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I have upwards of 15 data sets being read for various tasks in my workbench. When something goes wrong in one section of the workbench, it is nice to disable the non-offending readers to save time on testing. This is currently limited to a single reader/writer. It would be nice to select multiple readers/writers, and disable all at once.
Looking for the support road map for FARO *.fls (FARO Laser Scanner data)point cloud (LiDAR) file format in FME. Since fls is currently not supported in FME, I would like to understand if there is a possibility of this format getting supported in the near future?FME users with similar interest please up voteHappy FME:-)ing
In certain cases, it would be useful if I could add an image, like a screenshot, to the canvas.This would be mainly for the purpose of documenting a workflow using images or graphics that I create outside of FME.Does anyone else think this would be useful?
The discussion here suggests it might be super-easy, but it would be nice to have a solution that didn't involve renaming files. Thanks!
The JPEG2000 reader does not seem to read at the full resolution possible; opening my files in other viewers results in much better quality. Quality seems to deteriorate the lower you look in the image.
Grids in the form of layer of gridded-squared-polygons are used a lot to display indicators, index and other thematic mapping. Hexagons grids have a number of advantages over rectangles (see http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/spatial-statistics/h-whyhexagons.htm based on "Birch, Colin P.D., Oom, Sander P., and Beecham, Jonathan A. Rectangular and hexagonal grids used for observation, experiment, and simulation in ecology. Ecological Modelling, Vol. 206, No. 3–4. (August 2007), pp. 347–359.") including the very important one of being more appropriate for generalization. Adding an option to "2DGridAccumulator" to generate hexagon grids directly in FME would be very useful
It would be nice to have a toggle for invalidating the entire dataset if any record failed an attribute validation rule. An all or nothing option. Otherwise if I want to kick the data back to the original requestor, I have to do record count and tester and it's rather cumbersome. Thanks!
I was looking around for a way to identify aggregates in order to deaggregate them.I hoped for GeometryFilter but couldn't find it. So I ended up with a Tester for fme_geometry = fme_aggregate.Would be nice to have an option for Aggregates in GeometryFilter though.
FME needs an out-of-the box AGOL Feature Collection Writer. If you want high-available data on AGOL, Feature Collections are the way to go.
It would be great if FME could support the BIT data type in MySQL / MariaDB.For more information: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/bit/See also: https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/58629/how-can-i-write-a-bit-value-10-to-a-bit-column-in.html
I checked the documentation but it doesn't actually appear to be possible to create a User Parameter from a workspace parameter. That is, the right-click options for the parameters listed under the "Workspace Parameters" heading are limited to just one option - "Edit Parameter Value..." I'd really like to be able to create a published User Parameter from the Writer redirect parameter. Here's why: I have some workspaces which I am regularly testing in order to improve them and often in this testing I'll redirect the output to the Inspector or limit the number of features being read. Aside from running these workspaces interactively when I'm testing them, I also kick them off weekly or so in a batch process that uses the command-line. Whenever I do that, I want the workspaces to NOT redirect the output and to process all reader features. I'm able to do the latter because I published "MAX_FEATURES" and have that set to an empty string in the batch process. I'd like to set the Writer Redirect to "No Redirect" in the batch process but since I can't create a user parameter from it, I can't publish. So if I forget to change the Writer Redirect parameter to "No Redirect" and then save the workspace, on the subsequent batch run, it redirects the output. https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Desktop_Documentation/FME_Workbench/Workbench/Publishing_a_Parameter.htm
Currently, if you specify the folder path to filecopy_source_dataset, the contents of the entire folder will be copied, but many times I just want to copy some subfolders or files. I hope to provide include and Exclude filter for FileCopy Similar to Fastcopy (free file copy software from Japan).This will make FileCopy more powerful.eg.Include:2017*.shp ?Just copy the shape at the beginning of 2017?Include:2017* ?Just copy the folder at the beginning of 2017?Exclude:2017*.shp ?Copy all subfolders and files except the shape file at the beginning of 2017?Exclude:2017* ?Copy all subfolders and files except the folder that begins in 2017?
Add a handshake to TCP transformers to allow a credentialed login to the host
Within a complex workspace it can be useful to reference other parts of the process. Idea suggestion is to allow the insert of an anchor in the annotation text that zooms you to another workspace object e.g. a bookmark/transformer. So it would be like an internal link almost an enhancement of the bookmark/navigator zoom functionality. (I guess the difficulty might be tracking these as the objects are removed/edited but the Safe dev team are smart :) )
It could be greyed out for non-spatial formats.
In older FME Server versions there was an advanced section in the Run Workspace dialog that showed a little code sample for the web form that you could copy and implement in your own web page. Please bring that back!
When reading a CSV file with more than one line defining the attribute names, it would be useful to be able to indicate this in the CSV reader in FME. In addition, a mode of concatenating both in order to create one "field names line" would be useful. For example:idxyidxyinputinputinputoutputoutputoutput
The ability to create a SSL connection to a Google Cloud SQL database. Currently this not an option, you are not able to add/associate the three required files. Of course once we can do this on the desktop it would be great to be able to use this connection information on FME Cloud.A non-ssl connection works.Client KeyClient CertificateAuthority Certificate
It might be useful if FME could upload, list, download and delete files with Azure Blob Storage.Note: there are custom transformers for this available in the FME Hub.It might be good if this support was offered natively in FME, like other remote file systems - i.e Connector transformers and select file from web for readers.
Recently I worked with FTP account which by default connects to /username folder on FTP site, whereas the filename I needed to download was /customfolder/filename. When I put the direct link like ftp://ftp.example.com/customfolder/filename, FTPCaller couldn't download it - it looked for a customfolder inside /username folder. After a while I realized that desired filename could be downloaded by doubling the slash symbol after FTP site name, like this ftp://ftp.example.com//customfolder/filename.
The PhotoCoordinateExtractor on the FME hub works well, but wouldn't it be better if:The JPEG reader automatically converted and exposed the lat/long to decimal degreesYou could expose an optional feature type containing point features for the photo locationsFormats other than JPEG (i.e. TIFF) were also supportedFor the second one, I'm thinking it would maybe work as an option on the initial reader setup, where you could choose whether to bring in the photo, the points, or both. I guess they would have to carry a common identifier so you could join them back together if you needed to...
The CommonSegmentFinder would benefit from the following improvements:Candidates Only Mode (like the neighborFinder)Attributes that Must Differ parameter (matcher, spatialRelator)List of features that share a common segment(neighborFinder, matcher, spatialRelator)CommonID (matcher match_id)
My understanding is that publishing vector tiles is coming very soon. Awesome--the world needs more beautiful vector maps emanating from FME.But this world is also a Fallen World, and end users want PDFs. PDFs they can print in large format paper sizes and still have crisp, beautiful vectors.I've been told by Twitter that Mapnik *ingests* vector tiles that can be emitted as a PDF.I dream of a world of seamless transition between the world we want--vector tiles--and the world as it is--PDFs.
When using WorkspaceRunner transformers and passing parameters from the main workbench, we need a way to step into the workspace specified by the runner when using the debugger. Similar to other debuggers that step into or over a subroutine.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: @round() expression evaluator function should have an argument to round to a specific number of decimals Currently the @round function takes one argument, the value to round, and rounds it to the nearest integer. It would be nice is there was an optional second argument to specify the number of decimal places to round to (like AttributeRounder transformer), if the second argument is not supplied, then it should round to the nearest integer.
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