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Hi all, for a workspace-app in fme flow, i was asked whether ,and if, how it is possible to have only one upload field for all file types (.xlsx and .dwg), rather than having individual upload fields for each file type. To my knowledge, each reader in the workspace has its own upload-field in flow/the workspace-app and i can only select which are published and which are not.I tested the “Directory and File Pathnames” Reader and the “Generic” Reader, but the user should not have to select the folder, but each file individually (multiple files at once). This is needed for more user-friendliness.Hope that explaines the predicament :)Thank’s for your help!Cheers.

Hi Community,I’ve developed a workflow that enables me to connect to an external SFTP server and download all contents from a specified folder. I followed the guidance provided in the following post:The workflow functions well for a single folder. However, the SFTP directory structure includes multiple nested subfolders. I now need to enhance the automation to recursively traverse these subfolders. Please see the structure example below.  Additionally, the SFTP contains files in various formats. To handle this, I plan to use multiple StringSearcher transformers—one for each file type (e.g., .tiff, .asci, .las). My challenge is ensuring that FME iterates through all subfolders to identify and process the relevant files.Could anyone advise on how to configure FME to recursively search through subfolders and apply the appropriate filters?Many thanks in advance!

Dear FME Community,I should to optimize my job, and for that I need to make group processing with an optimization of objects numbers like that :And after, as you can see, make a parallelize of objets for not having only a linear treatment. Do you know how can I do this ? Thank you very much.

Colleagues, I'm looking for a way to sort two text columns in Excel based on a custom classification. I have a dataset with several columns, including X, Y, ID Link, GIS Portal Link, Major Company, and Sub Company. My goal is to sort the "Major Company" and "Sub Company" columns according to my own predefined order.Here's what I attempted:I used the AttributeMapper transformer to assign classification values, followed by a Sorter to sort both columns. However, it seems that FME ignored the initial sorting by "Major Company" and only applied the sort to the "Sub Company" column.What I want is: To first sort the "Major Company" column based on my custom classification. Then, within each "Major Company" group, sort the "Sub Company" column based on another classification. It’s important that the row structure remains intact—meaning if a "Sub Company" row is moved, all its related data (X, Y, ID Link, GIS Portal Link) must move with it. However, I worry that "freezing" or locking the

What is the best way to extract the path_modified_date, path_created_date, and path_accessed_date for files in a folder (these are shapefiles and zip file)? I ran the Directory and File Pathnames Reader, and it shows these attributes as missing. Is there a transformer I need to use after this Reader to extract this information?  

The FME Server docs do a good job of telling you how to uninstall and reinstall Server, whatever configuration you choose. However, if you want to migrate from last year's FME Server to the latest release, you have to backup and uninstall everything first. This might work fine for an Express install. But if you have a distributed install of FME Server, the server backup only contains the workspaces, repositories, services and supporting files from your last install. Your previous architecture's configuration isn't stored anywhere. How would you recommend backing up your previous distributed configuration settings (network locations, ports, service account names, etc) to make it easier to install the new release so you have the same configuration as before?

Can FME create folders in an on-prem Sharepoint Library? I’m successfully connecting to the library using the Sharepoint List type (Reader and Writer), and looking at written data I can see an existing folder, but I can’t use the writer to create folders.

I’ve tried multiple times to read gml file with feature reader or import that into the workspace using reader. I tried with multiple settings but failed.The gml file structure seems ok as it is loaded into old QGIS without any problems. Any advises or tips how to handle such files are welcome.

Hello everyone,For my use case, I would like to retrieve information from a SharePoint site of which I am an owner.Specifically, I’m trying to find out who the members of the site are and their mail-adresses. Do any of you have an idea of how I could approach this?I looked into the SharePointOnlineConnector, but it seems I can't retrieve site metadata using it. I might be missing something. 

After the update to version 2025.0.2, the writer is very very slow.  Am i the only one who noticed it?

HelloI have to change the value of a deployment parameter. Is there a way to find out, in which other workspaces this deployment parameters is being used?Thanks, Vera

So in one of the tutorial for creating AR, the screenshot of FME Flow has the Create AR App option in Flow Apps. But I opened my FME Flow 2025.02 version, it only appears these options without Create AR App:Is anyone having the same issue? Is there anything I did wrong? Thank you so much for the help.

Once I have upgraded my ArcGIS Pro from version 3.4 to 3.5.0, I am suddenly unable to connect to a GDB file using the ESRI Geodatabae (File Geodb) reader, as I could before upgrading (when reinstalling ArcGIS Pro 3.4, all works again). I am currently using FME Form (version 2025.0.3) (Update: Apologies - the title reads Flow, but it should be Form! - I am unable to change the title with an edit though)., which connects as expected when I have ArcGIS Pro 3.4 installed. In FME the following output is given when trying to connect with the said reader:"Unable to perform any licensing related tasks. Please check your Esri ArcGIS Compatibility workspace parameter, found in Navigator -> Workspace Parameters -> Translation. This 64-bit version of FME requires ArcGIS Desktop along with 64-bit Background Geoprocessing; ArcGIS Pro; or ArcGIS Enterprise. Refer to this this article http://fme.ly/qua for more details "In the gallery, the said reader or writer is not greyed out. I have tried al

Hi there,I have an FME Flow automation set up triggered by a survey123 submission. When i submit a survey from survey123 on my computer it works fine and runs the automation. When submitting from my mobile device however nothing comes through, the automation doesn’t run.Any help would be much appreciated, cheers.

Hey all,After upgrading from the 2024 to 2025 version, I noticed my workbench break. After doing some investigating I noticed that the PointOnAreaOverlayer transformer handles attributes differently.On the 2024 version the attributes of joined datasets would come through as ‘exposed’ attributes.In the 2025 version, these attributes were pushed into the unexposed attributes:Is this by design? Why the change?The properties of the transformer are exactly the same between the two versions. It isn’t the end of the world as I can use the attribute exposer to make it work. I was just also wondering is it normal that workbenches may break after major release changes? As this has now occurred after each last 2 major changes.

Hello,I'm working on an electrical network with substations and feeders.I want to assign a number to each feeder using NetworkTopologyCalculator, grouped by substation name. What I get What I want to achieveMany thanks in advance

Good day Safers,I’m cutting my teeth on the new DocumentPDF Writer in FME 2025.1  Trying to set up a “Ledger” (17x11  inches) page in the stylerhttps://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME-Form-Documentation/FME-Transformers/Transformers/documentpdfstyler-pkg.htmNot really clear how to do this with the Page Properties.I know this is a work in progress so hopefully this can be worked out.  Please advise.Best, Reed

Hi, I have a bunch of workbenches which routinely read layers from our AGOL environment. There are multiple readers in the same workbench, all reading different layers. Until recently everything was doing fine, but now one reader is throwing an error. See part of the log here:ArcGIS Online Feature Service Reader: Querying layer/table 8 for object IDs, where '1=1'ArcGIS Online Feature Service Reader: Got 731 results for layer/table ID 8ArcGIS Online Feature Service Reader: Splitting reading of 731 features into 1 batches of up to 1000 featuresArcGIS Online Feature Service Reader: Getting feature results 0 up to 1000 of layer/table 'tekentools polygon lopend'ArcGIS Online Feature Service Reader: Encountered an unexpected error. The error code from the server was '400' and the message was: 'Cannot perform query. Invalid query parameters.'. Details: 'Unable to perform query. Please check your parameters.' I checked the source layer in AGOL and nothing has changed for the last 5 years, so t

Hi All,Has anyone tried to follow the steps for ‘Using the OpenAICompletionsConnector’ tutorial? Link here: https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407431621517-Using-the-OpenAICompletionsConnectorI have used the FMWT attached to the tutorial but I have the following error when trying to run it: A few considerations below:I’m using FME(R) 2024.2.4.0 (20250318 - Build 24831 - WIN64) I have created my own API Key Thanks

Hi everyone,I’m working on an FME workspace where I have two input ports: One port brings in the main data (features). The second port provides attribute values from an Excel file, which I want to use to filter the data from port one. And here you can see how the data from port one looks:Here is what the Excel file looks like: I’m basically trying to filter the data (output of AttributeRemover_6, see first image) where:destination_class_source = StructureBoundary AND  assetgroup.description = InstallationBoundary AND assettype.description = CabinetBoundary and cus_cstype_id = 2 destination_class_source = StructureBoundary AND  assetgroup.description = InstallationBoundary AND assettype.description = CabinetBoundary and cus_cstype_id = 9 destination_class_source = StructureBoundary AND  assetgroup.description = InstallationBoundary AND assettype.description = CabinetBoundary and cus_cstype_id = 3 The filter information comes from the Excel file (second image).  What would be the best

Hi I have a point cloud that I want to simplify. I need 1 point in every 1cmx1cmx1cm space/voxel. I already did something similar, but that was in 2D with point clouds containing only ground points and with the resulting point cloud as some sort of DTM.In short, I used the 2dgridaccumulator to make a grid. Then I calculated the mean Z value’s of al points in a grid tile and added that value to the centerpoint of that grid. Than I used the vertexcreator to make the new point cloud.  Now I need to do ‘kind of’ the same thing but in a 3D grid…I was looking at some transformers: pointcloudduplicateremover, pointcloudsimplifier, pointcloudspatialthinner, 3dboundingboxreplacer… I haven’t found a really good way to do this. Anyone with ideas?    

Good morning,I have a folder in an S3 bucket that contains a folder for each day of the year and each of those folders contain about 24 files. Since I need to download the data in order to process it, is there a way to only download the folders that contain the word “2025”?  I have not been able to format a wildcard that works for a folder. I could also potentially use a wildcard to select the files, if there is a way to do that.Thank you,Peter

I have a problem. I've built a workbench that allows me to dynamically pull in various data sources. This also pulls in lists, depending on the situation. But FME doesn't know anything about these lists. How can I expose them dynamically? I have an attribute that contains the list name. At the end I have to explode the list, edit it and reassemble it with the same name.Thanks for your supportMichael

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Hello,So we have some workbenches (FME 2018.1.1; 20181203 - Build 18578 - WIN64) that either read or write to AGOL after performing a bunch of operations on the data. These workbenches were working fine up until a week ago, when all of a sudden they started throwing a very generic 503 error message and failing completely.If I understand correctly, a 503 means it's a server side error (so it's likely something with ESRI), right?We've been having issues with our organization's ArcGIS Online portal for the last couple of days (layers being randomly dropped from maps, apps refusing to load) and I'm starting to think that their December 2018 AGOL update messed some things up, including the way FME's readers/writers communicate with it. Is anyone else having trouble working with AGOL lately?Thanks!