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qubbiewuContributor

asked in Authoring

How to Upgrade the Version of FlexNet License Server

Hi, We are deploying FME Desktop 2022.2 in our server (it’s a virtual machine). The security team had done a security scan and expected us to upgrade the FlexNet Publisher to version 11.19.6.0 or later. However, the FlexNet installer downloaded from this link (https://fme.safe.com/downloads/) is Build 11.19.2. And it looks like bonding with FME Desktop so that we cannot upgrade FlexNet Publisher individually. How can I upgrade the version of FlexNet to version 11.19.6.0 or later? Thanks in advance. Best Regards,Qubbie

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1 hour ago

neaContributor

asked in Data

Not able to create polygons from solids

Room output from an Architectural Revit model are solids. I need room polygons and I’m not finding a transformer that will do this. Each floor of the model has a floor elevation value which would be perfect for slicing the room objects.FME version 2024.1

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4 hours ago

n.dContributor

asked in Authoring

Removing black areas in a transformed raster

Hello everyone, I transformed some Orthophtos in a new coordination system and the nodata areas are black. How can I make these areas transparent? (The output data formats are TIFF and JPEG.)(I have read the related discussions, but couldn’t find the solution for my case.) Thank you for your help!

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6 hours ago

vxn43Supporter

asked in Transformers

path_modified_date and Directory and File Pathnames Reader

What is the best way to extract the path_modified_date, path_created_date, and path_accessed_date for files in a folder (these are shapefiles and zip file)? I ran the Directory and File Pathnames Reader, and it shows these attributes as missing. Is there a transformer I need to use after this Reader to extract this information?

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1 day ago

kkqContributor

asked in Authoring

Aggregation/Grouping in stream processing

Hi,I’m getting data from a streaming source (Kafka) that contains multiple geometry per feature read in WKT. To process the geometry, I “desaggregate” the feature first, produce a geometry from the WKT string, then try to aggregate it back with the Aggregator transformer. As stream processing doesn’t allow blocking transformers, I have set the Group Processing parameter to “When Group Changes”.My issue with this solution is that the feature leave the Aggregator only when effectively, the group changes which means when a new feature is read… I was wondering if there was a way to force the output of the latest feature, or if it was possible to make the process “Desaggregate/Produce geometry/Aggregate back” treat one feature per feature. Edit: this is most probably possible with a PythonCaller, I’m wondering if there was a “native” solution.

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1 day ago

vxn43Supporter

asked in Data

Extract metadata from a shapefile

Hello, What is the best way to extract metadata from a shapefile? This would include Title, Tags, Summary, Description, Credits, Field Names, and Summaries. I want to export the metadata to an Excel spreadsheet.I am looking for some ideas on what transformers to use.

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1 day ago

havermContributor

asked in Community Q+A

FME AR - Availability

Hello,I am interested in testing the FME-AR App on Iphone, but I cant find it in the Apple app-Store. When I open https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/fme-ar in Safari to be redirected, I get a ‘App currently not avaible in your country’ (Germany) notification. I am kinda sure I saw it in the app store a while ago though…Sadly the fme-ar info page https://academy.safe.com/page/by-product also throws a not existing error, even though the other redirects work.Can anyone tell me if this problem is on my end, my countries end or if the project was stopped alltogether? Or otherwise how I can fix it/find additional information about FME-AR? Thanks in advance!

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1 day ago

leon.bowersContributor

asked in Community Q+A

Cannot write dynamic ArcGIS Enterprise feature layer

Hi,My goal is to read multiple (unknown) Hosted Feature Layers (HFLs) from an AGOL group and write those to ArcGIS Enterprise (11.3). I can successfully specify a single HFL in my FeatureReader and using an Automated schema in my FeatureWriter, specify each individual layer and write it to Enterprise. As I need this to work for multiple HFLs, most with multiple layers, I need to use a dynamic schema in my FeatureWriter. As soon as I do this, my workbench fails. Every time I switch to a dynamic writer, using the fme_feature_type as layer name and schema from schema feature, the workbench fails due to these errors:Message Type: fme::internal::_v0::py::ExceptionPython Exception <KeyError>: 'My_HFL_Name'ARCGISPORTALFEATURES writer: An error has occurred. Check the logfile above for details I’ve tried everything I can think of to get this working and cannot understand what I’m possibly doing wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated. My workbench (so complex...) AGOL HFL FeatureRea

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1 day ago

sunnywaygisContributor

asked in Automation

Extract Detailed Job messages from FME Flow Successful/Failed Jobs

Hi All, I want to extract detailed log messages from FME job running on FME Flow (Ver 2021.2.3). What options are available to extract this information along with basic job information like Workspace, Repository, user, source, start and end time. etc. Appreciate any feedback. Jay

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1 day ago

koenContributor

asked in Deployment

Module 'realdwg/REALDWG' is unavailable for use with this FME edition (FME Flow 2024.2)

After upgrading FME Flow to 2024.2 some of our workspaces fail with the following error:WARN |Library 'F:\FMEFlow\Server\fme\plugins/realdwg/REALDWG.dll' was found but could not be loaded. Ensure that all the dependent modules exist for this library WARN |Could not load module 'F:\FMEFlow\Server\fme\plugins/realdwg/REALDWG.dll' : 'The specified module could not be found' WARN |Could not load module 'F:\FMEFlow\Server\fme\realdwg/REALDWG.dll' : 'The specified module could not be found' ERROR |Module 'realdwg/REALDWG' is unavailable for use with this FME editionSeems like RealDWG and AUTOCAD_OD readers/writers do not work anymore. -Is this a known issue/bug?-Is RealDwg not supported anymore? It does work in FME Form 2024.2

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2 days ago

muhammadsambe0Participant

asked in Community Q+A

téléchargement automatique des données IGN (BD topo, BD, cart), OSM, DatatGouv, INSEE sur FME

Bonjour,je veux d’automatiser le téléchargement et la mise à jour des données accessibles via les plateformes de diffusion de données géographiques (IGN : BDTOPO, BDCARTO, etc., OSM, DREAL…).Actuellement, je travaille sur la partie automatisation du téléchargement dans FME, qui consiste à moissonner ces données. J’ai déjà fait quelques avancées, mais je sollicite votre aide sur des conseils; liens utiles ou des pistes afin d’approfondir mes travaux..En vous remerciant d’avance.

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2 days ago

muhammadsambe0Participant

asked in Community Q+A

Découpage ECW assemblé 30GO

Bonjour, Je rencontre des difficultés depuis plus d'une semaine pour lire et transformer un fichier raster étendu au format ECW (orthophotographie avec une résolution de 5 cm et une taille de 30 Go) sur ue version FME 2020. Je sollicite des aides.Merci d’avance Mouhamed

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2 days ago

lifalin2016Contributor

asked in Transformers

XML flattening of lists with one entry

Hi all.I'm having a hard time figuring out why lists with one entry, especially if it's read from XML, is mishandled in FME.A list may have any number of entries, and if reading such from XML, they often have any number including zero entries.When flattening the output, cycling thru the list, one normally uses ListExploder. However, if the list in question has one entry, it's auto-exploded, which makes ListExploder reject it. So I have to check the rejected features to see, if the list had been auto-exploded or if it had no entries at all. E.g. two or more transformers instead of just one.Why?Wouldn't it be more logical to _always_ create a list, if there are 1 or more entries ?It works as such in 2021.0Is this behaviour specific to XML (or JSON?) flattening ?Cheers.

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2 days ago

emiliodepalmaContributor

asked in Community Q+A

how to read an Oracle multi spatial column table with FME Workbench

In some tables stored in an Oracle database there are more than one spatial column.The reader can't read all the spatial columns but it reads onnly the first column it encounteres.how to read an Oracle multi spatial column table with FME Workbench?Emilio De Palma

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2 days ago

9valContributor

asked in Deployment

Automatic product updates from 1st August 2025

Effective August 1, 2025, Legacy products (all editions of FME Desktop and FME Server) will be deprecated and updated to FME Form and FME Flow. Annual Maintenance will be based on the list price of FME Form and FME Flow.https://fme.safe.com/pricing/annual-maintenance/I am interested to know how these updates (upgrades) will be done. Are these updates mandatory and will they be done automatically? If so, is there a risk of any errors?Our company has several Production servers with FME Server v2020.2 installed and we also have old versions of FME Desktop installed.

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2 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

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3 days ago

saravananContributor

asked in Transformers

Modify Schema list attributes

I have a requirement to modify the list attribute generated on schema port.Lets say my schema scanner have default attributes name, fme data type and native data type.I want to look on name attribute and find any of its elements have OBJECTID string and remove if it is present.I try to modify list attributes using python caller. It modifies the list elements when I overwrite using feature.setAttribute method it is not working and returns original schema attributes unmodified. Any help using python would be highly appreciable.

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3 days ago

texxkContributor

asked in Data

Transposing lists into multiple groups

I’m trying to output all property sets from IFC files into separate Excel sheets. So far I’ve found all of the property sets, their attributes and their attribute values. This is my data:What I would like to do is transpose this list into separate lists for each property set like so: After that I could simply write each list to separate Excel sheets, but this is where I get stuck. I create the sheets by feeding the writer from a DuplicateFilter, but how do I join each PsetAttribute to Pset as well as transpose the data so each PsetAttribute is a single column?I need to do it without knowing the exact names or number of property sets existing in each IFC file as well.

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3 days ago

mbaumgartnerContributor

asked in Automation

issue with component "Trigger". Publisher dirwatch does not exist

I am trying to create an automation using a trigger that watches a directory. If a file in the directory is added/created it launches an FME Workspace. However I keep getting the following error:2024-12-14T20:10:08Z | 410109 : (Automations) Creating link from trigger...3 2024-12-14T20:10:08Z | 410108 : (Automations) Creating dirwatch trigger...4 2024-12-14T20:10:08Z | 410112 : (Automations) Unable to assemble automation. There was an issue with component "Trigger". Publisher dirwatch does not exist.The same thing happens when I try add a trigger that watches an FTP? and I get the same error when trying to add a Publication under the Notification.What am I missing? Do I need to add something special for a trigger to work? is it possible that I am missing some part of FME?I am working with a FME FLOW 2024.1that is in a Azure Kubernetes cluster.Any help or hint that could explain the error is highly appreciated.

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3 days ago

neaContributor

asked in Data

Trouble reading multiple linked models in a Revit model

Host Revit file has 137 linked files. When I try to read even a small portion of these I get the error.Failed to obtain any schemas from reader 'REVITNATIVE' from 1 datasets. This may be due to invalid datasets or format accessibility issues due to licensing, dependencies, or module loading. See logfile for more information.I’m using a FeatureReader linked to the Metadata.LinkedInformation output of the host Revit file (first strcating the LinkedFilePath and Name attributes). I get this error even when I limit the input to one record. Separately, a FeatureReader (along with Creator to initiate) can read one of these files. I saw a similar post where the answer was to change the FME_Temp folder. I don’t think this will make a difference since I get the error when only trying one file. I would try this but I need admin rights to set this up on my computer and I won’t be able to get that until next week. Also, I would rather know for sure before I ask. Thanks in advance.

HTTP Caller POST To Add Attachment to Cityworks Work Order

Im trying to work with the Cityworks API to create Work Orders using FME desktop.I used the http caller to create the Work order and populate the necessary fields. However, my next challenge is to upload an attachment to the Work Order that comes from the attachment in the AGOL feature Layer created from Survey123. To do that I have used another HTTP caller set to POST with the URL.../services/Ams/Attachments/AddWorkOrderAttachment? I know I have the Query string correct but I'm doing something wrong in the Multipart Upload section. Also, Do I need to use a token if I'm using a web connection for Authentication?

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7 days ago

so_much_moreSupporter

asked in Transformers

Read .log files and check for errors

I have a work process that inlcudes running FME jobs daily.I would like to automate logging of potential errors. To do so i am thinking of just reading the .log files from the workbench(es) and search for error as keyword to catch if something went wrong in the translation. I thought it would be straight forward to implement, but i cannot find a way to read .log files using FME directly. Instead I am thinking to use a python script. But I wanted to ask here if I have missed an easy method to check log files for errors.

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7 days ago

sigherContributor

asked in Integration

MBTiles (RASTER) writing

Any way to write to different zoom levels on the same MBTile? If I change the mbtiles_zoom_level and send 2 rasters to the writer - it still writes 2 different tiles, and not within a single MBTile and different layers/overview. Is this not possible?

2016

8 days ago

peter.frohbergContributor

asked in Deployment

How to disable "Data Collection" via environment variable?

Hi everyone,after opdating FME Flow from 2024.0.3 to 2024.2.1 I’ve noticed that there is a (new?) “Data collection” optione within the Security Options. We are using FME Flow via docker compose. Is it possible to disable the “Data collection” via a (Docker) environment variable so I don’t have to disable it manually after every update?GreetingsPeter

How to append a value to a list?

Hi!I have a list, containing between 5 and 50 values (varying). How can I append a value to this list? I can only assume there has to be a non-pythonic way, but I struggle to find one. My approach was to use AttributeCreator, but I can't dynamically specify the position in the list. Had the list size been fixed, then that's a solution - but not in this case.Any ideas?

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10 days ago

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