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The Sharepoint Reader and SharepointOnlineConnector have hard-coded timeout values which aren't always suitable. FME 2020 + increased the timeout value from 20s to 60s but it's still hard-coded. It would be great if the reader and connector could expose the timeout value as a parameter so that it's user-configurable.
Its in python.. we all need them.. so just make them into transformers!
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Color bar / color scale for raster or point cloud visualization in Data Inspector In the Data Inspector, I think it would be great to see the color ramp used to color raster or point cloud with related values (for example altitude,) like a scaling bar. It would be much easier to interpret and share transformer visual results !
I would like to see a convenient "preview" of which attribute are coming into conflict in any transformer that have a Attribute Conflict Resolution tab.
After working with the ProjectWiseWSGConnector on some very large datasets with deep hierarchy... there are a few improvements that would improve usability. When browsing a ProjectWise Path Project Object ID you currently have to start at the top and browse down every time even if there is an existing Project Object ID in the dialog. It would be more productive if you could start at the existing Object and navigate up/down from there.The List Operation currently starts at the specified Object ID and list the whole tree below. It would be and improvement to have a different List (or option) that would walk one or two (or specify) levels deep. It would also be an improvement to be able to specify a regular expression to match the _relative path so just those matches are returned. I have not looked at the WSG Api so not sure how feasible this is.It would also be nice to be able to get all of the metadata (including custom fields) with each Object returned (folder/files). I see this has been suggested else where too.
Sharepoint list reader/writer is missing the ability to read som features from the sahrepointlist.Read: Person: (Username, E-mail,Phone,Titel,Work etc) from the same columnmanaged metadata sharepointWriter:managed metadata sharepointPerson: to send a username/e-mail as identifier, right now we can only send first+lastname and if it exist more then 1 person with this name it only select the first one in the list.
Just an idea:It would be nice if you could zoom by clicking on the logged lines in the "Translation Log"-window (e.g. by using the logged Transformer Name)to the corresponding position in the workbench. Mayby while the process is runnung or afterwards.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: We need a 'Bulk Attribute Type Changer' to change multiple attributes from char 200 For example, if you add multiple fields using a Joiner - an automatic writer will add the attributes as Type 'char' and Width '200'. There should be a way to change multiple attributes at once, either from within the writer or with a transformer.I have been in many situations where I have joined hundreds of integer fields to a road network - and then had to change the Type of each attribute, and each Width and Precision field. this meant around 300 fields had to be manually changed! I also want to stick with the Joiner instead of FeatureMerger - to save time.
If file names at an FTP site have variable names but some constant string within them I want to be able to obtain all file names into a list attribute and search on the ones I am looking for, like at this site: ftp://ftp2.bom.gov.au/anon/gen/fwo
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Select data in compressed files (eg. .zip) downloaded from an URL same way as from local files Data downloaded from the web occasionally reside in subfolders of a .zip file. When it is a file on the local network, files can be selected from the archive like myFile.zip[datamyData.gpkg]. It would be great if the same worked with data from an URL, instead of downloading the .zip file to a temporary file and opening it with a FeatureReader.
When generating content for a Microsoft Word document through FME (i.e. creating a new table, paragraph, etc.), it would be very beneficial to be able to access and specify the exact location where the content should be placed (for instance, before or after a certain heading or paragraph). This would provide the user with more options, like using an existing document which could be edited or updated only in certain parts (while others could remain static and left as they are).
It is possible to add an option to set CR LF for specific environnementLinux LFWindows CRLF (default in windows env install)Mac CRThank you
Add a toolbar button to Purge Temporary Files
can we please have the ability to search for workspaces inside folders. this would make tracking rogue workspaces much easier.
It would be really, really helpful to be able to search inside log parameters or full body of the logs in FME server/cloud. In our setup we have many child jobs, if there are issues it is very challenging to track down the cause without been able to do more specific search or filtering. Would it be possible to have an elasticsearch service that indexes the logs and enables very quick search capabilities across the tens of thousands of logs we generate each week?
In the FME 2016, FeatureReader is added a parameter called "Max Feature to Read", This is very useful when test reader result, because you can set a smaller value (eg.10), so don't have to read all of the data can be test reader result.But such as in the Test directory with a.shp,b.shp,c.shp, specified in the Dataset to [Test *. SHP], this will only be able to read the a.shp's before 10 features, and need a lot of time in each file read before 10 features.So I hope as well as individual Reader, to add a "Max Feature to Read Per Feature Type" parameters to the FeatureReader.
There are a number of transformers, which even in FME Desktop 2020.2 still rely on Python 2.7. It was initially announced in 2008 that Python 2 would be sunsetted in 2015. A 7 year lead time. Then, in 2014 is was announced that the sunset would be changed to January 2020 - a whopping 12 years after the initial announcement. Many of our data science tools and external libraries that we wrap in for big data processing have, for some time, required Python 3 in order to operate and take advantage of all the interpreter and speed improvements (particularly with Cython, etc).Mixed Python versions are no longer acceptable. Please get the transformers etc upgraded, tested, and compliant with Python 3. At this stage, preferably with Python 3.9 or newer. Example: GZipDecompressorGZipCompressor
15 recent workspaces is sometimes just not enough. When I create a new one and copy paste parts from several other workspaces, together with all the active projects and the workspaces that I open to support others, I often end up navigitang in the file system instead of a single click becoause the workspace fell out from the last 15.Would it be possible to lift the restriction of the max recent workspaces at least? There is enough space in the monitor even for File/Open Recent (for me even 3 times that much without scrolling) but in the the Start tab list it is virtually unlimitzed.Ability to remove unnecessary items (eg. I opened accidentally, opened for explaining something, copying transformers from, etc) and pinnig to top/reordering would be also great.
Having some trouble downloading the contents of a remote FTP directory, keep getting error message 'Remote file not found'.It would be great if there was an option to 'Download Remote Folder' so that you could download a remote directory via FTP. Currently, FTPCaller only understands the instruction to download a specific file, which is a little problematic if there are hundreds of files within a directory and you want to download them via FTPCaller.@jlutherthomas
We use Kerberos as the primary authentication for our Data Lake. Our base software is Cloudera and we have used their HDFS JAR files but have not had luck connecting FME to it using the Apache Hive reader or the JDBC connector. In previous conversations with FME support, I was told that connecting via JDBC was not supported via Kerberos
Related to the Coordinate Precision: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2170:_Coordinate_PrecisionThe Default setting for Landxml WRITER is 12. Can this be changed to for instance 4? A lot of people use this as default (Valid values range from 1 to 15. The default value is 12, which was the default fixed value for LandXML 1.1. A lower number of digits can dramatically reduce the size of the output file when writing a large number of coordinates.)
At the moment you can attach annotation by right click and select the attach type: transformer, link or feature type. It would make sense, if you could attach an annotation in the same way as you can connect transformers: drag and drop. Drag the annotation on top of a transformer, link or a feature type, and when dropped, the annotation is attached.Many times I want to duplicate an annotation to another transformer, but the new annotation is unattached, and I can't attach the new annotation fast.
Lets say I have locations of point/polygon features along a line and I would like to count the number of points along the line using a moving window. For instance I'd like to slide along the line using a window of 100 feet. As I move along the line, I want a count the number of points within the 100 feet window until I reach the end. Once the counts is done, I'd like to segment the line as well, based on the total counts within the 100 feet window.Any ideas and help on this will be greatly appreciated.
ambiguity is with using quotes to capture spaces and spaces to separate layers. but the norm is quotes to capture layers and commas to separate them.?in the FeatureReader while using autocad dwg (I think most any of the readers). trying to limit the features read to specific layers.It is VERY difficult to read/understand/code the layer list. In most of the other areas the syntax would be "layer name", "layername" However in this text dialog it is "layer name" layername anotherlayer "this layer" using quotes to capture names with spaces and spaces to separate layers! With hundreds or thousands of dwgs and perhaps as many as 30 layers i am trying to code
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