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Hello FME User's,I'm reading a Website ( http://www.rio.rj.gov.br/ ) and through the transformer PythonCaller using Regex to find a value from attribute _response_body.When the Workspace was executed a error is happened like the information bellow:Python Exception <UnicodeEncodeError>: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\\xd3' in position 315: ordinal not in range(128) Attached my template file.Thanks in Advance,Danilo de Lima 

Hi everyone.If I make an export to dxf from my 3D database (CityGRID) with their tools and inspect the result in Microstation my buildings look as expected:As soon as I touch the buildings with FME for further processing, even if it is just read and write to dxf again, tho whole thing is "polygonized":Even though the building is still "correct" the result looks to nervous to me (and to our customers as well).Is there a way to tell FME not to polygonize areas with the same normal? Or at least a switch that tells the CAD-Software not to show these polygons?Thank you very much for any hints.Simon

Trying to turn the following json response from a HTTPCaller (hitting the ESRI Roads & Highways LRS Service - measureToGeometry) into line geometry.Worth noting is that the line points are in [X,Y,Z,M], so I guess if I am able to remove the Z and M, I should be able to use the Geometry Replacer.{"spatialReference":{"wkid":3857},"locations":[{"status":"esriLocatingOK","routeId":"S001920030W","geometryType":"esriGeometryPolyline","geometry":{"hasZ":true,"hasM":true,"paths":[[[-10415371.759930966,5162233.8351752404,0,179.327719443608],[-10415353.016318941,5162235.5338697936,0,179.31902059650747],[-10415173.989513392,5162253.0877756234,0,179.23587763117393],[-10414937.441137116,5162275.1197145516,0,179.12607168131217],[-10414712.804785877,5162297.1376164714,0,179.02174782997463],[-10414626.694503454,5162306.0776990149,0,178.98173415283964],[-10414577.001150453,5162309.6976211928,0,178.95870487764478],[-10414527.307759741,5162313.317119943,0,178.93567554029869],[-10414397.626339536,5162

I have a feature that is a circle and stored in Oracle. When translating it to a MapInfo Tab writer, the circle does no export to a circle it is more of a 12+ sided polygon and slightly shifted.Is there a way to rectify this issue? or even assign tolerances? I have read somewhere that it relates to the number of bits - the FME version I have is 64 bit and the writer output for MapInfo TAB is 20 bit?

Something very strange happen in my shutdown python script that uses arcpy.Exists() function. This function test if a feature class exists or not and returns True or False.The following script returns False in FME even if the feature class do exists. I have tryed the same script in a python shell using the same python interpretor, and it returns True. Any ideas why it fails in FME shutdown python?import arcpyprint arcpy.Exists("\\\\cnatrtd8\\geo\\GEODEV011.sde\\GEO09_WEB_MERCATOR\\GEO09E03_CS_STA")

I would like to transform a directory with several DXF oder DWG files with a coordinate transformation and write all the DXF or DWG files into one new directory. How can I write all the files with the same schema as the input files? I need an output file per input file. I only get one merged output file from the input files. I tried to do that with dynamic reader and writer. How can I get the same amount with same schema of output files like the input files? With esri shapefile this ist easily possible with dynamic workflow.Thank you!

Hello,On the one hand, I have a raster file which represents ground elevation. On the other hand I have a file from PostGIS with a shape_polygon geometry, which represents outlines of buildings. I'd like to create a new attribute per building in which there would be the average of all interiors cell values.Any ideas ?Thanks a lot,JJ

I want to use the rastermosaicker with parallel processing. Because the process takes days. So I want a common ID where the Y-coordinate is the same. (see ). What is the best way to solve this problem?

Hi allI've had a read of related topics and still need some clarification. What I'd like to do is kick off a jobsubmitter service via http POST and use the file uploaded (csv or shape file) via the POST as the source data for the reader in the service. I'm testing using Postman and this is what I'm trying to post:This article states that you can't use form-data in the body, only raw data. Does this mean the method I'm using won't work or has someone managed to get it to work? If this is possible, how do you set the FME Cloud location the file upload will be uploaded to?If this method is not possible, I was thinking of using the upload service to upload the file then run the workspace when the upload arrives in the destination folder in FME Cloud (kick off process via notifications).Any other suggestions would be most welcome.ThanksRob

Hi,My version is FME 2017Without any prior transformers GroupBy option in StatisticsCalculator is showing fme_feature_type attribute. Whether "Group By" option in StatisticsCalculator has been auto enabled by fme_feature_type attribute.

Hi All, I'm attempting to rearrange table A into table B using FME 2017.0. ABI've followed FME's advanced manipulation of tables help, and i can get to this output (below) but i'm having a difficult time getting the premise ID in it's own column and bringing in the additional premise's info. Any help would be greately appreciated. -----------------------------------------------------------------Workspace: Input CSV: ------------------------------------------------------------------

I changed the FME Server token MAX_EXPIRATION parameter to 20 years based on the steps outlined in this help page: https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/919/setting-the-maximum-expiration-for-fme-token-servi.htmlHowever, the token that I set a month ago has now changed to a new token. I have two questions:1. Is it valid to set the MAX_EXPIRATION parameter greater than two years as the above article suggests?2. Is changing the token the desired behaviour by FME Server? I would expect that when a token expires it simply becomes invalid, and does not create a new token.I am using FME Server 2016.1.3.1.Thanks

Hi everybody!Have you ever heard of ARCHIBUS? As far as I understand it should be a web platform for managing Real Estate, Infrastructure & Facilities assets. According to their website (https://www.archibus.com/):"ARCHIBUS reduces complexity through native business intelligence. ARCHIBUS turns BIM, GIS and Mobile into powerhouses that accelerate understanding of your real estate portfolio, workspaces, and operations, and speeds business processes" Any idea about what kind of data they use? Would it be possible to integrate that with FME?Thanks a lot in advance for any tip you can give!

Hi FME user's,My customer doens't connect the transformer S3ObjectLister. I maked the test in my machine and company and the results is OK, all files are display.I believe my customer wants to contact the IT Team to disable any port.Attached the log file.Thanks in Advance,Danilo de Lima

I'd like to generate a pdf file with a header. In this header I'd like to write a lot of stuff like this : Name : JohnTel : 04 60 25 19 23City : PerpignanWhat is the correct process?Do I have to put a TextAdder+PDFStyler for each line? So there will be the same number of input into the PDFPageFormatter.Is there a transformer allowing to add a table?

Hello everybody,  I want to install an external python package named xtopdf in FME. The problem is that this package cannot be installed with easy_install or pip as usual. It has to be installed manually (https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf). That means the hints given on https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/841/install-python-modules-into-fme.html don't work here. In my normal Python envorionment outside from FME I could download the zip file, unzip it in a directory 'xtopdf' in my Python directory, create an __init__.py in that directory, install a few other needed packages and it worked. But in my FME Python environment it does not work like that. If I copy my xtopdf folder in the directory .../FME2017/fmepython27/Lib, install other needed packages and create a startup script where I just try to import the package 'os' as a test and this module. While 'os' could be imported 'xtopdf' could not be found!  Hope that anyone has some experience with

Why is there a 10 Character limit to V8DGN Cell Names in the V8DGN Writer when the V8DGN file format allows for a 512 character cell name? The old igds days are long gone and I don't understand why FME V8 DGN writers would not use the V8DGN file format attributes sizes? 10 Characters is not enough in the V8 DGN world for a cell name.

Hi,  I have an attribute (timeattribute) that I would like to save to an oracle table  timeattribute = '2017-06-30 18:39:05'Within a sqlexecuor, I'm doing something like: INSERT INTO TEST_T  (    OBJECTID,        TIMEATTRIBUTE  )  VALUES  (    @Value(OBJECTID),   '@Value(TIMEATTRIBUTE)'   )    and it failed. How can I make it work? FYI, the queryINSERT INTO TEST_T  (    OBJECTID,        TIMEATTRIBUTE  )  VALUES  (    @Value(OBJECTID),   sysdate   )   worked perfectly within the sqlexecutor.Thanks

I am trying to convert a Google KML file to ESRI Shapefile and to include the ExtendedData as attributes.European Space Agency is publishing planned satellite observation scenario as a KML file that has several attributes in the ExtendedData tag (see ). These attributes are always the same, as here:<ExtendedData>   <Data name="SatelliteId">      <value>S1A</value>   </Data>   <Data name="DatatakeId">      <value>1C269</value>   </Data>   <Data name="Mode">      <value>EW</value>   </Data>   <Data name="Swath">      <value>NA</value>   </Data>   <Data name="Polarisation">      <value>DH</value>   </Data>   <Data name="ObservationTimeStart">      <value>2017-06-06T20:19:16</value>   </Data>   <Data name="ObservationTimeStop">      <value>2017-06-06T20:20:32</value>   </Data>   <Data name="ObservationDuration"> 

Hi everybody!I'm facing a problem with the ocgkml Writer. When I route 3D surface geometry of building models to the writer, I'm getting flipped surfaces for my facade features. Unfortunately this behaviour doesn't remain constant for all facade triangales, some of them are oriented correctly and some are not. The input features look correct to me and exports to collada prove this to be wright.An export with FME 2015 also shows a correct export with all walls oriented correctly. So this has to be an issue with FME 2016 and 2017. Has anybody else encountered this behaviour and found some workaround for this? Find attached the sample data together with a snipped of the workspace and the exported KML filesThanks in advance to everybody who can help me!

Hi, I am writing to ask a question about RasterExpressionEvaluator. I have a buffer layer around one point, and I created a raster out of this buffer layer. In this buffer layer, I used red color for distance 0-100 meter, purple for 100-300 meter and blue for 300-400 meter. Now I would like to overlay the buffer on the Geotiff. So, I need the colors to be transparent so the background color of Geotiff can also be visible. I have used RasterExpressionEvaluator with raster buffer as input for port B and Geotif as input for port A. Then I have used this band expression list: if(B[0]==0,A[0],A[0]+B[0]/5);if(B[0]==0,A[0],A[0]+B[0]/5);if(B[0]==0,A[0],A[0]+B[0]/5). However, when I run the work space the color of raster buffer will not as I specified before using RasterExpressionEvaluator. Any help would be highly appreciated, Regards, Mitra

Hello,I have CityGML files for buildings and I want to know and expose the number of vertex and triangles that will be exported by the OBJ writer.I use the aggregator transformer to merge all the geometries and count the number of vertex, then remove all duplicated vertex (not immediate, but feasible), but I don't know how to find the number of triangles.Is somebody having an idea ? Maybe using the pythocaller, but I'm not a specialist !

How can we trigger workspaces one after another in FME server? Suppose we have three workspaces and these three need to be run one after another in sequence, published the three workspaces to fme server with success and failure topics for each script. while configuring with Notification or Subscriptions, unable to find any trigger to run next workspace. am i missing anything?

Hi, I came across the following issue: using a directory and path reader (filtering for files only) and supplying an empty folder works fine (it doesn't produce any files, but that's just fine). However, say I want to skip any processing from this reader, as an innocent user I supply the Windows nul: device. Now my workspace crashes, how is that? Of course, there are a lot of ways around this problem, but wouldn't it be nice if the directory and path reader behaves in the same way like, say, the Windows dir command?

Hi there,I'm using a PointOnAreaOverlayer to try and count the number of features ("UPRN") in a polygon ("DMA"). However, its not working. What group by or parameters might I need to set?