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When I have a job that runs for 5-15 minutes (and this is with a subset of data) it would be nice to be able to sneak a look at the cached features at any point during the running workbench. I could click on the green loading box and see what features have loaded so far. This way I can be QC-ing output before the workbench has even completed running.
It would be really cool if I can write output as a PMTiles (https://github.com/protomaps/PMTiles) file.PMTiles is a single-file archive format for tiled data. A PMTiles archive can be hosted on a commodity storage platform such as S3, and enables low-cost, zero-maintenance map applications that are "serverless" - free of a custom tile backend or third party provider.
I would love to be able to create hyperlinks when writing out to MS Word documents!
It would useful to be able to read password protected Excel files (encrypted workbook). The password could perhaps be set as a reader parameter.
See for example:https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/78116/excel-featurereader-reading-empty-row.htmlIt would be great to have an option in the Excel Reader to ignore any rows that are completely empty i.e. have no values in them. This option could be left un-ticked if you really want to read in rows from a named range or where there is formatting but no data.This would save having to spend time putting in a Tester or AttributeValidator to filter out the empty rows, or hard code ranges into the Reader when you need to be flexible.Merged Ideas:Add option to excel reader to only read 'non empty excel rows' by thijsknapen on February 20, 2021:When reading in excel files, I noticed that sometimes empty rows are read in. It would be nice if there would be an option in the excel reader, to only read 'non empty excel rows' in the excel sheet.This situation of 'empty excel rows' being read in, for instance occurs when an excel sheet contains cells that only contain formatting (but no value). However, also in the simple case where values are deleted in an excel sheet, the rows for that excel sheet will still be read.I often encounter this situation when I use a structured/formatted excel file as an input for a translation. As sheets are re-used, and not always the same number of rows are entered, there are different number of empty excel rows that are read in in the translation.
People love formatting excel documents so they're pretty and represent what they want, me doing it again for FME to understand, not so much.It would be great if the excel reader could pick up if a column was hidden and add it to the Schema details, and if there was a Format Attribute that could indicate if a row was hidden.Or actually an option to not read them at all would also be good.
If you select a view called “banana” in the Revit reader but the view doesn’t exist in the file (for instance, in a parameterised or generic workspace), the reader will default to the first available view. This can lead to unwanted data being read, and cannot be controlled by the user without accessing the log file.Please improve the Revit reader by:Not reading any data if the selected view is not available Adding the view that was used to access data to the feature attributes
Apache Parquet and it’s GeoParquet spinoff are increasingly used for data distribution and analytics, now the RaQuet format is emerging as an option for raster data. Vote here if you would like RaQuet supported in FME, and cite your use cases too.https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/raquet-raster-data-apache-parquet-javier-de-la-torre-chice/https://www.raquet.io/
I would like to request a reader that reads .sld/.qml files and a writer that writes .lyrx files. It would make things much easier for us who work with both QGIS and ArcGIS Pro.
The available system events is rather limited. Everything should be a system event! Here are several that I noticed are missing:Deployment Parameter published/created/updated/deleted Web Connection published/created/updated/deleted Resource published/created/updated/deleted Automation published/created/updated/deleted Schedule published/created/updated/deleted Stream published/created/updated/deleted Flow App published/created/updated/deleted Project created/updated/deleted
Is is not possible to edit the title of my posts in FME Community? I was searching for an option to do so but couldn’t find one. I can edit my post’s body. It should also be possible to edit the title in case I phrased it wrong or in a unclear way.
This is a screenshot from FME community. I want to create a post, but it’s impossible to insert text at the start of the post or move the image.Does anybody know how I can add text to the start of the post?It should be possible to insert text at the start of the post even when the post contains an image file. And it should be possible to do that without having to remove the image and then upload it again just to move it to a different place.
Add to the scheduling screen the ability to view schedules in a calendar view. It would be nice to be able to format it daily/weekly/work week/monthly. It would also be nice to be able to click on an opening in the calendar to start scheduling a new job.Merged Ideas:FME Server Schedule - Ability to identify the schedule(s) that gets executed on by atiul on August 8, 2018***Note from Migration:***Original Title was: FME Server Schedule - Ability to identify the schedule(s) that gets executed on a give time range (future date/time range)It would be great, if FME Server provides an interface that can list out the schedules that get executed during a give time range (future date/time range). This would be helpful to disable the affected schedule(s) during outages (server maintenance activities).
In FME Flow, Automations can be triggered by various FME Flow System Events, such as the creation or modification of repository items. This provides a powerful and flexible way to build event-driven workflows and governance mechanisms.However, currently these system events are primarily focused on repository-based entities. There is no equivalent event available for entities that exist outside of repositories.For example, the creation (or modification/deletion) of an FME Flow App does not trigger a corresponding FME Flow System Event. As a result, it is not possible to directly react to such changes using Automations.This limitation makes it difficult to: Implement governance or auditing processes for FME Flow Apps Automatically enforce naming conventions or security policies Trigger notifications when new public apps are created Maintain synchronization with external systems Track lifecycle events of non-repository entities
It is my understanding that the initial installation of Flow Hosted is done by Safe Software, but upgrades are the responsibility of the customer. I would like to see upgrades offered as part of the service. It should be automated, but not automatic.
When bookmarks are closed, transformers inside the bookmark are not cached. While this is a great feature, I barely use it as closing and opening bookmark usually change the layout, and I really like to see the transformers and how many features go where. It would be nice to have a featurecaching enable / disable switch on bookmarks.
Just been trying to get a picture of the used connections in workspaces - This would be helpful. I can see it in the workspace file but the reader doesn’t include them.
Writers - Redirect to Inspectors - should also work on FeatureWriters
Hello FME Community 👋We at Safe Software are busy working on some exciting FME Platform enhancements, many focused on product security. We would like your thoughts on one of the ideas that is currently up for consideration.We’ve received previous requests to add OpenID Connect authentication support to FME Flow, and we think that OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication could be supported broadly across both FME Form and FME Flow.So, before we dive right into development efforts on this idea, we’d like to know what you think about it! Would you benefit from the FME Platform supporting OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication? If so, can you provide a brief description of how FME supporting OpenID Connect authentication would enhance your experience with the FME Platform? We are also looking for anyone who might be interested in testing out our implementation of OpenID Connect authentication, once available. If you would like to be included as an early tester, please indicate that interest in your response!Here’s a bit of background on OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication. If you’ve ever tried to create an account with a new app you’ve downloaded, you might be presented with options to use another account (like Google or Facebook) to login to the new app. In this way, you can use an account you already have, instead of creating a new account. This is OIDC authentication at work, and can be considered an extension to the OAuth 2.0 protocol already supported across the FME Platform. More information on OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication can be found by visiting the OpenID Foundation’s How OpenID Connect Works page. We look forward to hearing from you on this exciting idea!
To understand the purpose of the workbench, we will have a look at the name of the workbench at first step. Secondly, we have to go through entire workbench from reader to writer to understand more and understand that all the changes are included or missed out.On the other side, SRS documents will be in another document (i.e., name.docx) file which we have to refer for better clarity.I would be better if workbench have minimum functionality of MSWord with allowing images from SRS documents to refer. This will help us to maintain the same vocabulary between SRS and Workbench. It will even help team members to coordinate in much better approach.It is advisable to place the document just beside Main tab as shown in screenshot. Thank you
It would be great to have a direct integration in FME Form to do git commits, etc. in the GUI itself. It could be in the form of a developer command line/powershell or even as a built-in git integration much like what we have with FME Flow. As it stands today, I do this indirectly through Visual Studio. I essentially save my .fmw files in a Visual Studio project, and do all the version control through there. I would love it if I could bypass that altogether.
There are several situations where I would like to use a transformer that manipulates attributes on every element in a list. The current option is to explode the list, do the manipulation and then reconstitute the list, which is inefficient (introduces blocking transformers) and can cause issues with the geometry of a feature, create a looping custom transformer with a listIndexer for every element in the list, or alternatively code the list manipulation in python. It would be nice if the following transformers could work on lists.Manipulates the attributes directly:AttributeTrimmerStringCaseChangeStringFormatterDateFormatterStringPadderCreates parallel structure list:AttributeValueMapperFilenamePartExtractorStringConcatenatorSubstringExtractori'm sure there are other transformers that would benefit from this as well.
The Tester and TestFilter transformers have five distinct Comparison Modes:Automatic Numeric Case Sensitive Case Insensitive Date/TimeAs well as the option to Specify Per Test.The FeatureJoiner and FeatureMerger transformers have three Comparison Modes:Automatic String (presumably the same as Case Sensitive, above, but I have not validated that and don’t see it specified in the documentation) NumericAnd the way that these transformers are designed, they are inherently “Per Test” or per “Join On” condition, as it were.The general Idea here is to make the Comparison Modes more consistent across transformers - there are likely other transformers that could be included in this, beyond the four mentioned above.Case Sensitive, Case Insensitive, and Date/Time could be useful in the Feature-type transformers, in addition to the Test-type transformers. There are other ways to achieve these, of course, but there may be value in having them readily available. The order in which Comparison Modes are listed could be consistent - this is a minor point.If the various types of Comparison Modes are already tailored to best match each class of transformer, then the idea may not have merit, but posing it in case others could see any value in the proposed change or a similar change.
Hi there,When using deployment parameters from various Flow environments, it would be great to actually used the stored information from those deployment parameters instead of having a local copy of that connection that is needed within the workspace.The reason is, if I want to test and debug a workspace that happens to fail in a UAT environment. I would want to connect to Flow UAT environment, open that workspace and test it using the configuration that is stored in Flow UAT instead of the local version as this doesn’t represent to the environment’s configurations of connection, password, etc.
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