (why not checkboxes to see both??), one always (and only) get them sorted as "Updated". If I afterwards choose e.g. "Votes", I go back to "All".It used to work differently, if my memory serves.Please fix this, or specify how to make it work (I'm using Firefox).Cheers
Please support the RFC 7946 (published in August 2016) as it is the new standard specification of the GeoJSON format. http://geojson.org/
Hi,What do you think about the integration of slack of the new version 2016,2017... between Safe Team Developer and the Safe Certified Professional ?https://slack.com
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