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Hi! I am using FME Desktop 2016.1 to publish workspaces to FME Server. I found that after I change the log settings in Tools menu-->Translation (for example, change to only log errors) and republish the workspace to FME Server, the log obtained by running it from FME Server will be different.It seems a little bit odd to me, and I wasn't able to find help file about this after trying, so I just want to make sure I understand correctly the way it works: will the FME Desktop publish its desktop settings to FME server? or it is my misunderstanding?Thank you!

If my FME Server port is 8080 and i have created a topic and publication with username "myUser" then what will be the email address to receive email?my server address is myserver.mydomain:8080/fmeserver

Hello,we used to deploy FME in silent mode using a so called NOVELL Zenworks Bundle. This worked fine up to version 2015. Since version 2016 we are having the following problems:1.) Novell Zenworks is not able to install the msi-file any more. It shows an undefined error.2.) Installing FME using msiexec on the client computer is possible in silent mode, but when you start FME the EULA-window and the FME Desktop Licensing Assistant window pop up, what we'd like to avoid because our students should no be forced to make any input in these windows.We use the parameters:qnINSTALLLEVEL 3ENABLE_POST_INSTALL_TASKS no Does anyone else have the same problem?Roland

Hi! I am using HTTPCaller transformer to repeatly send many http requests to a remote server for some task. By observation I found that HTTPCaller sends the next request right after receiving the response for the current request. This may significant increase the load of the remote HTTP server.Is there a way to let the HTTPCaller wait for a couple seconds after receiving the response before sending the next request? Thank you!

Hi,Could you provide me an example of Excel reader and writer library (https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Desktop_Documentation/FME_ReadersWriters/xlsx/xlsx.htm)?Is the library MS Excel version dependent (2011, 2013 etc.)? The process involves reading data from some of the geometrical shapes. Is this feature supported? Thank you !PS: C++ is preferred.

How can I give objects a color based on attribute value in an HTML-page generated with the HTML report generator. So I want an object to be 'red' when value is '1' and to be 'yellow' when the value is '2'.I tried using the FeatureColorSetter, but this does not seem to work. There is an ArcGIS Feature Layer available. I can add this to the Map (ESRI Leafet) option. However the colors are not visible in the map, because they are 'overlayed' by the layer color set in the HTML Report GeneratorIs there a way to not set the layer color; this option is obliged. I do not know how to avoid this.

We are seeing an increasing number of clients wishing to manage log files using a central log collection and monitoring system. By default, FME Server stores all log files in the system share directory structure but this also contains repository information, etc.I would like to move just the log files (not the whole system share) to another location. Has anyone done this? It looks like it should be possible by editing a few settings in the fmeServerConfig.txt file but it's probably not recommended...Bonus question: how nicely would these changes play with a fault tolerant (Active-Passive) architecture?

Do you think I can install the latest FME Desktop version on the latest OSx (High Sierra 10.13)?

Dear All,I have 6 Polygons in one shapefile with Name Block A to Block F.Also, I have one excel file for materials location like shown below screenshot.my aim needs to create a random point within the polygon as per the values mentioned in the table.For Example:121 Sand Random points for Block A polygon6182 Sand Random points for Block B polygon1 Cement Random points for Block A polygon210 Cement Random points for Block B polygonall points if possible one single shp file.Thanks in AdvanceVenu

Hi! I am writing a translation, and thinking about how to handle an unexpected situation while there is eventually no feature going through a pipe. For example, when a reader or a http call returns nothing, it usually indicates some error or rare situation, such that I may want a email to be sent or some message to be logged.I tried but couldn't find a simple way to do that. Except a way that seems unnecessarily complicated: fire a feature by a Creator, pipe it into the requestor of a FeatureMerger, let the port to be checked connect to the supplier port of FeatureMerger, connect the NotMerged port of the FeatureMerger to the "rare case" handling transformerHowever, this method seems unnecessarily complicated to me if I only want to do simple handling such as writing a log message. Is there easier way?Thank you!

I have multiple jpegs in multiple folders. I first read in using the Directory and File pathnames reader. I didn't want all jpegs to be read so I created a tester to negate some of these. Next I used a string searcher to isolate only the jpgs and not world files or .aux. Next is where my issue arises. I want to now read in the jpgs that I have isolated using a FeatureReader. But within the feature reader parameters for dataset I don't know how to link back to the jpeg files. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.Thanks

I am running a workbench to validate overlapping polygons My table structure is versioned spatial tables I have ran the validation workbench against one version, using a published parameter setting the override version. This has been successful for a single version. I want to automate validating a large number of table versions. I have attempted to use the workspace runner to achieve this. In order to change the override version. With the idea that this will run for each table version. I have a tried using a CSV list of the versions and I have tried reading directly from the Oracle version table list. I have been unable to produce an output with test cases, these test cases produce an output when run against an individual version.I think the workspace runner is failing to change the override version published parameter instead running against the SDE.default version for the same amount of versions within the CSV list.I would be greatful for any help or advice, at a bit of

Hello,I am trying to capture features that fail the geometry validator, and the information about why. The specific bit of information i ma after is the supplementary_info.details trait/element from the issues listIt is probably very simply, but i cant figure out how.I have tried a listexploder but this part of the list does not come through, and the same with a listConcancenator.CheersJacky

MorningI am trying to calculate the difference between coordinates of 2 stations. I've attached an image to assist in explaining. If you reference the image I've attached, you will see that lines 1 & 3 are the same station, and 2 & 4 are the same station also. Eastings and Northings provided on lines 3 & 4 are the accurate coordinates. Is it possible to calculate the difference and have it outputted?I need to use this data to make an adjustment to some spatial data based off this calculation, well, to start.

Hi!I have this environment: the desktop version of FME is different from the server version (server: 2017 and desktop: 2016).Is possible to create a workflow using FME 2017 and save this workflow as "FME 2016"?Or when i start FME 2017, is possible to configure to use only "FME 2016"-compatible transforms/readers/writes (some type of settings to show only 2016 transformers etc)? The solution I am using is to have both versions installed: FME 2017 and FME 2016.There is no problem to have both versions installed. This question is more of a curiosity that I have.Thanks!

perhaps I am overthinking this, but here is my workflowuser provides a CSV file with two columnstable nameappleorangebananaqueryquery 1 = select count(*) from apple where colour = 'red'query 2 = select count(*) from orange where colour = 'orange'query 3 = select count(*) from banana where source_location <> (select top 1 source_location from orange)read the csvuse feature reader to dynamically read that table from a GDB (table name attribute as input)here is where I am overthinking.here is my desired output tabletable namequeryresult countappleselect count(*) from apple where colour = 'red'2orangeselect count(*) from orange where colour = 'orange'5bananaselect count(*) from banana where source_location <> (select top 1 source_location from orange)1I want to be able to run each row from the CSV table, and return the count result of the query.keep in mind, there are queries that rely on other tables as well. so my thinking is throw all of them

In the 'Using Python with FME Server' doc, step 2 asks to run the command python get-pip.py however, the server we are configuring is offline so we get an error 'Failed to establish a new connection'. What are the steps to get get-pip installed?

I have recently switched from a floating license to a fixed license and the licensing assistant is still picking up my old floating license. What can I do to resolve this?

I have a excel sheet that includes a column of road numbers and a column of chainages (eg road distances) I have another spatial database called Road Segments which are lines. They contain attributes of AssetId, Road numbers and an attribute of 'StartChainage' and one of 'EndChainage' What I want to achieve is to be able to identify what Road Segment AssetId the chainage from my excel sheet falls on.

Could you please take a look at this:https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/54930/statisticscalculator-bug.htmlMy first reaction is that it's indeed a bug.

user selects one feature class (published parameter) and fme writes to one to six formats(like csv, shape, dgn, acad, xls,mapinfo etc...)in the fmw i am asking formats to write via published parameteroutput_format =dwg,shape, xls  like(comma separated)then i used python prg  to split these values create new attribute for each format(yes)import fmeimport fmeobjectsimport mathdef frq(feature):    my_list = feature.getAttribute('_list{}')    ESRISHAPE=''    XLSXW=''    CSV=''    AUTOCAD_OD=''    AUTOCAD_DWF=''    FILEGDB=''    for item in my_list:        if item=="ESRISHAPE":            ESRISHAPE="YES"        if item=="FILEGDB":            FILEGDB="YES"        if item=="XLSXW":            XLSXW="YES"        if item=="CSV":            CSV="YES"        if item=="AUTOCAD_OD":            AUTOCAD_OD="YES"        if item=="DWF":            AUTOCAD_DWF="YES"    feature.setAttribute("ESRISHAPE", ESRISHAPE)    feature.setAttribute("XLSXW", XLSXW)    feature.setAttribute("CSV", CSV)    feature.setA

I am new to FME, and I am trying to extract data of specific lines of the XML, but once I import the XML, I am unable to find these lines referenced anywhere. Is there a transformer that I could use that I could define the required line (by attribute contained in that line if possible) that would then extract the data so I could consume it

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I have several hundred jobs that I'm processing on FMECloud. The FMEJobSubmitter is set to 'Wait for job to complete: No" so I can take full advantage of 10 engines and the queue. After the JobSubmitter I have a FeatureHolder, then a Sorter (Descending by _Job_id), then a Sampler (First 1 Features) to get the last job "_job_id". When the last jobs arrive from the queue and run on the 10 engines the dataset for the last job is smaller and therefore finishes before the others, therefore the FMEServerJobWaiter sees the last job is Complete the workbench continues, although all the jobs are not really complete. If one could set the Priority in the FMEServerJobSubmitter via an attribute one could set the priority of the last job to be lower (ie. 101) than the others (ie. 100) forcing it to really be last.

Hi, I'm relatively new to FME and I was wondering if there was a common workbench for converting line features into polygon. Think of a dataset with the usual problems like this:-None merged line features, which result in polygons like in the image on the right (compair red line on the left to yellow polygon on the right)- None intersecting lines which result in no polygons at all- self intersecting lines which result in "small" polygons- Or identical line features which result in identical polygonsetc. etc.Without knowing specifically which kind of errors one is to expect in their dataset, how can you clean it, in order for FME to transform the lines into polygons.I've searched on here allready, and I've found the workbench mentioned in herehttps://knowledge.safe.com/questions/3150/fail-to-convert-lines-to-polygons-correctly.htmland this data validation tutorialhttps://knowledge.safe.com/articles/54515/data-qa-identifying-self-intersections-with-fme.htmlHowever,