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Hi, I'm creating a workbench to make some audit on GIS files. First my workbench list all files that are into a directory (including subdirectories).Then, I filter theses files to keep only the one I want to audit, for exemple every shapefiles.Finaly I get the schema of every shapefile with the <schema> output of a FeatureReader. It works really great but if I have two files with the same name in two different subdirectories my problem comes : only 1 schema is kept.That's how FME works, it unions feature types with the same name. But in my case, I need to analyse the schema of every layer even if they have the same name. This is an audit so these file can have different schema even if they have the same name. I want to have an automatic workbench and not having to create one FeatureReader for each directory. Is there anyone with an idea on how to get the schema of two files with the same name in two different subdirectories ? Thank you

hi i have some features contain arabican numbers (۰۱۲۳۴۵۶۷۸۹), how to convert any arabic digit to english (0123456789)? for example all of ۱ converts to 1, or all of ۲ converts to 2 and so on thanks guys

Hallo FME Community, I am trying to convert ArcSDE to DWG file. A DWG template is available for this, which must be applied to the points (See picture 1).   in my file there is a column named autocad_block_name. this column defines which symbol in DWG template has to be applied to which point. one layer can contain two symbols. (See Picture 2)   Other column is autocad_layer sets the name of the layer in writer.   the DGW Template contains 250 layers and each layer contains a symbol. from these 250 symbols we only need 40 symbols. what problem is that my result contains all layers of DWG_Template and autocad_layer column. I want my result to only get the layers that are in my autocad_layer. 

Hi All, the attached screenshot explains a lot so might want to check that out first. My problem is that I have successfully set up a homemade 'file watcher' where we can drop various files into one folder to be sorted and moved to their correct folders. All this is doing is saving a lot of manual drag and drops but there's a lot of them so it's quite useful (if I can get it to work).  As you can see in the screenshot, the first 4 files sorted just get copied back out and that works perfectly. The 5th, an xls file called 'covid vaccine data', needs to be read in and the records written back out as a csv before being copied elsewhere. You can see that I attempted to use a Feature Reader but the records come out blank so the writer at the end writes out 1,274 blank rows. Any idea how to make this work so I can get that file, read in the actual data, and write it back out? It feels like I'm close but it sure isn't working yet :) Thanks in advance,Ian

I'm trying to move address points from essentially rooftoop locations to the curbside of the address automatically (working with about 10,000 points) I've got the polygon parcel data, the address point data (contains which side of road the point is located on, but is the only layer I have with this information), and the road polyline. I thought the best way to set this up would be to move the address points within its containing parcel to the closet edge of the parcel it's contained in. However I think there would be quite a few scenarios where it wouldnt move the point to curbside and so I'm trying to figure out if that is the cleanest approach and how I could set that up, or if theres a better idea. I've added a picture of the layers I'm working with and how I want the points to appear. Ideally I'd want the points moved to where the end of where I've drawn out the red line would be the ideal goal, however if I were to move points to closest edge of par

Hi all,Just taking my first steps with FME. I am using the FTPCaller to download two .zip files that are provided on a weekly basis. When I specify an existing folder everything works fine. However, I'd actually like to download the .zips to a folder whose name is actually the date on which the download took place. However, when I try and incorporate this into the FTPCaller's 'Target File' path (e.g. C:\\Downloads\\@DateTimeFormat(@DateTimeNow(),%Y_%m_%d)\\@filename) the translation fails as the file is unable to be written.If the FTPCaller is unable to create a destination folder on the fly, how would I go about creating the folder?Any suggestions appreciated!Thanks!!

Which i then replace with regexp.How can i have it just yield following result? "amount" : 10000 I'd like to have it solved inthe Templater rather then resorting to regexp clean-up.  Tx in advance to all.

I'm doing a change detection on a date field from 2 sources. One source always includes time even if they are "000000". The other source appears to be strip those 0's. How can I add the hours minutes seconds to the records that are missing them? Do I need to filter for the records missing time values before adding the 0's. I will attach an image with the "J_NotifyDate" column missing time if they are 0's

Hi, I thought this would be easy but it's starting to look like it's not even possible. For each feature, I want to copy the contents of a list attribute from the previous adjacent feature (-1). It is possible to create a new attribute and copy an adjacent attribute this way, but since you cannot just create a "list" attribute in the AttributeManager, this doesn't seem possible. Is there a way to achieve this? I have also looked at the ListCopier, but it cannot access adjacent features since that functionality is only available in the AttributeManager. Is it possible to access adjacent features via Python? If that were possible, maybe Python could provide a solution to this problem. Thanks.

Hello,I am using Dissolver to remove common boundaries and create larger areas based by an attribute.Next step was to calculate the areas of areas from which I created the large ones - DONE (Accumulation -> Attributes to sum).Now I would like to create a list of some attributes from small areas and put them in another attribute separated by comma ( ex: name, id of old small area).Can we do this in Dissolver? Thanks!Nicu

I have an Edge line (like a polyline) and would look to trim some length in feet off the beginning of the line, with the rest of the line remaining intact as is. Is there a transformer that can do this?

I've created a workspace that updates (and truncates) an ArcGIS feature service. It works great! I'd like to run it once a day in the middle of the night like 3:00 AM. I have a floating FME Desktop license and don't have access to an FME Server. I use the floating license on my desktop and laptop computers, both run Windows 10. I think that this may be more of a Windows 10 question rather than an FME question. Can anyone recommend a way for me to run an FME workspace once a day at a specific time on my desktop machine? Because I have a floating license, I think that I'll need to make sure to FME Desktop on my laptop at the end of the day. Thanks.

I need to update a text file which contains the settings for an executable tool. It would be really useful if I could automate this in FME. The text file is saved in UTF-8 format and for example, lines two and three contain the variables for START_TIME and END_TIME: START_TIME=2005/01/01 00:00END_TIME=2007/12/31 23:59 How can FME be used to change the two dates, 2005/01/01 and 2007/12/31? Thank you, Rob

In a linked custom transformer, $(FME_MF_DIR) is resolved to the path of the folder of the installed custom transformer and not to the path of the workspace. My workspace is in C:\\workspacesbut $(FME_MF_DIR) is resolved to:\\\\filer25\\users\\uxxxxx\\FME\\TransformersI have to use a PythonCaller in the custom transformer to get the value resolved to the path of the workspace. In a PythonCaller,  FME_MacroValues['FME_MF_DIR'] is resolved to the path of the workspace and not to the path of the linked custom transformer.Is this as designed, or is this a bug?

As far as I knew, the MRF2D transfomers that are offered by FME were only available with an extra cost. That detail was mentioned in the docs of those transfomers, but today I have seen that there is no longer a mention of an extra cost: https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Desktop_Documentation/FME_Transformers/Transformers/mrf2dduplicateremover.htm The transfomers matrix doesn't mention that extra costa, either: https://www.safe.com/transformers/matrix/ Are those transfomers now available for everyone? If that is the case, do I need to download them from somewhere? They don't appear on the transfomer gallery of FME 2021.1.

When the workspace starts I have the user select a certain attribute. Depending on which attribute is chosen I want different user parameters to come up.  So for example I have a list of six items. If they pick item 1 then the attribute manager calculates a number of values. I also want it to display different user parameters depending on which inital item is chosen I hope this makes sense? I'm just not sure if I can even do this in FME. I notice any user parameters I create always show up altogether at the beginning.

Hello FME Community,can someone tell me where i can find documentation format attributes of AutoCAD (autocad_*). Vielen Dank.  

While configuring FME server with SSL certificate(with DNS entry) its working fine for localhost and server name. When i try to access it using DNS name it gives error site is not secure and certificate mismatch addresses.

I have set up a workspace which reads in an Excel Spreadsheet whose attributes may change everytime that the workspace is run. As this workspace is part of a larger chain of workspaces I would like to be able to run it without having to reload the reader to ensure that the latest attributes and features are being brought through each time.I have tried setting the 'Scan Schema in Dynamic Workflow' parameter, but with no success. Is there something I am missing?

Hi FME users,  I am looiking for good geometry examples of any corrupted or errors that can / cannot be cleaned with the Geometry validator 2013. I found the following list: https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407709561741-Invalid-OGC-Geometry-Examples which is a perfect start but i would like to be able to hilghlight the following issues at least: http://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Transformers/Content/Transformers/geometryvalidator_issues.htm  Does anyone has a complete collection of geometry sample errors?  Thank you.  JP.

Hello, we have several 3D buildings that need to be extended downwards. That's why we applied the extruder in conjunction with the terrain model. After that we aggregated the two parts (aggregator). However, then when we turn on the contours, there is the undesirable effect that there is a line between the 3D building and the extruder building part. (see example, highlighted in yellow) How can we remove this line?Or is there another way to extend the buildings downwards?

Hello, I want to create a raster for each different source_point_id (number of flighline) in a single las file.Do you know how to extract the source point id from the las file in order to generate a raster on the points of the chosen source_id point? thanks you for your help!

We're trying to tap into the Waze's partner hub Traffic Data using their GeoRSS XML feed. The feed downloads fine in Chrome and Postman.It's a simple GET request. But I get the following error in the log. "HTTP transfer error: Unrecognized or bad HTTP Content or Transfer-Encoding" When tested in Curl I had to include the ssl-no-revoke argument to allow it to download (might be caused by our funky certificate store). "The revocation function was unable to check revocation for the certificate." I have "Verify SSL Certificates" set to No in the HttpCaller. Any ideas? Is it related to the ssl-no-revoke?