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A quick option to flip the order of requestor and supplier on a FeatureMerger. I often connect and set up the join attributes before realizing my supplier should have been the requestor, or the other way around. It's a bit cumbersome having to both reconnect the incoming lines to the ports + changing the join attributes.
We've heard several people interested in the support for 3D Studio Max file format, i.e. .max files. Please vote for this idea, if you are interested in this support as well. We would really appreciate some more detail on how you'd intend to use this format in FME environment. Do you need Reader or Writing or both?
Can we add a storage tier selection flag on the actions (tier on write) in the ABSC? It would be incredibly handy to set bulk actions on the upload or a modification of items or subset of items in a container path using a 'List' action in one followed by 'Set' action in another AzureBlobStroageConnector. {"Hot", "Cool", "Archive"}I believe the AzCopy action is :$blob = Get-AzureStorageBlob -Container "<enter container name>" -Context $<enter context>$blob.icloudblob.setstandardblobtier("Archive")
It would be useful if there was some way of “closing” the receiver-family of transformers without causing the translation to fail. WebSocketCloser?Currently we can close down by using the Terminator, but that causes a failure..The WebSocketCloser would make it possible to carry on in a more controlled fashion.When integrating a translation in a complex workflow, I often find the success/failure being the most valueable information. Having to use a Terminator in the "normal case" takes away a freedom of keeping the meaning of success/failure distinct.
Like a Tester, but you can pick an area. It would be nice, if a small window with the cached features shows up and you drag an area over the features or a basemap where you can choose your area you want.
The PointCloudFilter let's you build expressions from attributes. ex. @Component(color_red)==@Value(_Red) && @Component(color_green) == @Value(_Green) &&@Component(color_blue)==@Value(_Blue)It let's you supply a userParameter with an expressionex @Component(color_red)== 178It let's you supply an attribute containing a numeric value (ex 178)But it does not allow you to supply an attribute containing an expression |ERROR |Expression Evaluator: Attribute '_ptFilter' has non-numeric value'@Component(color_red)== 178 && @Component(color_green) == 178 && @Component(color_blue)==0'This makes it very difficult to build dynamic filters where the number of clauses is variable.
It would be very helpful to improve the way selected transformers a.o. elements in workbench are highlighted.In newer versions of FME it is very hard in Workbench to detect the highlighted transformer. Current behaviour would be better described as "low-lighting" instead of "high-lighting".Even in a zoomed in state I have a hard time to see the "light-blue" coloring behind the blue transformer. In a larger zoomed out extent with a larger number of transformers it is next to impossible.I remember old times like in FME 2012 when I could see any marked tranformer on first glance even among several hundred. The marking back then was prominent and user friendly. Now it is like a hide and seek game.Some ideas an how to improve the situation:use different color, e.g. redmake marking more prominent with corner squares like in older FME versions...
A nice feature for the Transformer Package safe.emailer would be to have a 'response to' field. Because the sender addresses do not always have to be the reply-addresses.Can you please add this in the transformer. :-)
Usually the "Snap to Grid/Guides" function is helpful to arrange objects orderly on the Canvas, but sometimes it's also annoying when move an object subtly. Although you can disable snapping through the "Grid and Guides" dialog, it might be convenient if the "Enable/Disable Snap to Grid/Guides" command would be added to the right-click menu on the Canvas (and/or a tool button), so that the user could switch enable/disable snapping quickly.
A new option to automatically set the cell width for the Excel Writer.
Can we consolidate the paging interface between the Forum and Ideas? At present they are different and require different user behaviours to navigate.Ideally I'd like to see a page selection option on both sites along the lines of:Page 1, 2, 3, 4, ... n-3, n-2, n-1, n <Enter page>Currently in Ideas there are abut 650 pages and we have to click "Next" 50 times to get to page 51. Just imagine trying to get ot page 640! Once in the middle of the list, if we hit the browser back button (common behaviour in these sorts of searches), instead of the "Return to list" button, we are returned to the start of the list with the prospect of yet another 50 clicks to get back to where were.In the Questions Forum I'd like the same page behaviour, but I'd also like to see, in a sidebar perhaps, My Questions, Questions I've Answered, Questions I've Commented On, so they can be quickly accessed.
Native support for AMQP
When uploading a file on S3 with S3Connector, it is possible to define metadata such as content-type, which is great.Why not allowing the same upon folder upload for the files located in the folder ?I have a large number of images to upload from a directory tree and I'd need them to be flagged as "content-type: image/png" instead of "content-type: binary/octet-steam" which is the current default.
It would be a great option if it would be able to store a feature cache after a run and to reload (import) it any moment. Additional it would be great if this option can be extended to the WorkspaceRunner transformer. This allows to look back into a run to see intermediate results.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: TestFilter - Add Text Editor capability to write the Test Clause as a SQL-like statement The test condition in the TestFilter can be further improved for user friendly experience if the user has the ability to build the Test Clause than the current way to choose the attributes and conditional clause.Something like the shown snapshot
when reading autodesk dwg files there are several potential sources (see below) for transformation/projection definition. Please make these more defined and possibly allow selection of the source. Also if this were a format attribute that allow validation at read. AutoCAD Map3d CS definition AutoCAD transformation Esri assigned transformation prj fileI have found files with 2 differing projections assignments and fme has a non-setting default assignment to the esri assigned projection. This is not documented and not even something that can be changed. without knowing what it is doing and over-riding it.
Right now the Feature Type Name can just be added as a text or from a Parameter. I would like to be able to choose this from an attribute as for "any" other format.
Not knowing how many rows I will be writing out, using an Excel template that contains contents below my destination table, when writing out using the Excel Writer, I need the table to expand/add rows so that the contents below is written over. @sammy provides a good example in this post in the FME Forums.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Add 'Accumulation Mode' parameter to StatisticsCalculator to allow attribute accumulation at Summary port I hope the title already stands mostly on itself. In general I think it would be nice if it was possible to configure which attributes exit the Summary port of a StatisticsCalculator (besides the group_by attribute(s) and the statistical attributes). I would think something like an 'Accumulation Mode' parameter, with options 'Use Attributes From One Feature', 'Merge Incoming Attributes' and 'Drop Incoming Attributes' would be a really nice to have as build in functionality in the StatisticsCalculator transformer to have control over the attributes that exit the Summary port. Just like this parameter/functionality is already incorporated in most other transformers where attributes are accumulated. E.g. most noteworthy being the Aggregator transformer, but e.g. also in the Hull- and BoundingBoxAccumulator, the AreaOnArea- LineOnLine- or LineOnAreaOverlayer, (Surface)Dissolver, RasterMosaicker, etc.Of course there is an easy work around by using e.g. a DuplicateFilter on the attributes that were used at the group by condition of the StatisticsCalculator, and merging these unique features from the DuplicateFilter with the Summary port of the StatisticsCalculator, but still :)
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Markdown table support in the overview/help for Workspaces and Custom Transformers Make it possible for users to create tables using Markdown in the overview / help sections of Workspaces and Custom Transformers.
The dissolver only merges features base on common values. It would be really cool if you could specify range values.
Route 3D objects to this video gaming format for end users to walk through and explore
One of the main advantages of fme desktop is that you don't have to write any code to perform the most complex tasks. This is a visual editor.But when it comes to adding custom crs you have to deal with this:Sometimes it makes you feel like cryingIt would be great to have a graphical coordinate system editor and the ability to import/export coordinate system in various notations like proj, wkt and so on.
Developing a reader/writer for Blender software .blend format. www.blender.org
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