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edwibberleyContributor

asked in Data

ESRI ArcGIS Server Feature Service reader won't read feature type. Error - ArcGIS Feature Service Reader: Encountered an unexpected error. The error code from the server was '500' and the message was: 'Error performing query operation'. Details: ''

Hi, I have a workspace using an ESRI ArcGIS Server Feature Service reader with a token authentication. I am trying to read 3 feature types from the map server and 2 of them read fine but one comes back with the error: "ArcGIS Feature Service Reader: Encountered an unexpected error. The error code from the server was '500' and the message was: 'Error performing query operation'. Details: ''" Does anyone have any ideas of why only one of the feature types would not work? The three feature services should all have the same naming standards and schema so there is no reason why they should behave differently that I can see. Are there any suggestions for how I might be able to find the source of this issue? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

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6 days ago

galigisEnthusiast

asked in Transformers

Hard Dissolver - Error translating normal Dissolver

Hi All, I’m trying to dissolve thousands of polygons from different feature classes into a single shape in FME. The idea is to obtain a single external boundary after merging/dissolving all the polygons. The current dissolve transformer gives me an error while trying to dissolve the polygons.Parameters in the dissolver are set to default.Is there any ‘hard dissolver’ option to merge the following? Thanks :)

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6 days ago

mariasContributor

asked in Authoring

Alternative way to assign PrimaryKey and Serial data type

Hello,Is there any way to assign Index “Primary key” to the field and Type “serial” somehow in another way rather than in Feature writer - User attributes? These options are not present in AttributeManager transformer, unfortunately. That would help me to reduce number of manual adjustments and use “Automatic” attribute definition. Because I have many FeatureWriter transformers in my workspace and I need to replicate it to read another data.

New Snowflake geometry data type (not geography)

Snowflake recently released their new "geometry" data type. Not to be confused with the existing "geography" data type. The geometry data type can contain geometries in other coordinate systems, not just WGS84. Whereas geography is specifically WGS84. See Geography vs Geometry data types documentation hereGeospatial Data Types — Snowflake Documentation When will FME support writing of the new snowflake geometry data types? Is there a way to do this right now, or will it be a future release of the Snowflake Spatial writer?

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6 days ago

brunoContributor

asked in Transformers

How to add IFC property

Hello to all,I need to add a missing property into an existing Pset. I tried the workbench shown by Liz in the post “Updating IFC example” but it doesn’t work in my case. Before testing with an Excel sheet contaning GUID and properties to add, I just test to add manually a single property:First, I created 2 attributes:Then I used the GeometryPropertySetter:With the XQuery:I find my previous properties in the “Proprietes” Pset, but I don’t have the new one “TypeVitrage”. Did I forget something or do I have to use “IfcPropertySetDefinitionCreator” ? Thank in advanceBest regardsBruno

brunoContributor

Hello,I would like to know if the IfcZone are managed with the version 2024?Best regardsBruno

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6 days ago

danielleatsafeSafer

posted in Question of the Week

Question of the Week: Have you tried any new FME 2024.2 features?

Hi FME Community, In case you missed it, last week FME 2024.2 was released. We’re curious… have you tried any of the new features? Vote on the poll and tell us in the comments what you’ve tried.PS. @mark2atsafe has made some handy video demos to walk you through using the new features. The demos are linked in this post.New to the Question of the Week? Every week, we’ll post a simple but thought-provoking question that could be about your FME journey, the power of spatial data, FME innovation, or the future of FME.Each weekly question you answer earns you an entry in our monthly draw for exclusive Safe swag ($50 value) and points toward badges! Answer our November Questions of the Week by Saturday, November 30 at 5:00 pm PDT to be entered in this month’s draw.Answer your first question and you’ll get the Socializer (Ice Breaker) badge. Answer five questions and you’ll get the Socializer (Talker) badge.

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6 days ago

bruceharoldContributor

asked in Automation

Bulk metadata update - the full story

HiIn our recent webinar about streamlining metadata automation we got a survey question which showed I didn’t make the functionality clear:“I am not seeing how this will help. We have over 500 different layers, the bulk example showed over a hundred layers being updated but they were all the exact same layer, which is a situation in my opinion that doesn't exist for most people.”My demo indeed showed 145 portal items of the same type having their metadata updated according to some admittedly bogus business rules. I failed to make the point that any number of any item type could be handled. For example if contact detail changes meant a phone number or email contact needed to be changed you might search all items for the string to replace, or if you knew only shared items of a particular type needed license terms changed then operate on only those.Sorry for the confusion.

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6 days ago

danielleatsafeSafer

asked in Question of the Week

Question of the Week: How did you first get into GIS?

Hi FME Community,In celebration of National GIS Day on November 20 this week’s Question of the Week is: How did you first get into GIS? Share your answer in the comments below.New to the Question of the Week? Every week, we’ll post a simple but thought-provoking question that could be about your FME journey, the power of spatial data, FME innovation, or the future of FME.Each weekly question you answer earns you an entry in our monthly draw for exclusive Safe swag ($50 value) and points toward badges! Answer our November Questions of the Week by Saturday, November 30 at 5:00 pm PDT to be entered in this month’s draw.Answer your first question and you’ll get the Socializer (Ice Breaker) badge. Answer five questions and you’ll get the Socializer (Talker) badge.

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6 days ago

willydeveraContributor

asked in Integration

How to configure FME Form to work with Anaconda

Hi,Could you please provide an official documentation on how to configure FME Form to access the latest Python version from Anaconda distribution as well as its machine learning libraries. Admittedly, there are topics already posted in the community related to the subject; however nothing seems to work for me.BTW, I’m running FME(R) 2024.1.2.1 (20240906 - Build 24624 - WIN64) on Windows 11 EnterpriseThanks in advance,Willy de Vera

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6 days ago

fmelizardContributor

asked in Blog Alerts

5 ways FME Hub helps you reach your data integration goals

Blogger Tiana Warner just posted a new article to the FME Blog.Title: 5 ways FME Hub helps you reach your data integration goalsSummary: Learn how to access and share transformers, formats, and more in the new and improved FME Hub.Introduction: FME Hub has long been the go-to spot for accessing and sharing transformers, formats, web services, workspace templates, packages, and FME Flow projects contributed by both Safe Software and the FME community. Now, we’ve rebuilt FME Hub to make it easier to use, improve the publishing process, and provide a clearer interface. Read our post in the FME Community for a detailed list of the latest FME Hub improvements, and read on for 5 ways FME Hub can help you accomplish your data integration goals.Would you like to know more? Click here to read this new article!

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7 days ago

vishnuiamContributor

asked in Transformers

How can I pull Google BigQuery Data in FME

I want to pull Google BigQuery data in FME and write as shapefile. Can somebody help me on how to do that?

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7 days ago

vishnuiamContributor

asked in Automation

I'm unable to see/select GoogleBigQuery as Reader in FME

I’m new to FME tool and I wanted to pull data from Google BigQuery tables and convert into GeoDatabase and shapefile. I'm using FME Workbench version 2024.1.1 and I'm experiencing an issue with using Google BigQuery as a reader. But I’ve installed Google BigQuery as a transformer and attempted to pull data, but no data is being retrieved. I’ve also authenticated using a service account key file, but the data still isn’t showing up.

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7 days ago

arild_fContributor

asked in Transformers

Railway crossings

Hello community!I am working on an analysis to calculate the percentage of incline or decline from railway level crossings. This means the incline or decline along the road that crosses the railway.The desired result is six percentage values. Three for each side of the track (viewed in increasing kilometer (M-value)). The three intervals are 0-4.5 meter, 4.5-8 meter and 8-18 meter, measured from the outer edge of the railway track.It is desirable that the length is measured along the road.Decline from the level crossing should be shown as a negative percentage value, and incline as a positive percentage value. Based on the client's wishes, I have divided the analysis into smaller tasks:Add a property that shows whether the road lines are on the right or left side of the railway, viewed in increasing kilometer (M-value). I have tested the LeftRightSpatialCalculator, but for some unknown reason it always gives me the same side on both sides. I see that TopologyBuilder is mentioned in the

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7 days ago

jorge_rosalesContributor

Improve Lenient Geometry Matching behaviorNew

As I understand it, the Lenient option states that two polygons are equal if Within(A, B) and Within(B, A). That is, A and B occupy the same space. However, I think that an option is missing that, in addition to checking that they occupy the same space, also checks that they have the same number of vertices even if their order may be different.In my case it is important to perform topological quality control of layers such as land covers. The addition of a new vertex to a polygon, even if it is collinear, is a new version of the polygon geometry.

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7 days ago

jorge_rosalesContributor

asked in Community Q+A

Two geometries with different numbers of vertices are equal for ChangeDetector

One feature has 40 vertices and the other 41, but ChangeDetector using “Lenient Geometry Matching” option says they are the same. It's right?

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7 days ago

poonam21Contributor

asked in Integration

Python creator "outdated package" error

Hi folks, I’m trying to execute a python script using Python Creator. The flow is running as expected also with expected outcome, but its giving this error - I have checked the updates is FME package but still not working.Not getting why this error is occuring. If anyone has any idea about it, kindly help. Thanks in advance.

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7 days ago

fme_hansContributor

asked in Transformers

Select polygons at random.

Hi,I have a shape with polynones. I want to select 30% of the polygons at random. Is that possible?

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7 days ago

juliarozemaContributor

asked in General

Is there a way to use the Emailer Transformer where it gets the list of email addresses from a text file?

Basically here is the need: right now workbenches run (Using FME Desktop 2020.2 and Task Scheduler) and the email addresses are typed out within the Emailer Addressing "To" parameter.We would like things to be more easily updated. For example, if someone is no longer on the team, or if someone is new on the team, we would like to simply update a text file and ALL of our jobs will be updated. I tried reading the text file in, aggregating the addresses into one long string separated with a comma, but I wasn't sure how to assign the value to a User Parameter.(I tried a couple things and failed) Thanks in advance for your help.@danminneyatsaf

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7 days ago

nicholasContributor

asked in Automation

How does SystemCaller trigger a Failure in Automation?

I have an Automation on FME Server, which runs a workbench and that workbench runs a SystemCaller which runs a python script.Occasionally, the python script fails to run, and I want this failure to be recognised by the Automation, so that it sends me an email stating that it has failed.How do I do this?I can see how to set up the SystemCaller so that the Output Exit Code Attribute has a value of nonzero (representing failure)But how does this trigger the workbench to fail inside the Automation?I need the Automation to recognise the failure event so that it can generate an email stating that.

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7 days ago

sussexpeteContributor

asked in Authoring

FME Workbench and other FME Form software broken by VMWare Tools

Since updating our FME Form host computer with the latest version of VMWare Tools, FME Desktop, FME Data Inspector, and all other FME Form GUI software does not run.We briefly get a spinner and then nothing. The problem was noted on FME version 2021 but is a problem with all version of FME Form up to the latest version FME(R) 2024.1.3.0 (20240927 - Build 24627 - WIN64).It is still possible to run Workspaces in batch mode.The issue seems to be with OpenGL as indicted in the log, below.I would be interested if others have the same issue and, if so, how the issue can be resolved.Here is a snip from the log file:VMWare Tools v12.5.0.24276846Faulting Module = vm3dgl64.dllWorking Version = 3.5.3.2Faulting Version = 3.6.0.0 Event Log:Faulting application name: fmeworkbench.exe, version: 2021.7.41.21614, time stamp: 0x60f7b7a5Faulting module name: vm3dgl64.dll, version: 3.6.0.0, time stamp: 0x66a16726Exception code: 0xc0000005Fault offset: 0x0000000000e3696dFaulting process id: 0x1becFaulting

SystemCaller failed but still does its job

Hi, This is just for esthetics: I geht houndreds of warnings from FME_Server runnung an Job with some SystemCallers that copy files with robocopy. Although everything works fine and the the files are copied, "Failed to Execute" does not look nice. SystemCaller_12: Failed to Execute `robocopy \\\\RZ2-ZDA-01\\Data$\\Aktuell\\INSPIRE \\\\RZ2-ZDA-01\\Data$\\Historisch\\INSPIRE CP_CadastralParcel.gpkg' If I use the commandline "cmd" from Win2019 on the FME-Server then I dont get any warning.

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7 days ago

deanhowellEnthusiast

asked in Authoring

Hold Data from filter to be able to set projection

In the above image, I read a text file that contains lines of data where specific lines that start with an ID relate to different features.In the #1 category it contains the projection information but I want to be able to set the projection of the other output ports based in the information in that line.How do I hold and set the projection of the Lines, Points, etc?I was thinking that I may just need to read the text file twice, once to get the projection from Port #1 and then have a feature reader that can then set the projection before processing the other output ports.Is there a more efficient way of doing it?

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7 days ago

mpittingerContributor

asked in Automation

Provide specific response body to Webhook POST from 3rd party app

Hello everyone-Hoping that someone may be able to help with this question!Is there a way to provide a specific required JSON Response body (for example: {“status”:”OPERATION_OK} ) to a 3rd party application in response to a successful post to an FME Flow Automation with a Webhook trigger? I feel like I’m missing something obvious here….Any help would be greatly appreciated!Mike

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7 days ago

pbyhistorianContributor

asked in Community Q+A

How to merge two workflows from the same Defragmenter

Hello.I have a JSON file the looks roughly like this, containing a list of un-named values:{ [ { “UniqueID”:123446, “Dealership”:”Dan’s Dodge”, “Owner”:”Dan”, “BestSelling”: [ “blue”, “red”, “blue”, ... “red” ] ... “Telephone”:”411” }, ... ]}My first JSONFragmenter feeds two workflows: the first workflow captures the named values (including “UniqueID”), and the second workflow immediately discards everything but “UniqueID” and the JSON from the first JSONFragmenter and then uses a JSONFragmenter to turn the JSON list into Features. Finally, a FeatureJoiner that adds to each newly-minted Feature an Attribute containing the appropriate name for its unnamed value. Now it’s time to FeatureMerge the new Attributes back into the first workflow by matching on “UniqueID”.Alas, the newly-assigned names are stored in the same Attribute of each JSON-list Feature. So, after FeatureMerger merges the first Feature,

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