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I have a known structure of an XML file/feed and am using an xfmap file to map attributes. The XML feed doesn't always have all of the fields in their feed. Is there a way to populate a reader attributes from an xfmap file?

I am using an AutoDesk Revit Reader to transfer an RVZ file to a Feature Class in an ESRI GEoDatabase (ArcObjects). When using the 2DForcer to transform the 3D RVZ data to 2D data the translation fails and there error I get is 'Cannot write a non-area feature to an area feature class.' I am using a Geometry Filter which has the solid and area options checked, followed by a GeometryValidator with all options checked. and the output feature class type is set to polygon.

Hi,I'm doing a transformation from a gdb to a CAD that was already setup (with block name, color ect, for each layers). I'm working with the DWGStyler and its working fine. The only problem that I find is that I'm not able to put each color "By Layer". It's possible in the Linetype checkbox to select ByLayer, ByBlock or others lines types but not in Blocks... It is possible to set up the color ByLayer in that type of transformation? Or I have to specific the color for each layers?Thanks!

Hi, I have dataflow where I filter my data by an attribute. This results in 100+ output ports. After that I will perform the exact same transformation for every output port and write the data in a separate file. (Yes, I do need to filter first.) Of course, I can create a custom transformer for my transformation that follows (see screenshot) but I'm wondering if there's a way so I don't need to add the transformer and a writer to my workspace 100 times?Any suggestions?I'm using fme desktop 2016

Hi,In my FME Server, I published a "master" workspace with an admin user called psl. This master process basically invokes another FME workspaces through a FMEJobsubmitter.When I run this process on the FME Server, the username is logged correctly only for the master process, but for the child process the username that is logged is psl.How can I do that it logs the correct user for the child processes too?

Hi,In FME Desktop I can add a Header to know the time spent on each transformers.FME_PROFILE_RESULT_CSV "filepath".How can I do this on a FME Server?

To get an xml file automatically we are currently storing all attribute table of sql server DB into a enterprise GDB in sql server, which is creating a trouble that everytime it is taking the primary key field as OBJECTID and changing the name of the field. So we want now to have the attribute table as it is in a non-spatial database, and want to read it's table name, field names and datatype into an xml file. But I cannot read the field names and data type as a list thus I can use it inside our own schema. Can anyone please guide me.?

I have a Geotiff file where the colour (a real number) represents the elevation. I wish to generate contours form this data and can not see how to get the data into the contour generator in an appropriate way. What other transformers do I need and how do i use them?

I am using TweetSearcher on FME Desktop 2016 to find tweets with a keyword and within a bounding box. I used my Twitter login details and it was working absolutely fine earlier.However, since a few days, I am not able to use the same workbench and it returns an errorReceived HTTP response header: 'HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden' from 'https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token'Could you suggest how can this issue be resolved. I can not find parameters in TweetSearcher to provide any access token. Thanks in advance!

I'm new to FME, and have been asked to look into quality control of land cover classification for processed point clouds. Currently, I'm hoping to use the Data Inspector to review the classification of land cover in las files, yet I can't figure out how to symbolize the point cloud by classification attribute. I haven't been able to find any documentation on this, could anyone help?

I have a module . in a folder (called '/wscloud/email_automation/wsa/lib')I can import it if I append the path explicitly, but this seems like a very clumsy way to do this. Is there a way I can configure the import path in settings?Thanks, Fuad.-----import fmeobjects  import sys  sys.path.append('/wscloud/email_automation/wsa/lib') #ew! import wsa

How can upgrade the license of 2015 FME Server to FME server 2016. In FME server 2016 there is no licensing assistant to use the license from floating server.

Unsure if compounded is the right term but anyway....I am trying to calculate a new attribute based on existing values - usually easy to do - but in this case the expression must reference each subsequent attribute value in an original attribute. Best explained by the graphic below:'StaticValue' is the original value and 'CompoundedValue' is the attribute I want to create. The first value will be unchanged but each subsequent value in the 'CompoundedValue' attribute must reflect the corresponding 'StaticValue' value.StaticValueCompoundedValue30030020320-50270-4023016039035425Can I do a 'circular' reference like this in FME?

Hi there,the sample attribute looks like: "xxx www.mypage.com\\\\localserver.com"Between the "xxx" (the number is variable) an the URL is a blank. So I need to find the index of the first blank and trim the attribute (string) from left to that index.In addition I need to remove every character including an beyond "\\\\". Any hints? I think it will work with the StringSearcher or StringReplacer...but actually I have no idea .. :-((Thanks in advance, Stefan

Hi all,Workspace A is uploaded to FME Server as a Data Download and Job Submitter Service. Several files are written in the workspace (excel, sdf, json, txt) and -logically- they appear in the output .zip package of the data download service.   Problem: A FileCopy writer is used to copy a .dwg file to the output folder. Because the files for the .zip package of the download service are stored an a temporary folder on FME Server, it is not yet possible to have to .dwg also in the download package. The Job Submitter does its job and all my files are written correctly (including the .dwg file). The data download .zip-package does not have this .dwg file and that is my problem. I just need the URL or the location of where the files for the download package are temporarily stored on FME Server, so I could use this URL as a parameter for the output location in the FileCopy Writer.The documentation online told me this should be the 'FME_SERVER_DEST_DIR' parameter? But when I use this

We are running FME Server (2015.1.0.2 - Build 15482 - win32). Engines and licenses seem to work properly, jobs can be started and are processed by FME Server. Since we want to downsize the number of engines used, we try to follow procedure as described under "FME Server Web User Interface > Using the Interface > Configuring the Number of FME Engines to Start" which states: "Change the Engine Count field to the desired number of engines, and click Change Number of Engines"However, when we log in using an account that has superuser privilege, the list of Available Engines is there and shows 2 engines, but there is no "Engine Count" field nor "Change Number of Engines" button. Any ideas how to fix this?

Hi all,I am currently creating Voronoi polygons (using the VoronoiDiagrammer) and I can use the Clipper to cut the polygons created using polygons from another layer (Layer B). Is there a way to constrain the created Voronoi polygons to this other polygon layer before clipping? i.e. All information in the points used to create the Voronoi polygons, should stay within the bounds of the polygons of Layer B which they are contained in. Many thanks. Edit: Please see diagram added below as a sample. I would like the create Voronoi polygons from the purple points only to the edge of the green polygons. UPDATE: SpatialFilter to remove polygons with no points within them. Clone & Offsetter (x2) to ensure there are at least 3 points in every polygon. PoinOnAreaOverlayer to insert foreign key to the points from the PK of the polygons.VoronoiDiagrammer with Group By parameter set to the foreign key field. Dissolver to remove the small triangles. Clipper to clip back to to original polygons. W

Folks, I know I am missing something simple here. What I am trying to do is convert polygons from a shapefile to a dwg while conserving the attribution. The shapefiles are polygons and may or may not have multiparts and donut geometries. As such it seems a mpolygon is the best fit as an AutoCAD datatype.Something similar has been asked Here: Shape to AutoCAD with attributes by @lmerino but no answer I can get to work.I have the cad writer set to extend entity dataHowever when I look at the output in CAD the polygons are coming through as blocks. @Mark2AtSafe suggested using a Deaggregator transformer but I am not sure how this will help. I have done as @erik_jan suggested and added autocad_entity set to autocad_mpolygon via a AttributeManager and everything in the target drawing will then end up as a mpolygon as desired. However there is no attribution.Sample data: Edit: Seems that using a different writer such as Autodesk AutoCAD Map 3D Object Data ends up with the desired outpu

It seems to me that once the Control vectors are sent to the AffineWarper that a single Affine transform could be calculated and applied to all Observed Features as they come through.

Hi,I have table with over 7000 records, and I only want to pass the top 10 or so for testing purposes. I know that you can specify the number of records passed in the initial Reader, but is there a transformer that allows you to do this part-way through your FME workflow?Thanks

I have an AutoCAD model that I'm trying to convert to GIS, but I can't seem to figure out whether it is possible to read Layer Filter information in any way. The model uses both Group and Property filters. Can anyone point me in the right direction as to whether this functionality already exists in FME Desktop? And if not, is it something that would be possible? I'm not even sure how layer filters are saved/accessed in a DWG, and I guess I wouldn't expect them to be attached directly to an object. Thank you!

Hi,I'm using FME to check the log files of previous runs, testing for errors.I'm now getting notifications of errors in a set of log files, that has been generated by running a workspace via "WorkspaceRunner". The error is bogus, however, so it messes up my overview by cluttering it with false positives.The dependent workspace is called with two parameters: the path of the (xml) file to check, and a path to the desired log file. This log file path contains a dash, so I get this error:BADNEWS: String value `WorkspaceRunner_DanDas: Running FME Workspace xxxxx.fmw with command line:' contains invalid characters and could not be converted into an integer (stfutil.cpp:802)A typical log file name may be: CONTROL ARWOS XML - TV-Inspektioner.logHow can I avoid having FME attempt to do a bogus subtraction in my string value ??Cheers

Hello everyone I try to extracted from a character string the end of a block separated by a / for example _temp / resources / temp / 2017072_email / 12-680-RER @FindRegEx (@Value (_temp), /, - 1 ,,) I can not find the right syntax to look for the character / starting from the right And then cut the block with a @right at the position of the / thank you for your comeback

I have an attribute with integer value called number of folders x for a single feature, and I would like to create X number of features. so I can create c number of sub-folders using filecopy.