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Detecting the Geometry of a Feature Class in a FeatureWriter (ArcSDE Geodb)


tomraaymakers
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Dear FME Users,

In our organization, we frequently work with Esri Geodatabases, and we often use FeatureWriters to write data to these databases. This process has always worked smoothly for us until we updated our FME Form to version 2024.2. Since the update, we've encountered an issue where the geometry of a feature class is no longer auto-detected when adding a connection to a .sde file (we always embed these connections) and then adding a feature class from the dataset. Previously, this functionality worked perfectly, and we appreciated not having to manually set the geometry.

Could this issue be related to the version of FME Form, the transformer itself, or are we possibly missing a setting in the FeatureWriter setup?

Example

Interestingly, when we select a table without geometry, it is auto-detected as a 'geodb_table'. However, for some reason, geometries are not being detected.

Any help would be appreciated!

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crutledge
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  • March 25, 2025

Hi ​@tomraaymakers That’s interesting. I have always had to define the geometry but I don’t deal much with SDE. Have you tried selecting Dynamic Schema? That should use the geometry_type in the feature format attributes.


ebygomm
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  • March 25, 2025

I’ve never known the geometry type to be auto defined in the FeatureWriter, the Feature Class when entered is just a text field, it’s not verifying that it actually exists at that point so how would it know what the geometry type is?

 

I’d love it if it worked more like the standard writer and had an import from dataset option


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