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Hello,I am trying to generate centerlines from IFMEDonuts/Polygons derived from CAD floor plans. The majority of these lines are fine, but there are a handful of instances where it ignores the shape of the polygon or creates an anomaly.  I understand that it does not bring the line all the way to the bounds of the polygon (maybe a setting in the next version? hint hint). This might account for a few of these issues, but not all. Here are a few screenshots with problem areas circled in blue:Any ideas? UPDATE: I was able to resolve a few of them by Intersector, Chopper, HorizontalAngleCalculator, Rounder, then TestFilter any lines not orthogonal. I also used the SmartCleaner to extend, join lines against the polygon, then Smartcleaner again on just the centerlines, but set Extend to 0 and Overshoot to 6. This cleaned up most of the anomalies, but the areas ignored by the centerline and others remain. Ultimately, I think CenterlineReplacer needs an update, but any workarounds in the m

I have balcony drawings as attached files two sample data. I want to calculate the thickness of the balconies as seen in the picture. is there a transformer for that?

Anybody an idea why this combination would not work?The Shutdown script seems to not executed.Startup scriptdef initializeArcFM(): import win32com.client global app app = win32com.client.Dispatch('Miner.Framework.Dispatch.MMAppInitializeDispatch') runtime = win32com.client.Dispatch('Miner.Framework.Dispatch.MMRuntimeEnvironmentDispatch') app.Initialize(0x5) runtime.RuntimeMode = 0x4 print "ArcFM runtime mode", runtime.RuntimeModedef cleanupArcFM(): global app if app: app.Shutdown del app print "ArcFM shutdown"initializeArcFM()Shutdown script cleanupArcFM()

Dear All,  I am trying to write some features in a versioned featureclass. Instead of writing it directly to the SDE.Default,I have created version in ArcGIS and I have set the FME output to write to that version and I have made sure you have Versioning set as your Transaction Type under Advanced settings.I have Run the FME workspace and it has come up with below error message.  I am not sure why this has come up. Please let me know if you are aware of this.  Error message:   An error occurred while attempting to store a row into the table 'ARCFM.Lamp_LV'. The error number from ArcObjects is: '-2147221230'. The error message from ArcObjects is: {}  The Zone of the assembly that failed was: MyComputer log4net:ERROR XmlHierarchyConfigurator: Appender named [MinerEventLogAppender] not found. log4net:ERROR XmlHierarchyConfigurator: Could not create Appender [Log4NetEventLogAppender] of type [log4net.Appender.EventLogAppender]. Reported error follows. System.Security.Securit

I'm really struggling with the string functions in FME at the moment. I have a workbench reading JSON features from an API and I have one attribute where the results are in a list. The JSON extractor results the attributes like this:  ["Medium"] Or if there are multiple values, like so:["Easy","Advanced"] I want the results to be: MediumIntermediate,Easy I want to remove the brackets and quotes using a single transformer and can't figure out the formatting for my life! Currently I have 3 separate "string replacers", each one removing a single character, but there must be a better way...I don't mind using a REGEX expression if someone can figure it out. I'm also open to using a different type of JSON query to extract these values? If there's a way to get the attributes without the brackets and quotes? I also tried using the string pair replacer but I constantly get an error, and I can't seem to format it properly. I wish yo

Hi Guys,I'm wondering how to set up a short list of coordinate systems by the new Manage attribute window. In fact I'm missing the Import-Button that has been there until FME 2020, when creating a Choice with Alias User Parameter. The Import-button now automatically opens up a reader defintion.  When I use the Coordinate Systems User Parameter type, no choice-list can be created.  Is it really impossible to complete this task or am I missing something obvious? (Hopefully the latter :-) ) Any hints are welcome! Thanks in advance

Source Origin: Multipolygon layerDestinity: SinglePoint Layer  If I use the CenterPointReplacer with the "Any Inside Point" mode checked the result is rejected.And if I use other of the two modes, the result is a singlepoint outside the ancient multipolygon layer, and I need only one point inside the ancient area.  Does anyone know the correct way to obtain it?

Hi.I'm working on a project where I need to find points within a distance of each other and assign a value to each neighbor. I'm using a neighborfinder with "candidates only", blank number of neighbors to find, given max distance and the ID of each point is added to a list. The points are close together, so the same points will be found for each candidate.  What I'd like is to add a value to each of the closest candidates based on a attribute value on the feature. Do you have any a ideas on how to solve this? Torbjørn 

My situation is this. I have a number of lines in a gdp on top of which I have some points (with a unique id called nodename). I want to rotate these points based on the angle of the lines. What I have done so far to achieve this is to make a buffer around the points, clip the lines using the buffer. Use the horizontalanglecalculator to calculate the azimuth of the lines. However some points have 3 lines coming through them meaning I have 3 angles for 1 point. I need to calculate the average of the x number of angles for each nodename.  Can anyone help me with this? See the picture below.  Regards Rasmus

I am trying to generate centerlines from parallel line pairs which are transformed into bounding boxes, then areas. This works but the centerlines do not extend all the way to the edge of the area/bounding box:There does not seem to be any settings in either bounding box, area builder, or centerline replacer to change this. Am I going to have to add a snapper? Any reason why it does not go to the edge? Thanks,@larue​ 

Hi All, am trying to work out how to build some logic into an automation on FME SERVER. Here is my workflow: Workspace reads Arcgis feature service every day. If it reads a record with "Attribute A' = "HIGH" (test filter) then email bob the workspace outputs (csv of "HIGH' Records) , if "AttributeA" = "LOW" email Mary the workspace outputs (csv of 'LOW' records). I'm unsure where I'm meant to build this logic. Is it in the workspace or automation? The automation action (run workspace) only has 'Action Succeeded' or 'Action Failed'. Am I meant to be passing a notification from the workspace to the automation??. I have read all I can find on this but must be missing something. Thanks Steve.

Hi all, we've just installed FME server, on a standalone machine. All components on one server. We are able to access the fme web interface from the server itself (it's configured for https) and all looks great. However we're unable to access the site from any workstations. Our network team says they have allowed traffic through port 443 (https) so we should be ok there. When trying to load the site on Chrome, we get the following error: The Site can't be reached.... took to long to respond....ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT. Any thoughts? Not sure what else to try at this point. Our network team is still working on this, and trying to determine where the traffic is being blocked but thought I'd see if anyone else has had this issue. Is 443 the only port needed to be open in this case? -Thanks in advance. 

Can SQLExecutor be used to get around having to read in all the data from a database table into FME and then running a feature joiner?Consider the example below we need to read in the entire table of 2Million plus records to extract data we are interested in.What I think should be possible but I'm not sure how to implement it is to create a temp table and use that as a subselect or joined table to get the data using a SQL query

Hi all,My question is regarding performance actually...I'm going through a process of reading data (shp) trimming it, doing change detection and writing it to a sde. Some of my data contains 5.000.000 objects, so it takes forever to run it, which is not a problem in production mode. In the testing fase, when tweeking and changing settings it is a big hazzle though. I have added a tester to both my original data source and the revised data source to filter out a small portion of data, but it still has to go through every single object when reading the data... So my question is: Is there a way to avoid having to read everything from both datasets? Thanks :-)

Hi FME team,I want to create a list from attributes, retain the site IT and Metric - with the metric values. So effectively I will have a feature for each Site ID and Metric combination. I've tried ListBuilder and ListExploder but not working as I'd like. Attached is an example of what I have and where I need to get to. Any help would be very much appreciated! Thanks.

I am struggling with creating centerlines in wall geometry from CAD, where some squirrely ones show up:I was hoping that I could filter by # of vertices, or separating by angle, but this is not reliable. Any ideas? Thanks,@larue​  

Sometimes one ends up with tables that contain empty columns. Is there a way to detect if an attribute is not being used, if it is "empty", and then remove it from the table? A automatic table cleaner of sorts. This would make the management of data "creep" a lot easier.

I too ran into the issue raised by @jurgen​  in https://community.safe.com/s/question/0D54Q000084ATxeSAG/how-can-i-merge-an-automation-flow-when-using-dynamic-workspaces - that my workspace that uses an automation writer, can't be funnelled into a merge-action. In the response, @daraghatsafe​ said that an enhancement request is on the way - but I needed to solve the issue before then.  This connection isn't possible right now Problem: We need some way of knowing that all the workspaces had run successfully, before we'd run the final step. In my case, I didn't want to update the "I've imported all the data up to and including this date"-field, until all the imports were done.  Idea: What we need, is to build a state store, where we can keep track of the completed workspaces for one specific run of one specific automation. We could build this in f.ex. any database, but then we run into issues with having to create schemas/tables for each automation. Instead

How can i do this? I tried everything i could.The number of columns needs to be dynamic.. if Town III is 5 times then there should be JB5 ZB5 and RT5.The RT1 Column is the Order in which they should be (see colour)

Hello, I am trying to make a REST API call to one of our servers from inside of a Workspace with an HttpCaller and I am not sure where would be ideal to store or pass credentials like username-password pairs/tokens that are required for this. I don't want to just leave it hardcoded in the Workspace, what I'm looking for is some kind of storing mechanism for sensitive data from where we can retrieve it later in a Workspace.(whether it's in the Cloud/Server does not matter, as long as it's via an FME feature) Any alternative/tipp would be greatly appreciated on the topic of credentials/security measures when working with the FME ecosystem. Thanks in advance!

I'm trying to attach a file to the Email External Action in an Automation that always has a different filename (date/time) but is in the same location, and is the only file in the folder. I've added this folder as a resource and tried to use a * wildcard but it fails to send the email. If I give the exact filename, the email sends successfully with the attachment. Also, I can do this successfully using the Emailer transformer in a Workspace and feeding it the exact name via a Text File Reader, but I'd rather use the External Action in Automations if possible. Any thoughts?Thanks! 

Embarrassed to be asking this but in an FME Server Automation how do I get just the raw the "Content" from the trigger FME Server Topic Notified. We have the various keys but none of them seem to correspond directly to the Content of the notification. Please don't tell me Content has to be Json keys! 😅  In the workspace the FME Server Notifier has a Content parameter so

Hi all,I wonder if it is possible to have FME expose the day of the week at the time of running the workbench? E.g. If the workbench is running today I would like to have an attribute "day_of_week" that has "Wednesday" as a value.If it is run tomorrow the attribute should read "Thursday" etc etc Thanks!Ed

I have attached the actual workbench below. SO in more detail, what I am trying to do is to output fanned out (by council name) shape files and GDBs to an already existing folder (of the same name as the council name attribute) on a drive somewhere. Is there a way to direct the output data to go into the different council folders when this workbench is run for all councils?The intention is to place this in the server and then schedule it to run on a quarterly basis.any thoughts?thanking you in advance.

I have an excel spreadsheet with 3 columns (featureclass, tag, summary). I want to update the metadata.xml file that corresponding to the featureclass. These xml files are embedded in a column in an sde table gdb_items. I'm able to extract the xml, but I don't know how to add xml elements. I have seen the xmlUpdater which works but only when that tag exists in the xml. Also, the "tag" field in the excel is a list of tags separated by commas. I need to create multiple <keyword> tags, one for each item. Here's my workspace so far. shows the xml without the existing "summary" and "tag" <idPrup> <searchKeys> with child nodes <keyword>, respectively shows xml with those nodes (lines 80 to 86)