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Hi All,I’m trying to create a 10m node line from a 2.5m node line. I have tried ‘Densifier’, ‘Line Combiner’ and also ‘Chopper’ but can’t get it to work,How can I reduce the number of vertices and to obtain a 10m node line?Thanks

Hi everyone,I'm using the AreaBuilder transformer in FME to create polygons from line features. However, I've noticed that some lines disappear after processing. It seems like the AreaBuilder ignores or removes them in certain cases.The lines are neither in the Area nor in Incomplete nor in Rejected.The lines that have disappeared are marked in yellow.after Areabuilder before AreabuilderWhat could be the reason for this? Are there any settings or common issues that might cause lines to disappear?Thanks in advance for your help!

I am using FME Flow 2021.2.Is there a way to change the Directory Watch Poll Interval in an Automation to trigger only Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.? 

I want to identify if there is a way to identify all connected conductors of an electric device using FME. All the points (Electric Device) and lines (Electric Line) in the attached screenshot are actually all connected. This is actually connected in Smallworld and I want to establish the same connection in FME but in ESRI this is not graphical connected as depicted in the screenshot. I can trace connectivity form Electric Line to the device but not the other way around. I want to correctly merge Electric Line data with Electric Device records. More than one electric lines can be attached to one device and so far I have tried List Based Feature Merger, Feature Merger and Spatial Relator with Intersect Predicate. Buffer will also not work in this scenario as it may take into consideration some other nearby line. There are no associated or connected features in Electric Device which may link it to Electric line, hence List based feature merger is also failing.ESRI :SMALLWORLD:  

Hello you all and perhaps especially ​@LizAtSafe Gone through this tutorial here:Using the Geometry Parameter – FME Support CenterAnd this is of great help, just have one question that I cant figure out the answer to and that is if the selection map can be set as “Inline” by default instead of “Pop up”, as in that the users have the little imbedded selection map by default when accessing the tool?With regards,

Hello, I have FME Form and FME Flow 2021.2.Can I still use this version of FME with ArcGIS Enterprise 11.3?Is there a document outlining which versions of FME work with what versions of ArcGIS Enterprise?

I am performing data validation of a excel source data.I have configured multiple validations in Attribute validator.Issue:FME validates the not null validation and all other validations given, but what I require is if any of the attribute is null, I don't want to do any other validations.How do I perform these in FME?

I’ve seen a few other posts discussing this or similar issues when it comes to writing data to tables in an Excel file, which is now affecting me on a current project. There is a similar problem in named ranges as well, although slightly less problematic. I went ahead and filed a support ticket but in the meantime, decided to post here in case someone knows of a solution.Every time data is written to tables and/or named ranges and a template file is used, the resulting file contains errors that Excel tries to fix upon opening the resulting file. If tables are involved and cells are referenced elsewhere, links to the first table end up broken as you can see below:Here is the resulting error upon opening the Excel file: Data seems to be written as expected, but having to click through an error when opening the Excel file, plus the potential of losing links to table data, is not a good thing. An example workspace template is attached so you can play around and test on your end (in version

I use Fme Form 2024.2.2. If I remember correctly, I used to convert multiple files in one process with an earlier versjon of Fme Form.I have attached a file showing how I structured the fmw for to separate files and for multiple files.I need to convert more than 100 files from Quadri format used in Norway to the GDB format.When I convert two files separately, everything is OK.The sise of gdb files are: Rp2 5,90 MbKdp3 2,62 MBBut when I convert to files in one process something is going wrong. The size of files are:Rp2 – 5,90 MBKdp3 – 154 kBI have tried different combinations of the order of files and numbers of files.It seems to me the first file is always Ok, but it fails from the second one onward.I appreciate all kind of helpEla 

HelloHere’s my challenge:I have two datasets that I need to compare after several transformations.- Dataset 1: This contains georeferenced points with distances associated with a linear reference system (LRS).- Dataset 2: This has no geometry, but contains distances from the same LRS.My aim is to associate each value km_start in dataset 2 with the closest value _measures in dataset 1, even if they don't match exactly (I’d like to be able to assigne a tolerance, for ex. max difference of 0.01m). Thanks to this matching, I will be able to assign a geometry to the data in the second set. Below are a few screenshots to illustrate my question: Dataset1 with georeferenced points, _measures are distances in the LRSDataset2 with non geometry features I want to get the closest match from Dataset1 We're talking about fairly important datasets but it shouldn't be too much of a problem if the process takes time.Thank you in advance for your help and ideas.

I have a a workflow of moving several tables from one database to another one. I needed to make a change and wanted to test the workflow writing to my localhost instead of production database. So i changed the postgis writer from “Truncate existing” to “Create if needed” targeting my local test environemnt. Still i get an error complaining that the tables does not exist?.. It does not matter if I hardcode the Table Qualifier or not. Or if i remove it all together. I have tried to not running the wb in cached mode etc..Tried running the WB in both 2023 version which it was created in and in 2024 version. “POSTGIS Writer: Table 'rplan.PblMidlByggAnleggOmråde' does not exist. Please check the Table Name specified, or modify the Table Handling value under Format Parameters”And yes the schema “rplan” does exisit in my localhost database.I have no explanation to why FME would struggle with this?

I have a workspace where the user should be able to export a DEM grid in several different fileformats (a user parameter for the output filetype). Then I have a FeatureWriter for the output. It works well if I want to output a raster DEM (e.g. a GeoTIFF), but if I want to output the data as a DWG with a point grid, I get several thousands of Features exported.Of course, I could make a workspace with a lot of different filetype Writers instead, but a single Feature Writer would be nicer.  Is there a way to consolidate all the thousands of DWG points into one DWG? I dont really want a DEM consisting of one multipoint either.

Hello folks,I want to split data from below data as shown. I want the output format in CSV as this - where the target quantity is Quantity / No. of days in months.The problem I am getting here is I am not able to split the data of month into number of dats because as I need the date as 01-Jan-25 for all the days in the monthHow can iterate these values. Kindly help!

Hi,I’m trying to use the OGC WFS FeatureReader to read in features based on a dynamic URL stored as an attribute. This is because in the URL link, I want to have a bounding box parameter that changes based on the extent of another dataset. I.e., I only want to read in the features that are within the bounding box of another dataset.I’ve set up an attribute “URL” that contains the bounding box parameter.When I hard-code in the URL with the bounding box parameter into the FeatureReader, it works as expected and reads in only the features within the bounding box. If I replace the URL with the dynamic “URL” attribute, it ignores the bbox parameter and reads in everything. I  And yes, I’ve confirmed that the dynamic URL attribute is exactly the same as what I’ve hard-coded into the FeatureReader that works. Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this? Or any other ways I can read OGC WFS features with a dynamic bounding box?I’ve tried the Spatial Filter parameter in the FeatureReader too a

I’m trying to split an ArcGIS sde table of rooms into multiple CSVs based on floors, and then upload the resulting CSVs into a Google Drive directory. I have the first part, but when I run the Google Drive connector it says the translation is successful, but nothing gets uploaded to the GD directory. I have admin access to GD and there is nothing wrong with my connection. Has anyone else had a similar problem? 

Where can we find the download for FME Flow and Form version 2024.2.3?I only see versions 2024.2.2 and 2025.0 in the list of available downloads. Thank you

Hello am new to FME I in the process of Automating the import of invoices and G/L transactions.  Our CitySuite by Harris.  Is the anyone who is or who has been involved  with the integration of these.  My biggest hurdle at the moment is the format of dollar amounts in XML.  I have tried using the xquery  formula but then the XML Templater fails. Any assistance would be appreciated.  

Hi all. I am reading in an Excel sheet where DateTimeUTC is formatted like this as text, but I need to convert this into a proper datetime for UTC… thoughts? DateTimeConverter is out, or perhaps I’ve not formatted it correctly.   Otherwise, I can use attribute splitter to get the date, but the time part is tricky… not sure what to use to get that formatted properly

Hi all. I’m trying to generate UIDs for helping out with site inspection reports for structures. The structures are comprised of “Components” and each “Component” is comprised of “Sub-Components”. Each “Sub-Component” has a inspection lists (“Lists”) that are checkboxes that need to occur for each “Sub-Component”. Each checkbox is a coded item (“Code”) that must be inspected. There are multiple “Codes” for each of the “Lists”.The UID format that is desired is this:“Site ID”. “Component ID” . “Sub-Component ID” . “Code”The problem I am running into is that the data have been provided in Excel. There is a “SiteVisits” Tab, and a “Lists” tab. The SiteVisits tab has 350+ records, with columns containing Site IDs, Component IDs and Sub-Component IDs, and a column on the “Lists” required for each Site.SiteVisits Tab, with 350+ recordsThe “Lists” Tab contains a descriptor of each checkbox and the associated “Code”. What I am trying to do is concatenate the easy parts of the UID (“Site ID”. “C

Hi,It seems that the SpatialFilter does not always work as expected when the Filters First option is enabled. I have taken several steps to fix the incoming data (such as using the GeometryValidator and applying reprojections), but the SpatialFilter only works consistently when the Multiple Filters option is enabled.Below, I have included an image of my workbench, where—after multiple test attempts—only the top SpatialFilter suddenly works as expected.Is this a bug?I am comparing .dwg files with a feature class in a geodatabase (area)I work with the DataInteroperability extention by ESRI, in a workbench created outside of ArcGIS PRO,FME(R) 2024.0.1.0 (20240328 - Build 24202 - WIN64)  

Hi,I would like to use a simple function in the SchemaMapper for Attribute value for a new attribute. In an AttributeCreator I would use @Value(Lat)#@Value(Lng). This concatenates two values seperated by a #. I can't get it to work in a SchemaMapper. I tried @EvaluateExpression(@Value(Lat)#@Value(Lng)), but the SchemaMapper interprets this as a string and not a function. How can I make this work?Btw, I use FME 2023.2.5.Thank you, Arno

I disconnected my external monitor to work on my laptop (not external monitor) from a different location. When I open up my FME Form workspaces, the transformer parameters font and icon sizes are really, really, tiny.  I saw the way to fix it was in FME Form go to Tool - FME Options - Appearance - Advanced Option and check “Enable automatic scaling for High DPI Monitors”. I have enabled this, closed FME Form, and re-opened it. I have unchecked it and did same. Nothing seems to make a difference. Is there another way? I am using FME Form 2021.2.0.1.   

Hello!  I am currently Generating TIN surfaces from a pointcloud and exporting as a FBX.  I am having some issues with bad looking edges, aswell as vertexnormals looking like split normals everywhere (hard edges, see image below)As you can see from the images here, the triangulation is very rough. is there anyway to average those normals to get a more smooth experience? Think smoothing groups, from 3D studio max or something similar. i dont want to actually change the geometry, just the visuals. This was generated from a 4x4km pointcloud with a TIN generator surface tolerance at 0.5 (just to speed up the process).   Best Regards. Oskar Wallin

I am outputting many rows to an excel table, some of my columns are numeric, I am hoping to add a total row at the bottom of my table, to sum these columns. I have found the Statistics Calculator, but I have no idea how to apply it (if at all possible). Any thoughts?

I have a multitude of ring buffers and polygons for which I need to figure out what polygon intersects with what buffer. The task should be easy, but I am stuck here.All data come from the same feature dataset in a file geodatabase (so the spatial reference system is by default the same), however, to be absolutely sure I projected all data before they get into the SpatialFilter to the same EPSG.The settings for the SpatialFilter can be seen hereand to show that there are certainly intersecting areas and buffers that contain candidates I add the graphics view of the ‘Passed’ port and from the ‘Reprojected’ port of the Tester and the Reprojector.The candidates are in red…I did try an AreaOnAreaOverlayer, and that one finds overlaps but the request of merging the attribute data is unsuccessful. Meaning all the attributes are in the attribute table, but values from the buffers are not merged to the intersecting polygons, or the other way around. The list I create to check for what buffers