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When you create a Tunnel would it be possible for each tunnel annotation bubble at the start and end get an random matching colour.
In CAD features have ID's (handles) which can be exposed. Example autocad_entity_handle (encoded: utf-16): 2BBWhen the option Explode Blocks into Entities is enabled the relation to the original block is lost.An autocad_block_handle attribute would solve a lot of headaches to restore this relation.I understand this might be tricky with blocks into blocks but the top block handle should do the job.
Currently there's a category for the most recently used transformers. It'd be nice if a user could "favourite" transformers too so that they appear in a category of their own. Much like the option in FME Server 2016 for favourite workspaces.
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In network settings, why not just have a tick box to read secuirty and proxy settings from a browser software
To be able to take the Coordinate System from one dataset and reproject another dataset accordingly it would be useful if you could use a variable to set the destination Coordinate System in the Reprojector transformer.This idea originates from this question: reproject-to-the-cs-of-other-data-layer-in-a-workspace
I often produce data output which goes towards Excel and it would be very helpful to sort the data before writing. now i've to use several Sorter Transformers to do this.
Right now the LineOnAreaOverlayer splits lines at the area boundaries, I would also like to see an option (either in this transformer or in a new one) to split the areas based on the overlapping lines, retaining area attributes.The current way to do it is to use an Intersector and AreaBuilder but that makes it hard to retain attributes. I think it's a common GIS/CAD task and should be possible in FME.
In my project, I have to extract data from a form PDF and populate another form PDF. I also have to merge several pages into one PDF document.So I use a python script and a specific python library PyPDF2 to do so.I think it would be nice to have those features in the transformers list.
When cut/pasting transfomers from the clipboard, it would be great if you could highlight a connection first to have the trasformer inserted at that point in the workflow.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Inspecting data in AttributeFileWriter transformer and opening containing folder Would it be possible to add the "open Containing Folder" and "inspect" withthe AttributeFileWriter transformer when we right-click on the transformer.not sure if that is possible.
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***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Allow ALL FMEServerJobSubmitter parameters to be fed by attributes and allowable exposing of those paramaters I would like to read a spreadsheet and dynamically feed things like Workspace Name, repository, Tags, Output Dataset ("As Specified in Workspace and Parameters" as an option/whats already been published to server), etc. into a FMEServerJobSubmitter. I don't want to set up a single jobsubmitter for every workbench I need run. This helps with looping failed jobs until successful among other things. Hidden parameters of the FME Server Job parameters that we need less hard-coded control of: #! <XFORM_PARM PARM_NAME="USERNAME" PARM_VALUE="me"/> #! <XFORM_PARM PARM_NAME="SERVER_PORT" PARM_VALUE="0"/> #! <XFORM_PARM PARM_NAME="PARAMETER_TYPES" PARM_VALUE="STRING,STRING,STRING,STRING,STRING"/> #! <XFORM_PARM PARM_NAME="SUBSECTION" PARM_VALUE="SERVER_JOB_SUBMITTER"/> #! <XFORM_PARM PARM_NAME="PRIORITY" PARM_VALUE="100"/> #! <XFORM_PARM PARM_NAME="BLOCKING" PARM_VALUE="No"/> #! <XFORM_PARM PARM_NAME="REPOSITORY" PARM_VALUE="Waste Management"/> #! <XFORM_PARM PARM_NAME="DATASET_OVERRIDE" PARM_VALUE="As Specified in Workspace and Parameters"/> #! <XFORM_PARM PARM_NAME="XFORMER_NAME" PARM_VALUE="Hand_block_number"/> #! <XFORM_PARM PARM_NAME="WORKSPACE_NAME" PARM_VALUE="Hand_block_number.fmw"/> #! <XFORM_PARM PARM_NAME="SERVER_NAME" PARM_VALUE="coevdfme1:8081"/> #! www.arcgis.com,SourceDataset_GEODATABASE_FILE, cepcad01 micrdata GIS Data Hand.gdb,DestDataset_ARCGISONLINEFEATURES, www.arcgis.com,DestDataset_ARCGISONLINEFEATURES_6, www.arcgis.com,DestDataset_ARCGISONLINEFEATURES_5, www.arcgis.com"/> #! <XFORM_PARM PARM_NAME="TM_TAG" PARM_VALUE=""/> #! <XFORM_PARM PARM_NAME="PASSWORD" PARM_VALUE="fme_decrypt(thanks for looking ;) )"/> Please please please let me be able to expose these attributes after submitting a job and then consume them in another Submitting bench :)
Hi,I've just spend hours to track down an error in a custom Workbench transformer calling a Python transformer.Both transformers were fine, but I finally tracked the error down to being the name I'd given the Workbench transformer which contained a dash (as in "...T-SQL..."). FME used that name indiscriminately to auto-generate the code to call the Python transformer, yielding a not very clear error message, caused by dashes not being allowed in variable names in Python.FME do already replace blanks with underscores when naming its own transformers, so why not extend this to do the same with dashes (and all other illegal Python variable name characters) ?
I recently wanted to use the maximum value of an attribute on one table as the start value of the counter on another table. To do this i have to calculate the value then use an attribute creator on each table and a feature merger to then calculate the new counter valueI would have been much neater and simpler if i could have passed the value to a parameter that the counter could use as the start value.
As stated in the documentation of the ListBuilder, Features output from this transformer have no geometry.Hundreds of times already I have used the FeatureMerger to re-insert the geometry. During the #fmedays, @ArneBruksch informed me you can also use 'GeometryExctracter' and then 'GeometryReplacer'.Anyway, it would be nice to have the possibility to keep the geometry automatically while building a list. Any other fans?
In FME 2015, sending an invalid encoded geometry to the geometryreplacer causes the whole workbench to fail. It would be better to have a rejected port that handles these and lets the other geometries be produced.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: True horizontal scaling based on load. FME Server Cluster to enable deployment of 10's, 100's or 1000's of engines for short duration.
Add a centre label position to the labeller transformer. Currently only left/right justification (and above below) justifications are available. Centre justification will make it easier to produce annotations for mapping data that stores annotations as lines (i.e. OS data in shapefile or DB formats).
Thumbnails can be embedded in HTML as explained in this link: https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/1176/embedding-images-in-html-with-fme.htmlHowever, it would be good to have this included in the HTMLReportGenerator. Maybe as part of the table or as a stand alone option. The images that are embedded are often not large enough to show detail and cannot be opened in a new browser by clicking on it.
Keep track of what paths data has been read from/saved to and make these easy to go back to. Every time a file open or save dialog would be in play, an easy pulldown of previously used paths would be available.
We are in an organisation with limited budgets and not as many licences as we would like. For the team to be able to learn FME and develop ideas they need access to the software. However, there isn't enough licences to go around, I'm sure this isn't unique to just our company. What I propose is a sandboxed online FME desktop that allows for people to learn and test ideas without a licence. You wont be able to send it to FME server or actually do any translations, all writers could go straight to a virtual data inspector for viewing purposes only. This way quite large organisations could teach up their staff without having to buy a lot of licences or downbloading trials. I realise this could be a lose of potential earnings for Safe and their re sellers, but it could also persuade more people to use FME and could be a great demonstration area. Also on the help forums and ideas section of the knowledge centre people could use these sandboxes as a way to demo their ideas and help people. I wander what the re sellers in the UK would think of this idea? @1spatialdave
Currently the NumericRasterizer seems to always work with 'Last Wins' mode. That is, the transformer uses z-coordinate of the finally coming vertex as each cell value, if two or more input vertices are within the same cell.It would be nice if the transformer could work with several modes such as Min, Max, Average, First Wins, Last Wins, Standard Deviation, etc. This might be useful especially to analyze a point cloud efficiently, in conjunction with some point cloud transformers.
I would love an FME Server jobs statistics transformer. Yes you can grab the engine.log and parse the data in and create stats ,e.g. average job times, but this is a little long winded. Either through the web portal ( with graphs and load data) or a dedicated transformer would be really useful for load testing FME server.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: System Parameter to return OS platform on which the current FME session is running
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