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It would be nice if Safe Software add another System Event to the FME server:In detail, I would like to have a system event that sends a notification as soon as the queue is getting quite full / long. In addition, it would be helpful to have an event that sends notifications if, for example, a workspace is running for longer than a defined time.The admin could act quickly if the engines are temporarily blocked for too long.Alternatively, this could also be implemented via Automation. To do this, however, you would need a trigger for the queue.
FME Workspace Scheduler allows you to skip a job if it's already in progress. However, if you have a workbench that is triggered by both a schedule and an automation then the same workbench could potentially run at the same time (one on an engine and one on a dynamic engine). In general, I'd like to be able to have a setting at the workbench level that ensures that the workbench itself will never be run simultaneously. Right now we have an automation that redirects workbenches to dynamic engines but it's resulting in db locks and other issues.
There is some support on Azure / S3 +++ in Desktop and Server and Cloud now. What about implementing Rclone as a backend tool to support reading and writing to "all Cloud Storage"? https://rclone.org/ It seems to be "the FME" of Cloud Storage Read/Write - supporting the following technologies: Amazon DriveAmazon S3 Backblaze B2 Box Ceph DigitalOcean Spaces Dreamhost Dropbox FTP Google Cloud Storage Google Drive HTTP Hubic IBM COS S3 Memset Memstore Mega Microsoft Azure Blob Storage Microsoft OneDrive Minio Nextcloud OVH OpenDrive Openstack Swift Oracle Cloud Storage ownCloud pCloud put.io QingStor Rackspace Cloud Files SFTP Wasabi WebDAV Yandex Disk The local filesystem https://rclone.org/
The RabbitMQConnector works great and can be hosted as a Stream from Flow/Server. While we do not have any technical issues with that deployment, it does require a dedicated engine. So, whenever we need to build a new RabbitMQ listener (and this would be true for other messaging platforms as well) we need to license a new engine even if we don’t really need a dedicated one.Launching through an automation trigger we could just process the message on any available engine but not tie it up indefinitely.Thanks for the consideration.
Hello,AGS data format for drilling logs , Current version is AGS 4. More information about the format is available from here.http://www.agsdataformat.com/datatransferv4/example.phpThank.Lyes
While working for short time in Informatica PC I notice a neat feature there. From each transformer one could track back and forward (or booth) every attribute and therefore know from where it came and where it goes. It was really helpful on mappings done by somebody else.
Just a new tool in Data Inspector "View" Menu : "close all views"
Support for Continuous Integration.Some of the things needed: Possibilities to versioncontrol and merge fme-files (today this is a big problem due to that the "code" and the "gui" is mixed up and make it hard/impossible to merge)Possibility to mock and write automated testTo run the test on a build serverWhat does a build server looks like for FME?Separate configurations for different environments (eg. test, pre_prod and production) Possibility to automate deployments Including rollbaksBest practice on how to write "the code"
If a query in SQLCreator does not return any records it is not possible to terminate the workspace because there is no output.In SQLExecutor there is an output port 'Initiator' with the number of records in '_matched_records' which can be tested.Is it possible to add an 'initiator' output port in SQLCreator to make it more usefull,
Idea: Develop a reader to connect to Microsoft Azure using the Azure Active Directory (Universal) with MFA support.Background: Currently there is an increasing need to connect to applications using Microsoft Azure Active Directory with MFA. It is easy to connect to a Microsoft azure db using SQL Server Management Studio - the more recent versions allow this connection. The idea is that FME use the same connection method to allow connections to azure databases. I have seen some work arounds using JDBC and ODBC, however I believe this to be worthy of its own idea.
In FME 2017 there was an easy way to edit a Bookmark's "description". The Description is the area directly under the bookmark title where you could add more detail about what the bookmark does.In 2018 the description is no longer easily accessible. It can still be accessed by using the shortcut key Ctrl-Enter when the bookmark is selected but there is no right-click menu option or any other way of getting at it. According to Safe, this is by design, as annotations offer greater flexibility in formatting included text but I would argue that, with a small change to collapsible bookmark behaviour, the Description field could still be useful.The bookmark name is limited in length to the width of the bookmark and is therefore limited in the amount of information it can contain. I commonly use Bookmark descriptions to provide more context about what is going on inside a bookmark. See below (bookmark content not complete).The collapsed bookmarks in 2018 look like this (unfortunately they don't collapse very nicely):They should probably collapse to look like this:It would be great if there could be an option to display the bookmark description text in the collapsed bookmark so that it's easier to understand what's going on. (ie. they should look more like my first image, above, but with the transformers and annotation content collapsed)
I use the Revit reader quite a bit now, it's a big help, much appreciated.But some minor hurdles (from 2020.0):I don't see a way how to read the "angle to true north" for survey and origin points:I would like to query all available coordinate systems in a Revit file, not just the active one:FME's "SurveyPoint" feature is a bit confusing: In most of my cases, FME's "SurveyPoint" is actually Revit's "Origin Point", just multiplied with -1?Since Revit files are always in feet, a parameter to scale everything into non feet units would be nice. I doubt most people are aware of this...
This format is specific to Stats Canada. Other members of my organization have their data stored in IVT, but it is not readable in GIS. Having a reader to open IVT without having to resave first would be handy.
If you import an AD Group in FME Server 2017/2018, FME Server creates the Group and imports every user of this group.If you delete the group later on, it leaves you with all users which have to be removed manually.I think two better approaches would be:Let the admin choose on group import if he wants also to import the users of this group. Privileges could be only assigned by the group an AD user belongs to.If you delete/remove an AD group, give the admin the option to also automatically remove the users of this group.The current procedure is rather cumbersome if dealing with large user groups...
Displaying the user name under user settings icon;Hi All,Displaying the user name under user settings icon;It will be nice if we can display the user name under the user settings icon in next releases of FME productBest,Lubna
I'm interested in writing to the new Esri Utility Network.I wonder if others are? What systems are you coming from? What is most important to you?Maybe reading is more your thing? Vote and give feedback for reading the Esri Utility Network here.Note: The reason for a new format is as a result of the Utility Network being completely Services-based. As such, the underlying Geodatabase is inaccessible apart from accessing it via the Feature Service.
When specifying a parameter to be a number, it would be really nice to choose a number slider control with min., max. & step, rather than the arrow up and down input box. It would help to make the Server App experience be more...app-like!
Hi, we received a lot of questions about a very interesting option for writer fmear.Currently the writer FMEAR doen't support writing hyperlinks, just string like exposed attributes.Could be very interesting the case for clickable hyperlinks in AR models, it be helpful able to access so many examples: the user see recent pictures of an feature in AR, registration pages associated with events or click on feature and automatically to open a pdf file.Thanks in Advance,
Support bulk appends when the ArcGIS Python API is available, with and without truncate. See the question Writing LARGE datasets to ArcGIS Online for backstory and other information
To integrate FME, and make it able to communicate with Microsoft services it would help if FME goes trough the Publisher Verification process for there integrations.Our IT department is seeing risks in accepting App registrations for Apps that are not verified by Microsoft.The risk they point out is described here: https://pushsecurity.com/blog/how-attackers-compromise-azure-organizations-through-saas-apps/At this moment we would like FME to be able to e-mail using Microsoft Email Service: Currently the following warning is given:
GLTF has extensions which allows for the definition of attributes/properties. The EXT_mesh_features extension allows that geometries in a gltf can be given a specific ID.https://github.com/CesiumGS/glTF/tree/3d-tiles-next/extensions/2.0/Vendor/EXT_mesh_featuresTaking if further the ID can be linked to defined schemas with the EXT_structureal_metadata extension.The structural metadata extensionhttps://github.com/CesiumGS/glTF/tree/3d-tiles-next/extensions/2.0/Vendor/EXT_structural_metadataBoth of these are used by the new 3DTiles 1.1 spec - adding these extensions would be required for 3DTiles 1.1 support. In the case the 3DTiles 1.1 support does get added it only makes sense the the GLTF writer be improved to also support this.
Tester - disable chosen clauseSimilar to how we disable readers and sections of jobs, it would be nice if we could disable a clause in a tester for a moment.
A transformer that creates a minimum total link-length tree/network from a set of nodes and a given starting node.
Have the ability to assign properties to engines so you can 'group' them and better assign them to queues using the engine assignment rules.https://community.safe.com/s/feed/0D54Q0000976zn9SAA
Expose sde version for Named ESRI SDE connections in Readers or FeatureReader so can be a parameter at runtime.Unless I am missing it, the only way to parameterize sde version at runtime is to use embedded connections. It would be nice to have this option for named SDE ESRI connections, as making a named sde connection every possible sde version is not practical.
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