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QUOTE:  Has anyone had luck delivering FME in an App-V environment? Our company is trying to get all apps delivered this way. The problem we run in to with FME is the dependence on Arc licensing for certain readers/writers. From what I am told by our application packagers, App-V applications are agnostic of other App-V applications. Therefore, when running FME in App-V, ESRI readers and writers are not available.    Our workaround for now is using a standard install with FME, and starting up the App-V version of ArcGIS when FME opens. It works, but isn't exactly what we are looking for. Submitted: 11/15/2012 4:52 PM  aked the question we have.  Virtualized FME cannot find Esri license server.  Do any of u have a solution? We are told to set an enviromental variable set in the packaged FME. Is that the only solution? And why can i use gdb's ? Arn't those dependend on Esri licenses as well?  Eagerly awaiting your answer(s)  Greets, Gio

When I insert a block using the DWGstyler I need to scale the block by approximately a factor of 1000. I noticed that when I do this the annotation text doesn't appear to scale the way it would if you inserted the block in AutoCAD manually then updated the x and y scale factor. Is there a workaround for this so that both the block geometry and the annotation scales with the DWGstyler scale factor?Example Workbench:

I have csv data in a single attribute like this (field names are first line). Grower,Date,SampleNum,P,K,C1000,05/01/2018,350,275,1500how can I parse this into feature(s) with the correct collums using fme?

I have multiple files under a directory. My objective is to perform a process on each file in the folder. This process basically reads all features of a file and generate a bbox.I use a file and directory reader to get all the files' path and name. Then use them as initiator for a feature reader. My expectation is that the feature reader reading all features of one file each time and the following steps generating bbox for it and repeat the process. The final result would be multiple bboxes. However, the feature reader accumulates features from all of the files and the final result is one bbox.Is there any way to handle this flow?

A colleague upgraded another software on our FME server and somehow changed the setting on 100s of workspaces to Translation: Rejected Feature Handling:Continue Translation but they should be Terminate Translation... anyone able to batch change them back? I have tried - changed the default in FME Options, rebooting.... Thanks!This was on FME Desktop 2017

I've a large installed base of Revit with versions from 2016 to 2018 and one of the worst problems we are dealing with is the incompatibility between these versions. I would like to know if FME Destkop can act as an intermediary in order to read from one version and write to a different one. Maybe the plugin for Revit and the rvz format could be the solution, but I'm not sure about this (I didn't have explored this). Thanks a lot!

Hi,We currently have some issues about transferring SLD (Styled Layer Descriptor) styles between QGis and Geoserver. Their syntax support doesn't seem to be completely in sync. So we might need to tweak the SLD files when transferring them.Now, SLD files are XML files, so it would be entirely possible to let FME do the "dirty work".But before venturing into this, I'd appriciate hearing about whether anyone has looked into this issue before? And if so, what the pitfalls are. Or if there are other more beneficial avenues to follow?I can see that there are multiple suggestion about support for SLD, so this ties into that. Even an SLD format reader/writer perhaps ? Don?? :-)Cheers.

Hi There,Apologies in advance if the title is a mess. Not quite sure how to better word this problem I've encountered. Essentially I want to isolate (and discard) and GROUP where any of the entries involved has First off, let me show what my data looks like:TYPEGROUP1A1A1A1B2B1B1C1C1CI'd like to isolate all GROUPS where any of the TYPE values are "2", Like Group "B" in this example. Even if a group has 100 entries and only 1 of them has value 2, that entire group and all its entries needs to be identified.Any ideas on how to easily achieve this?Best regards,

Hi, I am parsing a 3D CityGML model that mostly have a texture for each IFMEFace. That is great, but sometimes there are duplicate IFMEFaces, one with texture and another without, which I can filter out those untextured ones using GeometryPropertyExtractor. But other times, there are untextured IFMEFace with no duplicates that I still like to keep, which the GeometryPropertyExtractor filters out regardless. How can I achieve this?I tried the Matcher but I think I just want either the SingleMatched or NotMatched output, not both.Thanks for any help.My current setup:

I'm using FME Workbench 2018.1 FME(R) 2018.1.0.2 (20180903 - Build 18547 - WIN64)Sometimes the directory and file pathnames reader does not stop once it has read all files on my external hard drive. It reads the same files multiple times. The only way I've found to fix this is to delete the reader and recreate it, however even then it's pretty inconsistent with whether it stops or not after reading all the files.I have tried setting max number of features to read to 5 in order to test if it stops, and it doesn't stop after 5 features.Has anyone else had this happen? Is there a solution?After a little further testing, it appears that I start running into problems when I use * as a path filter.

Hello There We have published a workspace as job submitter but when we test it on the postman, I am getting the server response concerning the status of the job, not the result ( we should get a JSON response )the workspace has a text writer

Hi all,I encounter an issue with topic on FME Server:I have one workspace (the controller) that triggers another (the worker) via a jobsubmitter.The worker posts on the topic "reporter_database" in case of success. It sends some json code.Case 1: When I run the worker via the controller, the topic is not "activated".Case 2: If I launch the worker directly via the web browser interface, it runs correctly and activates the topic.I remarked there was a difference between the two approaches (see picture). On the rigth (case2), there are some FME Directives and Notification Manager Directives while there is nothing on case1...Does someone have an idea how I can solve the case 1?Thank you !Laurent

I have a polygon layer that has various geometry issues, mostly self-intersections. I have used the GeometryValidator to clean these up, but it has had the unfortunate consequence of filling in the holes. This is because they are not proper holes, but "fake" ones created by digitising a zero width corridor. So the hole boundary is actually part of the exterior boundary (highlighted in example below). The corridors are detected as self-intersections. Is there anything I can do to output the polygons with proper holes, or at least detect the polygons with fake holes so they can be edited manually? There are too many self-intersections reported by GeometryValidator to use for manually repairing the holes.I've found this similar topic but I'm not quite sure if @offermann82 is looking for the same solution...https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/59610/how-to-split-polygons-with-holes-that-touch-the-bo.htmlI think I want the opposite of what DonutBridgeBuilder does...ht

For example if one: I want to merge a feature with an attributevalue that is called "East Dartmoor" to a feature with an AttibuteValue called "East Dart". Would it be possible to add a wildcard to the feature merger?

I have a pressing deadline but I have no PERL skill and need this attribute trimmed - Lot/Plan(separators).an example of an attribute:1/AB842550I am duplicating the column Lot/Plan(separators) into two columns - Lot and PlanAll characters to the left of this symbol "/" are the Lot numbers required in the Lot columnandAll the characters to the right of this symbol "/" are the Plan numbers required in the Plan column. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.Thanks peter

Hi!I have a question about how to convert a PNG palette to RGBA.My input features is in palette format (int8) storing all the RGBA values in one band.Now I would like to export it in PNG-format with the RGBA-values stored in four different bands instead. Does anyone know how to do it?

I have a feature class. There is a ID field in this feature class, like below: 101L1101L2101L3101L4101L5101L6101L7101L8101L9101L10...102L57102L58102L59102L60102L61102L62102L63... I plan to add a new field called AZIMUTH. I need to use ID field above to find the "next" feature, for example, if current feature ID is 101L4, I will try use 101L5, and use this "next" feature and current feature to calculate AZIMUTH. Can you tell me how to find 101L5 in this case? Better use transformers. If not possible use python is also OK.

Hi,How to use a crosstab to convert a fgdb to autocad with the layer, color, style and point to block settings in the crosstab.

Hello people,I am new to GIS and FME. For my study we are using ArcMap. Ik have an shapefile and now I need to create a 5000 meter buffer around the shapefile. Therefore I must use the Bufferertool from FME. The result wil be written to a file geodatabase. Anytime I run the spatial ETL tool from FME I get an error and see no buffer of 5000m around the points of the shapefile.I have ad some screenshot. Does anybody know what I am doing wrong in my setup?Thanks in advance.Tijs

I need to create a point/line geometry out of the following input data:a) route: line geometry stored with measure values, including a route id fieldb) point/line event table without geometry, including a reference on the route id field, a measure value field (point event) / a start and an end measure value field (line event)Is there an existing transformer or a common known routine in FME to solve this problem?

We have an SDE that has COM Extension and after copying the data of that SDE to another SDE, the OBJECTID is totally different from the original one. We are using ArcGIS 10.2.1 and FME Desktop 2016.1.

Hello, I have AIXM 5 reader in my workspace. When I load geometry, I got 2D points. I need to get elevation from geometry trait. My problem is that the geometry property extractor does not offer me any traits for export. Where can be a mistake?Here is my data in Data Inspector:

When I installed FME Server, everything seems to be working ok except I can't run any jobs. The web ui has picked up my licence information, but won't display any engines.   I checked in the fmeserver.log file and it says: Wed-15-Aug-2018 09:54:44.913 PM   ERROR    fmeenginemgrnodeclient   402902 : Failed to connect to Job Queue. Please ensure Job Queue is started.Wed-15-Aug-2018 09:54:44.914 PM   ERROR    fmeenginemgrnodeclient   Could not get a resource from the pool I tried running the "C:\Program Files\FMEServer\Clients\utilities\addQueueNode.bat" just in case, but it didn't change anything How can I get the job queue to start? 

Greetings all, Does anyone know if it's possible to expose IPTC metadata tags in JPGs (eg photos) using FME ? Specifically I'm trying to expose the Keyword metadata tag which may contain null or an unlimited number of keywords. ............. If this is not currently possible using FME and someone from Safe is reading this, could this functionality pleased be added ? (it's noted that EXIF metadata tags CAN be exposed). Ideally if keywords could be added as a List attribute ie each keyword seperated by a comma (for example) that would be fantastic. ................................... Regards Howard L'

Hi!I am trying to tile some PNG:s with the WebMapTiler. My problem is when writing the data to PNG-format the writer put extra "_1" to some of the tiles.The fanout is @Value(_zoom_level)/@Value(_tile_column) and when I inspect the objects just before the writer no object has any "_1" as fanout. But when the writer writes data to my folder it divides some of the PNG:s into two, like this:1218.png1218_1.png1219.png1220.png1220_1.png 1221.pngDoes someone know why the writer prints PNG:s with the "_1"-ending?