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Hello,I am using a path and directory reader followed by an attribute filter on the file extension and a FeatureReader and, finally a Writer. I want to use the path_rootname as the basename for the file to be written, but the path_rootname is not available anymore after the FeatureReader (I can see it after the Attribute filter). I have exposed path_rootname in the FeatureReader Reader Parameters and under Output-Attributes to expose but if I add an Inspector after the FeatureReader, the values of path_rootname are <missing>.Would be happy about any hints!

Hi,Is it possible to set the attributes in the Feature information window so that the colors in the color will be displayed in the same color as igds_color without using the workbench? (Fme Viewer set fme_color like igds_color when input dataset) Is it possible to make a filter on attributes in the Feature information window so that we see only certain attributes in feature information windows?

Hello,I have a set of node data. Some of those nodes will have an empty attribute. I am trying to populate them (call it "config") based on previous or next feature. The condition is should be somewhere along these lines: If Feature[-1] exists AND Feature [+1] does not exist, then Config = feature[-1].ConfigAdversely, Feature[-1] does not exist AND Feature [+1] exists, then Config = feature[+1].ConfigIf both exists, then Config = feature[-1].Config. I am trying to write out the conditional statement and have adjacent feature checked. The conditions only allow for checking if an attribute is null, missing or has an empty string. I don't seem to have any option for the existence of a Feature itself. Any one have any idea how I can go about that? Thanks!

Hi,My workspace try to writer in a Table in ArcSDE, but doens't work.Has a way to get the error message from ArcSDE? Similar we have the ora_error for Oracle.Thanks,Danilo

Were trying to use the REST API to upload multiple files for processing in a web application. However each file ends up in a separate directory. $(FME_DATA_REPOSITORY)/{RepositoryName}/{workspacename}.fmw/{UniqueCode}/{filename}  So when we have have tiffs (not geotiffs) and tfws, the world files are not in the same directory as the image file, and therefore are not used by the tiff reader.  Any thoughts on how to keep the auxiliary files with the main file? Unfortunately creating a zip file is not feasible.

i have a lot of areas which are exactly the same size but they have certain kind of rotations now i have to create point which is located on the down right corner with an offset of ca. 50 -x and 50 +yproblems: when i solve the polygon into points (PointVertexReplacer) not every point on the right down corner has the same IDs (vertexID)...when i set an offset the points will go other directions because of the different rotations of the areashope someone can help me thereThank you and GreetzCheersFranco

Hi, I have geometry in one Oracle table and attribute information in another which I am merging using feature merger. This works fine, the problem I then have is that I need to write to shapefile and it truncates fields to 254. In one particular field there are 100+ attributes that are over 2000 characters in length. I know I can use substring extractor to extract various lengths but does anyone know how I could ‘automatically’ create x number of attributes (each less than 254 characters) so that I would have 10 attributes of 254 length etc. that would make up 2,540 characters? Thanks

Hi,I have a IFC file that I want to use for a transformation. It has correct latitude and longitude values, but missing elevation values. I wanted to update the elevation value by using the AttributeValueMapper on the IFCSite class and giving it a fixed value for the RefElevation attribute. But strangely, after the transformation, not only the value for RefElevation is missing, but the values for latitude and longitude are gone, too. What am I doing wrong? I would be grateful for any help you are able to provide.

Hi,I tried to optimize an existing workflow by replacing all RasterCellCoercers by their PointCloud equivalent as described in:https://knowledge.safe.com/content/idea/22245/spatial-statistics-on-raster-data.htmlI however noticed that there is a small difference in the way the raster values are returnedExample: My original raster value is equal to 23.835The RasterCellCoercer returns 23.835.The PointCloedCoercer however returns a value of 23.834975...When I round these values to 2 digits I get 23.84 and 23.83, depending on the method that was used to extract the raster values.I think this has something to do with the fact that the data type of the components is changed to 'Real64', as described in the logfile:'PointCloudCoercerFactory: Converting component 'z' from type 'Real32' to 'Real64'. If this conversion is undesired, consider changing the type explicitly'Has anyone experienced a similar issue? Any suggestions on how to tackle this problem?

Hi,I have some rough shapes (donuts, polygons) that I am trying to dissolve together. I've tried the donut builder tip here https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/4487/dissolver-failure.html but the dissolving still doesn't work and produces the wrong output  

It is a large data set. If there are no values, I want to send the data to a writer, if there are any values, I want to go to the terminator. My issue is that the data set is large and using a tester or attributeValidator isn't work because values are getting to my writer before validation is complete.

I have my SDE destination schema in a file. But I don't see any parameter for Attribute Name Column Alias. So I'm guessing there's no easy way to assign Attribute name aliases. If I'm wrong, would love to learn how to do this.

Hi folks !I want to read HTTP tables for a bunch of url stored on an attribute of my features. However, a basic authentification is needed to access the page.If I set the attribute containing the URL in the source dataset of the feature reader, I cant set any authentification parameters.Everything is working fine if I manually enter one url, then go to the parameters. (as if I use a Reader)Any clue on how to use this authentification in the FeatureReader ?

Good morning!Today my FME Desktop 2017.0 has given me the following error while running a Workspace:It doesn't start at all. Not even the log is written.This is a workflow to update several metadata XML files. For the ID of those metadata I have used "fme_(type_of_metadata)". For the ATOM service and the Dataset metadata is working fine, but with the view service metadata always gives me the error from the pic.If I change the metadata ID to something else, the workspace runs without issue. So it seems I have hit some restricted words for the "metadat_id" variable value.Is there any place in the documentation where I could check which words we are forbidden to use?Thanks!

Hi, I've literally just started experimenting with FME. When I run, it says that the translation was successful. But it doesn't seem to create output. I get a "The source file isn't valid" error when I open the inspector, and when I browse to the folder there's no output file. I'm trying to convert a DGN to Esri shapefile, and I've literally just been following the steps on an online tutorial, and I've used their datafile, and my own. With both input files, I get the same error. Do I have to change something in my general FME settings, or are the settings on my PC the issue?

Hi,I am after a method to define the vertical co-ordinate system of features being output, particularly after using the 3DForcer or Vertex Creator.The data coming in doesn't already have the height datum defined, particularly as it is often from CSVs. Thanks-Jack

When I installed FME I think I checked Yes, when asked if I want to report usage statistics Anonymously to Safe Software. But I don't want to report this anymore. How can I turn it off?

I'm seeing something weird on my non-Windows FME's in build 17539: the peak process memory usage that's reported at the end of a logfile is 0... This is on my Mac:And this is on FME Cloud (Linux)A Windows machine with the same FME build does show it correctly.Anybody else notice this?

I am new to using FME cloud, can you please explain how I can install custom python libraries onto FME Cloud and call them before the workbench runs. I would like to drop and create an elasticsearch index before the workbench then goes and populates it.Many Thanks,OliverThe current python code is:import pyodbc, jsonfrom elasticsearch import Elasticsearches = Elasticsearch([{'host': 'search-dev-elasticsearch-z4b7vwlsqswv4uial343rdjccq.us-east-1.es.amazonaws.com', 'port': 443}],use_ssl=True,verify_certs=False)es.indices.delete(index='productdownloadsdb_full', ignore=[400, 404])mapping = '''{    "mappings": {      "downloads": {        "properties": {          "HYPERLINK_PDF": {            "type": "text"          },          "HYPERLINK_ZIP": {            "type": "text"          },          "ID": {            "type": "integer"          },          "PDF_BODY": {            "type": "text"          },          "PDF_FILE": {            "type": "text"          },          "Title": {            

I have an attribute [complete] withe the value 1-A. I would like to split that value to attribute [split1] with the value 1 and attribute [split2] with the value AI've tried AttributeSplitter;AttributeTrimmer;AttributeCreator

I have a workspace that uses the GeoRSS reader that spatializes a newsfeed and writes to an SDE feature class. The newsfeed carries 25 items per day and a handful of news stories are posted each day. How do I configure the parameters in the writer to retain all of the old items and "append" only the new items, so as to preserve all items and build a running total?

Hi,How can i store _packed attributes which is having multiple attributes packed by AttributejSonPacker?Can i store that _packed attribute as BLOB type attribute in File Geodatabase?Thanks in advance.

What are all the files that specify the FME Server hostname, that can't be accessed from the FME Server Web UI or backend database?

I want to create a new autocad layer (aka fme_feature_type) and add it to an existing drawing with a specific layer color property. Any ideas?