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OK. I'm kinda new to all this but here it comes. The idea is to have a transformer or parameter which will attach digital certificate to an output AutoCAD DWG. This will ensure that the document is digitally signed and validates authenticity of it. Of course, it doesn't have to be only tied to this writer. Maybe other format type writers need this ability and would be nice to have this kind of feature.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Workspace navigation: Button to go back/forwards to previous extent and location Give us navigation buttons to jump backwards and forwards to previous locations and extents in the workspace. Similar as ArcMap lets you go back to your previous extent in your map.This is especially useful in larger workspaces to easily get back to a set of transformers I just looked at. Also, when I delete a transformer, it highlights the connections that were reestablished, which is nice. But it also zooms to those connections which is why I want to go back where I was.
Basically it's a reverse create custom transformer. It would be nice if there's an option (right click) to reverse all transformers from custom transformer back into Main tab.
Some prefixes automagically add underscores, and others don't - the "added fields prefix" in the Joiner does, while the BulkAttributeRenamer does not. Could you please change them to all behave the same way?
We can increase the zoom on the canvas, which is great for presentations, but the moment we open up a transformer's dialogue box, we are stuck with a size that in most cases is too small for the audience to read.
Sometimes when maintaining workspaces dealing with features with lots of attributes it would be nice to have a toggle button to hide/show the "Do Nothing" attributes in the AttributeManager, so that only the attributes that have been modified by the transformer are visible.It would be the equivalent of filtering for Not (Action=Do Nothing)
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Instead of providing the Python dict fme.featuresWritten indexed by feature type, give us a nested dict indexed by writer name and then feature type ... this way we could extract the number of features written even if two writers have feature types with the same name.
It might be useful if the NumericRasterizer would have the 'Accumulate Attributes' option (Yes/No choice), like the PointCloudCombiner.
The ability to paste a transformer on a connection line. First cut or copy a transfomer then select a connection line somewhere else. When you hit paste the transformer should be connected by this connection line. Just like the functionality when you select a connection line and insert a transformer.
Add a function to the AttributeValidator to dynamically link it to the attribute schema settings of a writer. I.e. if the linked writer has an attribute called 'Name' which is a 50 char type attribute, all attributes longer than 50 characters will fail the AttributeValidator. This will help ensure that the validated data matches the output schema and does not make the workspace fail due to e.g. writing a string into an integer field.
Many organizations that have paid subscriptions to online basemap subscriptions (ESRI, Bing, Google, etc) or have access to open source online basemaps use the same web services as background context for digital maps. For workbenches that use writers that produce digital maps, it would be nice to have this reader format or transformer so that maps produced from FME would be more meaningful. Can Safe use the FME options basemap functionality in Inspector and convert that to a reader and/or transformer format? Another option here is to add that FME option to the writers that produce digital maps (CAD, DGN, PDF, JPEG, LYR) as a baseline maps parameter. With a reader and a transformer you could do more. A writer option would be simpler but also be beneficial to a lot of organizations as well.
Using postgis databases to store data is one of the great ways to store geodata. In its current version, postgis provides views (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/sql-crea...) which offer great possibilty to GIS users in terms of visualisation and attributes joint.But in the GIS world, views are not only useful for visualisations but as editing entries directly on the GIS softwares too. The views can have triggers which can write or delete data into tables with some custom rules which are the actual professionnal rules. For example on our project of drinking water network for cities (https://github.com/qwat/QWAT ), we have some triggers on pipes, nodes etc. to ensure information quality and coherency.This works actually well in production mode, but when it comes to migration from an old system to this one, it would be great to be able to use the FME postgis writer to be more efficient. Actually we worked around and went through sql scripting because writing into views is not possible yet.Thoughts? Ideas? Proposals?
I'd really like to be able to test my attributes that should have a sequence of numbers 1-n where I'd like every number not necessarily in order but in the sequence so that I know if I've lost a feature along the way somewhere. I tried to achieve this using the In Range rule with an upper limit of a combination of @count() and max(@count()) but to no avail. Otherwise I can use a StatisticsCalculator and Tester do this but it would be great to be able to do this in the Validator.
In FME 2015 Workbench, the zoom slider control could be double clicked to return to 100% zoom. This disappeared in FME 2016. Can we have it back please?
AttributeRemover, add an option to remove all attributes that aren't mapped or enable a user to right click an attribute from the drop down of the transformer and delete each without having to go into properties.Would be very useful and increase efficiency when you have more than 200 columns from multiple sources.
When using an overlay transformer in the result geometry all measures are gone.Being able to select the measures to be kept help in code reducing.
EUROCONTROL has developed a new model, the Terrain Information Exchange Model (TIXM), to support the exchange of terrain data.
It might be useful if template functions could be used for generic string operation. The expected transformer should support some control statements (e.g. "if - else", "for") and relation operators to construct a string conditionally or iteratively. It would be better if it could also support sub templates similar to the XMLTemplater.
Hi, Please can you add the 'OutputLocation' parameter to the 'Job' 'Response Class' returned by the REST service?This would allow you to calculate the download link from Asynchronous Data Download requests.Many thanks,Paul Wittle
Provide the option to save edits to an FMWT without having to re-export it each time you make a change.
Ability to calculate speed and efficiency of workspace without having to run it similar to the execution plan and stats page of SQL Server Management Studio.
Arrange Transformers with StraightConnection
A light version of FME Desktop on Cloud to troubleshoot workspaces
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Creating an Extension (or plug-in) for QGIS to preview/import data or export data Something similar to the ArcGIS extension but perhaps as a plugin for QGIS.
As far as my knowledge goes, it is only possible to call a similar version(32 or 64 bit) of another FME workspace by using a Workspacerunner tranformer. Calling a 64 bit FME workspace withing a 32 bit workbench or the other way around is not possible, but would be nice to have to take advantage of the difference in readers & writers that the two versions support.
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