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Add a function to copy/paste tester parameters between different transformers. E.g. if I have a number of conditions set in a tester which I want to use in a condition when creating an attribute or in a new testfilter I now have to recreate the whole conditional. A copy/paste or import from transformer function would make life easier.
Instead of making the Excel writer even more complex, we should move to an Excel styler transformer that allows for setting the output style for each record (feature/row/cell) and the whole sheet, separately from the writer and entirely dynamically, based on attributes.This should be similar to transformers like PDFStyler, ChartGenerator, HTMLReportGenerator etc. and allow for settings like font, colors, alignment, formatting, cell protection, formulae, borders, conditional formatting, cell validation/dropdowns, filtering, inserting images, transposing, pivot tables, hyperlinks etc. There could be an Excel-style table in the transformer that allows to assign an attribute to each cell and make the above settings based on other attributes.There are already a number of ideas around regarding Excel that could be united in this solution (filters, styles, fonts, template).
Add buttons or context menu options to transformers to navigate to the previous and following transformer(s). This is especially useful in large workspaces whith far-away transformer connections where pannig to the joining transformers can be cumbersome. This could look similar to the buttons that appear when connecting transformers.
Based on this question (and the answer that it is not possible in an userfriendly way):https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/42334/styling-excel-cells-in-the-writer.htmlI would like to suggest allowing the Styling options in the Excel writer to take attribute values.This would allow conditional styling values for different cell values.
The Podcasts have an RSS, also do this for all the webinars! https://www.safe.com/webinars/
I want to share with you one of my reference project that I did recently in middle east (Oman) for one of the telecommunication sector Called TRA - Telecommunications Regulatory Authority The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) was established in 2002, to liberalize and regulate the telecommunications services in the Sultanate of Oman. In Oman there are two main operators (Omantel and Ooredoo) they provide telecommunication services and internet , the idea from the project to reflect the data collected by TRA on the map to show the internet coverage and call performance . We used FME desktop and FME server , through FME desktop we build the workflow to process the data enter usefully the data updated every month , the input data is point data (Lat , Lon , ID , signal) our methodology used to calculate the majority values for the signals and pullulated as Hex with three different colors , To get more info you can use the below link :- https://qos.tra.gov.om/loadMap;jsessionid=06CZAkQrS9_hgCQMjOsW5i4xcUv1GELwqsC58tIU.tra-qos-pro-ap0?locale=en https://fmecommunity-ideas.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/untitled.png">
Hi,I would love for the possibility to add multiple output ports on both python transformers.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Rename MSWordStyler to WordStyler or ExcelStyler & PowerPointStyler to MSExcelStyler & MSPowerPointStyler Why MSWordStyler vs ExcelStyler & PowerPointStyler ?Why not :WordStyler, ExcelStyler & PowerPointStylerorMSWordStyler, MSExcelStyler & MSPowerPointStyler ?
I would like to suggest, if there is a way to provide small installation of FME such that it can execute workbenches thru command prompt or converting workbenches as exe files and perform translation. This will help us to provide the workbenches to non-FME users.
Make it even easier to load/retrieve/query/update SAP HANA spatial data
I nearly always have rejected Features and creating a new workbench always Fails my translations.But until now there is no possibility to Change the Default-Setting for new workbenches in FME-Options
The modules seem to be very powerful on manipulating XML and JSON.Modules | Zorba - The NoSQL Query ProcessorIt would be nice if we could use the functions provided by those modules within XQuey expressions executed by XML/JSON transformers.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: PDF Reader & OCR Transformer. There are some open source OCR technology out there. Please vote also over at https://knowledge.safe.com/idea/18862/pdf-reader.html (Yes, I wish we could combine Ideas...)And for OCR, check out https://hub.safe.com/transformers/tesseractcaller
It might be interesting if FME could read data from the Pleiades constellation of satellites. I think AIRBUS has a API to their imagery.I wonder how others would do with this imagery once read into FME?I wonder what aspects of the Pleiades / AIRBUS imagery are most interesting?
I want to use best practices in my workspaces, but I don't want to have to be an expert in them and remember to check - and I get busy and forget and don't know all. I need it to be easy.It would be nice if workbench highlighted what aspect or even what parts of the workspace were not using best practices.Then it would be easy to be best!
Please could FME floating licences be supported over IPv6.
Currently, the only way to specify a Service Account to run the Windows Services is by selecting the Custom/Distributed installation option.
I often want to copy attributes form another FT in a workspace, but more often than not, I only want to use a selection of those. It would be a great bonus if there was a selection box where one could choose which attributes to copy. This would make it easier to combine attributes from different FTs in the output data.
It would be helpful and make my life with three different FME versions on the same machine easier if I could see in the DataInspector Window Title which version is running. It would also be consistent with workbench behaviour.As ffs files are mostly incompatible between major FME versions I have to switch between DIs frequently.
It would be interesting to write the Esri i3s format.I wonder what aspects of i3s are most interesting to others?
While we have flow control to route features along specific connections using the tester, it is inefficient to retest the value of parameter for each feature, especially when dealing with a large number of features.It would be nice if there was some sort of FlowController which could route all incoming feature out of a specific port based on parameter value(s), which is only tested for once, and not a few million times redundantly.
I frequently translate data into Esri geodatabase format. I get the Geodatabase Error (-2147219115): The row contains a bad value regularly when creating a new workbench. this normally just has to do with field length or data type and is easy to fix once I identify the row with a "BAD" value. It would be great if that row was identified somewhere in the log.
It would be nifty if FME could support Azure Cosmos DB. I have some ideas for using it, but I wonder what others want to do with it?[Update] in FME 2017.1 we've renamed Microsoft Document DB to Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB, which support the JSON document store (through SQL API,as referenced here). It would be great to hear what other data models you are interested in using FME to integrate and transform.
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