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It would be good to have the ability to use the math function @round() inside the PointCloudExpressionEvaluator transformer. I would use it to round Z values but @floor() and @ceil() is not the same thing
The command file method could be efficient if individual translation wouldn't take a long time but the number of times to run the workspace was very large. It would be nice if the WorkapsceRunner would have an option to create a temporary command file and run the workspace multiple times with the Command File method.Batch Processing Method 2: Command File
Add the functionality so that fme can read a csv with quote (or other character) escaped fields that contain linebreaks.
When I use the string Editor or the Arithmetic Editor, The left side of the window will display the list of attributes, parameters, and functions. When I need to find a item ,especially a function. I often need through the scroll bar to find the function, if can add a quick filter function to the String Editor and the Arithmetic Editor, Will should be more quickly to find the item required.
Put a pin icon on the helper windows (view > windows) in FME Desktop. When pinned the window stays open (as it is the behaviour now all windows are pinned); when not pinned the window auto hides if you have not moused over it for say 5-10 seconds (configurable in settings?). The window hides to a narrow side bar, when you mouse over / click the sidebar, it opens back out. fme.png
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Everyone attending #fmeuc should get a real life copy of all their knowledgecenter #badges :) Everyone attending #fmeuc should get a real life copy of all their knowledgecenter #badges
It would be very nice if it would be possible to merge to knowledge center accounts to one. Currently I have three accounts (of which one is deactived) and I only want to keep one. It would be nice if they could be merged into a single account keeping all the experience, badges, etc.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: It would be useful sometimes if the inputs for disabled readers/writers are not shown on the dialog box that appears when you hit the "Run Translation" button with the "Set Workbench to Prompt Before Running Workspace" Option
Make it possible to deploy Websites via the interface. There is a webserver running anyways...
Sometimes a custom reprojection algorithm that isn't supported by the regular reprojection engine is needed. With the current Python API it is possible to iterate over the feature geometry to recalculate the coordinates, but it can be pretty complex when having to account for all the different geometry types, aggregates, donuts, 2D/3D, arcs etc.It would be very handy if the Python fmeobjects API could provide for a method (e.g. "performCoordinateFunction") for calling a user-defined function on each coordinate using a callback mechanism.Example:def myCoordinateFunction(x, y, z): x = x + 3 y = y - 3 if z > 100: z = z * 2 return x, y, z feature = FMEFeature() feature.addCoordinate(55, 81, 233) feature.performCoordinateFunction(myCoordinateFunction) After calling the performCoordinateFunction with this sample method the geometry would be situated at (x=58, y=78, z=466). The geometry type and composition should otherwise remain unchanged.
Read/write VRT http://www.gdal.org/gdal_vrttut.html
Some ideas are not necessarily an idea for one of the current FME spaces. It would be nice to have a fourth "FME - off topic" space or something like that. It could deal with the knowledge center, support or all other sorts of stuff.
I work with spreadsheets that contain the start coordinates of a line, and then azimuths and inclinations for all the line segments. There is already a 2D version in the form of the 2DDirectionExtender; would love to have this in 3D for drill holes, pipelines, etc.
In the HTTPCaller we can specify some settings that will be represented as a Header of the request. For example the Content-Type parameter specified in the Body section sets the Content-Type header of the call. This is not very obvious to see as you can still specify a Content-Type Header in the Header section. Often, if two different Content-Type Headers are set the request may fail, because they compete. The Authentication option also sets Headers behind the scenes.The Query Parameters show a similar behavior. If we set a Query Parameter it will be added to the end of the request URL behind the scenes. But if this parameter is already part of the URL both will compete.It would be nice if the Headers and the Query String would be updated on the fly when the URL or a parameter (Body, Authentication) is modified/added and vice versa. The Postman REST API Client is a nice example for this functionality.
FME Server can be configured in a distributed install to use an external database (e.g. SQL Server) and for high availability installs this is actually a mandatory requirement. It is not possible to use the embedded FME Server database in a high availability installation.The current FME Server configuration requires that the connection to the database specifies the port number that the database is communicating on. If the port number is left blank, then (for SQL Server databases) it defaults to 1433.Independent of FME, as a security measure, SQL Server can be configured to run using dynamic port allocation. So the SQL Server connection port changes over time.All online references that I have found state that simply removing the port number from the JDBC connection string should be adequate to make use of dynamic port allocation, however, when the port number is removed from the JDBC connection string in the FME Server configuration it is being replaced with 1433. I believe that this is being done by the FME Server code.My request is to allow FME Server to be configured to make use of dynamic port allocation with SQL Server backend databases.
Not sure if it is possible, but also import email adress from Active Directory-user using FME Server web-gui.
Use case: I convert dates to UNIX seconds (%s) to calculate differences, and then I may need to restore original format of the date attribute.
In order to save the space when resizing/adding more windows to the interface, please add a check box to enable the Logger window's word wrap option in Tools> FME Options >Appearance, to permanently save this effect.
Similar to the 'Group By' functionality of the Inspector in FME Workbench.
Particularly relating to licensing, what is the default version, and managing python interpreters/packages/etc.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Add common date/time formats such as FME Date/Time (%Y%m%d%H%M%S) to Source Date Format in DateFormatter Add date/time formats such as FME Date/Time (%Y%m%d%H%M%S), Locale Date (%) to unknown - Automatic Detection in Source Date Format drop down list in the DateFormatter. As well as being handy, it would help to avoid confusion - see https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/42603/warning-tip-ymdhms-datetime-values-in-csvs-are-not.html
The DateFormatter doesn't recognise <date>T<time>Z format for example which is valid as of ISO 8601. Removing the ending Z is a workaround but it would be nice if the transformer accepts any valid ISO date/time as web services tend to produce all spectrum of valid ISO date/time strings.
Include some helpful hints in the spatial filter parameters for those of us who struggle to remember which way round the tests are performed
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Automation of python script zipping files using FME Server allowing user parameters Just an alternative to using zipArchiver transformer and Data Download Service===========================================================================import osimport zipfiledef zipdir(path, ziph): # ziph is zipfile handle for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path): for file in files: ziph.write(os.path.join(root, file))if __name__ == '__main__': zipf = zipfile.ZipFile ('$(FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_DATA)Upload/$(nameUploadedFiles)', 'w', zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED) zipdir ('$(FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_DATA)Upload/', zipf)zipf.close()===========================================================================Initially I was to use zipArchiver transformer in my workbench, but our IT Security did not allow me to download and use it. So I chose to create user parameter(nameUploadedFiles) and add the lines of simply Python code for Job Submitter service to be published. So, Data Download Service is not required to be published at all. Users can login into FME Server, upload files in the folder, specify the name and run the workspace to get the zipped file.
FME Server needs a 2nd log button that gives just the end result counts of read/write in a nice table. In most cases we have no need to see the full log and reading the end of the current can be confusing, because the end of the log may say 0 features written but above that are the actual counts of the features written.
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