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Must-Read Picks: Your Quarterly FME Knowledge Roundup!

  • March 31, 2026
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Welcome to the first FME Knowledge Roundup of 2026! We’re kicking off the year with a fresh batch of knowledge articles, tutorials, and documentation updates spanning AI model integrations, SAML authentication, geometry handling changes, and brand new formats and transformers. 

This edition also brings some important housekeeping, with guidance on recent deprecations and workspace upgrades. As always, we've rounded up the most essential reads this quarter to help you get the most out of FME.

In This Issue:

Here's what you'll find in this quarter's Must-Read Picks:

 

AI in FME

Next Steps with AI – Accessing Models Deployed from Hugging Face: Check out this guide on how to extend FME's AI capabilities by connecting to models deployed outside of FME. Covered platforms include Hugging Face, locally deployed options like LM Studio and Ollama, and cloud services like Azure AI Foundry, along with how to structure prompts and outputs for tasks like classification and information extraction.
 

Bentley ProjectWise

Connecting to ProjectWise in FME: Learn how to set up a Bentley ProjectWise web connection to read and write managed engineering content directly within your workspaces. 
 

Data QA

Data QA for Non-Spatial Data with FME: FME’s data quality assurance (QA) isn’t limited to just spatial data. This article demonstrates how to validate non-spatial data, enforce business rules and consistency checks, automate data testing using FME Flow, plus more to help catch issues early in your data pipelines.
 

Deprecations

Two features have recently been retired. If your workspaces rely on the FME Objects .NET 4 API or Nested User Parameters, be sure to review these resources to understand the impact and find guidance on migrating to supported alternatives:

Fitbit

Tutorial: How to Migrate Fitbit Data to Apple Health using FME: Migrate personal fitness data from Fitbit to Apple Health using FME. This guide covers data exporting with Google Takeout, transforming health data into yearly JSON summaries, and importing them into Apple Health via an iOS shortcut. For the full story, see Dmitri’s blog post. 
 

Geometry

FME 2026.1 brings two notable changes to geometry handling: a new dedicated IFMEGeometryInstance class replaces geometry instance functionality previously handled by IFMEAggregate in the FME Objects C++ SDK, and writers can now create database tables with multiple geometry columns across a growing list of supported formats. Check out these resources to prepare your workspaces and code for the upgrade:

Imagery

Calculating Vegetation Indices in FME – Analyzing Wildfire Impact with NBR: Learn how to calculate vegetation indices in FME using the Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR) and dNBR from Landsat 8 satellite imagery. The 2017 Elephant Hill wildfire in British Columbia is used as a worked example in this tutorial. 
 

Microsoft Dataverse

How to Connect to Microsoft Dataverse using FME Form: Connect FME Form to Microsoft Dataverse to read and write data stored in the Power Platform ecosystem. This article goes over how to create an Azure App Registration, identify your Power Platform environment URL, and configure a Web Service and Web Connection in FME for use with the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Reader and Writer.
 

REST API

You can use the FME Flow V4 API to identify workspaces that have never been run, manage projects with the REST API, and—if you're on FME Flow 2026.1 or newer—remove trailing slashes from your V4 endpoint URLs to avoid unexpected 404 errors.

SAML

New step-by-step instructions are available for both Google Workspace and ADFS below. For other SAML providers, see Login Configurations.

Troubleshooting

FME Flow Troubleshooting – Jobs and Transformations: This guide covers common issues encountered when running jobs and transformations in FME Flow, including fatal errors, HTTP error codes (401, 403, 404), ZIP file issues, jobs stuck in a queued state, and version incompatibility between FME Form and FME Flow.
 

Upgrading

Upgrading Workspaces with a New Version of FME Workbench: Not every workspace needs to be upgraded when moving to a new version of FME Workbench, but some do! This article breaks down when upgrading is necessary, what to watch out for (including Python, Java, and ArcPy version changes and custom transformer updates), and how to approach testing before deploying to production.
 

Web Connections and APIs

FME Form and Google Calendar – Workflow to Workdays: Learn how to integrate FME Form with the Google Calendar API using the HTTPCaller. The tutorial covers setting up a Google Calendar Web Connection, retrieving existing calendar events via a GET request, and creating new events via a POST request.
 

2026.1 Help Documentation Updates

FME Form

Data caching now seamlessly integrates the workspace with Data Preview or the FME Data Inspector. When enabled, output ports record feature data in temporary caches, which you can view and inspect after completing a full or partial translation.

New Formats

New Transformers

Let us know your thoughts!

We hope this edition of the FME Knowledge Roundup helps you stay ahead of the latest platform updates and best practices!  

Have suggestions for next quarter? Let us know what topics you'd like us to cover, we build these roundups with your feedback in mind.

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