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Just a new tool in Data Inspector "View" Menu : "close all views"
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/
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,
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.
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"
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.
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
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)
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.
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.
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
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,
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.
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!
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
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...
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.
A transformer that creates a minimum total link-length tree/network from a set of nodes and a given starting node.
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.
Esri has new functionality called "Attribute Rules" which store trigger-like behavior in the XML of a feature class with customizable functions. For example, a new asset ID number can be assigned automatically while editing features. As it's stored in the database not at the project level, it is portable and the functionality also persists over published editable web services. Unfortunately, there is no backwards compatibility and the feature classes are no longer viewable in ArcMap or ArcCatalog when these rules are created. It also appears that the FME geodatabase reader is unable to consume these feature classes when the new functionality enabled.Documentation:https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/data/geodatabases/overview/an-overview-of-attribute-rules.htmEsri Video on Attribute Ruleshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2W1H0xr90oThe rules seem to be stored in the sde.gdb_items table of the database and more specifically in the "definition" XML type field of the feature class row. I created an attribute rule and sequence following this tutorial that adds an asset ID based on an auto-incrementing sequence I named curbseq_agspro to new features. The following XML was appended to the feature class definition XML after using the esri geoprocessing tools:<AttributeRules xsi:type='typens:ArrayOfAttributeRule'><AttributeRule xsi:type='typens:AttributeRule'><ID>3</ID><Name>AssetMgmtLinkID_Txt</Name><Type>esriARTCalculation</Type><EvaluationOrder>1</EvaluationOrder><FieldName>astmgmtlinkid</FieldName><SubtypeCode>-1</SubtypeCode><Description>Update the Asset Mgmt Link ID field with the next sequence value from curbseq_agspro.</Description><ErrorNumber>-1</ErrorNumber><ErrorMessage></ErrorMessage><UserEditable>true</UserEditable><IsEnabled>true</IsEnabled><ReferencesExternalService>false</ReferencesExternalService><ExcludeFromClientEvaluation>false</ExcludeFromClientEvaluation><ScriptExpression>var assetfield = $feature.astmgmtlinkid; IIF(IsEmpty(assetfield), Text(NextSequenceValue(&quot;curbseq_agspro&quot;)), assetfield);</ScriptExpression><TriggeringEvents xsi:type='typens:ArrayOfString'><String>esriARTEInsert</String><String>esriARTEUpdate</String></TriggeringEvents><CheckParameters xsi:type='typens:PropertySet'><PropertyArray xsi:type='typens:ArrayOfPropertySetProperty'></PropertyArray></CheckParameters><Category>-1</Category><Severity>-1</Severity><Tags>Asset ID</Tags><Batch>false</Batch><RequiredGeodatabaseClientVersion>12.3</RequiredGeodatabaseClientVersion><CreationTime>2020-01-06T21:34:00</CreationTime></AttributeRule></AttributeRules>It would be great if FME could read / write features with this functionality as it's a highly useful ability now to create these rules in an Esri supported manner rather than customized database triggers and I foresee their use expanding among customers.Here is a .gif animation showing the rule in action on ArcGIS Online. Notice the assetid_attrule field is automatically updated with a new value (after I pan/zoom to refresh the data).
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
The FME Server datadownload and jobsubmitter services have a directive opt_requesteremail where you can specify the email address to use in the success/failure notifications.This directive in not available via the REST API v2 or v3.
It would be nice to have an External Action in the FME Server Automations for uploading files to network folders, similar to the Dropbox Directory or FTP/SFTP.Right now you can easily do this with an FME Workspace, but still it feels more intuitive to do it directly with an external action.
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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