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I have a DWG file I'd like to read into FME to extract certain information from. When I add the file in a Reader and choose to read Individual Feature Types, I get >100 different Feature Types, but almost all of these are empty (ie have no features in them when I run everything). Is there a way to easily select and delete these empty Readers, or alternatively to tell FME to only add those which have features in them in the first place? I have tried using the PURGE command in AutoCAD to clear any layers with no features in prior to reading the file in FME, but this doesn't seem to have done anything - I have very little CAD experience so it could definitely be that I've done this incorrectly.

With the help of the following request url in the Httpcaller, it was possible to get a returned xml output with information about one feature. However instead of retrieving information about one feature, ideally I would like to retrieve metadata of all the items from ArcGIS Online. Does anyone might have an idea how that can be achieved? This url gets me metadata of one feature.https://<companyname>.maps.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/<Item Id>/info/iteminfo.xml 

I'm trying to add a esri sde geodatabase reader to a workbench without an sde connection file. I have an example workbench I got from someone else, (but who left the company) with a geodatabase reader where I can just fill in the user credentials and server instance, and then it will read the database.  So in te example above a new connection file is not needed. However, if I try to add a new reader I can only add one when I provide it with a sde connection file. Can someone tell me how to get parameters like in the picture with an esri sde geodatabase reader?

Hi all,  Does anyone know the expected release date of FME Desktop and Server 2022.1?  We are planning our next upgrade from 2021.1 and I want to assign the upgrade to a quarter in our Life Cycle Management planning.  I don't want to risk that the software is not available.  Thanks, Annette

Can I use polyline (.shp file) and convert them to 3d display them with AR(FMEAR) ?

I have created 3d tileset combining many tilesets. I can see the parent geometry error, but for child tilesets geometry error is missing. How can I add geometry error for child tilesets? Please help me if someone have resolved this kind of issue.

I have a WMTS that works fine in QGIS, but which I can not get to work in FME Desktop (2021.2 and 2022.1). I start the WMTS-reader, use the following address: https://tiles1.geoserve.eu/Mosaics/tieserver/20220531_20220416_SV_RD_8bit_RGBMosaic_50cm_Nederland/wmts and than I get this error: .tmp' exists but could not be opened. File contents may be invalid, or the file format may not be supportedWorker 1780 > Failed to obtain any schemas from reader 'WMTS' 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  Parameter settings are chosen from the layer itself:format: Image/pngTilematrix: GooflemapscompatibleTile resolution: 18 I did try other resolutions. Again: It works fine in Qgis

I have a dataset containing 10ish attributes. Most of the fields are empty (if an item has a value in attr1, it has no value in attr2, attr3, attrN, etc), and I want to have a single attribute containing the value of all the others.

I have two geodatabase.I used "AreaOnAreaOverLayer" to have the intersections of features for the one of the geodatabase and then, for the second geodatabase. It creates for both, a field named “Overlaps”.It works correctly. After that, I wanted to join the two geodatabases The two geodatabase overlap but they haven’t the same name so I can’t use « feature joiner » because I haven’t a common field.With the transformer “clipper” I haven’t all fields  (It misses the field “overlaps” of one of the geodatabase)With “AreaOnAreaOverLayer”, “SpatialRelator”, “SpatialFilter” and NeighboorPair” one of the field "overlap" is null That’s why I want a transformer to make a spatial join and not a attribute join with all fields of two geodatabase. Thank you !  

Hi. By default we use Property Extractor geometries, but how can this be used if both geometries (part0, part1) have the same name? Thank you

I would like to incrementally download features including attachments (jpg images) using the ArcGIS Portal feature Service Reader. I want to do this by filtering the feature creation date using a tester. This works fine but when I check the option to download the attachments, it takes an enormous amount of time. It's a large datset and I only want to download some of the most recently added data. Is there any way to perform the tester operation first before downloading the attachments?

Instead of logging in and looking at the credits usage on ArcGIS.com daily/weekly, I would like to have a script running finally in the FME server that runs daily or weekly and informs me via a mail that the credits has reached a certain amount. This informs me that additional credits need to be bought.  Does anyone know what would be achievable in FME desktop? How can I retrieve credits information within FME deskstop?

 X1/Y1 is the left bottom corner and X2/Y2 is the right top corder. Cannot find how to do it...? Vertex creator with Add point and LineBuilder just draws a line

Hello My 2 recent posts were related to issues experienced with FME 2022.I was hoping this one would disappear however it still persists using the latest build. It did stop (previous build) some of my critical workflows from functioning properly although the translations were successful. Basically Attribute Manager will highlight some of my values in Red.But the transformer's cog itself isn't red. It seems to affect Arithmetic values or use of functions.  Here's the workflow - Nothing unusualLet's check the Attribute ManagerValues highlighted in Red for no apparent reasons I click on the Attribute Values and they return to "normal" however when you close / re-open the Transformer sane thing happens. Not sure what is going on here.Translation is successful though. ThanksSameer

I tried to use DateTimeCalculator, but it has an error output as 'invalid input' but I cannot see where it is.I attach the details. 

I have a series of raster files of infrared aerial imagery. I would like to intersect them with a set of polygons in a shapefile and return the average (or frequency) of the RGB channels in the rasters. Could anyone advise if this is possible please? ThanksRob

I am trying to read a custom created attribute from BIM360 with the AutodeskBIM360DocsConnector. The BIM360Connector has the option to select some attributes under the "Output Attributes" -> "Attributes to add" option but these are only the standard attributes that Autodesk supplies. I have created an attribute on our BIM360 environment called "InladenGIS" with the value Yes on a specific file. Is it possible to read this attribute value when using the List option on the AutodeskBIM360DocsConnector transformer in FME? If not, is there a possible workaround using the HTTP callers and are there plans to support custom BIM360 attributes in the future?  

Hello everyone, I'm using the paramiko and scp python libraries in a pythoncaller to transfer files from my local environment to a remote Linux server. When testing locally I received an import error which I could solve by removing all contents of C:\\Users\\<user>\\Documents\\FME\\Plugins\\Python and reinstalling paramiko and scp. However, when I transferred the contents to the Plugin folder on my FME Server instance, managed by FME Cloud, I received the same import error I previously received on FME Desktop even though the Plugin folder on FME Server was empty to start with. The import error I receive is formatted like this: Python Exception <ImportError>: cannot import name '_bycript' from partially initialized module 'bcrypt' (most likely due to a circular import) (/data/fmeserver/resources/engine/Plugins/Python/bcrypt). The following python code is the source of the import error:import paramikofrom scp import SCPClient I noticed that the importerro

I create the workspace but problem is its getting first one but what i need is get the latest one. also the file is KMZ and i cant get the Placemark where all location is stored please help me out in this  https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gis/ I am attaching the workspace

Hi everyone,I am trying to expose some custom ​attributes contained within an IFC so I can expose their attributes, see attached image (BIM vision IFC viewer).​There are ​various containers (e.g. SM location) and then custom attributes within those containers.​I followed these instructions with the GPE and Attribute Exposer but they are still not exposed. ​Thanks.​​​​​​​​​​​

To give a brief introduction. We have setup a containerized FME stack where the engines are residing on a different server. As is recommended and because the external engines are not running in the local Docker network, I am using a declarative "PORTPOOL" range. So both in environments "PORTPOOL=9000-9200" and in the ports "9000-9200:9000-9200". Using this setup, I notice the following message keep coming back in the FME Core container: "Trying to update FME Server services..." This keeps on going, where a message every seconds is being send. This seems to only happen when setting both the "PORTPOOL" and defining the ports. Removing this, does not let this message come up. To have some insight in this, I was wondering what this message is actually indicating and what is meant with "update" and "services".

Hello, I have a problem with the ImageFetcher transformer.I'm trying to create images from a WMS link. The error is : _http_error (string: UTF-8): ImageFetcher: The HTTP response did not include a Content-Type header, so the image type cannot be detected. I've tested the WMS link on Firefox, Edge and even on Internet Explorer and its working properly without any error. Thank you in advance for your help.

Hello, I have one column that is supposed to contain only numbers.But some values contain letters ou special caracters.With a Tester Transformer, how can I separate features wich the value contain letters or special caracters ? Thank you

Dear colleagues,I'm looking for a way to perform updates within 1 table based on consecutive attribute values. In the attached picture I want to increase/adjust the “Traject_volgnr” if this condition is met for 2 consecutive features : “Route4” is the same but the difference between the consecutive “Hm_pos” is greater than 2. In the example this should give the following result: Line 15089 - 15093 the "Traject_volgnr" remains 1 but in lines 15094 - 1598 the "Traject_volgnr" changes to 2 (or another value).  

Hi Everyone, I am trying to link a custom transformer, instead of having it embedded in my workspace.  But when I right click on the transformer only "Edit" is shown. The action for embedding or link is not shown (as in the tutorial link below) Any Idea where I am going wrong? Has the UI changed in FME 2022? I tried following this article:https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Desktop_Documentation/FME_Desktop/Workbench/custom_transformer_embedding_linking.htm CheersFred