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kkrajewski
asked in Transformers
Finding neighbours with 1 to 1 relationship

Hi, I'm trying to transfer attributes from an 'inaccurate' set of points to another 'accurate' one, however I'd like to limit canditates (or bases) to have a 1 to 1 relationship where if a candidate was already found as nearest neighbour to a base, then it is 'taken out of the pool' and not found again for another base.In example below, I want to match A to 1 and B to 2, however 1 is closest to A and B thus gets assigned twice. If I change ports (Base<>Candidate) then I got opposite: 1 and 2 is assigned to B.Is there a way of saying; if you already found A~1 then 1 is out of the pool and B~2 ?Points have no common attributes to use for grouping by and there is 100's of thousands of those, hence finding nearest neighbour by location to assign correct attributes from incorrect geometry.

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gio
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vdiyalshah
asked in Transformers
Normalisation of street name with Python or Any Transformer

Hi,I am having problem to find a suitable way to normalise Street Name in my geodatabase.Example of Street Name to be normalised;Example List of abbrivations to search and replace;Any idea how to solve it either with a transformer or Python Script.Many Thanks!Abdul

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takashi
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michaelknave
asked in Data
Creating CityGML hierarchy

Hello, I have one question regarding conversion 3D city from SHAPEFILE to CityGML.I have more classes of objects (vegetation, cityfurniture, buildings, ...). I would like to ask how can I follow the structure of creating _AbstractClasses in FME workspace? How can I create abstract features and use them as gml_parent_id in those features which are in the hierarchy down below? Thank You Michal

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daveatsafe
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steinarvatne
asked in Integration
Can you generate an FMERGB24Tile from an FMERaster?

It would seem that Tiles can be made of complete RGB-data (FMERGB24Tile for instance), but the getTile() method seems to be available from FMEBand only, which in turn will only contain a single color channel, as generated from FMERaster.getBand(). Is there some elegant way to generate an FMERGB24Tile from an input raster?

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ikast_mofri
asked in Transformers
Blurry map in PDFPageFormatter

I'm using the PDFPageFormatter to make a PDF with different elements - including a map from a WMS-service. It's easy to use the transformer, but the map gets very blurry. Why, I don't know, so I hope that someone can help me.

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deanatsafe
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basilethibaultn
asked in Data
Get the custom attributes when converting a Revit rvz file

Hi, I have some trouble when I want export the custom properties of a Revit file. After exporting in rvz with the "Export Revit property sets" checked, I can see them when I open it in the inspector, but I can't access them in the workbench, or export the properties in a csv (with the ID I could reaggregate the data).Could you help me ?

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daveatsafe
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adriancoelho
asked in Data
FME Server with OS authentication type Geodatabase connection

Hi,Does anyone know why FME server is unable to handle an SDE connection file with OS authentication? I have several FME desktop workspaces using OS Authentication and I publish it to FME server and run my FME Job Submitter service. I also have the conection file uploaded, but somehow during translation it fails to utilize/recognise the SDE connection which is setup with OS Authentication. On the other hand, the windows server where FME Server is installed has ArcGIS Desktop installed too and I am able to connect to the database using the OS authentication SDE connection file.

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runneals
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Anonymous
asked in Automation
Custom SECURITY_LOGIN_TYPE

Documentation for SECURITY_LOGIN_TYPE in FME Server 2016 says:"Identifies the authentication (login) method to use: database, activedirectory, or custom"What does "custom" mean? We would like to user Active Directory AND database authentication if possible. This would allow us to create users with passwords that don't expire, unlike with Active Directory account.Thanks

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zzupljanin
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zzupljaninContributor
asked in Data
Convert HTML page to image file

Hi, is it possible to convert HTML page to jpg file.Thank you, cheers.

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mark2atsafe
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oscard
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oscardInfluencer
asked in Data
Question about reading and writing the same XML

Good morning.I have the XML file of an ATOM feed. That XML has to be updated every time the resources provided by that service are updated. Several dates must be changed.My first approach is read the XML with the XML reader, calculate the current data, modify the XML using the XMLTemplater and wirting the same XML file using the Text File reader (with "Overwrite" set to YES)..The process reads the C:/ATOM_feed.xml, edits it and writes the file C:/ATOM_feed.xml.This doesn't work:"Error opening dataset 'Text File' for writing, ensure that file path and permissions allow for writing".I guess it makes sense.So, in order to avoid this, I have used "Creator" to create a feature with an attribute "join" set to "A". I have added the same attribute to the feed from the XML Reader and I have perfomed a Merge using "FeatureMerger" (Requestor = new feature, Supplier = XML). That way I can read and write the same XML file. The

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takashi
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imj
asked in Data
Adding Hotlinking into a MapInfo table file

Hi all,  This might be completely in the world of fantasy! I've programmed FME to produce a MapInfo table (using MFAL writer) containing points at 25m intervals along road centres (using Ordnance Survey's ITN data), each point contains a URL including Long/Lat coordinates so that I can invoke Google Street View.  In MapInfo, I need to add the Hotlinking capability after FME so that the URLs can be read and linked to. I've looked at the tab header file (in Notepad) and it seems to need a few lines of code at the bottom of it. I was thinking, could I program FME to add this automatically? Has anyone thought about this before? Perhaps this is beyond the use of FME. The closest way I could think of would be to create a text file and write the specific text to it then replace the actual .tab file component in Windows Explorer but it wouldn't be a tidy process.  Regards,  Ian

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dunuts
asked in Transformers
FME Filtering By Attribute

Hi,I have a FME workbench that uses a HTTP caller to download 350 URLs. I then have a CSV file of 67 URLs that I need to download from this 350. I'm wondering is there a way to use a AttributeFilter or Tester etc. to only download these 67 and not the total number. I hope this makes sense. Thanks.

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fmelizard
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fmelizardSafer
asked in Data
How can I download a file from Box.com, Google Drive, OneDrive or S3 by using the file name instead of the id

How can I download a file from Box.com, Google Drive, OneDrive or S3 by using the file name instead of the id?

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fmelizard
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kimo
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kimoContributor
asked in Transformers
Example SQLITE reader with SQL Parameters

What is the format for the SELECT option? I cannot get this to work, it has to be empty. I expected it to be something like: column1, column2but that gives an error

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kimo
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mbu
asked in Transformers
Converting vector grid to raster - unwanted raster cells

I have created a vector grid consisting of polygons with size 0.00027778 degrees (around 30m). The polygons have a value which represents the number of people living whithin it. Naturally, lots of polygons will have zero inhabitants. These polygons are filtered out. I want to convert this grid to a raster grid with each raster cell matching the vector polygons exactly. The "missing" polygons with zero inhabitants should result in a NoData raster cell.I'm feeding the polygons into NumericRasterizer, using the exact same cellsize as with the polygons. It seems that what I'm trying to do is possible. However, in the northern parts of my grid, there are raster cells which should be NoData, but instead they have taken the value of the cell above it. The image shows comparison of polygons (red outline) and raster cells:In the northern part of the image, all raster cells have a "twin" directly below them which should be NoData and thus invisible. Everything to the

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chrisladny
asked in Data
Batch output switch

Hi,Yet another newbie here.I am just wondering if its possible to change writers output in some quick way (drop down list, etc).let me explain... I have an excel spreadsheet and 13+ feature classes (ArcGIS 10.3.1) I am using FeatureMerger to join the table with every single feature class (not always basing on the same common field). So far so good, it is working fine but sometimes i need to change an storing location, eg. output1: local test area, output2: internal server (SDE), output3: external server (SDE). How to change the output locations all at once. At the moment i have 13 writers and i don't want to change each of them every time and i don't want to create workbenches for each of the potential outputs. How to do that? Thanks,

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mygis
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mygis
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mygisSupporter
asked in Data
Writing LOD2 and LOD3 into a single citygml file

Hi, is it possible to mix lod2 and lod3 geometries into a single CityGML file?

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mygis
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fmelizard
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fmelizardSafer
asked in Authoring
How many engines can I get on an FME Cloud instance? How can I increase it?

I have an FME Cloud instance and would like to scale up by increasing the number of engines.How do I do that, and how many engines can I have? Is there an extra cost?Also, what is the optimum number of engines, and what does that depend on?

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mark2atsafe
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peterz
asked in Authoring
Using a calculated Private parameter as path to a Data Reader

I'm having some difficulty trying to use a private parameter as a path for a Data Reader. The difficulty stems from the fact that the value in the parameter is not literal but is calculated at run time (based on date). The parameter name is SourcePath and its value is a concatenation of a literal string and two other private parameters, which are based on a date. At runtime the value in SourcePath would look something like this:P:\\GIS Development\\Vicmap_Downloads\\2017\\20170606\\The workspace itself is very simple, consisting of a Directory and File Pathnames Reader, and a corresponding File Copy Writer. The reader obtains a listing of files in the directory, as specified in the SourcePath parameter. It then supplies this list of files to the File Copy Writer to perform the copy/paste. If I set the Data Reader folder path to a literal string then the workspace runs fine. However this is not workable as the path must be determined at runtime because it's based on current

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gio
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verdoodtdries
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verdoodtdriesSupporter
asked in Authoring
Can you assign a priority when publishing a workspace to FME Server?

Hello FME-community, I want to upload a workspace to FME Server and ensure this workspace always runs with a default priority of 50.Is there a way to set the default priority when publishing the workspace to FME Server?ORCan you change the default priority of workspaces once they are published at FME Server? I know you can assign a priority when launching a workspace by the FMEServerJobSubmitter transformer, but this is not my intention in this case.

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ccdcpublic
asked in Integration
HTTPCaller SOAP issues

Hi,I have SOAPUI responding fine for requests to the host but when attempting to replicate this through FME HTTPCaller I simply get -HTTP/1.1 415 Unsupported Media Type - http://bckapi.hosted.domestic.test.whitespacews.com/powersuitedomesticwebservice.asmx Here are the parameters defined in my HTTPCaller - HTTPCaller [HTTPCaller]Request: Request URL: http://bckapi.hosted.domestic.test.whitespacews.com/powersuitedomesticwebservice.asmx HTTP Method: POST Query String Parameters: Query String: <not set> Headers: Headers: <not set> Body: Upload Data: Specify Upload Body Upload Body: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:web="http://webservices.whitespacews.com/"> <soapenv:Header/> <soapenv:Body> <web:GetAddresses> <!--Optional:--> <web:getAddressInput> <!--Optional:--> <web:AddressNameNumbe

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darren
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darrenContributor
asked in Integration
Reading XML embedded within SOAP response

Hi all,Whilst I'm relatively familiar with the basic functionality of FME a recent project has required me to get involved with SOAP web services. Having read some of the online documentation I've managed to setup a work space to contact the web service and receive a response (using a Creator, XML Templater, HTTP Caller and XML Formatter).I've successfully setup a work space to read in NHS local services and using the XML Fragmenter have exposed the attributes from the SOAP response under the ServiceTransferObject element.The NHS the response was cleanly structured (example below):...but the response from a 3rd party web service appears to be structured very differently. There are the expected Envelope and Body elements but the attributes I need to expose appear to be encoded within a single element, iData (example below):Is anybody able to assist with being able to access the attributes held within the highlighted area of the above example (basically everything under the

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david_r
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itay
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itaySupporter
asked in Automation
SMTP error

Hello all,I am getting an error message stating that the email sent via the Emailer transformer does not contain a header (From).Here is a description of the error:SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: 550-5.7.1 [2a00:4e40:1:1::9:4 11] Our system has detected that this message 550-5.7.1 is not RFC 5322 compliant: 550-5.7.1 'From' header is missing. 550-5.7.1 To reduce the amount of spam sent to Gmail, this message has been 550-5.7.1 blocked. Please visit 550-5.7.1 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=RfcMessageNonCompliant 550 5.7.1 and review RFC 5322 specifications for more information. o16si20691209edc.165 - gsmtpI am actually specifying a From in the emailer but it seems not to come through:Does anybody know if its a known issue? I am using FME 2017.0.0.0 (20170228 - Build 17259 - WIN64)Thanks in advance.

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itay
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f.kemminje
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f.kemminjeContributor
asked in Architecture
where should we keep/upload source data set file in fme server

Fme server 2016I developed ONE fme file which reads from csv file and writes to csv. I Published this fmw to fme server. If I use Fme server’s user web interface it asks me to upload the csv file and loading to temporary folder and fme server knows this path. its working good.I am using my own web page(image attached) and calling fme server’s URL inside my web application.But when I run this fmw, fme cannot locate the source dataset(csv) in the server. How/ Where can I upload/keep my source csv file in the server ?, So that fme server can locate this filepath when called thru fme server’s url. I copied csv to server path and I redirected my source dataset to this uploaded file, it is not locating and gives error.Can you Please tell me how can I achieve this?

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takashi
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takashi
asked in Authoring
FME 2017.0 Emailer issue: C125117 (PR76958)

Hi @NatalieAtSafe,From this Q&A;: SMTP errorThe issue has been filed as C125117 (PR76958) and I was notified that it has been fixed in FME 2017.1 Beta already. I confirmed that the original issue has been resolved in FME 2017.1 Beta with Python 3.5, but the fixed Emailer newly causes this error when running with Python 2.7. I think the error apparently indicates that the implementation of the Emailer in FME 2017.1 Beta doesn't conform to Python 2.7 specifications.Emailer: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: character mapping must return integer, None or unicode Nearly two months have passed since I reported the error above, but it has not been resolved yet in the latest Beta build 17498.Could you please check the current status of the PR?

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takashi
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