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Hi there,I have 2 parcel datasets, a master copy and a weekly update copy that I need to process into the master copy. Each parcel only appears once in each dataset and has a unique parcel ID so matching is fairly easy. I’ve used a change detector to flag any parcels with geometry updates, but now I need to identify the type of change that has taken place. This could involve parcels being split, merged or just the boundary being updated. What is the best way to do this? The logic in my head is this so far:Split parcels - Either, mutliple new parcels being inserted within the boundary of one that has been deleted OR Parcel boundaries shrinking and new parcels being added within boundary of originalMerged parcels - New parcel being inserted that takes the place of multiple deleted parcels OR Parcel boundaries growing to cover extent of deleted parcels

I have set up an automation which is triggered from a webhook.depending on the content of the request it will process different datasets. These different datasets may, in some cases, require the use of a web connection. I thought I’d be able to control the access via the token, however, it seems that the user who triggered the automation is not the one running the workspace and therefore has no bearing over access to a given connection. Any ideas on how I can make it so the token controls the access?I was thinking about instead using a workspace before the automation to list the available connections for that user and then pass that along to the automation. 

The FeatureReader for Esri ArcGIS Server Feature Service seems broken in 2024.0. I try to read the following feature type : "Zones de gestion intégrée eau par bassin versant - ZGIEBV";and I get the following error message : ArcGIS Feature Service Reader: Could not find a layer/table matching feature type 'Zones'Python Exception <FeatureTypeNotFoundException>: FMEException: 928219: ArcGIS Feature Service Reader: Could not find a layer/table matching feature type 'Zones' It seems to me like the feature type cannot contain spaces. This worked fine in FME 2023.

HiI have an attribute value derived from an Excel sheet. The input attribute name is “Vægt”. FME data type is number(20,2). An example value for a feature is “2.95”. I’m trying to retrieve this value using the xml templater using <Cell><Data Type="Number">{fme:get-attribute("Vægt")}</Data></Cell>   But the output value in the xml is 2.9500000000000002 Could anyone explain why this is happening and suggest a fix? I have tried attribute rounding and changing the input Data Type but nothing seems to work. Thanks

Guys, I need some help with my XML. In some parts of my document, characters like "&gt" and "&lt" appear. Specifically inside the <data_dictionary></data_dictionary> tag, where I perform an update using the xmlUpdater transformer. What could be causing this?

Hello everyone,I am using an XML template like the one below to generate fields dynamically in FME Workbench:<field> <name>cod_imovel</name> <description>{fme:get-attribute("cod_imovel")}</description> </field> <field> <name>tema</name> <description>{fme:get-attribute("tema")}</description> </field> <field> <name>dat_atuali</name> <description>{fme:get-attribute("dat_atuali")}</description> </field> My question is: if a new attribute appears in my source data (for example, atrr_1), is FME able to automatically add a corresponding field like this in the template:<field> <name>atrr_1</name> <description>{fme:get-attribute("atrr_1")}</description> </field> Or do I need to manually edit the template each time a new attribute is added?

Hi all, I’m new to FME and would like to know if there is a way to generate a v5 UUID in FME 2024? From what I have read I can’t see a method for this. Thanks.

Hi everyone,I’m having some trouble with the XMLQueryExtractor. I need to extract from the xml_fragment field the values inside the <name> and <description> tags.Currently, the output from FeatureJoiner is in the format: Theme | ID | xml_fragment What I need is for the extraction to produce the following table: Theme | ID | xml_fragment | name | description

I feel like I must be missing something obvious but so far have not been able to resolve.  I have published a Web Layer from Arc Pro to our organizational AGOL account.  This Web Layer feature service contains three sub-layers.  I’d like to update only one of the sub layers using FME.  This works fine if I publish each layer as its own service, but if published as a single service with multiple sub-layers, I can’t figure out how to target only a single sub-layer. Publishing these as a single multi-layer service has the advantage of keeping them ordered together on AGOL.When I open FeatureWriter to set parameters, I can select the overall feature service, but not an individual sub-layer.  I suppose I can run it without specifically identifying which of the sub layers I am targeting but am a little hesitant as I’m not sure how it would know which of the sub-layers I’m attempting to update.  Here is screen shot of my FeatureWriter interface below.  Road Rock is the feature service contain

i am trying separate stacked point data in to individual points, can suggest in FME or ArcMap 

I’m using FeatureWriter to write data using dynamic schemas to multiple worksheets of an Excel file. In the particular case where I detected the issue, the data meant for the last worksheet contain just one row and value in just one of the columns. This value is ‘No’.As you can see, the native_data_type of the respective schema attribute for this value is ‘string’.In the result excel file, however, the ‘No’ value is changed to FALSE. I can’t figure out why this happens.The Writer writes other ‘No’ values to other worksheets and all of them appear to written correctly as ‘No’. This is the FeatureWriter setup:   Have I made a mistake somewhere, or is it a bug in the Excel Writer?

Due to the changing license model of SAFE, the license file now needs to be updated every year.In order to not forget that, I am trying to create an Automation that gets triggered by the License About To Expire trigger, but I am not sure when this trigger occurs. Is it one week before or one month?I can’t find anything in the documentation. System Events

Hello,I’ve recently turned on Version Control a few days ago and just got around to setting up a Remote Repository (GitHub), I’ve just ‘pushed to remote’ for the first time, and I’ve noticed there are only 3 items on my GitHub repo, while I have 100+ workbenches uploaded.I assume this has just uploaded items which have changed since I turned on Verion Control a few days ago. I was hoping enabling remote repo would push all of my workbenches to github. What is the best way to proceed? I want to get all of the items uploaded to my github repo, not just changes, so I have a backup of all of the items on Flow.Thanks.

We had setup a FME Flow 2025.1 HA environment with 2 AWS Windows Servers and FSx shared folder as system share directory.We can publish the workbench to FME Flow as workspace and submit it without issue. And we could confirm the published workspace under FSx shared repositories folder.We can upload the python script to FME Flow resource folder and it could be called by the System Caller successfully. And we could confirm the uploaded python script file under FSx shared resources folder.We can upload the SDE file to FME Flow resource folder and we could confirm the SDE file under FSx shared resources/data folder. But when we call it from the workspace, it had following error message:An error occurred while attempting to retrieve the connection parameters from the connection file '\\fs-011axxxxxxxxxx.fsx.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\fsx\FMEFlow2025\Resources\data\SDE\DEV_SDE\CORP_DEV.sde'When we copied this SDE file to FME Flow server local drive, “C:\FME\Data\CORP_DEV.sde” for example,

Hi,I have a point cloud with colour values. Eg the first image. I would like to make an RGB raster of this at a specified ground size (0.5m2).However, whenever I try to do this with the image rasteriser I get nodata pixels everywhere. This is because only about half of my data has a higher density than 0.5m2. Eg the second image.So what I would like to do is either replace nodata values with an interpolated value (say the nearest colour, or bilinear) or make it correctly in the first place, at my desired size, so that there are no nodata values at all. As in its one continuous rasterDoes anyone know how to do this? I haven’t successfully been able to work it out.I should note that I want the input to be the point cloud as I don’t want to coerce it into points for efficiency. I can definitely do it that way, its just computationally expensive.I will also say I only have 10 distinct colours (Each representing the height difference between the pointcloud and a DEM). If I could turn spatia

Hi,I need help how to use Fanout and not sure if this is a bug or not.  Using Workbench 2024.1.1 Using DWG as a reader and then change the parameter to Geometry and selected lines. Add the AttributeFilter to import the feature cache type Add the data as a writer to write new feature name.  Am I doing something wrong or need some tweak work ?

Hello!Has anyone successfully used the ArcGISBranchVersionManager transformer to automate reconcile and post operations for branch versioned layers? I created the web connection to our enterprise portal and tested it as specified in this article and even connected to my version, so I know the web connection works but when I configure the ArcGISBranchVersionManager transformer to use the same feature layer with my version I get a rejected feature with this message: “`fme_rejection_message' has value `stopEditing failed for session {xxxxxxxxxxx}: The ArcGIS REST API returned an error: HTTP Error Code:  : 'The workspace is not being edited.' Message Code . Further details: '[]''”.  It seems like maybe I’m not configuring the workspace correctly but I don’t see any option to  start an edit session.  Below is the screenshot of my workspace. I am at FME(R) 2024.2.2.0 (20250114 - Build 24820 - WIN64) .Thanks! 

Hello,FME workbench has a strong tendency to take longer and longer to perform editing tasks (NOT translation) the bigger the workspace gets.Disclaimer: My workspace contains over 2100 transformers and I am aware that editing transformer links upstream will cause FME to recalculate downstream. However, my frustration is due to the fact that even minor modifications to very small independent workflows in the workspace seem to trigger the same recalculation as the workbench becomes unresponsive for 5-15 seconds every time I do something. This even happens when i move a transformer without altering any workspace logic. It even happens when I move an unconnected transformer! Extremely debilitating to productivity.Is this a known issue / any optimization planned?Using FME Workbench on Windows x64 2016.1. Confirmed on multiple PCs.

Hello.So we have a FME Flow set up on a Microsoft Azure machine that is causing some problems for our Spanish and German colleagues. More specifically that when their data (mainly KML’s) that contains one of their local language characters is being sent through our Flow tools then the process fails due to “invalid byte ‘local character’ at position 1 of a 6-byte sequence’.Due to the fact that our users are using diverse data formats then most of our Flow apps use generic readers where they select the format of their input data in a published parameter dropdown that is then feed into the “Input format” of the reader. We are not allowing the feature reader to figure it out itself due to limitations of GeoJson’s and GML’s.So far I cant see that you can change the character encoding parameters in the Generic reader like you can in specific readers, such as the shapefile one (correct me if I am wrong). So I have instead tried to change the Regional settings of the server machine to Latin (b

Hi all,Could you please share your experience on what types of AWS EC2 instances you use for FME Flow and FME Form. I wonder if the M5 instance type is recommended since it is used for FME Flow Hosted. We mostly use “t3.large”.I understand that the choice depends on server load etc., but I would like to know the best practices.Thanks!

Hi,Newbie type question. I am currently loading in files to a output on a weekly basis. Issue has been I have to edit the file in the workbench with the new filename. The file I upload changes on a daily basis with its name. How can FME pick up the latest file that has been updated without having to change the file path on a daily basis?I have tried to use this https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/65203/read-only-the-newest-file-from-a-directory.html method but unfortunately I am not getting it to work. I also do not need to generate any further data to my existing table, just was interested in the function where it can automatically pick up the latest file at folder level by date modified. Thank You

I need to send three files to an API. When I do it directly via the API, I have no issues—the files are sent and I receive status code 200. However, when I try to send them through FME, I can’t get it to work. Am I making some configuration mistake in FME?

Hello, I find FME forums very helpful for problem solving and rectification of technical issues. I was wonderingif there is a space less about technical issues and inquiries, and more about tips, tricks, and generally fun/informative FME information folks might want to share.

Hi,I’am using FME Workbench 2022 with ArcGIS desktop 10.8.1 and ArcGIS Pro 3 on the same machine. When I try to load a feature class only compatible with ArcGIS Pro (containing arcade expression), FME continues to use ArcGIS Desktop 10.8.1 librairies despite the transation / Esri ArcGIS Compatibility set  to Auto or ArcGIS Pro. 

Hi, It must be stunningly simple however we miss the clue, but we're trying to get FME Server to accept Single Sign-On logins. We connected to Active Directory, that seems to work nice since we can use a user and password from the domain and log in, that's a success. Mon-13-Nov-2017 04:20:33.924 PM  INFORM  RequestHandler-Thread  401831 : Accepted new client connection from /127.0.0.1 on port 7,071Mon-13-Nov-2017 04:20:33.926 PM  INFORM  RequestHandler-Thread  401933 : Successful login by user XX99999However, when we press the Use Windows Credentials the login is denied and fmeserver.log shows this error message:Mon-13-Nov-2017 04:23:22.734 PM  INFORM  RequestHandler-Thread  401831 : Accepted new client connection from /127.0.0.1 on port 7,071Mon-13-Nov-2017 04:23:22.770 PM  INFORM  RequestHandler-Thread  408043 : (Single Sign-On)  Enabled single sign-on authentication.Mon-13-Nov-2017 04:23:22.770 PM  INFORM  RequestHandler-Thread  408049 : (Single Sign-On)  Using pre-authenticated cre