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Many times, I run into the following situation...I made an analisys, resulting in a raster-object... (DEM or whatever), and I want to nicely present this black-grey, one-band result.I can of course recalculate all cells to integers, use a RasterPalletteGenerator or calculate some RGB-values for each cell.. but that is cumbersome. To my experience in general raster transformers are less intuitive than vector ones...So I revert to QGIS giving me a nice drop-down menu with pallette options, color-ramps, breakpoints, classification and whatever to make my raster visually appealing and informative.Having something similar in FME would not only make my life easyer, but allow me to automate stuff on Server, and stream results as a nicely styled raster.Kind regards,Martin
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Data Inspector: Changing Background map (or turning off) option to not reset view Using the 2020.2 data inspector is a joy. The recent improvements with the background maps are amazing!! Having the ability to background high res 2-4 cm imagery is a great QA tool for doing detailed heavy cad-gis with lots of schematic level detail. Not sure if this is already suggested elsewhere or a bug. When reviewing data zoomed in to building level, it would be great to be able to change the background map or turn background off without the data inspector resetting the view to full extent. I notice the Refresh view operation keeps the viewport the same so maybe this is a bug.Bonus items: have an option to keep or share the viewport between views (tabs) so that switching tabs would enable easy back and forth visual comparison.tie this "shared viewport" functionality into saving views and/or arranging views (tabs) as side-by-side panes would be a great tool for comparing datasets in different views with common and differences jumping out. NOTE: Im providing this feedback using DI in standalone mode (not within WB).I can provide some better use cases for saved/shared viewport with a bit more digging and experimenting within workbench; I suspect this may also lend itself to data management in general.Best, Reed
It would be helpful if FME could read my feature classes that contain an attribute with an attribute rule that uses an Arcade expression, and write it back out.
I would like to suggest that connection vertexes added by the "Insert Vertex on Connection" option move with with a bookmark. Currently, if a bookmark is moved, it will move the transformers, but the vertexes added by this function stay in their original location. It would be nice if they moved relative to the other connections and the transformers.
With a lot of relations between small jobs using automations, it would be nice to be able to filter jobs launched by the run of an automation to debug.
FME Server has a Access Permission per User and/or per Role, but FME Cloud not.It is possible to create/invite a different users with the the Roles either Admin or Member but both of them has access to all Instances listed in the Dashboard.This idea, of course is just an overview of the whole thing but here is implementation: Should be nice to be able to create this "Permissions" per User or per Role so we could (as an example) be able to create a token for that user and this one would be able to see/list only the Instances allowed/permitted for this user.
I frequently need to create multilevel XML. FME does a great job of creating one or two levels of XML. Unfortunately a lot of XML I need to create has at least 3 or 4 'sub' levels- or elements within elements, within elements with multiple attributes etc. The only work around I have is using multiple templaters and creating the inner elements first then using a 'key' attribute to join to the next upper element [in another templater]. This is sort of a daisy chain of nested XML until its finally assembled. However, it would be nice to do this all in one templater.Thank you.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Use a Slack Channel/Slack app to trigger FME Server translations/transformations The Idea would be drag and drop a file into a slack channel, somehow you pick a workspace/repository (slack apps?) this will trigger the workspace and then you can receive the results back in the same Slack Channel .
I remember that a past version of LineCombiner has "Process When Group Changes" (or "Input is Ordered") option.Hope the option will be revived in the next version.
It would be great if the AttributeFilter had a Case Insensitive mode similar to the Tester.I had a situation recently where I'm validating incoming data but occasionally they change the case of the data which isn't a problem generally but in order to make it work in FME Attribute Filter had to enter the different cases:I did get around this by using a TestFilter instead which has the case option functionality but is a lot more time consuming to setup:
With versioning enabled in an Amazon S3 bucket, I would like to use the S3Connector to retrieve the version ID of the latest upload and download the file of a specific version.
At the moment we run our FME server instance on Redhat version 7. We are currently in the process of upgrading all of our RHEL7 estate to RHEL8 but FME is causing us a few headaches. I could containerise it and leave it on RHEL7 but i wondered if there was any plans to support RHEL8 natively in the future?
Standard readers and writers allow for the individual feature types to be expanded to view the attributes but the FeatureWriter does not provide this option on the input ports.It can be very handy to be able to quickly visualise which attributes are correctly connected in the output schema.Please add the option to expand the FeatureWriter input ports to view attributes.The image below shows the same feature type as represented in the FeatureWriter and in the standard writer.
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
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