Integration

Hello everyone,I’m currently facing a challenge with writing an IoT data stream directly to an ArcGIS Online (AGOL) hosted feature service using FME. While I’ve successfully configured the stream to write to a local SQLite database, I’ve been unable to achieve the same with AGOL.I’ve attempted to use the Esri ArcGIS Feature Service Writer transformer, but unfortunately, it hasn’t worked as expected in stream mode. I’m wondering if there’s an alternative transformer or method that supports continuous writing to an AGOL feature service.Here’s a brief overview of my FME workspace setup:Input Source: Reading data from an MQTT broker in stream mode using the MQTTConnector. Data Processing: Filtering incoming messages into different groups based on sensor types. Output Goal: Writing the processed data to an AGOL hosted feature service. Runtime: The workspace is designed to run continuously to handle real-time data.Any guidance or suggestions on how to achieve this would be greatly appreciate

Hello FME Community, Salesforce recently announced the retirement of their SOAP API login().  Are there plans to replace the current Salesforce readers and writers or update them to support Salesforce’s OAuth 2.0 Flow?  Currently the readers and writers use /services/Soap/u/51.0 which will be retired in the Summer 27 release.  I’ve used these a good bit in production workspaces, so need to start mapping out some transition plans.  For retrieving data, the SalesforceConnector will work, but it’s nice to be able to write and update data with a drop in transformer rather than setting up HTTP callers with Salesforce’s REST API. Any thoughts on the current plan for the Salesforce readers/writers or ideas on how to make this transition seamlessly? 

I have a lot of multipage PDF documents that I need to each summarize. Does anyone have any tips/experience/recommendations with working with multipage pdfs in FME and an AI of choice?I’ve played around with Copilot a bit and have got prompts to return pretty good results, but it seems like FME doesn’t natively support Copilot, so I’ll have to probably switch AI solutions. Thanks in advance!

Hi,I am new to FME.My question is simple and easy.I have a field that has multiple lines, FME is not able to read it.FME Version: 2025.1.1.0Data set has 5500 records, of those 300 gets rejected as it has multiple lines.I am trying to create lines.  Sample:LINESTRING (-122.47510883224778 37.72569214605437, -122.47549442640992 37.72569240767212, -122.47591818521782 37.72543361304484, -122.47615044826871 37.725435814791524, -122.47635018879221 37.72551472908074, -122.4768917047572 37.72596114891507, -122.47722446641976 37.72606220923341, -122.47809062309513 37.726088801447176, -122.47840706343166 37.72604796879034, -122.4788330330602 37.72589235538119, -122.47914970916452 37.72593694003075, -122.47935639456331 37.72605991382738, -122.47998774607001 37.72692786951861, -122.4801298766873 37.727219718364864, -122.4800482518362 37.72746956663917, -122.47983883659106 37.72763905162748, -122.47914598242949 37.72796883327165, -122.47869796921809 37.72821056418619) LINESTRING (-122.49346993299433

Hello,I’m using FME 2024.2 to read ORD DGN files stored in ProjectWise.The DGN files have a local coordinate system (LCC) defined in ORD, but when I read them into FME, the detected GCS appears incorrect — particularly the ORG_LAT value. Because of that, when I try to set the coordinate system and reproject to State Plane, the transformation doesn’t work properly.Has anyone encountered this issue before?Does the GCS definition in ORD need to follow a specific format or standard to be recognized correctly by FME?Any insight or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!GCS shown for features in FME 

Hi Folks,For reading and writing ArcGIS Online feature services we are transitioning to the newer Esri ArcGIS Feature Service format in FME Flow 2024.2 from the soon to be deprecated Esri ArcGIS Online (AGOL) Feature Service (at least according to this article)My problem is that now the reader seems to read dates as Epoch time in milliseconds! Obviously this can be worked around but it is quite painful to fix up the many workspaces we have which used the older reader and read dates as YYYYMMDD etc. especially when writing back to AGOL where the dates have to be back in  YYYYMMDD.Any thoughts?  

Hello, I would like to send notification to the InspectedBy field value on an Inspection when the Inspection is Completed but a Required field on the Inspection has not been populated using FME Workbench. I am new to FME and learning. Could anyone please give sample of FME Form Workspace for this please. ThanksAnita

Hi all, I’m wondering if it's possible to pull ArcGIS Server Logs data (Errors, Logs and Statistics)I’d like to do some fun FME diagnostic work on this data: using AI to read log messages, recording daily statistics and comparing stats daily and possibly alerting GIS by email.

Hello,I have not posted for a long time. I have been using FME Workbench 2022.2 and just now upgraded to FME Workbench 2025.1.  What I have noticed is:In 2022.2 → Generate Workspace → Convert multiple files in any format into ESRI Shape format. I had no issues doing this.In 2025.1 → Generate Workspace → Convert multiple files in any format into ESRI Shape format.  I get an error: “Unable to perform any licensing related tasks. Please check your Esri ArcGIS Compatibility workspace parameter, found in Navigator -> Workspace Parameters -> Spatial. This 64-bit version of FME requires ArcGIS Desktop along with 64-bit Background Geoprocessing; ArcGIS Pro; or ArcGIS Enterprise. Refer to this this article http://fme.ly/qua for more details”I do not have ESRI products installed on my server. (I never have needed them in past versions.)Also to note, I CAN convert one dataset (format doesn’t matter just other than Shape file) into an ESRI Shape file format successfully. It seems as though d

I’m looking to read in a load of word documents that contain tables of information. I’d like to extract all the text from those tables so that I can then search the text for specific information. I’ve tried using the Microsoft Word Reader and the MSWordStyler but I’m only seeing the paragraph text come through to the attributes. Any ideas how to extract the table text?  

Hello,We are trying to set up a SharePoint web connection to use in FME at my workplace. Together with competent IT staff, we have been trying on our own for over six months without success. I thought I would ask here before we consider the next step! We have followed the following guides without success:How to Create a SharePointOnlineConnector Multitenant Web Connection – FME Support CenterHow to Create a SharePointOnlineConnector Web Connection with Application Permissions – FME Support Center The problem occurs when using the transformer. We get successful login attempts and connection to the web connection itself when we test it after configuration – but we encounter the error “Error Retrieving Selections – An unknown error has occurred” in the SharePointOnlineConnector transformer. This has no documentation and therefore we have reached a point where troubleshooting is done in complete blindness. This problem has been consistant even after we’ve change of parameters. We have set

I am trying to write some CAD data to an ArcGIS Enterprise Feature Service.I noticed there has been an update in the latest version but unfortunately we are using 2025.0 at present and wanted to see if there is a work-around to an issue related to true-curves. I am getting the following error message: ArcGISFeatureServiceWriter: Feature type 'Levels' has 'Use True Curves' enabled, but the feature service does not support true curvesPython Exception <FormatException>: FMEException: 1: ARCGISFEATURESERVICE: Feature type 'Levels' has 'Use True Curves' enabled, but the feature service does not support true curvesSAFE.ESRI-AGOL.ARCGISFEATURESERVICE writer: An error has occurred. Check the logfile above for details The writer has ‘Use True Curves’ set to ‘No’ but I still get the error message.  Is there are way to remove ‘true curves’ or write the data to our ArcGIS Enterprise Portal to by-pass the issue?

I think we can all agree that FME is pretty unique, special and powerful in it’s no code approach to data movement, integration and automation.I’m sure many of us have heard of, or even used similar (FOSS) platforms to FME, such as Node-RED (https://nodered.org/) or IFTTT (https://ifttt.com/) ‘The algorithm’ recently pushed n8n towards me - https://n8n.io/,  These platforms are more focused towards the API/Event integration side of things, rather than the entire data stack that FME excels at. Of course, with the right workspace, FME can do everything these tools can (and more)!I don’t particularly see these tools as being much of a threat to FMEs core data manipulation as they’re primarily targeted at stringing web events together.What I do think however, is it’s opening the doors to developers/teams/companies who have previously only ever thought of lines of code being able to solve solutions. It’s raising the awareness of these no code solutions and how (GUI based) tools like FME can

Edit: I think I found the issue. In the 2025 documentation (https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME-Flow/WebUI/Version-Control.htm) this note has been added “FME Flow currently supports only GitHub as a Git repository.”. Since my repository is on Azure it no longer works. I will leave this here, because I'm probably not the only one that will run into this issue.----original post:After update from 2024.2.1 to 2025.1.2 Version control is not working anymore.The issue is sort of the same I had last time:  Only this time when I press Push to Remote I get the message “The remote ref update was rejected. Check your repository permissions or configuration and try again.”.I refreshed the token to be sure the right token is entered, but that did not help.I opened the repository with Visual Studio Code on the server (D:\ProgramData\Safe Software\FME Flow\repositories.The check-out branch is main and it says there are 125 changes. The branch is not published.Because last time I figured out the FME Fl

Just wondering what kinds of workflows do you all use to try to reproduce an issue in a workspace which was run on FME Server.I have some workspaces which have quite a few parameters and copy and pasting the parameters from FME Flow to FME Form is getting pretty old…Any clever workflows people have developed to set parameters automatically from a job?I’m thinking of putting together a tool/workspace to try auto populate parameters from a job but I wanted to see if I was just being dumb.I’ve been using presets to save time for a lot of the parameters which tend to stay the same, however, it I’m not careful I end up missing something and speeding time wondering what my results in Desktop and Server are different because I missed something small in the parameters 

Hi, I am looking for a way to add attachements (pictures, pdfs ect) to a point layer published to Esri Enterprise using FME Flow. Does anyone managed to accomplish that?

FME Server 2022.2Build 22765 - win64I have an ArcGIS Portal Feature Service writer set up to update a single attribute. I am getting the following error ArcGIS Portal Feature Service Writer: Encountered an unexpected error. The error code from the server was '400' and the message was: 'Unable to complete operation.'. Details: 'True curve update not allowed.'I have specified to not update the spatial column so I would expect this error would not occur. It would appear that FME is trying to send a geometry

So I’ve been experimenting with using FME to build specific AI agents/agentic workflows.I’m using OpenAI’s API and leveraging function calling. It’s been quite fun and a really good learning experience. You can let the agent make decisions - if you give it tools to use then you can use looping transformers to let it use the various tools you give it, constantly updating it’s context. Looping transformers are a bit of a paint to work with and hopefully there could be something done in this space to make building these tools in FME easier. I’m still not sure what the best way to do this is or even if it makes any sense to use FME for this but I made some progress anyway:for example: should the tools be other CustomTransfomers for example or whole workspaces or maybe both. Should this be something somehow handled in Automations rather than a workspace? So many optionsSo far the agent isn’t interactive and I’m just putting all the context into the logfile, but in the end it would be real n

Hello, I’m starting my journey with Webhooking and of course I am already running into problems. So I have Enterprise 11.3 and Flow 2024.1 and no hosting enabled on Enterprise.So my workflow is fairly simple, I have created the following Webhook on our server: For the following service:Which then calls the very simple automatation on our Flow where any creation, updating or deleting in the dataset in the FeatureService (remember this service is referenced and not hosted) should kick of a single workspace and thats the end.However doing anything in that FeatureService, be it creating, updating or deleting does not kick of my automation. I have checked if Flow and Enterprise are speaking well together and it seems to be so as when I originally create the Webhook then the same automation kicks off with great results (its not a organisational webhook), just not when I then start to do stuff in the dataset itself. I have also made sure that the dataset in the FeatureService that originates

Hello everyoneFollowing this article I created (with the help of our IT folks) a OneDrive (Graph) web service with custom client and tenant ID values, and on using the Test feature I can successfully bring up the sign-in dialog, but my connection is repeatedly sent back for admin approval, even though I’m configured as an admin for the app, and the 365 admins approved my login.  On returning to the app I get this:A bit of web research leads me Microsoft’s troubleshooting topics, but I don’t know my way around.  Our 365 environment is pretty locked down, but IT say I should be good for the app.Has anyone been through this and has some tips?  Thanks.

Hello ! Does anybody have a clue how to transform a polygon reprensenting a text to a text ? See attached image.

Hello everybody,I hope this is a the right place for a FME Realize question as this is about mobile apps (or is there a Realize subforum I missed?) otherwise please don’t hesitate to move this thread. I am just starting out with FME Realize and I noticed some weird behaviour and was wondering if this is only because of GPS position fluctuations or because of something else.I placed spheres at these two points:When I place one via rotating/moving and lock the model the other one is quite a bit offset. I doubt it is because of my data, as it is measured by a trusted surveyor.  Correctly placed sphere and line.When I now walk over to the point where the other sphere is located it looks like this:Green circle showing where it should be, red where it isWeirdly when I now go back to the first sphere it is also offset:  I tried it with several coordinate systems and which anchor/georef.anchor on and off, but it is never correct. At the moment I am in scalefree UTM.ETRS89 - EPSG25832, though t

Hi Everyone, Looking for some assistance, I’m using FME 2023.1.0.0 trying to migrate some existing Survey-123 forms and data with attachments from ArcGIS On-Line to our new Enterprise portal.Our survey-123 form has a singular photos field for tracking a picture of the bus stop, it also has a repeatable photo’s field (table) where the inspector is able to take and attach multiple deficiency photos to the stop if one exists.  In FME, I’m able to read in the AGOL feature service that hosts all of the survey information, I’m also able to write out the tabular information from the point layer to the new Enterprise feature layer that was created when I saved the Survey-123 form in Enterprise.The part that I’m currently struggling with is getting the singular photos to attach when writing the tabular information out to the Enterprise feature service so when I view the points in ArcGIS Pro, they appear in the attachments tab of the attributes editor like they currently do with my AGOL service.

I would like to hear about everyone’s experience with “Observability” of “FME Flow” in understanding it’s health and operational usage (for example, including FME Flow in a “trace” or understanding/correlating logs in relation to metrics)My context, I’m working on maturing our GIS stack to a completely new level. Modern Observability is a major objective for us.Now, I’m working on a design and architecture where our observability platform will be able to tell us about an operation “end to end” with traces, give a high level view of failed jobs/automations/etc at a high level BUT allow us to view errors in jobs AND the system at a high level in order to know when users may be experiencing issues early on.Mainly, we want observability that will help us see wherever our users start having issues and make “incident” management a little easier for diagnostic stages.NOTE: I’m looking at the Grafana LGTM Stack as an option for us but I’d really like to hear about any experience/solutions with

Hello,I currently have some workbenches which access APIs and hence have secrets within them, which is fine when this is secured on FME Flow. I also want to set up version control, and have all of my workbenches uploaded to remote repo, GitHub. TLDR: How can I secure my API secrets on GitHub?So far I’ve looked into:encrypting my workbenches  https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407644298637-Password-Protection-for-FME-Workspaces this seems OK, but doesnt truly secure the api secrets, it does add a level of security but it could be better Storing my API keys as published parameters on FME Flow this may be hard to manage, especially when trying to run/debug/design any API workflows if a user/developer accidentally hits ‘save parameters’, then this method will likely be redundant can become messy and difficult to manage in general Would setting up the secret as a password parameter within the workbench encrypt it in the .fmw? Will a password protected workbench still work on F