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***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Add a Workspace Explorer to find old workspaces by name or format or transformer content Add a Workspace Explorer to allow me to find all those workspaces I worked on for the past years on my machine up to the level of searching the transformers used within the workspace itself, formats I used ...
It would be good if the ChangeDetector tranformer could operate based on the 'fme_feature_type'. This would avoid using multiple ChangeDetector transformers in a workspace especially when a writer has the capability to writtten via a dynamic schema definition.
Joiners with a 1:M cardinality do not allow features with zero matches to pass through. I'd want to know what falls off for data validation purposes...adding a (1:M..0) cardinality would let me test _matched_records for values of 0.Alternatively, Change all cardinality levels to not include 0 matches and add a Failed output for features that fail to join
It would be nice if the XMLFormatter could point to an attribute for the XML Output File parameter instead of just a paramter or being hardcoded
Sometimes I run Desktop Jobs with multiple Inspectors, each of which has a group by. I would like to be able to see those inspectors as another layer on the display tree.so it looks something like: View 1 - Inspector - - Inspector 1 - - - group 1.1 - - - group 1.2 - - - group 1.3 - - Inspector 2 - - - group 2.1 - - - group 2.2 - - - group 2.3 with the usual check boxes I could turn off the related data with one click instead of having to click on several (perhaps several dozen) check boxes
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Add a Transformer to Perform Iterative Operations for List Attributes - ListIterator (tentative) The expected transformer performs iterative operations for every element of specified lists, and then stores the result into new lists or overwrites source lists by the result. The user can declare aliases of source lists and define math or string expressions through the parameters dialog, like this.The index surrounded by square brackets in the expressions indicates relative position of elements. i.e. [0] indicates every element, [<negative>] indicates a prior element, [<positive>] indicates a subsequent element. An editor similar to the Arithmetic or Text Editor can also be used to enter each expression. This transformer should support both simple list (e.g. _list{}) and complex (structured) list (e.g. _list{}.foo, _list{}.bar).Example: If the source list and non-list attributes contain these values:_list{}.foo = [1,2,3,4,5] _list{}.bar = [10,20,30,40,50] n = 1 prefix = 'P'the destination list should be:_list{}.a = [2,3,4,5,6] _list{}.b = [<null>,20,30,40,<null>] _list{}.c = [11,22,33,44,55] _list{}.d = ['001_S','002_S','003_S','004_S','005_S'] _list{}.e = ['P_101','P_202','P_303','P_404','P_505'] [Addition] It would be ideal if each expression could have "circular list" option. If the option is ON, the _list{}.b should be:_list{}.b = [26.66666...,20,30,40,33.33333...]
After admiring the work of Owen Powell I am wandering if its possible to add blender 3D rendering into FME? Being able to render out images of scenes would be amazing.
It would be very helpful (for very large workspaces), if you could set a lock to the connection lines. May be in the properties or in the context menue.In my case, there are very large workspace with lots of transformers an connections. It unfortunately happens, that you accidentally remove or change the connections.Here one worspace with only some overlapping connections. Yes, i know that you can zoom in and choose one connection very well, but i'd prefer a lock to disable unintentional changes on the connections.
As with the StringCaseChanger (see image) the option to act on all attributes would be very interesting with for example the StringReplacer, StringSearcher, DateFormatter and most likely more transformers. If you have ideas about additional transformers that can be added to this, please add a comment.That would allow dynamic workspaces with automatic writer attribute handling to use these transformers without identifying the attributes in the workspace.
I'm missing a AttributeFilter in the DataInspector. Some Features have many Attributes, I know a part of the Attributename, but I have to search in a long list. Possible to place a searchfield under the Attributlist?
Mouse cursorWhen copy/pasting a transformer, it can go quite far from mouse cursor. Usually next thing is to drag the transformer and link it to another transformer or a feature type. Could the pasted transformer be located just where mouse cursor is?LinkingNow when a port is selected, a new added transformer is linked to the port. This could work similarly for copy/pasting a transformer. If a port is selected, and you copy/paste a transformer, it will be linked to the port.Of course all this works for feature types too.
I have found that using Google Earth to demonstrate GIS-data for customers is very useful. I have experimented with different icons, and found that the pushpin is the most useful. However, since the default color of the pushpin is yellow, I am limited in how many colors I can apply to this icon, so I will suggest applying a white pushpin as an option.P.S. I have noticed the white pushpin in the ”gme” catalog, however this gives an “not so nice” white square around the icon.
The ability to "watch" your workbench process is one the most AMAZING things about the development environment. I would like to see a "Clear Counts" button, somewhere, that would erase all of the counts, off of the connecting lines? Right now you have to Save, then reopen the workbench. This is not a huge deal, but it might be helpful to "clear the screen," on demand.
When a file cannot be read into the attribute (missing, inaccessible, permission denied, anything) I'd like to handle it (eg.: send a notification about it) instead of breaking the whole workspace.
Just by right clicking on any attribute appearing on a reader or transformer, a context menu will appear with the "copy to feature dataset" , a dialog box will open showing all the feature datasets/writers to add the attribute into
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Right click on reader or writer to copy full path (or filebasename) when applicable The idea is to be able to copy the path from the reader/writer context menu.
With FME 2015 was introduced the FTPCaller which allows uploading data to FTP server from an attribute or file.Some new ideas I 'd like to see in the next version of FTPCaller:It would be very helpful, if the transformer is able to create or delete directories on the connected ftp-server. So far, I have to still make it with PythonCaller-transformer.included Tester for FTP-conections. e.g.:a) for testing, if a special file or directory existsb) for testing, if the existing file is newer than the one i want to uploadc) etc.So far I 'm doing these tests with the PythonCaller, but it would be desirable that it is also possible with FTPCaller.
As a GeoMedia user, I'm used to being able to select a feature row in a DataWindow and have the MapWindow automatically reposition itself to show the selected DataWindow row (there are various user options regarding centering the selected feature, zooming out to a certain % beyond the feature extent, etc). Currently in FME Data Inspector, unless I'm doing something wrong. selecting a feature in the MapView DOES reposition the TableView to that feature. However, doing the opposite and selecting a feature in the TableView DOES NOT "reposition" the MapView so the selected feature is visible.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Use shift key to temporarily add ortho constraits to dragged workspace elements. Help keep items in line and WS tidy.
Again this is not a necessity, but just a little step towards a cleaner workspace.For transformers that can expose attributes that you didn't create yourself (e.g. JSONFlattener, XMLFragmenter etc. but not the PythonCaller), I would love to have an option to be able to directly rename the exposed attribute. Also, setting a default value might come in handy, as well as the possibility to populate a list of attributes (import from a file).So something like this:
Adding WMS connections like you can with Database and Web, so when choosing to bring in a WMS to the workbench, or more commonly as a background map would be useful so I could choose it from a drop down list, instead of having to retype of the defaults set if I want to change services.
When I read a certain format that is a binary file or a zip file, there might be some data (files) stored inside it that FME cannot read. In my case for instance, I have a SketchUp file that contains a Targa image texture. Now, FME cannot read Targa (*.tga) images and drops the texture. I would like it a lot if the file is still extracted from the source file and converted to a feature that has: a binary attribute with the raw dataan attribute that stores the data/file typesome attribute(s) that stores a reference type and name/id (e.g. appearance ID, feature type..) so I know what to do with the dataThis way, I can still read and fix things myself with some Python library and the FMEObjects API for example. I don't expect FME to read everything and support all formats, but at least it would be nice to be able to deal with the unreadable data somehow, instead of helplessly watching blue warnings pass by that some features or referenced items were dropped...
In the ChartGenerator transformer, it could be great to have the possibility to add the max value on the ticks of the X and/or Y axis. We can put the max value to the axis but the max value does not appear on the ticks labels.
I'd like an option to specify the tolerance e.g. maximum distance to close up, or maximum area to be changed for each sliver. The existing SliverRemover will fix data that is either a small change or a huge change.
Currently you can control whether or not to include the log file in a notification email by setting the ATTACH_TRANSFORMATION_LOG=true|false property of the relevant WEB-INF/conf/propertiesFile.properties file. But this applies to the service (JobSubmitter|DataDownload) as a whole.In many cases I want to attach the log file only for a failure, or only for certain subscriptions.
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