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Could the Trimble JXL file reader be updated to read in the Features structure within the PointRecord element, exposing the Feature elements and their attributes contained within the Features? Currently it does not do this and it simply attaches the feature attributes to the PointRecord element.
EsriJSON Styler. Like KMLStyler etc. but for EsriJSON features. Adds a "symbol" property to the features based on: http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisserver/10.0/apis/rest/symbol.html
The choice to select our own source of mapping for the maps option of HTMLReportGenerator
I saw a question with the same title and a lot of good answers... I thought about why not just having a transformer for this.
By default FME will happily overwrite existing destination files but sometimes that's not what you want. In that case either terminating the process or halting and prompting for a new filename could save a lot of trouble.It could be a workspace parameter with 3 settings: always overwrite (the current behaviour)promptterminateI guess it'd be similar to a FileExistenceChecker with some additional processing, but wrapped up nicely.
Choose a column from the file used for the SchemaMapper to automatically expose all attributes created
It is painful when a process crash and you have to start it over again but you have to take input out of the list so it won't create them again
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Use tree navigation for GML Feature Parts for reading GML with ignore schema mode It would be nice to have the tree navigation on the GML/WFS Reader Parameters for the GML Feature Parts parameter, when ignore schema is turned on.
From personal experience, it could potentially be useful to offer a transformer that can be used to solve for various mathematical functions (e.g. mathematical functions to degree 2, 3, 4, ..., to degree n).
Sometimes it is vary had to read the transformer help file & it’s even very painful when you did not understand nothing so along with help bouton if there is Video link it will help to understand what exactly the transformer does.
It would be nice to have a parameter type that can handle URLs and Files. Most Readers accept URLs and local Files for the input data set, but there is no user parameter that allows both.
There is zilion of settings in the generalizer, which is good, but on the other hand the typical problems such as generalizing the terrain contours or GPS track log data for sure have an optimum solution. For these typical cases a webinar would be appreciated which would make an overview of which algorithm is suitable for which particular case and what would be the good practice settings.
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.
Here is the related question.
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 :)
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