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FME Desktop 2022.1 Build 22618: Having the functionality to connect C or D drive to FME to be able to drag and drop data decently, Elaboration:FME Desktop 2022.1 Build 22618: How to connect C or D drive to FME to be able to drag and drop data decently?
Currently when you set-up automation in FME Server, the trigger option include email received. One of the option for email received is download attachments. You can specify a location to save the attachment. This can be on FME server or network location where FME server account can write to. However there is a new folder created each time the automation is trigger and this can be annoying. It would be great there is an option to enable/disable creation of subfolder and also possibly save the attachment and overwrite the existing file.
The inclusion of the ability to compare workspaces in workbench as part of the git workflow is a really big step forward when it comes to including FME in the typical development workflow.Another really helpful addition would be having the ability to either embed or link certain custom transformers via command line.We work on a number of projects with often each contain several Custom Transformers - Each of which are maintained in separate Git repos. During development of the 'main' workspace these CustomTransformers are linked to the latest version. When it comes time to releasing the new version of the workspace it is a manual task of opening up the workspace and embedding the transformers. The alternative option is to deliver the CustomTrasformers in addition to the workspace and have the end user install the CustomTransfomers before opening the workspace. Being able to automatically embed select custom transformers would enable a proper build pipeline.
so that the user can specify the log file path for the target workspace optionally, without publishing the Log File parameter in the target workspace. The parameter should be optional, and accept a constant, string expression, attribute value, and user parameter value.
We have the named database connections, and the named web services, what we don't have is the ability to save named http authentification for use in readers accessing an online file, or in the HTTPCaller.
The process to upgrade an instance is a small hassle currently, I GREAT improvement would be say a "one-click" option.
MRR is the native format for MapInfo Pro Advanced developed by Pitney Bowes. It unifies raster storage - image, grid and classified data and all can be held by this format, singly or in combination in the same file. the file format supports huge raster files and does not take up space for null data. MRR has a flexible and unrestricted field and band structure.
It would be nice to have some options in the Geometry Picker. The vertices are quite large. Also it would be nice to be able to change the colour of the geometry
Just like the AmazonAthena- and GoogleBigQueryConnector it would be very helpful to have a Microsoft Azure equivalent to query their cloud data warehouse (via Synapse Analytics). Another implementation, like a Reader or SQLExecutor would be fine as well, as I can foresee now.
Provide a reader and writer to www.airtable.com. This database is getting a lot of adoption as of late. It'd be nice to be able to access it through FME.
MDX is a format associated with Microdrainage hydraulic modelling software, widely used in the UK by developers for the design of foul and surface water sewers. Whilst it possible to export the data spatial data from within the package to csv dxf etc it would be useful to migrate with the likes of FME in order to under take bulk conversions. Microdrainage is now part of the Autodesk Group
I'm missing the capability in FME for reading SVG images so you can use them as icons in reports or when plotting pdf maps that works in FME Desktop and FME server/cloud.
For automating processes an option to set up an automatic update of readers would help. An option to update readers at run, or a .bat command
Software products dominate the market share through use and ubiquity of a filetype they control. Think SHP, PDF, DOCX, use of the filetype is directly related to the success of their companies, they're proprietary formats that most other products have to support to be relevant. We have FFS, which is a universal format which can represent anything. PDFs are to documents what FFS is to data. How do we shift behaviour so that data sharing is done in FFS, and not GDB or XLSX etc? The only barrier is that FME is required to read/view a FFS file.What if there was a basic free version of the Data Inspector which could only read FFS? That's how Adobe did it for PDFs.Or what if there was a browser plugin, so you could send a FFS file or have it in cloud storage, and you could simply open and view it there?
It would make life even better if ArcSDE didn't need arcgis installed. Is it an impossible dream, or could it be done?
Add DRW Reader and Writer
The FeatureReader and FeatureWriter are ideal candidates to allow concurrent data reading and writing, something that you can't do with multiple readers and writers right now. Adding these parameters is currently possible if you wrap them up in custom transformers like I explain in this webinar, but ideally you shouldn't have to go to this effort.https://www.youtube.com/embed/YnCot12FA9ULooking forward to the performance gains this change would bring. In tests my timings suggest in some examples it reduces the readwrite times to a third or even less.Cheers, Dave
Even though it would limit the interaction with transformers in the outside workspace it would make it easier to inspect what's inside without possibly breaking the layout by opening the bookmark.
Hi there,The Coordinate System User Parameter does not allow the user to select Vertical coordinate systems. These are supported in various ways as listed here: https://community.safe.com/s/article/which-transformer-do-i-use-to-do-3d-reprojection-vI cannot currently use the esri reprojector in an automation and provide user parameters for the input/output vertical and horizontal coordinate systems. I can only select horizontal coordinate systems.It would be good to be able to have a drop down that lets you filter by type (Vertical/Horizontal) as well as by region similar to how the others work e.g. CS-MAP Thanks,Marc
Would be great if FME Server was able to log Referer, User-Agent, From, or other identifying headers to the REST API so that I could easily track origins of where jobs are ran from so I can easily notify people when I have to update a Form workspace or during Flow system maintenance.
Add version control with Azure Devops as many organizations use it already
File Copy Writer has an option to switch from warnings to errors if overwrite is set to No and a file already exists in the destination.Could users also be allowed to completely skip such files / suppress those warnings, the way one can in, say, the Windows UI ("Skip these files") ? We'd like to be able to copy only new files, without overwhelming the log file with no-issue-here-intended-behavior-is-occurring warnings.
It would be useful to allow configuration of the FME Server / Flow Data Download Service to automatically split large zip files. Ideally I would like large zip files to be split into 2GB chunks{name}.z01{name}.z02{name}.zipI would expect this to be an optional line in fmeEngineconfig.txt or something similar
In FME Server, it is currently possible to add a connection to an Amazon S3 bucket as a resource, but because the S3 Bucket is not mounted as a drive, these external resources can not be used as input or output data locations when running a job on FME Server.When working with a large volume of cloud-based data, it would be helpful to be able to read from and write to the data without having to first copy the data into FME Server Resources.
So this is a simple thing. When using ArcSDE with max features to read per feature type, the reader reads all records, then filters afterwards. When querying the database use groupby and top or limit to limit the number of feature before fetching all the data. Why is this important?Well sometimes we have huge databases, and to make testing and development smooth and fast, we shouldn't sit and waste our time for a simple feature to come out of the reader, because of this elementary thing.
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