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The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has announced OGC’s approval of the OGC Common DataBase (CDB) specification as an OGC Best Practice.I wonder therefore if FME should offer support for the CDB format - while it is just has a folder based structure, it is unwieldy and difficult for a human to navigate; therefore a transformer to help extract and modify data from (or to) a CDB may be beneficial.
[Without holding Cntrl key] I would like to see the option of not having to hold the control key to zoom.
Add the ability to upload into nextcloud/owncloud with full capabilities (upload, passwords, expiration date, create customized email with previously mentioned attributes).
Telecom industry uses measurement devices that communicate via SNMP.It would be useful if FME could read/send those SNMP messages and then be able to create a Network Management System (in Telecom industry).Also this functionality would enable FME to control and monitor all kind of devices in other industries.This could be realised through reader/writer, transformer and publisher protocol.
It would be good to have some way of converting FME-encoded colours (1,0,1) to human-readable RGB (255,0,255), kml_color, web colours, etc.
Unfortunately, the Log Message Filter does not change the logging which is done in the CMD window when the FME is called from a command line. With large datasets, there will be hundreds or maybe thousands of lines generated by the Reader. This is not helpful and may prevent scrolling up to see previous messages if the logged content exceeds the CMD window's vertical screen buffer.See also: https://community.safe.com/s/question/0D54Q00009jjn9vSAA/limitshorten-the-logging-in-command-prompt-window-when-executing-fme-with-command-line?t=1661867264885
I have several workbenches that I need to ship towards several customers. It would be great if it's possible to add the workbench password and encryption via the CMD.That way I can do some batch processing to have it distributed towards the customer as well.Similar question has been raised: https://community.safe.com/s/question/0D54Q000080haNESAY/apply-password-protection-from-fme-commandline But no idea was created and it's impossible (for me) to see how FMEDESKTOP-4304 is progressing
The Point Cloud XYZ reader is great at reading large tablular data quickly, however I think it would be beneficial if it could create multiple point clouds based on an attribute in the table.For example, utilising what i think would be the most obvious method, I would read in the entire table and create one point cloud feature. Lets say its 800 million points, but I have 1200 unqiue ids in that point cloud. I want to create a point cloud for each of those 1200. So I then use the pointcloudsplitter, but that is going to take ages.I instead want to be able to choose an attribute in the reader, that holds those 1200 unique ids, and have a point cloud created for them when I first read in the data. I presume that it could be significantly quicker.
Add a QR code to the server apps url so that they can be shared easily to phones and FME data express.
Add the ability to write custom key-value metadata to the output parquet files.Request originated from this Forums post.
QGIS has a graphic modeler, and FME has it’s graphic design, it would be great to convert workflows from QGIS to FME and also workflows from FME to QGIS
Linear referencing is hard in FME. It needs a much more robust set of transformers. If a route name is set, then I cannot use the <default> route in other transformers such as PointOnLineOverlayer. The NeighborFinder does not return measures as documented. Linear Referencing is an important tool for transport networks. I have had a look at the Hub custom transformers and am appalled at the complexity to do any simple operation. All that chopping just to get a distance down a polyline!
In FME Server there is currently no way to manage the names of your repositories either through the Web Interface or via the Rest API. It would be nice if there was an option to easily rename repositories rather than having to create a new one and republish workspaces.
The option to import values for coded domains in the (file) geodatabase writer
I use feature caching extensively while developing and testing FME Workbench workspaces. I think something similar would be helpful for developing and testing Automations, in addition to the "Log a message" action.
Hi, it would be great to have RSS feed for these items :Forums (one feed for all post + one feed per forum)Knowlege base (same as forum : one feed for all + one feed per topic)IdeasUser groups (one feed per group)BlogRSS are really helpful to stay tuned over what's going on the community without having lots of emails...
How about the possibility to import Google Analytics data? Now I cannot have Web Connection to Google analytics, like Google adSense or Google Gmali do.
This webinar would be about manipulating XML and JSON content using FME transformers.This idea is a potential webinar to be presented during October-December, 2022.
A pretty simple one - if data inspector (not within Workbench) had a side-by-side table view that could be useful for comparing two tables. I use inspector a lot for looking at data while building workbenches on another screen and this would be a nice enhancement to that workflow.
SQL executor add 'Application intent' parameter.On a reader of sql non spatial you can set 'Application intent' to read only, but not on sql executor. So if your windows AUTH is set to read only you cant use sql executor on that database. This is very frustrating as its very difficult to fully automate my work flow.
Exploring how FME can integrate with machine-learning and artificial-intelligence systems.This idea is a potential webinar to be presented during October-December, 2022.
A webinar about integrating CAD and GIS systems, with particular reference to MicroStation.This idea is a potential webinar to be presented during October-December, 2022. It is an updated version of a previous webinar.
When running any workflow with Enable Cache Features turned on, even though the workflow may not use any spatial transformers, if the reader detects a set of coordinates, FME automatically builds spatial indexes for each transformer the data passes through. This slows down the workflow considerably and can cause it to crash if large volumes of data are being processed. One solution (as suggested by 1Spatial) is to manually check the readers to ensure that any field that may been detected as a coordinate is changed to a different type, e.g. varchar, before running the workflow. This works but is labourious.Alternatively, and my suggestion, wouldn’t it be simpler for FME to add a switch to allow spatial indexing to be turned off when not required?
As an FME Server user, I want to be able to trigger an Automation when a message is received from an Apache Kafka queue.
It would be great if an alternate shared resource path for custom transformers could be implemented (with associated fine-grained security settings).This idea is a duplicate of:https://community.safe.com/s/bridea/a0r4Q00000FuTxPQAV/finer-control-over-fme-server-shared-resources-location-and-permissionsRe-posted to help with searches looking specifically for FME Server custom transformer configuration.
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