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The usage notes in ProjectWiseWSGConnector states:The FeatureReader can access ProjectWise directly (without using the ProjectWiseWSGConnector), however, a local copy of the dataset will not be created. But how is this done?  Thanks in advance.

Hi,This isn't so much a question as pointing out a minor issue.The WorkspaceRunner transformer (FME 2022.1.2) doesn't allow the user to select an attribute value for the value of a parameter in the workspace to be called if that parameter is in a group:

I am trying to email a file geodatabase. I quickly learned that FME Server doesnt like folders and will only zip and email files. So I went back to the desktop client and set the gdb to be zipped for output. Tested it on local storage and I get a valid zip archive that contains the gdb folder. I then publish that workspace to FME Server and run it with a geodatabase folder parameter of $(FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_DATA)\\BuildingFootprintQC\\BFP_overlaps.zip\\BFP_overlaps.gdbOR$(FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_DATA)\\BuildingFootprintQC\\Neither works. The workspace runs without error but generates no output. I logged into the host server and checked the resources folders to make sure the zip is not there and indeed its not being created.  How can I get FME Server to follow the desktop function of zipping the output so I can tell the email action in the automation to send the gdb as an attachment? Edit:I checked the log and the entry MULTIREADER: output will be zipped only appears when running on the deskt

Hi, I've recently completed a FME Serverdeployment on Azure Kubernetes and I'm positively thrilled about thecapabilities of FME Server on this environment.The automatic scaling of the Azure node pools for dynamic engines makes it very easy for large requests to be handled easily by FME Server. When you assign a number of engines to a specific node pool with property: “compute” via a helm upgrade command     - name: "dynamic-group-1"  ->   - name: "dynamic-group-1"        engines: 2                                               engines: 8        type: "DYNAMIC"                                type: "DYNAMIC"        nodeSelector:                                     nodeSelector:          property: compute                          property: compute            Azure Kubernetes handles this perfectly with autoscaling and start up these nodes and engines without issue.However, I would expect that when these engines are not in use FME Server

Does anyone know what causes the error?

Hello,I want a trigger in FME Cloud with an Emailer 24h/7. When I receive an email, I run a process. If I receive no email within an hour, do I still need to pay for that hour of instance running, even if I ran no process?Thank you.

Hi, I have multiple strings that are in this format 560_20170619_0900, I would like to remove all before and after the '_', leaving me with just 20170619. Is this possible using the attribute trimmer and regex?ThanksB

I am trying to configure FME Server for HTTPS using a client provided pfx certificate. I have used this documentation, successfully completing steps 1-6. However I'm getting this error:I suspect there is an issue with the certificate, but I'm unsure where to begin looking, or how to fix.  When looking at the certificate details, the Owner CN is '*.<client_website>.com, which differs from the local host FME Server is installed with. Is this the same as the hostname?

Hello There I have features that intersect with each other I want to create a group based on their interconnection as you can see in the picture there 3 group each group has features that intersect with each other to create a chain Thanks 

I am doing the FME Server Authoring 2021.1 trainig and I see video day 3 is completely irrelevant to the FME server training modules. Now I started day 4 it seems few modules skipped as day 3 was not the correct video.Is there any other source to the trainig video that match with course modules?

I have 3 counters in my workspace. And I want them to produce a single count. The documentation says : "When multiple Counters have the same name and Count Scope is Global, they produce a single count."  In my workspace the Scope of the Counter is set to Global but, I cannot figure it out how to write the same name for the three counters! When trying to write the same name for the counter transformers, FME (2021.1) automatically changes the names to Counter_2, Counter_3, Counter_X .... so I'm not getting a unique count for my workspace, what I have is three different counts starting from 0.  This is a basic question, Is the name of the transformer what I have to change to get a unique count? I'm sure I'm missing something and maybe someone can help me with this.  Thanks!

Hello everyone, I have a question with regard to preserving the pattern style of hatches in DWG files.  I have a simple DWG file with two lines (blue), one text (yellow), a dimension (magenta), and a polygon (blue) which is filled with a hatch (cyan):  If I now simply read the DWG file with a REALDWG reader and do nothing but write it again with the REALDWG writer, the hatching pattern looks very different in the result - which is basically because the lines of the hatching pattern are much closer together than they were in the original DWG file:More details below. Does anyone know how I need to parameterize reader and/or writer such that the pattern style of the hatch is preserved 1:1? In the REALDWG reader, I already linked the read-in DWG file as a "Template File". This helped to preserve the styling of the dimension but unfortunately not with regard to the pattern style of the hatch.  Here some more details:Regarding the parameterization of the REALDWG reader, I only unch

I have a tester that checks if the user entered something into a user parameter. If they don't enter something then I want to create a new record. Currently it tests for the null and then it essentially stops as no data comes through. I want to create the data thorough a series of calculations. How do I do that?

FME 2022.1 64-bit Personal Geodb Reader - Reading feature type as case-sensitive. Where as 32-bit Personal Geodb Reader in earlier versions used to read feature type name as case-insensitive. Is there a way to make FME 2022.1 64-bit Personal Geodb Reader to read feature type as case-insensitive? 

How to split a delimited string with a carriage return to create a stacked list. Example:Input = A:1-100+B:1-300+C:1-600Output = A:1-100 B:1-300 C:1-600 The output will be stored in a multiline attribute in AutoCAD 2017.

Hi,How can I join each feature from one dataset to all features from a second dataset?Datasets aren't related to each other by any column.  Thanks in advance,Moisés

Hello FME community, I have loaded a text file as CSV into the workflow so that a table is created.This then looks like this:I need a process that can work independently of the number of attributes but according to a pattern. Therefore I have converted these attributes into a list. Here is an excerpt from it: (fme_basename: 102)_list{0}.col2   892_list{0}.col3   1448_list{0}.col4   48_list{0}.col5   70_list{0}.col6   874_list{0}.col7   1628_list{0}.col8   50_list{0}.col9   78 The pattern looks like this:col2 and col6 belong in one attribute (x)col3 and col7 belong in one attribute (y)col4 and col8 belong in one attribute (dx)col5 and col9 belong in one attribute (dy) So every 4th element belongs to the same attribute.I would like to change the list so that the index can be set according to the pattern. This would then have to look like this: _list{0}.col2   892_list{1}.col3   1448_list{2}.col4   48 _list{3}.col5   70 _list{0}.col6   874_list{1}.col7   1628_list{2}.col8   50_list{3}.col

Is it possible to DELETE files using the WRITER "File Copy" ?  UPDATE:I have created a custom transformer that uses the solution (FeatureWriter in MOVE to null) and uploaded to https://hub.safe.com/publishers/sigtill/transformers/filedeleter Feel free to send any feedback related to this.

Hi, I'm new to FME server and I configured an smtp account to send system emails however something wrong is happening as no emails are actually sent.The configuration seems correct in Admin panel (configuration > system & email > email service) (correct info and validation test pass). However, the simple test of running a workspace with email notification on status does not work. Checking the subscribers logs (resources/logs/core/current/subscribers/emails.log) gives quite odd information: "801031 : Invalid SMTP server." I used the same SMTP configuration using an emailer transformer onto a workspace; everything works fine when running on the server. So I'm a bit confused here about why it gives this error since all other stuff seems OK ... (side note: I'm using infomaniak.com infrastructure for the mail server and they does not ask for 2nd auth or other protection for sending email from other apps) Thanks in advance!

Hi,I'm using a FeatureMerger to check that two files contain the same features based on their attributes.Apparently, they don't seem to contain the same features although I thought they would. I must be missing something in the data. That's allright, FME's there to help me isn't it :)But strangely, the features which are not merged are not output by the UnmergedRequestor port of FeatureMerger. Isn't that weird ? 

Is it possible to create a bar chart with space between the bars? Currently they are merged together?  

Hello everyone, I noticed that FME does not read the AutoCAD 3D element types- mass element - mass group (which is composed from mass elements)at all. On the other hand, 3d solids are read in. Below is an example of this.  Is there any way to read in mass elements from AutoCAD files with FME (e.g. by suitable parameter settings on the reader)? Alternatively, is there any way that with FME, I can detect if there are mass elements in an AutoCAD file (a simple yes/no would be sufficient for me)? Here is the example: I have some DWG file containing four 3D objects, one mass element, one mass group and two 3D solids, one of which is the mass group converted to a 3D solid: When I now read this DWG file into FME (Autodesk AutoCAD DWG/DXF reader with standard parameters), only the two 3D solids are available to me as FME features, but neither mass group nor mass element: I attached the DWG file to this post.

I'm new to FME and the Vmap/VPF format, And I would like to now how to convert an ESRI shapefile, obstacles (points with attribute height), to the VPF format. Is there someone who can guide me?

Is it possible to loop in FME? I want to connect a transformer back to the previous transformer in a particular condition.

Hi,I created a custom transformer which includes a PythonCaller to run a little script, worked fine while the transformer was embedded. I exported the custom transformer and added it to another workspace as a linked transformer, and now get the error:"The workspace is set to use `Python 3.9+', but the workspace contains a linked custom transformer with an incompatible Python Compatibility of `Python 2.7'. Please update the Python Compatibility of the workspace or the linked custom transformer" Both the workspace and the custom transformer are set to Python3.9+It works fine if I embed the transformer again. Any idea how I can resolve this?