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I’m trying to retrieve a WebConnection using the FMENamedConnectionManager in a PythonCreator as described here.Content of the PythonCreator:import fmeobjectsimport fmewebservicesclass FeatureCreator(object): def __init__(self): fmewebservices.FMENamedConnectionManager.getNamedConnection('SAP S4') def input(self, feature: fmeobjects.FMEFeature): pass def close(self): passThe execution fails with the ErrorPython Exception <TypeError>: descriptor 'getNamedConnection' for 'fmewebservices.FMENamedConnectionManager' objects doesn't apply to a 'str' objecteven though the documentation clearly states that the first parameter must be a string object (connectionName (str))What am I doing wrong?

Hi, Can someone help me with the Chartgenerator transformer. As a result I plot a pdf that looks like this:  The only thing that I would like to do is to plot the values of the points as text labels next to the points. Like what was done before in EXCEL.  Can anyone here help me to get labels next to my points? Thanks in advance. 

Hi all,Currently I have a process that gets an excel file from an open data site, saves it into a Network File share location, and then i read it back into my workbench to continue my ETL process.(Download I am using from open.canada.ca: https://data.ontario.ca/dataset/7a049187-cf29-4ffe-9028-235b95c61fa3/resource/6545c5ec-a5ce-411c-8ad5-d66363da8891/download/private_school_contact_information_eng.xlsx)I would like to stream line the process by avoiding the need to download the file and then reading it into my workbench. I’d rather save it to an attribute and go from there. When I use a BinaryDecoder with default settings, it’s able to read the attributes (see attached image) from the attached HTTPCaller, however, when I run it, It just fails with this huge hexadecimal error log. FYI, I am running FME Workbench 2022.2, and I shared a portion of my workbench in the attached zip. Anyone have a similar process that can provide some guidance? Am I limited to only downloading? Any and all h

Hi everyone,I just noticed in the dockerfile (version 2024.2.1-b24801) line 130 a new engine with the type UTILITY. Does anyone know what this is for? Is it a mandatory component in the architecture?Thanks a lot!

I have 3 Excel files and each one has multiple sheets [T1(sheet1, sheet2..,etc), T2 (sheet1, Sheet2,..etc), T3(sheet1, sheet2,...etc). The names of the sheets in all files are identical and the name of the fields in each sheet are identical too but fill with different data. I need to join or merge each sheet from one Excel file with the corresponding one from the others based on a common field (ID) and have one excel file. I did different attempts but I did not get the right results. Could you help please.

Hi everyone,I'm trying to replicate the "Explode" functionality of ArcGIS Pro in FME. The Explode tool in ArcGIS Pro breaks multipart geometries into individual single-part features. For example, if I have a multipart polygon, it will split it into multiple single-part polygons, each becoming a separate feature in the output.I've looked into the GeometryPartExtractor, but I'm not entirely sure if this is the correct transformer or how to configure it properly for this task. Is there a specific transformer or method in FME that is directly equivalent to ArcGIS Pro's Explode?Any advice or examples would be greatly appreciated!Thanks in advance for your help.

Hello everyone,I am trying to use the change detector to compare changes from the current input data compared with previous runs to filter out Features that have not changed in order to save some processing time.  In order to do that I create a hash using the CRCCalculator and save that away. With each new run those hashes are compared agains the previously saved hashes. The ChangeDetector gives me pause though.For some tables the ChangeDetector identifies changes where there are none. Whats more is, when I rerun the ChangeDetector, second time around the results are as expected without changing anything in the workspace. Maybe anyone has some insight into what could be going on here?1st time running identifies updated features that arent updated at all2nd time running without changing anything: different (this time correct) results 

HiI need to extract the distinct attribute values of each field/column. An example is provided below: Input    Owner Building_Type Building_ AgeRow 1:  Steve Office 1970-79Row 2: Adam Office 1980-89Row 3: Steve House 2001-5 Output:   Owner Building_Type Building_ AgeRow 1:  Steve Office 1970-79Row 2: Adam House 1980-89Row 3: NULL NULL   2001-5 Any help will be appreciated. 

Hi all,I’m facing some troubles converting IFC data to Cesium 3D Tiles.Background:I have several IFC files containing mostly 3D objects concerning civil engineering source coordinate system: EPS:2056 different, user-defined PropertySets different IFC versionsGoal:Cesium 3D Tiles with all attributes (PropertySets)What I did so far (transformers in FME):Adding a dynamic reader with autodetecting IFC version Extracting PropertySets from Geometry Doing some cleaning on Geometry, i.e. removing extra Bounding Boxes and adding Vertex Normals Scanning the schema Writing dynamically to Cesium3DTiles FME Version: 2024.2.1.0 (Build 24801)Problems:some features are missingI cannot see why some features/objects are missing. They obiously run through all transformers until the writer. There are no errors, only 2 warnings saying:NOT changing coordinate system of reader identified by keyword `IFC_1' from `EPSG:2056' to `IFC_COORDSYS_0' -- mapping file setting of `EPSG:2056' overrides coordinate system

hello there we need to calculate the length of each polygon edge , the polygona could be in irregular shape considering the polygon is 4 edges if we use chopper or Geometrycoercer  transformer we get many edge  we are suppose to get only 4 Thanks  

​Bonjour,Je bataille depuis quelques temps avec l’appel de l’API SIRENE v3.11https://api.insee.fr/catalogue/site/themes/wso2/subthemes/insee/pages/item-info.jag?name=Sirene&version=V3.11&provider=insee En utilisant un HTTPCaller j’arrive bien à faire fonctionner l’API mais je ne comprend pas comment appliquer les variables de la recherche multicritère de l’API POST /siret.Avez vous déjà fait appel à cette API et des conseils à me donner ?Merci d’avance :) Voici l’appel à l’API que je souhaite : Et voici les paramétrages que j’ai essayer dans mon transformer :Fonctionnel mais sans filtresNon fonctionnel

Hello everyoneI am trying to do the following: My workspace writes into a database. I have set a user parameter to give the user an option “delete Database and start a fresh database OR continue adding data onto existing data”. In case of deleting the Database the creation of IDs (which are created in the Process) should start at 1. In case of adding data to the existing database the creation of IDs should continue from whatever the max value already existing in the database is.I believe this should work as follows using a YES/NO User Parameter.Test Filter on that User Parameter:YES → Sampler (create single initiator) → SQL Executor (delete all data with “delete from tables”)NO → Sampler (create single initiator) → Feature Reader on Database → Statistics Calculator (extract max ID) Now in a different path within the workspace I have a Counter which I use to create the IDs. I thought I could simply use a conditional Value set on my YES/NO User Parameter withYES → Start at 1NO → Start at

Happy 2025!I’m processing some OpenStreetMap PBF data and have found a duplicate attribute name, hard to believe but I think an artifact of OSM’s XML ancestry, two attributes differ only in string case, like my_attribute and My_Attibute.  My processing changes all attributes to lowercase so I have two fields my_attribute.  I tried a ListDuplicateRemover on the Schema output of a SchemaScanner but I get an invalid schema definition.  Does anyone with knowledge of FME internals have a tip for dropping one of the duplicate attributes?  Thanks.

I am reviewing some of the Transformers I either rarely use or have never used and came across the Feature Holder. Can someone provide me an example or two of why/when it would be a good idea to use the Feature Holder Transformer?

Hi All,I would require your help dealing with empty values in a columnI have a file with "n" features. In one of the column (Example: Column A) certain values are null/empty. I would like to replace it with non-empty value. Also, Column A has only 2 distinct values - either null or date.Example:Feature     Column A1            Jan 20252            Jan 20253            Jan 20254            null5            null6            null7            Jan 20258            Jan 2025I would like to change Feature 4,5,6 to "Jan 2025" instead of null.In Java world, I would store them in local variable and run column A in loop and replace with value if null.Not sure how to perform similar scenario in FME. Would really appreciate your help in achieving the above expected output.Thanks in advance

Hi all.I'm having a hard time figuring out why lists with one entry, especially if it's read from XML, is mishandled in FME.A list may have any number of entries, and if reading such from XML, they often have any number including zero entries.When flattening the output, cycling thru the list, one normally uses ListExploder. However, if the list in question has one entry, it's auto-exploded, which makes ListExploder reject it. So I have to check the rejected features to see, if the list had been auto-exploded or if it had no entries at all. E.g. two or more transformers instead of just one.Why?Wouldn't it be more logical to _always_ create a list, if there are 1 or more entries ?It works as such in 2021.0Is this behaviour specific to XML (or JSON?) flattening ?Cheers.

Dear community,I want to automatically write all metadata for my geodatabase using FME. So I managed to set this up using XMLUpdater. But I only manage to do this for feature classes. I would also like to write metadata for the feature dataset, and even on the highest level, the geodatabase itself. How can I access the XML for these higher levels of gdb structure?The XML that I find with FME for a feature class only contains metadata for that particular class and not for the higher levels.Thanks in advanceNathan

Hi, We are deploying FME Desktop 2022.2 in our server (it’s a virtual machine).  The security team had done a security scan and expected us to upgrade the FlexNet Publisher to version 11.19.6.0 or later. However, the FlexNet installer downloaded from this link (https://fme.safe.com/downloads/) is Build 11.19.2. And it looks like bonding with FME Desktop so that we cannot upgrade FlexNet Publisher individually. How can I upgrade the version of FlexNet to version 11.19.6.0 or later? Thanks in advance. Best Regards,Qubbie

Room output from an Architectural Revit model are solids. I need room polygons and I’m not finding a transformer that will do this.  Each floor of the model has a floor elevation value which would be perfect for slicing the room objects.FME version 2024.1

Hello everyone, I transformed some Orthophtos in a new coordination system and the nodata areas are black. How can I make these areas transparent? (The output data formats are TIFF and JPEG.)(I have read the related discussions, but couldn’t find the solution for my case.) Thank you for your help!  

Hi,I’m getting data from a streaming source (Kafka) that contains multiple geometry per feature read in WKT. To process the geometry, I “desaggregate” the feature first, produce a geometry from the WKT string, then try to aggregate it back with the Aggregator transformer. As stream processing doesn’t allow blocking transformers, I have set the Group Processing parameter to “When Group Changes”.My issue with this solution is that the feature leave the Aggregator only when effectively, the group changes which means when a new feature is read… I was wondering if there was a way to force the output of the latest feature, or if it was possible to make the process “Desaggregate/Produce geometry/Aggregate back” treat one feature per feature. Edit: this is most probably possible with a PythonCaller, I’m wondering if there was a “native” solution.

Hello,  What is the best way to extract metadata from a shapefile? This would include Title, Tags, Summary, Description, Credits, Field Names, and Summaries. I want to export the metadata to an Excel spreadsheet.I am looking for some ideas on what transformers to use. 

Hi,My goal is to read multiple (unknown) Hosted Feature Layers (HFLs) from an AGOL group and write those to ArcGIS Enterprise (11.3). I can successfully specify a single HFL in my FeatureReader and using an Automated schema in my FeatureWriter, specify each individual layer and write it to Enterprise. As I need this to work for multiple HFLs, most with multiple layers, I need to use a dynamic schema in my FeatureWriter. As soon as I do this, my workbench fails. Every time I switch to a dynamic writer, using the fme_feature_type as layer name and schema from schema feature, the workbench fails due to these errors:Message Type: fme::internal::_v0::py::ExceptionPython Exception <KeyError>: 'My_HFL_Name'ARCGISPORTALFEATURES writer: An error has occurred. Check the logfile above for details I’ve tried everything I can think of to get this working and cannot understand what I’m possibly doing wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated. My workbench (so complex...) AGOL HFL FeatureRea

Hi All, I want to extract detailed log messages from FME job running on FME Flow (Ver 2021.2.3). What options are available to extract this information along with basic job information like Workspace, Repository, user, source, start and end time. etc. Appreciate any feedback. Jay    

After upgrading FME Flow to 2024.2 some of our workspaces fail with the following error:WARN  |Library 'F:\FMEFlow\Server\fme\plugins/realdwg/REALDWG.dll' was found but could not be loaded. Ensure that all the dependent modules exist for this library WARN  |Could not load module 'F:\FMEFlow\Server\fme\plugins/realdwg/REALDWG.dll' : 'The specified module could not be found' WARN  |Could not load module 'F:\FMEFlow\Server\fme\realdwg/REALDWG.dll' : 'The specified module could not be found' ERROR |Module 'realdwg/REALDWG' is unavailable for use with this FME editionSeems like RealDWG and AUTOCAD_OD readers/writers do not work anymore. -Is this a known issue/bug?-Is RealDwg not supported anymore? It does work in FME Form 2024.2