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***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Improve FME Server Installer with optional advanced Database Options for Distributed DB With the increasing use of Distributed and Fault Tolerant Environments the installer lacks the ability to customize the FME Server System Database connection settings and provides only basic settings (host & port). In High Availability and Fault Tolerant environments these are typically not enough and users must edit config files to complete the connection settings. (in +2020.0 this is now two files).The FME Server System Database can be stored in SQL Server, Oracle, & PostgreSQL. The drivers used are Java based and the installer provides hostname and port options. The installer could be expanded to provide optional jdbc parameters much like the FME Workbench Database Connection dialog does when using the JDBC Reader/Writer format.The SQL Server database is most often requiring this customization the JDBC Parameters. Some examples are:serverName=<hostname>databaseName=<databasename>instanceName=<instancename>portNumber=<#####>MultisubnetFailover=trueintegratedSecurity=trueIt is proposed when performing a Distributed Database (or FT) install that adding a drop down to select the database type and provide options (check boxes) to include additional connection string parameters to add to the config file. (or type in manual parameters) would be helpful and reduce the need to edit config files after installation completes.Related Ideas:SQL Server and Dynamic Port Allocation https://community.safe.com/s/idea/0874Q000000TlFqQAK/detailSQL Server and Windows Authentication https://community.safe.com/s/idea/0874Q000000TlbHQAS/detail
It will be great to expand AD support to LDAP support so that FME Server can talk to most any LDAP implementations out there, including OpenLDAP.
The default character encoding for the Text File Writer is currently set to UTF-8.It would be more straight-forward and logic if it were set to "System Default" as its default value. This has caused us some issues where it took time to discover this was the cause.
The four default ports, if not used, takes up extra space in the workspace. I want to be able to route them all to the <Unfiltered> port.<Empty><Missing><Null>To:<Unfiltered>
I am building a tool to allow my client to audit some files hosted in AGOL. It would be nice if they could change it dynamically, however the AGOL reader would not allow them to pick/ change feature services--aside form the first time when the tool is configured in desktop--or pass a feature service value as a parameter.Alternatively I tried using an feature reader-- which allowed me to pass the feature services as a value, but the problem here is that the feature reader doesnt allow to read attachments. I have included a picture of the feature reader to point out that there is no option to allow/ read attachments.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Read Revit (rvt) natively files without needing a Revit install (or the FME Revit Plugin) FME cannot read Revit's RVT files directly, but via the FME plugin for Revit, one can create an RVZ file which FME can read. This means that Revit must be present and running. Vote for this idea if you'd like to have FME read RVT files directly. And vote for this idea if writing RVT directly from FME would be of interest.
DateTime with offset types are slightly different coming out of different kind of reades. Eg:SharePoint List Reader: '20200902084027+00'SQL Server * Reader datetimeoffset(0) type: '2020-10-21 06:33:30 +00:00'It would make life much easier if DateTime with offset types would come out of any reader in the same format, eg. FME datetime with offset ('20200902084027+00:00')They could be directly comparable after convertig to UTC without any other hack.
ArcGIS Image Server (current software, not the legacy one) isn't supported as an imagery source but given a connection to a portal with an Image Server the exportImage endpoint would be useful for elevation and general image sources.
OpenDRIVE is an open format specification to describe a road network's logic. Its objective is to standardize the logical road description to facilitate the data exchange between different driving simulators. Can FME add a way to convert traditional GIS vector data (shapefiles, geodatabases, etc.) to XODR?
This is a minor thing but would be pretty nice.I would like to see a shortcut key (hold shift) created to add transformers to a process as a parallel branch. Currently, adding a transformer to a series adds it between the two transformers. Dragging the connection isn't a big deal but it is quite annoying to me personally when I have a bunch of branches coming off a main process. ExampleWant to add a transformer as a 2nd pathConnected transformer with current setup adds in seriesNew function - Hold shift and drag transformer to connection node and it adds as parallel
After a recent FME webinar I posed the idea to the FME team during the webinar about accessing password protected zip files. For example if you receive or work with zip files that are stored in a common directory, or are sent to you via some mechanism, either email, or a sharepoint site, or some internal corporate drive location, or even google drive or dropbox, but for some level of security the zip file is password protected, I think there might be some appetite to streamline the process of accessing this data to update an organizations databases. Since the contents of the zip file are encrypted, it's not likely to go to ArcGIS Online as a open data source, but could ultimately make it's way into a ArcGIS Enterprise internal corporate portal. Being able to have a checkbox for password protection, should enable an entry box for password entry. Now the type of encryption options used, would be those supported by the common compression software, e.g. winzip, winrar and 7-zip at the very least, and yes when I state "zip" file, it should also include ".rar" and ".7z". Since there is no fundamental incompatibility that I'm aware of to incorporate this capability in FME, even at this point as an optional transformer for download in beta to see if there's a desire for full production release, I'm wondering if there is any appetite? Since FME can already read zip files and even KMZ, which is a zipped KML file, there should be no fundamental problem incorporating password access. Even incorporating secure authorized access via password authentication or digital signature of encrypted PDFs should be investigated. I'm sure Adobe would work with Safe, even though they might require some hefty licencing fees? Adobe tends to be very heavy handed with the user only using their tools and portals for digital secure authentication.
Add rejected port to AttributeEncoder so that attributes that can be encoded pass and those that don't exit via the rejected port
Having the ability to go to the start or end of a connector (context menu) would save a lot of zoom/pan/zoom activity on large and convoluted workspaces.Similarly with junctions.
Not so much a format as a source/destination for data files. Idea is that FME would retrieve or push data in / out.
As a user, I want the ability to interact with shared on OneDrive folders. For example, FME user/PersonA - abc@example.comOneDrive user/PersonB - xyz@example.com. PersonB owns an OneDrive account, using email xyz@example.com. PersonB shares a OneDrive folder to abc@example.com. abc@example.com has view, upload, and download rights to this folder. PersonA would like to use FME to upload a file to PersonB's shared OneDrive folder. The credential PersonA uses is abc@example.com
Extend FME (FME Integration Console) into ArcGIS Pro.Both programs are now 64-bit, so should be possible ???...............Would be VERY useful...............See also an older thread in kb:https://community.safe.com/s/question/0D54Q000080hQGUSA2/can-fme-extend-into-arcgis-pro................HJL
Hello, i used tne new writer format MAPINFO_EXTENDED and found this writer is not compatible with the transformer MapInfoStyler. Do you plan to update this transformer ?I also try to set the style by Format Attribute with no succes. I exposed the attribute mapinfo_pen_pattern, mapinfo_pen_color and mapinfo_pen_width for the destinations Feature Type and add some constant value for this attribute. Nothing change in the output... Any idea ?Germain
We work with very large workspaces and having the ability to view a minimap of the entire workspace and being able to use it to navigate around would be great. Click to zoom to a location in the main workspace, drag a box to zoom to that area, etc, etc. The minimap could be accessible/toggleable from the View Menu.
I think it would be great if password protected zipfiles can be directly created from the Workbench application.
Counter Transformer currently outputs numeric value. Can the output count value be alphabetized? Since Alphabets also have incremental and decremental configuration.
ArcGIS Online & Portals have file upload and download (and of course storage) capability just like the OneDrive, Box, DropBox and similar connectors. How about a connector for ArcGIS Online & Portal?Supported file types are here and the API ref for items is here.Another API option is here.A nice to have would be handling sharing properties too.
In FME 2019, the option exists to use the Data Inspector when the Visual Preview Window is closed.But running a workspace from a batch file, the Data Inspector is not opened, even though the output is to an Inspector transformer.Running from batch should consider the Preview Window closed and always use the Data Inspector for output through Inspector transformers.
Is there planned use of OKTA SSO for FME Server Cloud?Our organisation is using OKTA so would be great to be able to take advantage of it with FME Server Cloud.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: FME AR feature attribution and modification that inserts/deletes/updates features in a database Someone has previously posted regarding adding feature attribution to the AR models. If this becomes a reality, what I am proposing is a way for an individual to add/delete/modify features. These modifications can then be pushed back to FME Server/Cloud and validated and inserted/deleted/updated in a connected database. It would also be nice if the models could be password protected so that only certain organizational roles are able to do any modification to the existing model.I'll provide an example of what I have in mind. I work for a telecommunications design company and we have numerous field technicians/PMs across various projects in the US. Presently, our data is collected and then reconciled through an FME workspace. Any updates to the field collected data, whether it's adding an attribute value or collecting a new feature, needs to go through the validation step. However, it would be great if the technicians/PM were able to modify the features within the AR app and after submitting the changes, a workspace is triggered to validate the changes. I'm trying to get our field crew interested in FME AR as I see a lot of utility in visualizing the outside plant features, particularly buried features, but I'm getting pushback because FME AR is a different app than what we're presently using and they don't want to keep switching between apps.
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