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When configuring a workspace app, the description box gives you the option to insert an http path to an image. The default option should allow you to host an image directly on the FME Server and link to it, rather than assume you will host somewhere else! Currently it is difficult to add images to your descriptions.
For usage statistics or communication purposes, it would be really useful to get the user who runs the App without having to ask for it (via a published parameter).The FME_SECURITY_USER parameter returns the App owner so a (e.g.) FME_LOGGEDIN_USER parameter could serve to return the logged in user.
Add Array Feature Type to PostgreSQL WriterIt would be very convinient to write Arrays directly to a Postgres Database with the Writer. The current workarround for writing arrays to Postgres Tables is to use the SQLExecuter.
AutoDesk Inventor is an industry Design tool, based on AutoCAD.The files created by Inventor are not supported by FME (yet).We have some customers that would like to use the data from Inventor files in other applications.If you are using AutoDesk Inventor and want to be able to exchange this data to other applications, please support this idea.
We have found a use case not currently supported by the FME AR app. This is to use the app in combination with our drone to capture aerial images/movies within FME AR. To get this it is necessary to be able to select an external USB camera in the app as the active camera.
It would be nice to search a list from last to first using the listsearcher transformer.I know you can simply "reverse the list" and then search but would be nice to have the option using the list search transformer
Hi,I would be nice if reading and writing of VLRs were added. This helps to store metadata and reading it without the need download/load the whole file. COPC information is also stored as VLR. Without it, we cannot edit COPC laz with FME without breaking it. Best regards,Antoine.
When the JSON- or XMLFragmenter is processing large documents stored as an attribute, the source attribute is cloned onto each output feature (fragment), which can lead to memory and performance issues when there are many resulting fragments.It would be very useful if these transformers had an option to remove the source attribute from the output features (fragments). A very similar option already exists in the GeometryReplacer.
Make use of PlantText UML editor or short PlantUML to generate diagrams that can help the reader of a workbench to understand the flow. To be used in FME Desktop for workbenches. A hierarchical view of custom transformers, bookmarks and readers and writers etcetera, can quickly give an overview of the workbench as an UML diagram.
A platform called Travel Ad Network offers online travel advertising options. The sector develops, produces, and distributes online advertising campaigns and personalized advertising programs for travel websites. Travel Ad Network serves global customers.
It would be helpful to get logged information about the quality of the individual control vectors in the AffineWarper or to get exact information about their residuals (in order to delete or replace one or more control vectors with a negative impact on the result)
I am using FME 2022.1.3.0 (20220928 - Build 22630 - WIN64).I like that the log file now includes the transformer name of the transformer that is running, and even names it when running parallel processing. Now I'm wondering if it would be possible to dynamically update the Transformer name so that it would include which parallel processing group is calling it. If I could reference the Group By parameter in the transformer name, then it would include the information that would make it easier to debug errors. It is not always easy to count and figure out which subprocess is running.
Visual preview/inspector seems to automatically reproject the data, thus making the data appear as if it overlays, however the transformers don't see it that way. I spent a couple hours trying to figure out why the segments were appearing overlaid in visual preview, when the results (in my case I was using a lineonlineoverlayer) was not showing the same thing.
Script and procedure which is provided here is obsolete. On the other hand, FME Desktop is no more with 32Bit.I observed that users with ArcFM is increasing which implies very much need to add ArcFM reader & writer rather doing a round about solutions.I hope, it is useful for many users.
Although Three.js is nice (created using the JSONTemplater), it's more "ad hoc" than glTF, which has mature specifications and is actually designed to be a runtime 3D asset delivery format. Furthermore, glTF is supported by an increasing number of WebGL viewers, like Three and Cesium.I am about to create my own Writer for it, but I'd rather have FME deal with it of course :)
We have a reader for ArcGIS Server Feature Services, however there is not a writer at this time. This idea is to gauge the interest for this new functionality. Please add details of why you would like us to create this writer format so that we can better understand your use case. We'd love to hear your story!
I know that it is intended for the SQL Executor to wait for the SQL result before moving on in a workspace, but in the case where I want to send a statement to refresh materialised views or trigger a function in Postgres, I only require it to wait 20 seconds or so to ensure there is no immediate error (like any missing dependent objects). Being deployed on FME Server, I do not want the workspace using up an engine for 2 hours while the database does it's thing. So an "Advanced" section with a tick box to tell it not to wait for the result, and an integer value for seconds to wait before moving on if a result is not returned in that time.
It would be nice have auto-layout work on selected objects by default, and if selected object is a bookmark only objects within the bookmark, and if nothing is selected then the whole workspace.Why? The auto-layout feature is generally only useful in simple workspaces. The larger and more complex the canvas gets the more using it just makes for more post-auto fixing up. However it's the complex workspaces that most need it.
Like QGIS have qgiscloud (qgiscloud.com), there should be an option to do similar stuff with FME. The concept is easy, as long as you stay under 50MB it's free, if you exceed you get prompted with options to pay for your amount to upload. Then you also get a wms for your data, a webpage to view your data, and much more. And yes, I have read this https://community.safe.com/s/bridea/a0r4Q00000HbsFvQAJ/fme-cloud-free-for-private-use?orderby=Recent&currentpage=3 and this https://community.safe.com/s/bridea/a0r4Q00000Hbr2VQAR/fme-server-home-edition , but I couldn't make them fit exactly with my idea.
When an existing table schema is read containing a primary key the primary key is identified in the list of features.This would be useful in dynamically reading tables with different primary key attribute names.Something like Property: attribute{17}.fme_index; Value: PRIMARY KEYThank you.
Does FME have any use cases in an agricultural environment? Let's find out!This idea is a potential webinar to be presented during October-December, 2022.
Add support to SAML 2.0 for FME Server authentication.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Streaming writer output from one workspace directly to a reader on another ala Unix/Linux pipelines There should be a way to send the output from a writer on one workspace directly to a reader on another workspace in realtime, much like pipes work in Unix/Linux. That way, each feature generated by one workspace can be immediately read and processed by the next without waiting for the entire set of features to be written, provided you have enough available cores on Desktop or engines on Server/Cloud to support these workspaces running concurrently. This would also allow a very natural, visualizable data-flow capability in Server Automations. It would be much more efficient than launching a workspace with parameters for each event coming out of an FME Server Automations Writer, as you only launch the receiving workspace once.
My need is for Reader mostly as I want to be able to push DGN files with Item Type data to geo dbase and access the Item Type values within GIS.
It would be useful to be able to remove old, retired resources from the resources of readers. After a while there are so many of them, and more and more retired so I wonder whether they could be removed.
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