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I like REST, but I have many large Enterprise Systems that provide SOAP services, not REST. It would be great if FME had an easy-to-use interface for working with these SOAP services. I can use HTTPCaller now and it works, but requires more effort than I would like.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Add support for creating cells/shared cells from Aggregate geometry in DGN as is possible with AutoCAD Blocks Right now I can't create new cells. I think that FME should be able to create new cells for DGN like I can with AutoCAD blocks. I think it would be great.
Maybe FME should support GeoGIG?How would you like to use GeoGIG with FME?
I'm a fan of the parameter "Read Drawing System Variables" but I would like to read which layer that is active in the DWG-file I'm reading.
In the Autodesk AutoCAD DWG/DXF reader you can choose to "Read Drawing System Variables" and a null feature of the type autocad_info is created. But there is no documentation of the attributes connected to the autocad_info feature.As an AutoCAD user I can interpret the attributes but if you don't have AutoCAD it is pretty hard to know what is what. It would be better if there was a help section in the Autodesk AutoCAD DWG/DXF Reader/Writers documentation about the autocad_info feature and it's attributes. The current attributes that needs to be explained are the following: autocad_angbase, autocad_angdir, autocad_attmode,autocad_aunits, autocad_auprec, autocad_fillmode, autocad_insunits, autocad_latitude, autocad_longitude, autocad_lunits, autocad_luprec, autocad_projectname, autocad_proxygraphics, autocad_version
Each time I'm launching Data Inspector, background map tiles are downloaded again and again.When you make several tests on the same zone in a short period of time, it would be great to have a local cache for tiles, so same tiles are not downloaded again (to preserve bandwith).So I would like options in Data Inspector to configure a local folder where background tiles would be cached with a maximum folder size and a maximum tiles age.
It would be interesting to group log file messages into groups that I define rather than by execution time.
I'd like the PointCloudExpressionEvaluator to be able to get at next and previous points. This would be similar to how the AttributeCreator can get at the next and previous row values.It's currently possible, though hard. In short: duplicate point clouds, create IDs, then join them back together with the PointCloudMerger.
There are several transformers with Reject ports. Sometimes features with smaller problems pass through the normal ports but may caise problems later. Eg: reading Excel files by FeatureReader the log warns:Excel Reader: Sheet 'Sheet1' of dataset '\\bmbcradicon1c$IconImportsRejected Direct DebitsDD Rejections 131017.xlsx' has column 'A' that does not match a header column in the file. This column will not be producedThe features go through the workspace and all of them are filtered out unsuspected as there is no Column A.For these cases it would be nice to have an option to send features with any warnings to the Rejected port.
Reader for AWS AthenaSpecific Example and Use Case for GIS: Query OSM Data with Amazon Athena
I was just thinking it would be great if I could determine the word frequency of some text held in an attribute. I bet there is a python function to do that or a number of different transformers could be put together to figure it out. Alas, I'm a simple lizard with limited time and knowledge...Maybe someone can whip something up for me? Oh! Oh! and maybe add it to the FME Hub for all to enjoy? That would be great!
FME is facilitating more and more external data connections especially from online resources via new readers, HTTPCaller, FTPCaller, API connections, etc. This makes a great requirement of scanning input data (specially files) against viruses and other malware threats before saving them to destination.Therefore, I would like to suggest a transformer which can connect with an existing virus scanner in the system to scan the input files from external links.
Hello FME community,I propose 2 ideas.The first one is on Joiner & Featuremerger & maybe other transformers. I would like that Safe Software add switch button on Requestor & Supplier attribute.For example :The second idea is similar but can be applied to most trasnformers. I would like a button to switch streams into 2 connectors For example :I hope you will like my ideas and that they will be applied on a future version of my favourite software.Best regards,Loïcwww.sitdi-france.fr, FME Addict
Mobile apps generate feature services with multimedia attachments, these should be visible.
support conversion from/to terraform and cloudforation templates and current state in AWS / Azure Cloud
HTTPCaller: add application/soap+xml content type
It would be nice if it was possible to write to Google Sheets in Team Drive.
With FME now supporting web socket layer there is an inherent problem in the product I've noticed. That is, the most important part of a web socket connection is the ability to publish real time data to applications. Unfortunately this ties up an ENTIRE FME engine constantly. From my perspective there is very little use for the web socket layer in the current model. There needs to be an extension or something on a different costing model which allows multiple feeds to be running constantly. To give an idea of where I'm coming from I'll explain my situation. Real time traffic and transport management applications is what I'm working with at the moment and when you're receiving GPS from your assets and from monitoring systems I want to connect the data/events together in a real time web mapping application. Currently, FME can in no way be fit for purpose (unless 20 FME engine licenses suddenly drop in price).This is the article I base any assumptions off: https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/1305/websocket...
It would be nice to have any tables brought in to the workspace with transformers to show up in the navigator pane perhaps under a reader called other sources.For example, I have to look in each workspace for any Joiners, SDE Queriers, Database Updaters and Feature readers and open them up individually to see what they are looking for.
Please add the capability to get the type behind the object type of an ifc class instance. For more information please look at this post : https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/53340/ifc-class-and-ifc-object-type.html?
This would be particularly helpful when using a reader with a single merged feature type (for example when reading a geodatabase). The navigator only lists one feature but you have in fact selected several. You need to open the "Features to Read" parameter to see which ones you have selected where a list in the navigator would be preferred. This would also help when the Features to read is different from the feature types
Just as Desktop make a home edition available for Server. Ideal for home automation and fun.
It would be great to add a Page Content called HTML where the user could just input any HTML at that place.
Running PL/SQL in Oracle from various transformers on readers/writers would really benefit if FME could handle the procedure's IN, OUT and INOUT parameters
Add support for B3D (Binary 3D) used in tools similar to Cesium
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