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I have the following issue:A bridge and the road below, standard 2D lines, both have nodes with identical coordinates - i.e. they share a "node location". When I want to output this dataset to OSM XML, the writer creates a connection in this point, even though they are not connected in realit". I've tried to separate them by Z-coordinate, but that had no effect. Therefore, my guess is that it creates a "node cache" with the coordinates as key, which means they will share a node because they share a coordinate.With this in mind, my solution would be to slightly adjust the position of these internal nodes that overlap. Probably with just a minor change(cm? mm?), the nodes will not be cached to the same location. However, I've got no idea how to A) access all non-start or non-end nodes of a line and subsequently B) slightly and randomly alter their position.

Good morning everyone,I am relatively new user of Fme Server with a background of GIS deployment related to ArcGIS Server. I have one question. Is it possible in Fme Server to stop one published Workspace and restart the workspace.  I have one deployment and our project is going live. During this phase we do not want that two of our services published on Fme Server connect with database. But we cannot stop our Fme Server as there are other workspaces which we cannot stop. So I am looking for start and start servie feature like ArcGIS Server manager. Is it possible with Fme Server 2014 ? Thanks for your helpAyyaz

Hi,A Python based transformer has these three scaffold "defs": __init__(), input() and close()."__init__" is called once when the transformer instance is initialized in the workflow. "input" is called for each feature, and "close" is called after the last feature has been sent (= when the workspace is done, I assume).In case of a workspace crashing, the former two have a well-defined behaviour. But will "close()" be called for each transformer after a crash too ? Or is everything just thrown down the drain ?I'm contemplating whether multiple transformers can share a common resource, but that only works if the resource in question is created/initialized once, and only disposed when all transformers have been closed. I.e. have had their "close()" routine called.Cheers

Hi, I'm looking to convert CAD text to a line feature where the geometry represents the centre-line of the text. The basic algorithm is:generate the oriented bounding box of the CAD textgenerate the center line of that bounding box.This is working fine however it looks like FME uses a 'default' font style so when I change the font style in CAD the bounding box does not change. I've tried exposing various autocad properties and changing the style but when I use inspector the text (and resultant bounding box) are always the same. (Changing the size works, just not the style).Is there any way of converting the font style so it is honoured when you open it in Inspector?Or does inspector have a 'default' font it always uses?Thanks.Ash.

I have a number of google geocoder transformers in sequence which amongst other things take in the rejected outputs from the previous geocoder transformer. This works fine apart from the first geocoder in the sequence which doesnt carry a rejected count despite not passing the full input count. Has anyone come across this before? Any help appreciated!

All,I have read and implemented the docker installation of FME server on Docker Engine as published by @GerhardAtSafe. https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/24815/deployment-of-fme-server-using-docker-toolbox.htmlMostly the installation, licensing and engine management runs fine. However, I am having an issue using the job manager to kill jobs. Any time i try to terminate a job I get error communicating with FME server host (hostid). Connection Refused. I have reason to believe this is to do with the fact that the hostname of the engine and the web/core are different (as they are containerised) do kill requests get sent on a different port address? Is this an issue with the docker configuration or has anybody else had the same issue? Appreciate any insights you may have had.RegardsGavin Montgomery

Hi All,I am trying to calculate the next date from a starting date - for example Waste collection. I have a starting date in 2015 and would like to calculate the next pick up. Pickup is every 7 days. In Excel you can using the CEILING function to round up to the next multiple of 7.Is there any way that this function could be implemented in FME?Thanks, Matt

Hello All, I have 2 columns that I need to merge into one. Columns are different attributes of a single feature class. If Address 1 has populated field, then they are accepted. If Address 1 is null, then Address 2 is checked and information from that column will be copied to Address 1. If both columns are populated, Address 1 is accepted. Any ideas of how I would do that? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

New year - new problems.I have an excel file with fieldnames Layer 1, Layer 1, Layer 2, Layer 2. My second and third row of data consists of defining parameters per column that I need to decide how to route the actual data. These parameters can vary from sheet to sheet, and I need to handle multiple sheets with the same routine. And then I have my actual data values on row 4 and forth.Example:Layer 1, Layer 1, Layer 2, Layer 2Stone, Stone, Clay, ClayTime, Depth, Time, Depth1, 0.5, 0.2, 0.30.4, 5, 0.2, 0.3To be able to handle route the data correctly I need to create attribute names and then have these names apply to the actual data. Any ideas on how to solve this?

I'm reading an FGDB point feature class containing single points but the geometry type has been incorrectly set as "multipoint". I thought I would need to fix this in my Workspace as I'm then sending the data to FeatureMerger to compare (attributes & geometry) against an older version of the data where the geometry type is set correctly as "point".So I used GeometryRefiner which appears to output the "multipoint" features as "point" features.However, FeatureMerger doesn't seem to need this. It produces the same results without using GeometryRefiner as it does with it. Happy days.Maybe Matcher would be less tolerant and GeometryRefiner would be needed there...?

Hi,I would like to write a python function to extract the value a list attribute knowing its e.g. Working with a dgn file for instance, I would like to extract the value igds_linkage{ind_entity}.key where ind_entity is a know index.I already wrote a script to do that but it requires 3 transformers and I want to optimize my workspace.Thanks

I am trying to write a polygon dataset to an ArcSDE database, but it is failing on one of the features!2016-11-17 18:59:51| 130.7|  3.7|ERROR |An error occurred while attempting to insert a row into the table 'citystreets' using a cursor. The error number from ArcObjects is: '-2147215968'. The error message from ArcObjects is: {Linestring or poly boundary is self-intersecting}I am using a GeometryValidator, but it isn't picking up any errors! What can I do?

This morning, FME Server started to throw errors writing <NULL> values to numeric values using the ArcGIS Online Writer. Everything was working until Esri upgraded AGOL overnight. We've submitted a ticket to Esri, but wanted to submit a question here as well.The error we're getting is: ArcGIS Online Feature Service Writer: 'addResults' error for a feature in 'AVL DB'. The error code from the server was '1000' and the message was: 'Attribute 'Right Wing Plow State' has an invalid value of ''. The value should be data type esriFieldTypeDouble.'We were able to successfully add a feature via the REST API using the following:[ { "geometry" : {"x" : -94.44920, "y" : 41.88339}, "attributes" : { "LABEL" : "Test Insert", "RIGHTWINGPLOW" : null, "ACTIVE_MATERIAL" : "NONE" } } ]Does anyone have the syntax needed

I have 2 spatial datasets - FAUNA_MASTER and FAUNA_SAMPLE. Both datasets contain points (many thousand) representing the locations of a variety of animal species (Species A, Species B, Species C, ... Species Z). I want to create an FME script that identifies all records, for each species in FAUNA_SAMPLE that occur within 10 kilometers of all records, for the same corrosponding species in FAUNA_MASTER.The transformers to use I think are straight forward, I use Bufferer to create a 10km buffer around points in FAUNA_MASTER, then use PointOnAreaOverlayer and a Tester transformer to identify which points in FAUNA_SAMPLE points occur within that buffer. What I don't know how to do is iterate or loop the records for each species through those transformers.I'm relatively new to FME. I've tried my best to understand the documentation to create a looping custom transformer and apply it to my situation, but without success. If someone could walk me through it please (with baby step

On a FME Server with job routing enabled I set the tm_tag parameter for a job by using the Direct URL Example from the WebUI and add the parameter to the end of the string. This works with the default dataset, but when I upload a temporary data set as a source data, the job fails, reporting the data was not found. How can I use a temporary upload in the Direct URL to run a workspace with the tm_tag parameter set?

How can I tell if FME Server is registering my custom Python interpreter? Is this recorded in any log file?

Hello fellow, GISers.Simple yet complex problem. I want to export 1 feature per table for a schema in my PostGIS-database for test purposes. I want to output the data to shapefiles with filename=table name and output folder=schema name. I want the whole setup to be dynamic since I want to run it later on all my schemas (a schema list). This seems more tricky than I thought it would be. Any ideas?

Is there a way to have schemamapper read the name of a source table (shapefile), and populate a target attribute field with that name in the writer? Please see the attachment for illustration of question/goal.

Hello. I have lines which represent highways. Now i walk for ex. 435 meters along one line and want to now what x,y,z coordinates i have at this positionThanks for helpregards Eduard

Hi, I am looking for a transformer to filter by the amount of characters. for example I have a set of ID numbers and I need to extract all the Id's that are only 18 characters long. Help please !Thanks, Samuel

Hello All, FME Newby here. I have two separate csv tables with one matching column. The tables correspond to a hierarchical network and are filled with their ID's. Please take a look at the network image below.CP's are always connected to TX's. Some TX's but not all, have upstream DTECH's. I already have traced which CP connects to which corresponding upstream TX. I have separately traced which TX connects to which DTECH or if they are connected at all to any. I need to merge these two table as one. Please see the example image below. I tried FeatureMerger matching TX_ID across both tables, but the duplicate TX_ID's are dropped. Any help would be greatly appreciated in this case thanks!

On the Engines & Licensing page in FME Server 2016.1, the options to Refresh / Request / Upload a License File are not available! What could be the cause of this error?

Hi all, I am trying to find a way to split an aggregate feature based on nodes or points. The aggregate is an aggregation of lines. I tried PointOnLineOverlayer, it does a fine job splitting where the nodes are but it deaggregates the input and outputs every single line it seems. I need output of the original aggregates only broken up where the nodes are. I tried Clipper. The output remains the same. It seems points are rejected as clippers. Any suggestions for a transformer to use? Please and thanks

Hi all, I believe this should be simple but being new to FME, I am having the hardest of times. I have a few points. I have a network of lines. I need to find network segments which intersect with the point. If they do, then all the segments that touch the point, their ID attribute should be transferred to that point. Some points are only touching one line whereas others are touching more. I tried using SpatialFilter with Merge attributes selected, and checking for intersection or touching, but for a candidate point, it only merges and outputs the first segment that it touches and discards the others. I have tried PointOnLineOverlayer... that seems to not even output lines. Not sure what's going on there. Please take a look at the attached picture. The result I am looking to achieve is below:Point ID Network ID 1 3 2 1 2 2 2 3Any help would be greatly appreci

Hello everyone!Long time user of FME and a big lurker here!I am currently designing a FME Server Workbench where I expect a user to upload spreadsheets that does not have any sort of schema requirements aside from Lat/Long and a prefix of 'h_' for any hyperlinks in their spreadsheet.I currently have two branches in my workbenchBRANCH 1With Dynamic Reader and Writers the process is relatively simple, but my issue is with the hyperlinks. My hyperlink URLs need to be wrapped with <a href> </a> tags in order to work on web app builder mapping services. This branch creates the points out of the provided Lat/Long and accepts schemas for an increase in character width for larger hyperlinksBRANCH 2In order to test attribute names that contain 'h_', I used an attributeexploder and was able to determine which fields have a h_ thus needing the <a href> tags. Once I have the <a href> tag in place I want to transpose it again to return it to the original stat