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How do you take a specific attribute from a grouped/sorted set of features, and cumulate the sum feature by feature and store in separate field?

Hallo, I have to import an Esri Geodatabase to Smallwworld Gis 4.1.1. To import polylines and points are no problem. To import an annotation is probably, because the justification is alyways on the lower left side. How i can set the annotation to the middle center of the polyline. I use the labeller to set and import the labels from an annotation list. I read the the article from FMEpedia (Article Number: 000001996) but i don't understand this. How i have to use the attributes sworld_vert_just and sworld_horiz_just?  Thanks from Austria wasc

For compatability-reasons with Geomedia I need to write an additional field of the type "varbinary(max)" to all the tables in our SQL Server Spatial database. In FME I can set the varbinary datatype, but I can't set the "max" value. I've asked around and so far it seems the only workaround is to create the field with the datatype "image" and then alter the datatype directly in SQL Server afterwards. Any ideas on how to do a better workaround?

I am reprojecting Rasters,  63 of them. They are all pretty much the same size 1.1GB.  It took 2h to reproject the first one.  now we are at # 32 and it's taking around 4h.  Is there a way of doing a memory dump or starting fresh after each raster when doing batch reprojection?  Thank you.  Dominic

I need to batch-convert a lot of featureclasses from an Oracle Spatial database into SQL Server Spatial 2008. In it's own, that's not a problem to do, but I need to have all the attribute names and values in lowercase due to compatibility reasons, as all our data in SQL Server will be exported to our hosted WebGIS-server, which runs PostGIS. I can use the CaseChanger to make all attribute-values lowercase, but I cant seem to transform the attributenames themselves into lowercase. Only workaround I can see is using the AttributeRenamer or AttributeCopier and then renaming every single attributename by hand. I'm looking at converting well over 200 featureclasses, so doing it by hand is not an option. Anyone got an idea how to make all attributenames lowercase?

Take a look at the What's Great page for FME 2013.  I'll wait while you do that..........  Done? OK, which of the new functionality are you looking forward to the most?

I have a workspace I recently completed that creates a buffer of a line featureclass.  I dissolve it into single polygons and run a chopper to limit the polygons to 8000 vertices.  I have now discovered that the resulting shape file has self intersecting polygons.  I ran the repair geometry in ARCMAP and validate this fact.  Looking at the transformers there is a selfIntersector which I added to my workflow but I still get self intersetcions after running. I don't see any options on the selfintersector.  Am I  missing something? Can someone help? 

Hi, I have a point dataset with an unique attribute and a polyline dataset. The points are a subset of the vetrices of the polylines. I'd like to know, how can I intersept the polylines with the points and add an attribute to the lines out of the unique point attribute at the start and the end of the cutted polylines. The image below shows what I mean.     Thanks for your ideas!

I am using FME to write a Sketchup files with a combination of different elements.  Is there a way to define layers with FME in a sketchup file?  I examined a sketchup file with layers using the logger in FME and it looks like the GeometryTrait "sketchup_layer_name" is used define the layer of the object.  But when I add this attribute to my translation the objects are not placed on different layers.  They all still end up on Layer 0.

What RegEx can I use to define null or empty attributes in StringReplacer? Or do I even need to use RegEx? I'm trying to replace null/empty attributes with UNKNOWN. Seems simple enought but it's giving me fits.

I would like to know if anyone has exported attributes from an XFM-DGN to any type of spatial database successfully? The XFM-DGN reader was made available in the 2012 version and our organization is starting to test this functionality. Any thoughts on the translation process? Did everything work as expected?

Hi  i am new to FME and  i could not find a way to import dgn annotation into ESRI Annotation FeatureClass.  Is this possible in FME ?  Tks for your help

I have succesfullty created a temporally animated 3D model showing usage per section for an athletic stadium. While the animated 3D model looks great, it doesn't show any data when I pause the animation and click on one of the 3D models. I was wondering if it is possible to have the attribute table containing my original data to be displayed when I click on one of the 3D models as happens when I click on a point within google eart?  I hope this quetion makes sense and I appreciate any feedback.

I trialed FME late alst year.  I had limited success translating microstation to Civil 3D - Many times it fails - I am not certain if it the 3d in MS that is causing the trouble.  Any suggestons from the community on best practices for this type of translation?  Thanks

Hi there I have a fairly complex workspace and I would like to record the number of items that come out numerous transformers (in particulat feature mergers). What I have done so far is adding a statistic calculator and an attribute creator after each important transformer and I write  the data into a csv file.. The output is presented in two columns: definition of count and count. The problem is that it makes the workspace very messy as it adds a lot of connectors. Is there a simpler way of doing this? This info is recorded by FME anyway as it is displayed on the connectors and in the log file...just wondering if there is an simpler way to log numerous counts into a csv file...thanks

Can FME 2012 Server/Desktop support export of joined field data from Smallworld to any other format?

Just saw Mark's latest Evangelist posting on the FME Community Answers. In it he comments that our FME Talk archive cannot be migrated to form part of the new FME Community Answers knowledge base ...   >> What we can’t do is move the entire set of previous posts from FMETalk to Community Answers. There are just way too many of them (nearly 27,000 by my count) and there’s no way I know to download them all. However, what we’ll do is leave to group open for viewing, so any useful information in there won’t be lost.  I use the FME Talk archives on a regular basis and there are some real “how-to” gems in there that will likely become marginalised.   If we cannot port the FMETalk arhive could we perhaps instead build a web form inside FME Community Answers that still lets us do searchable keyword queries against the FMETalk archive?   Another option may be this utility  - http://www.httrack.com/ - it may let Safe download the Google content and rebuild the FMETalk archive on local

I would like to add a reader, which reads all files (of a specific type) in one folder. Is this possible in FME? 

We've been using FME Desktop for some time with great success.  It has given us the ability to transactionally export data from the GIS source, translate it into our required format (in this MapInfo TAB).  To reduce the overhead of processing and network traffic, we’ve been using the “cookie-cut” transformer which allows us to focus solely on a small section.   There may be the possibility for us to use raster images (aerial photography) in the near future, which may help with the map plots to provide more detail.   Is there any way to use a “cookie-cut” function, similar to what we’re doing now, to help us keep the processing and bandwidth overhead to a minimum on raster data? 

Which FME desktop edition is suitable for Intergraph G/Technology platform?

I have a bunch of TAB-files and I want to document for each file which attributes that are present. I'm not interested in the values of the attributes or the geometry. Just the name of the attributes. How can I in a generic way document the attribute names my TAB-files have?

Trying to use an AttributeFileWriter and insert a newline within my concatenaed string. So I want the following attribute  myAttrib= 'Firsttext \\n Lasttext'  to be written to a file like this:  Firsttext Lasttext  I see there is an Append-mode in FME 2013 - but I assume it should be possible to add linebreaks also to the FME2012? All help appreciated

I have an Oracle database with a parcels layer and a zoning layer. I also have another Oracle database with parcels table and an "attributes" table containing which zone applies to which parcel.  I want to use the relationship between the two layers to compare with the "attributes" table and produce a list of records to correct, based on the assumption that the map layers are correct.  I've tried the AreaOnAreaOverlayer and the Clipper transformer without success.  What method would you recommend to efficiently achieve the correct result?

With the new Smart Delete functionality, will it be possible to right-click on a transformer and select "Disconnect" or "Remove from Workflow" or something without deleting it?  I often find myself re-ordering transformers, and without this would still have to manually delete/redraw the connections before re-inserting the transformer earlier / later in the workflow.  And yes, I know, "go download the beta and try for yourself!" (sorry)