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Hi all, Last year, I received my FME Certified Professional certificate.An achievement that I am proud of. I want to check if I am still the only FME Certified Professional at my place of work. The problem is: I can't find the Wall of Fame any more since the Safe Software rebranding. Does anyone know if the Wall of Fame still exists? Regards, Martin

I have a workbench that creates output for bentley Microstation. While trying to debug an issue of cells not appearing in the output, I found the VertexCreator deleting an attribute igds_type (microstation format attribute) in the processed features. Pictured is a basic configuration for reproducing the conditions.The version used is 2022.2. I have a simple workaround, but it did take a while to figure out what was going on.I wouldn’t have expected this transformer to touch the attributes at all. Is there a reason for this and does it affect any other attributes? 

I'm looking for support with Navisworks (AutoDesk) BIM data (.nwd .nwf .nwc). I need to extract the full 6D information from the model and output it to other formats but also update the 6D information back to the model. Navisworks imports IFC but does not seem to export it. DWF, which can be written with Navisworks, does not hold the 6D information.Any help would be appreciated.

I'm having trouble writing sharepoint users to a sharepoint list. It does not seem to matter how I'm formatting the user string attribute - it just wont accept it. The writer is configured as uploaded workspace. The sharepoint list adds a new, empty row.   HOW do I configure the writer, and what is supposed to be the correct attribute value? To my understanding, the attribute value is to be formatted asi:0#.f|membership|name.name@domain.se

Hello, I am looking to use attribute value mapper ( or another transformer etc) to  map from multiple input attributes (VEG_SBOIS)  and (CLASSE) to a single output attribute (SURF_COVER) see below screenshots for example I have tried using a tester with  left value filled in and operator  “attribute has a value” but it doesnt work perfectly since im only looking to map certain input values (not all ) to different output values.  any help is appreciated,thanks,Curtis

Hi ​@safe I attended the webinar yesterday and wanted to dive a little bit deeper in the AI Agents/transformers. Unfortunately you shared only the video and the slides to the webinar yesterday. Is it possible to get the workbenches and data as well?That would be a great help for a (AI-) beginner like me. Thanks in advance.Tom

We make use of parallel processing within FME Flow 2023.1. However we are struggling to de-bug issues that intermittently occur in the worker processes. I can see that, whilst running, each worker process has a log file, stored under the parent job log. However, this is deleted when the worker process closes, even if it fails. This makes it very difficult retrospectively diagnose any issues.In our FME Server 2021 instance, the worker logs are surfaced in the main job log once complete, which is fine, but I can’t identify any setting to control and replicate this behaviour.Does any one know of a config change that I can make, in FME Flow 2023, to retain these worker logs somehow?

 j'ai un fichier dgn contenant les câbles de type polyligne avec leurs extrémités. -je veux extraire les câbles et les convertire en shapefile (.shp) avec les noms des extrémités.??? 

Hello Safers,I am planning a FME Flow deployment, and have a question regarding the distributed tier 2 format. I wanted to ask for clarity: In the tier 2 distributed format, is installing both the FME Database and the FME System Share alright on the same machine? Or, is it required that these components are installed on different machines? I would like to install the FME Database on a machine designed for this purpose for our DBA to manage, but didn’t know if I also required another machine for the FME System Share. If that is the case, could I also install the FME System Share on a different drive on the machine FME Flow is installed? I realize this does not mitigate machine-failure, but would mitigate if drive failure occurred, Apologies for the basic question! This my first FME Flow deployment plan.I meant FME Flow System Share…typo in the title!Thanks!

I am creating an AGOL to KML converter. I want all labels to be off when viewing in google earth, but I can not find how to disable point feature labels. These points are represented by icons. I have set the opacity to 0 using the KMLStyler and the setting for “Create Labels on Lines” is set to No (which successfully disables line labels), but the labels for point features still appear. There also appears to be no option to remove labels in the KMLPropertySetter.

Hi all - fairly new to FME here.I am trying to do a calculation using the ExpressionEvaluator to calculate tree protection zone (TPZ) estimate, and round to 2 decimal places. The formula I’m using is @round(@Value(average_dbh_value) * 0.12, 2) I also need to incorporate min and max values into the output. Min is 2 and Max is 15. This is where I’m getting stuck. Would someone be able to provide a suggestion on how I can possibly achieve this? ThanksLeanne

Hello,The documentation and this community thread indicate that “Default Azure Credential” should be an option under Authentication → Credential Source for the AzureBlobStorageConnector transformer. I don’t see this option, either in FME Form 2023.2 or 2024.2.3.Am I missing something, or is this a bug?Thanks,Graeme

I’ve installed a newer version of FME (2024.1.0.0) previously used it to convert MicroStation DGNs to a SDF file worked a treat (to be consumed by a MapGuide service), however this new version requires FDO be installed at C:\Program Files\FME\plugins\fdo ?I don’t have administrative rights on this PC and was wondering if there’s a way to override the directory FDO .dll would be searched for or if not simply dumping the latest FDO release in that directory is ok and would work? sorry the error is a little light on the details… I’ve tried the 32bit and 64bit FDO releases and added them to my PATH environment variable, but this doesn’t seem to work.Error: Failed to find FDO libraries in either of the default paths 'C:\Program Files\FME\plugins\fdo'. Additional software is required to use this format. Feature Data Objects (FDO) is available at https://www.osgeo.org/projects/fdo/SDF3 writer: An error has occurred. Check the logfile above for details CheersAdam

I have provided a consultant with the URL to one of my geocoder services. In order for them to access it, I need to issue a token. The token is issued in the Portal, which means it is valid for a maximum of two weeks. Currently, I have to issue a token every two weeks, a manual process. I would like FME to issue a token and then email it to the recipient. I know how to do the email part, but is it possible for FME to contact the Portal and issue a token?My ultimate goal would be to add this workbench to an Automation and have the token automatically issued every two weeks.

How can split polygon into branch like this image?Each branch showed by a number. And the split positions are yellow lines like this Everyone has any ideas to solve this my issue, please show with me! Thank you so much!

I have a first shapefile with points indicating the number of inhabitants. I have a second shapefile with surfaces. I would like to know the number of inhabitants for each surface in FME. What is the process?

Does anyone know how to add information about the features written to the Action Succeeded output port of the Run a Workspace-action?This is what I tried and where I got stuck:In my automations I like to send an email with information about the execution of the automation.In the email I added information like time started, time finished and a link to the job summary. I wanted to add information about the number of features written. I found this and that works just fine: https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407494315789-FME-Flow-Get-the-Count-of-Features-Written-in-an-AutomationBut now I have a problem: the email I send is connected to the Action Succeeded output port and the summary is on another output port.Is there a way to combine these two output ports? The "Merge" action did not allow me to do this.Of course I could just use the new Summary output-port instead of the Action Succeeded, because I think I can sort of assume that the action succeeded when features were written

Hi there,I’m using the ChangeDetector to update some point data in a ESRI enterprise geodatabase (SDE).  I’ve set up the CHangeDetector to check geometry as well as attributes.  I have 3 points out of 1224 that seems to being updated due to a geometry difference.  I think it’s just that typical geometry change you get between FME and SDE so I have set the vector tolerance to 0.001 which is very generous. I’ve try all the various settings 2D, Lenient Geometry even changing the tolerance to 0.01 but these still come up as being updated.  Below are my setting for the ChangeDetector:I’ve specified a change list and it used to be that you could see the original coordinates and the revised coordinates so you could tell if it was a real change or just a artifact but I can’t for the life of me see where to find these coordinates anymore. It just gives me nothing in the change list:Can anyone tell me where I can see these coordinates?  Or why these three points are behaving this way and what to

 I updated the pfx cetificate file according to this :Configuring for HTTPSBasically updating these lines i server.xml: keystoreFile="<file>"keystorePass="<password>"Now apps complains about REST API? Why? - what to do?What is the realtion between the SSL certificate and the FME flow Rest API? Where to find information about this? 

A user is supposed to use FME Server's web interface for running a FME workspace that has been published on it. That FME workspace takes a file geodatabase as input. The user should upload his/her file geodatabase at runtime in the web interface for that workspace. The problem is that the browser will not let the user select the folder defining the file geodatabase. Furthermore selecting all subfiles of that geodatabase will lead to a failed run. What is it that I am overlooking? Thanks in advance!

I want to build a flat JSON array using the jsontemplater. I try to use this example to understand the syntax but using the pipe character does not go well.Starting with a simple creator for the root object and sending the actual information to the ‘ADDRESSES’ sub template. I try to define the root template as [| fme:process-features("ADDRESSES")|]and the sub template as{ "ID": fme:get-attribute("Site_ID"), "Address": fme:get-attribute("Address")}Taking it from the linked example the pipe character is needed to separate the array items by commas.My translation log return the following warnings, and error messageJSONTemplater (XMLTemplaterFactory): The following error occurred near line 1, column 3 of the query:JSONTemplater (XMLTemplaterFactory): invalid expression: syntax error, unexpected "|"JSONTemplater (XMLTemplaterFactory): An error occurred while parsing the ROOT template How do I use the jsontemplater to create some flat JSON array structured as [ { "ID": "Site_ID", "

Hi there,Creating many workbenches over the years, and this is very rarely a problem.But it is very rarely a problem because FME automagically selects the postgres writer writes the data using the correct geometry type, not because I have been able to specify.However, here i have a workbench reading in spreadsheet data using a [vertex creator] on the X/Y columns, but when I write the data out to postgis/postgres i find that it arrives there in linestring format. At least, QGIS then sees the layers as linestring!What is super wierd, is that this workbench has been reused for several years, each year with the postgis writer being modified to create a new table for the years data. All previous years it has created point data, this year it has decided on polygon. This happens when i modify the workbench in FME 2022.1.3, or in the current FME 2024.2.3.So, obviously this is unsatisfactory, and I want to be able to tell FME to create that postgres.postgis table with the geometry type of point

I updated the pfx cetificate file according to this :Configuring for HTTPSBasically updating these lines i server.xml: keystoreFile="<file>"keystorePass="<password>"Now apps complains about REST API? Why? - what to do?  

Can someone please let me know how I can grab two values from a JSON snippet like below image? Using FME Desktop I am trying to grab two values “portalURL” and "id" from two fragments of "info" and  "events" and assigned them to two User Parameters “PURL” and “PID” Can you please let me know what Translator/former I can use to the task for me?

Hello , I'm working on finding the path for specific lines and reorder points .I have several lines, each defined by a start and end point, but these lines also contain intermediate points. Should I merge the intermediate points with the lines before using a shortest path finder, or how will the transformer know which intermediate points belong to each line if I don't provide them? My goal is to reorder all points, including the intermediate ones, to find the correct sequence from point A to the final point, such as A, B, C, D, E, F, G. Thanks in advance