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fmelizard
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fmelizardSafer
asked in General
A Workspace no longer produces the expected output

I have a workspace in FME Workbench that was previously working correctly. Now when I run it I see that features are being read in but are not properly interacting with the transformers. For example, features are no longer being merged by the FeatureMerger. The workspace has not changed at all and still completes but the results are incomplete. Are there any things that I should look for?

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fmelizard
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pratap
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pratapContributor
asked in Authoring
Lists aggregate

Hi All,I have an excel file with header-1 names and header-2 names. I have used AttributeSplitter and made list for both like header-1_list and header-2_list for each record. Now I want to aggregate the values like mentioned below...If 1 record in excel containsheader-1_list contains 0,1,2 valuesheader-2_list contains A,B,C,D,E valuesOutput should be 15 records which contains 0-A,0-B,0-C,0-D,0-E,1-A,1-B,1-C,1-D,1-E,2-A,2-B,2-C,2-D,2-E as values.(I have attached sample excel file and my progress work bench to this message for better understanding)Thank you in advancePratap 

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gio
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franco69
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franco69Contributor
asked in Transformers
create points with measure attribute

Hi Guys, i know many users ask something in that way (myself too) but its a little bit different, bcause i didnt find the exact answer to my question.  i have a polyline, gave a measure on it and produced vertices (PolylineAnalyzer) with an attribute where the extracted measure (MeasureExtractor,etc..) is saved and an attribute with the route_ID on it.Then i have produced a flat line with the same length as my polyline and also an attribute with the route_ID on it.  How can i set my points (vertices) on this flat line (with the extracted measure attribute)?   I've read some answers from other linear referencing questions and tried some things but: now I'm here!but i don't think its too complicated.......merge, list, explode,....?!?Thx and GreetzFranco

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thomask
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Remove duplicate entries

Dear FME community,I have a dataset which has for example the following two attributes:- grundbescheid_nr- bescheid_nrIf there are two identical rows with the same value in grundbescheid_nr (e.g. grundbescheid_nr= 183101), then only the entry with the higher number in bescheid_nr (in the example bescheid_nr = 186754) should be preserved. The entry marked with the blue background (bescheid_nr = 185582) and it's geometry should be deleted. The lower one(s) should therefore be eliminated.I suppose I could do it with a ListBuilder somehow, but I'm not yet sure how to do it exactly. Is there an easy way to solve this?Kind regardsThomas

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turid_skedsmo
asked in Automation
Directory Watch Reader

Hi all, I'm trying to set up a workspace that should fire every time a file is added to a folder. I came across the reader format "Directory Watch Reader", but so for I have been unable to find any documentation about how to use this reader type. If this is covered in the documentation anywhere, or in an article here at knowledge.safe.com, I'd be grateful for a link.

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lau
lau
asked in Authoring
Is it possible to use the function "intersect" of a FeatureReader with raster data?

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jneujens
jneujens
asked in Transformers
Extract features that are not labelled

Hi,I am using a shapefile, containing lines, that are eventually printed as PDF document. The lines (streets) are sent into a mapnikrastizers before it is stored as a pdf.   For my current project I would like to be able to identify that lines or labels that are NOT placed by the mapnikrasterizer.   Could anyone come up with a solution for this problem?

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itay
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raghunaren
asked in Data
Provide dataset path to reader through a Python script

Hi,I want to trigger a workspace using a python script and with that, also want to set the reader dynamically as a parameter. I did look at a few posts previously on this subject like using the workspace runner or the Creator but wasn't sure if that would match my requirement.My requirement is that - I have a set of workbenches that already have a Reader transformer added but I want to override those readers through Python script and provide dataset paths through python script.It would be great help if I am advised whether I am trying this the wrong way and if I should be getting rid of the Readers from all my fmw files and take some other method that would allow me to provide the path in a way that the workbench could be triggered just by a python script and there would be no need to open the fmw files in FME Desktop

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heidtmer
asked in Data
GoogleGeocoder

Hey all, Quick question. Does anyone know the difference between the free google geocoder and using an enterprise API key within this transformer? I thought there was a limit on the number of addresses you could geocode per day on the free version, but I ran 5,000 through multiple times. If the free version within FME is the same as the enterprise api my company pays for I could tell them to cancel our subscription. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Is the enterprise API more accurate? Thanks again! Ethan

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david_r
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ebygomm
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ebygommInfluencer
asked in Transformers
Assign common grouping to multiple overlapping area

I have some data similar to the followingI would like to be able to assign a group to this data as followsI can half achieve this spatially, by dissolving the geometries, assigning a unique ID, exploding a list and then assigning that ID back to the original geometries. This isn't entirely satisfactory due to the need to ignore some areas of overlap, e.g. B & D might overlap spatially but if they're not in my report as overlapping I wish to ignore these.Any suggestions to do this in a non-spatial way, looping perhaps?

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geodavid76
asked in Integration
httpcaller and encoding failure

hi all,Im coming accross an issue with the HTTP caller or attributefilewriter and encoding. I have created a WB that loops on a series of complete urls and downloads the file to a folder. Everything goes fine until we reach url with special characters as for example the one belowhttp://www.catastro.minhap.es/INSPIRE/Addresses/02/02021-CASAS DE JUAN NUÑEZ/A.ES.SDGC.AD.02021.zip (if you download this web page direclty on browser it works fine).Httpcaller fails on 404 not found since it parses another page http://www.catastro.minhap.es/INSPIRE/Addresses/02/02021-CASAS%20DE%20JUAN%20NUÑEZ/A.ES.SDGC.AD.02021.zipAbover URL does not work on browser.I have tried encoding the url before parsing to httpcaller, also encoding only the part of the url with the special characters and it fails all the time, even if the path parsed looks ok.It also fails in couldnt resolve host name.Any tip on this? I guess this is something related on how the url is parsed to httpcaller or filewriter but I cant solv

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burbank
asked in Transformers
Aligning points to line

Hi.  I have gotten stuck at a problem: I have some data points that I want to align to the geometry to a borehole. Is it possible to set up the anchored snapper to snap the points onto the line? I have not been able to find settings that work. The points only get snapped to vertices at ends of line segments, not at the closest position along the borehole line. 

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the_dude
asked in Authoring
Notifications seems to work but the topic monitor fails

Dear all. I completed the configuration of a Directory Watch subscription. I spent time trying to check with the Topic Monitoring without success (i.e. no results on the monitoring page). Searching the community here, I found an answer to a topic where an expert suggested to look the subscription log. I did and I found the service working properly. I know that the important thing is that the subscription is now working but I'm interested to know, if possible, the reason why the monitoring page seems not work properly. TIa Roberto   

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rylanatsafe
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fmelizard
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fmelizardSafer
asked in Architecture
Why does Topic Monitoring not work in Mozilla Firefox? It works in Google Chrome!

Why does Topic Monitoring work without error in Google Chrome, but when I try to enable it in Mozilla Firefox, it starts and immediately stops?I have configured my FME Server installation to use a self-signed certificate, but I have already made the security exception for each web browser! What gives?Note that the fmewebsocket.log doesn't contain any helpful information, it only lists the attempted starts and immediate stops:Fri-21-Oct-2016 05:20:17 PM   INFORM   New I/O server boss #5   408506 : channelOpen => -1,008,910,118Fri-21-Oct-2016 05:20:17 PM   INFORM   New I/O worker #1   408511 : Channel closed: -1,008,910,118Fri-21-Oct-2016 05:20:23 PM   INFORM   New I/O server boss #5   408506 : channelOpen => -231,922,873Fri-21-Oct-2016 05:20:23 PM   INFORM   New I/O worker #2   408511 : Channel closed: -231,922,873Fri-21-Oct-2016 05:20:23 PM   INFORM   New I/O server boss #5   408506 : channelOpen => 2,132,443,954Fri-21-Oct-2016 05:20:23 PM   INFORM   New I/O worker #3   408511

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drakez
asked in Transformers
Bulk attribute rename problem

Hello, in FME 2015 I have used @takashi solution to creating attribute names from one column value and populate those attributes with values from another column (http://fme-memorandum-takashi.blogspot.cz/2013/07/bulkattributerenamer.html)Basically if I use the bulkattributerenamer this way in FME 2016 NOTHING changes, output data look the same as input data, while in FME 2015 it does work, as shown in the images bellow.However this seems to not work in FME 2016.0 and above - I have tested it in 2016.0 and 2016.1.2Here is what my data look like:This is how the data look like when I transform them in FME 2015:This is how I have bulkattributerenamer setup:I have no idea what I am doing wrong as this seems to work ONLY in FME 2015. Any help is really welcome.Thanks, RadekEDIT: I have attached a zip file with workspace and sample data.

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geodavid76
asked in General
FME and amazon s3

Hi all,I do have a question about how FME and S3 interact each other. Im working with big amount of data that will likely increase very fast (terabytes). In my way to test how could we efficiently store the data and later work it with FME Im doing some tests basic tests with S3 from amazon. My point is that I can store those terabytes in Amazon but when I try to work with them with S3objectlister and S3downloader I found that you need to really download data to process it so all in all you will need to have extra storage in your server or desktop. So for example if I want to work with 5 gb of cloud data that I have stored in S3 I need first download this on local and then work normally on FME? I have not found a way to connect S3downloader directly to feature reader so I dont need to download all the data and process on the fly: Not sure if I explained correctly or not, or if Im missing somehting in the FME documentation that could do in other way...

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fmelizard
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franco69
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franco69Contributor
asked in Transformers
Result from Lengthcalculator to create new lines

Hi Guys,another easy one for you for sure.....but today I'm not fit anyway ...lol I have a polyline (pipeline route), gave a measure on it and calculate the length with a lengthcalculator...now I want take this result to create new lines inside the workspace....but I want only create lines straight with this measure (no curves as the original route)....the result from the lengthcalculator is not a numeric format so I don't know how to use this attribute in a way to create the lines.Any solutions?Thx and greetz from a never ending learning FME UserFranco

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takashi
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fmelizard
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fmelizardSafer
asked in Transformers
How can I get a table data from a web page?

I want to get this table:http://www.alaskajim.com/charts/currentsingles/radio/us.php 

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fmelizard
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fmenewbie
asked in Transformers
split a row into multiple rows by a field with delimited values

Hi, my table has a Owner field with multiple values delimited by either ; or &. Please see below table 1 for an example.. How to split the first and the third rows into multiple rows so the result like the table2?Table 1:TractIDOwner123312Jim, Jones; Maria, Jones 32141Alex, Bulman312312Russel, Terry & John, StocktonTable 2:TractIDOwner123312Jim, Jones123312Maria, Jones32141Alex, Bulman312312Russel, Terry312312John Stockton

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mitchellorchard
asked in Authoring
Create a "function group" to run on separated data sets

I have linear spatial data that consists of types (A, B, C, ... J, K) as well as condition (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). I am tasked with creating a list of total length of each type split by condition, ie Length of A1 = 100m, Length of A2 = 30m, ... Length of K5 = 200m.Is there a way I can create a function that splits the input into condition and then measures it without grouping all the output data? Currently I am splitting the data into types, then splitting each type into condition, then performing measurements, which results in dozens of identical functions being run. It seems that this can be streamlined, but I am somewhat new to FME and I am unsure how to approach this.I'm currently exporting the resulting data into excel, if that helps.Thanks in advance!

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franco69
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franco69Contributor
asked in Transformers
Counter from 01 not from 1

An easy one I think,I want to have an attribute which comes out from counter which starts with 01 not with 1...so I set this in my count start param (01) but it didn't change anything!? it starts at 1Any solutions?GreetzFranco

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itay
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ahmad_saleh
ahmad_saleh
asked in Transformers
Print the whole Workbench on one page

 Hi,When I try to create print my workbench to a PDF it does not scale the layout in one page, but prints multiple pages. I have chosen to print on A0 form the page setup, but it seems that FME prints A4 size on an A0 page, and creates A4 layouts on an A0 page! How to print on the whole bench on one page? I read that the FME 2017 have improved print control! So I have downloaded the beta version, but it seems that it faces the same issue. Regards,Ahmad

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tim_wood
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tim_woodContributor
asked in Data
Using FileCopy Writer to move FGDB - source folder gets left behind

I want to move an ESRI File Geodatabase (FGDB) from one folder to another. I have got the FileCopy Writer to move ...\\here\\data.gdb\\*.* to ..\\there\\data.gdb\\*.* but this leaves the now empty ..\\here\\data.gdb folder in the original location. I suspect this is because FGDBs are actually folders which is confusing for non-ESRI stuff (to the FileCopy Writer, it's just another folder). I know I could probably solve this with Python, or something involving Workspace Runners and FileCopy to nul to delete the folder after moving the contents. But I wondered if anyone knows of a way of doing this within the FileCopy Writer as part of the Move operation.Before you suggest doing ..\\here\\*.gdb, the constraint is that ..\\here\\ may contain more than one FGDB, but I only want to move one at a time. This is because I'm processing each FGDB in turn then moving it to a "processed" folder.I've also got an idea of writing the FGDB names (the names are dynamic) to a te

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takashi
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geosander
geosander
asked in Authoring
Python API: what's up with FMEFeature.setFeatureType()?

When I use a PythonCaller (on build 16673) to set the feature type by callingfeature.setFeatureType('something')it actually doesn't seem to do anything, because when I connect a FeatureTypeFilter transformer to the PythonCaller and filter on 'something', nothing comes out of that port. I discovered that it only works if I do:feature.setAttribute(fmeobjects.kFMEFeatureTypeAttr, 'something')Where kFMEFeatureTypeAttr resolves to the string 'fme_feature_type'. But then what is the point of the setFeatureType() method? Is this method actually not implemented, perhaps?

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heidtmer
asked in Transformers
Having Trouble with String Replacer

Hey all, I am having trouble with the stringReplacer transormer. I am doing some data clean up in excel before I run the GoogleGeocoder and the stringReplacer is dropping almost everything I need it to, except for the word LIFT at the end of some of these addresses. It has dropped the word TEMP, the word GAR, but for some reason will not drop the word LIFT. I have even tried running the excel sheet through the attribute trimmer beforehand (not sure of the correct parameters) -- still nothing. I have attached some pictures above. Any clues would be much appreciated, thank you!

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