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I see an idea to add/support bulk mode in the PythonCaller has just been updated to "Released" - https://community.safe.com/s/bridea/a0r4Q00000HbriAQAR/support-bulk-mode-in-pythoncaller I'm wondering what the usage of the bulk mode is in the PythonCaller, by design the PythonCaller iterates over each feature individually, therefore going against the idea of bulk mode.    

Hello All, We are currently using FME server as an integration platform. There are many FME jobs (triggered via external system call) that writes data in to database via ArcGIS portal service. Is it possible to (hold)queue all the jobs in FME server when ArcGIS enterprise will be down  ? Also, would like to know if there is a provision to hold all the jobs that is directed to a specific queue? Thanks,Naveen

Hello FME members,I have an IFC file with no coordinate information in the site feature.it is a 3dObject of a parcel that is supposed to represent the surface - but it is just a (3dObject) flat surface with an extrusion of 1]What I have done: I have at least 4 coordinates to transform, I tried to use:the 3daffinewarper, but the transformer showed me an error [because the transformation from 0,0,0 to x,x,444.1 is coplanar - and I only have 4 known points that went from z:1 to z:443] (I also tried 0,0,1 to x,x,444.1, but it didn't work) so I used the affinewraper to send the surface to the correct coordinate system)that worked!i need to know how to get the 3d object to the correct z value to display the surface (3d object) at the correct height.I hope someone can help me.Greetings Michael 

I have several Excel writers in a workspace and one throws the warning below. I checked the parameters and they are all the same. Does anyone know where this can be changed? Thanks!Excel Writer: Invalid value '<Unused>' supplied for parameter 'xlsx_field_names_formatting'.  Reverting to default value 'yes' 

Hi all,I’m having an issue getting some Flow App users to be able to successfully write to an ArcGIS SDE database. I am getting the following error.“An error occurred while attempting to retrieve the connection parameters from the connection file ‘SDE Connection’”This had previously been working fine, but with the upgrade from 2022 to 2023, connecting to SDE now requires a stored database connection, which then gets uploaded when it is published. Previously, at 2022, I think it was just storing the UNC pathing to the SDE connection file, and as long as FME Flow had access to this folder, everything was fine.Initially the App users were set up with Access permission to the Flow Workspace Apps, and nothing else. After a bit of hunting around I then added Access permission to the Connections, as this seemed like it might be necessary.But unfortunately this seems to have made no difference, and the users are still getting the same error.Are there any other permission requirements that are

Hi All,I am updating few values in ArcSDE Geodatabase (in flat table) using FME workbench but its giving an below errorerror : Error while retrieving an ArcObjects update cursor for the table/feature class 'gis.xxx'. The error number from ArcObjects is: '-2147220652'. The error message from ArcObjects is: {}Stack  : FME workbench 2021.1 , ArcSDE Geodatabase, Flat table ,MS Sql Server Workbench screenshot :  Error message :    Feature writer properties Till now tried below : Using SQL query its possible to update values in SQL management studio with sde use SDE user has privilege to insert/modify/delete  Workbench has proper permissions to run it Using ArcPro Standard licenses  If we truncate then its truncate the table  Since we are using flat table still use geometry remover to remove additional geometry  Flat table has valid primary key    Any help/inputs/suggestions would be great !!!thanks in advance !!

Hi!I have to extract data and write it into excel sheet. I got to the point where I have the information ready but I need to delete missing values and move the features so the table looks different. I add an example.This is what I get:DaysMonthsCity<Missing>March<Missing><Missing>March<Missing><Missing>MarchParisMonday MarchParisWednesday <Missing>ParisSaturday<Missing>Paris<Missing><Missing><Missing><Missing><Missing><Missing><Missing><Missing><Missing> And this is what I want to write into my writer. DaysMonthsCityMondayMarchParisWednesdayMarchParisSaturdayMarchParis MarchParisMaybe it is easy but I´m still learning... Any help here??Thanks in advance!!

I have a workspace in FME Form 2021. It includes a writer for Automation. This writer creates the keys in the Automation I have created in FME Flow 2021. These keys are based on 4 Attributes I created and renamed in my workspace. When I change the attribute names, run the workspace, and upload it to FME Flow, they are reflected in the writer but are not written to the Automation I created that includes this workspace in FME Flow. The Automation still includes the old key names. ...but...after I run/upload the workspace as explained in the above paragraph, then delete the writer and re-add it into the workspace then run it/upload it again, this then it updates the keys in my Automation.  Has anyone else encountered a situation like this?  

Hello,I was hoping to get your input into how to speed up the following workflow:Read an Excel File with several sheets from a Network Share → Output each sheet to a different output port → Create a CSV file for each output port in a network share.I already have the above working, the problem is that CSV writer is taking  a loooong time writing the files. My connection to the network is pretty good so it is not a matter of latency between my PC and the network share (at least I don’t think so).Does anyone have any idea on how to improve the writing speed of the CSV files or what to do improve the overall time it takes for the workflow to complete?.Thanks in advance.RZ.-

Hi.I’ve encountered this before, but now it blocks the saving of a 28K large table, and is so no more a mere nuisance.It seems that FME fails to catch that SQL statements fails typically due to constraints in the database. FME happily reports that all posts were saved, although none were in this case.My latest error message from the log file looks like this:Microsoft SQL Server Spatial Writer: Failed to write a feature of type `VEJLE_GADELYS.Elledning' to the database. Provider error `(-2147217873) The INSERT statement conflicted with the FOREIGN KEY constraint ...Because FME fails to catch these errors, and thus not failing in the automation, we’re putting invalid datasets into production.This is bad.

Hi,I have a dataset with Centerlines shown in blue, some lines contain too much detail which is not accepted as input for the LineDivider I use in the downstream pipeline.Is there a way I can smooth the blue centerline into something like the red line shown on the right?The Generalizer should be the way to go I guess but did not find the right settings yet.  

Hi, I am trying to add Inspection attachments to the Inspections using FME Form.I have excel spreadsheet that have EntityUID, InspectionTemplateId, Observations Questions and Answers, and image links1 - to image link4(attachments)Each Inspection must have entity attach to it based on the EntityUID. Image as JPG extension located on the repository an each image have EntityUID in the image name.How can I attach image to the Inspection- that is first questionSecond question is that some Entities have up to 4 images related to them, that reference based on the different parameter (Image_link1, image_link2,image_link3, and image_link4)  It is easy to create inspection, add entity, and populate Observations questions and answers but I am struggling to attach the images. 

I am working to compare the geometry of two datasets and I am specifically interested in doing so with Vector Tolerance. For some testing purposes I have tried two different transformers to do so, namely the ChangeDetector and the Matcher. I added them in the same workspace with the same input data. For both I only checked the geometry (not the attributes), with the settingsMatch Geometry: 2D Lenient Geometry Matching: No Check Coordinate Systems: No Vector Tolerance: the same user parameter, e.g. set at 0.5 or 0.1. Always the same though.When looking at the documentation the vector tolerance seems to have to work the same for both transformers (https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME-Form-Documentation/FME-Transformers/Transformers/changedetector.htm & https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME-Form-Documentation/FME-Transformers/Transformers/matcher.htm).When running I noticed however that the output was different. I was expecting that my Matcher SingleMatched output port would give the same

I'm creating a new excel file nightly and some nights there will be no data to populate the excel file, but I need the file to be created anyways. Is there a step in the Excel writer that I'm missing to do this?

Event Description: Error was recorded in fmeserver.log file.Event Title: Error LogsMessage: Failed to register FME Engine. This also keeps on repeating:Event Description: Error was recorded in fmeserver.log file.Event Title: Error LogsMessage: FME Server license does not allow more than maximum of 1 FME Engine(s).

Hi all, Yesterday this worked fine, but today its returning ‘{ "success": 0, "errorMessage": "API Limit Reached!" }’ in _reponse_body column? What do I need to do to resolve this issue? Thank you in advance!

Hi,I'm using a FeatureWriter to insert data into a PostgreSQL database. When certain features can't be converted into the desired data types, FME drops them without terminating the translation.The logger gives a message in blue:"Value of attribute 'test' could not be converted to type 'bool'. Feature will be logged and skipped" However, the issue lies in trying to capture this scenario and terminate the translation.Despite dropping some features, the FeatureWriter when outputting the summary feature still contains the FULL COUNT against the '_total_features_written' attribute. I was intending on comparing this number to a count of incoming features to check for a difference. Now the only other way I can think of is querying the database immediately after and getting the written feature count that way. I guess I have two questions:1. Is there an inbuilt way to halt the translation when a feature is dropped like this?2. Is the _total_features_wri

Hi guys,is it possible to compare two filegeodatabases in FME? In each fgdb are 443 feature classes (points, lines and area feature classes). After some testing with the first vesion of the fgdb, we had to update the fgdb in some feature classes and changed some attribute fields and add some new domains and values. Is there any transformer which can show me the differences between both fgdb’s?Thanks for answering in advance.Cheers,Fabian

Is FME Server / Flow vulnerable for Apache ActiveMQ CVE-2023-46604 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-46604

Not sure which forum to post this in, feel free to move it if not relevant here. I'm revisiting the 12 Days of FME 2022 challenges, which were great fun last year and i wanted to challenge myself again this year. (https://community-fme-server-support.fmecloud.com/fmeserver/apps/FMEUCCommunityCafe/12Days-Details/streaming/fmedatastreaming/12Days2022/ContestDetails.fmw)  It seems that the datasets aren't available anymore though. Does anybody have the input datasets for each of the challenges that they could share please?

I have manage to export shp in file geodatabase with datasets but now it seems that i have a strange problem (or bug).every shp that i have exported is missing 1st entry in geodatabase. lets say a shp file has 10 points then i’ll get only 9 points in gdb and the one is missing is always the 1st pont in shp file. every shp file is missing that 1st entry.the strange thing is that fme shows in information that it wrote all entries that the shp files has but somehow 1 is missing.there is absolutly no error in logs. i get some info about some fields that i don’t export anyway. i really have no idea why this is happening.the shps are also exported with FME from othe types of data.for writer i use Esri Geodatabase (File Geodb Open API) with some schemas that i read from a template database with featurereader and join it on shps (no schema was readed).so what im doing wrong?why there is no error about the missing entries?

Hi All,I am new to the FME Software and have a small question related to NeighborFinder.We have points and contour tables in Arcsde Geodatabase. We are finding points near contour by providing specific distance say 20 in neighborfinder In actual case distance is varies  like in some cases nearest contour is at 30 , some contours at 40 etc. How do I tell to neighborfinder that select a point which is near by contour having distance in between 10 to 40 ?. In SQL if we use between operator then we are getting values so similar I want to use this for neighborfinder Below is the screenshot :    What I tried so far : Creating Custom parameter  On Web found below useful posthttps://www.baooytra.com/knowledge/questions/52143/using-neighbor-finder-with-condition-neighbors-att.html?smartspace=automations-fme-serverAny inputs/suggestion on above would be great !!thanks in advance !! 

I am using customer transformers in a work space, but they are converting a string value to integerThe values are 002 and 003, they need to stay this way for the http calls inside the custom transformer but are getting converted to 2 and 3 (without the 00)As read from dbAfter entry into the custom transformer​​​​Any thought on how to prevent this?I would like to have to avoid having do something in each custom transformer to revert the values back to the strings 

I have a large Workspace that processes multiple .dwg files along with a single Excel and .dbf file to generate one Excel file with multiple sheets. This works fine when I have feature caching on, but obviously takes a long time.  When I try to run it without feature caching, the feature output is a fraction of what it should be, but still gets data from all the multiple dwg files selected, as opposed to grabbing from one file. The only thing that comes to mind is that without feature caching, it does not wait until all features are processed.  So, what am I missing?  Is there a ‘WaitUntilAllFeaturesAreProcessed’ transformer or setting? Or, should my approach be some flavor of batch processing?  I haven’t seen anything in this forum that matches my situation. Any insight is appreciated. Thanks,-Loren

Hi All,First, I am an ArcGIS Pro/Enterprise user with the “Data Interoperability Extension” for both Pro and Enterprise.  I do not believe that I have access to FME Flow (Server).My installs on the server are ArcGIS Portal/Server and Data Interoperability at v11.3 - which installs FME…Edition: Data Interoperability, Fixed OEM LicenseVersion: FME(R) 2024.0.1.0 (20240328 - Build 24202 - WIN64)I want to automate a Spatial ETL tool that reads GeoJSON from a URL and ends up writing the results to an ArcGIS Online Feature Service.  I thought, why not just do it on the server and skip the exporting/importing the Web Connection from my laptop to the server? (from reading Schedule Spatial ETL tools on a server—ArcGIS Data Interoperability | Documentation for ArcGIS Enterprise)  When I created the workspace on the server with FME Workbench, everything seemed fine.  I could insert an Esri ArcGIS Online (AGOL) Feature Service writer and connect to the feature service that I wanted to write to.But