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When reviewing an old workspace in FME Form 2023.2, I noticed that if I opened a Feature Reader or Feature Writer that previously had an SDE connection file path referenced in the connection parameters that the parameter was now blank. If no changes are made, the workspace runs to completion as normal. No errors are thrown and no transformers are marked as “incomplete” in the navigator pane. This tells me that those pathways are stored somewhere. This does not appear to be an issue with other data types like csv, xls, or file geodatabases. These file types used in a feature reader all have their connection file parameter populated when opened in 2023.2. This does not appear to be an issue if a Reader or Writer is used rather than Feature Reader or Feature Writer transformers. A Reader or Writer configured to work in a previous version of FME using an SDE connection file path is populated when opened in 2023.2.How I would expect to see the connection parameters when settings for the tra

I am comparing records from two sources. I want to sync the records from one source to the other source. I am using ChangeDetector to do this (Workbench 2023.1).  Output wise, what is the difference between these two workbench configurations? (one with the FeatureJoiner and one without the FeatureJoiner). When I look in the output database, as far as I can tell, I am getting my desired outcome without needing the FeatureJoiner but I want to make sure I am not overlooking something.Is it necessary to use FeatureJoiner on the records coming out of the “updated” port of the ChangeDetector before pushing the records to the ESRI Portal Feature Service writer? The examples I am coming across are using a FeatureJoiner after the ChangeDetector for the updated records e.g.:https://support.safe.com/s/article/how-do-i-write-updates-to-an-existing-arcgis-onlin 

Hi, I have a geopackage with 5 million polygons, some of which are duplicated, but with geometry that isn't exactly the same. In the image below the dark red’s polygones means there duplicates.I trying with transfomer matcher  with this set It works but not all polygones duplicates are deleted. I got something like this I know that at some point some polygons won't be able to be deleted because the geometry is too different.Maybe in can set the tolerance in 4 or more, but i thinkAny idea if it can be done?Thanks

Hello,​I need to print my workbench on size A0. It works fine for size A2 and smaller but for size A0 or A1 the workbench freezes or crashes. I tried with different workbenches , different Pc's and different PDF-creators but no success. I use FME 2019.1.Maybe someone has an idea to solve the problem?​

Hello FME Experts,I'm currently working with road network spatial data, which contains a multitude of line features representing roads. Each road feature intersects with others, and I need to determine the correct start and end names for each road segment (i.e., the names of the roads at the start and end nodes).I'm wondering if there's an efficient way to accomplish this using FME. Specifically, I'm looking for guidance on:How to identify the start and end nodes of each road segment. How to extract the names associated with these nodes.Any suggestions, workflows, or examples would be immensely helpful. Thank you for your insights!Best regards,Vishnu N V

Has anyone else had problems copying and pasting the Automation Webhook trigger URL? In my case, the URL text is grayed out, although when clicking the clipboard icon the response says, “Copied!”, but nothing is on the clipboard. We are running FME Flow 2023.1.2 Build 23641 - win64.

Hi,I tried to find letter after period and capitalize it using StringReplacer but it did not work. Is it possible to accomplish such a thing with the StringReplacer? For example: Condition: good. ensure continuous maintenance. The result should be like this: Condition: good. Ensure continuous maintenance. Text to Replace: (^[a]|\. [a-z])Replacement txt: .\U$1 also \U\1 won’t work. ThanksLeida

I made a deployment parameter with some email-addresses in but when I use it to send emails I get an error in the automation log, see below. I have commas between the addresses in the parameter. Default Recipients    : deployment.Fel_mail_adresser        <-------this is my parameterSending email with subject "abcd..." to recipient(s) "deployment.Fel_mail_adresser" …An exception occurred. Invalid AddressesFailed to send email.

Hi,I am a very basic Flow/Server user, but handy enough at Form/Desktop. My company recently upgraded from 2022 to 2023. I have noticed after the change a few of my workspaces no longer have their description appearing online and I can’t work out why this wouldn’t.For example, in the workspace description I would usually put a basic description or some instructions. I then publish it to Flow, and it used to be that the description would be in the online interface. Does anyone know what’s going on and how I can make this reappear?It used to appear here:The workspace does have a description:  

Hello everyone,Is it possible to extrude a surface through its normal instead of the vertical?Thank you:) 

Hi!Does anyone know what this means? I have been struggeling with it for the past week, and for the first time it actually goes trough a couple of 1000 features, but it stops again at like 2000. also, it doenst really give me the reason why it failed. if it is the 928… Code, i did some research on it, but could find it.I am not sure what i am doing wrong, i dit it quite much in the past, but maybe it has changed with the newer versions. This is what i am trying to do:ArcGIS Online Reader. Add data, like weather and difficulty ArcGIS Online writer, update the existing layer.If someone could help me, that would be great! Thanks! Jonathan

i have some cells contains Aaaa||ccc||ddd||bb||fffi would like to reverse them in case condition happens to get fff|||bb||||ddd||ccc||AaaaFME 2021Thanks in advance 

Hi All,I’m working on a workflow that requires filtering some values based on a Lookup table. I’ve initially thought using FeatureJoiner to join and filter the values but doesn’t give me the desired results as the 1:M relationship doesn’t work. I have thought about the FeatureMerger to apply the 1:M relationship but can’t get it to work.Below a few screenshots of the tables:Table A- Example of the table to join (by TexString)Table B - LookUp table (by TextString - Column B)Only the highlighted cells will be used to join  Below is the part of the workflow to filter the value in the Table A but the join doesn’t do 1:M. There’s 193 records highlighted in yellow in the LookUp but the FeatureJoiner only joins 189 from the 1,363 records from Table A….and I’m expecting more values after the join as for example N = North Lines and S = South Lines values appears multiple times in the Table A and need to keep all of them. That’s why I think the 1:M is the one to apply here? Any trick to make the

I am making my first workspace that uses a reader for a hosted feature layer from Portal. I notice that I am able to use the Esri ArcGIS Server Feature Service Reader/Writer as well as the Esri ArcGIS Portal Feature Service Reader/Writer to achieve this. My question is what is the difference? As the end result was the same for both.The Esri ArcGIS Server Feature Service Reader/Writer seemed far simpler to use as all I needed was the user and password plus the feature layer URL while for the Esri ArcGIS Portal Feature Service Reader/Writer I had to enter the host, user, password and feature service which was the folder location of the feature layer plus the feature service ID on the end in brackets in order to get it to work. I am using FME 2018.0 as well if that makes a difference. 

Hi All, I want to update geometry  column (esri SDE) from postgresql writer. What I need to do ? esri keeps the point value  like. 2D000000010000000100040001000000110000000101000090D1D3C2A00380A6E4AFBA0880A8D6B90700000000 I can reading from the postgresql as  sde.asText / asBinary    but I can not write 

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Hello, I have a folder containing multiple shapefiles, for example,  (a, b, d, e, f...). My objective is to utilize the AnchoredSnapper transformer in the following manner: initially, snap shapefile 'a' with 'b', where 'a' serves as the anchor. Then, the resulting snapped shapefile will be used as the anchor and snapped with 'c', and so forth until all shapefiles are snapped. I tried to implement loops but the problem is that the output have to be the new output after every iteration, so i can't get a configuration of the loop. I appreciate any assistance or proposition you can provide. Thank you.This is my wokspace and the custom transformer , using a loop. 

I am running a workbench that uses dates as parameters. If I run the command in a windows cmd window without admin privilege's, the date parameters are not passed into the workbench. When I run the cmd window with admin privilege's it work as expected.  I am fairly new to FME and I am not sure what I am missing. Any insights are appreciated.  string passed to the cmd window:"C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Data Interoperability for ArcGIS Pro\fme.exe" \\myserver\myworkbench.fmw --SourceDataset" --SourceDataset" --SourceDataset" --DestDataset_CSV2" \\myserver\myfolder\mycsv" --odbc2_where_clause "(reptd >= '2024-2-1 00:00:00' AND reptd < '2024-3-1 00:00:00 00:00:00')"  --FME_LAUNCH_VIEWER_APP" YES" 

You are trying to parse the IFC file into Obj and metadata through your company's FME Desktop.​I don't know why, but there is a problem that materials are not added to some objs. Please help in this regard.​The attached file is the workbench file used at this time.​​Regards,Bongsup Kim​​

Is there a setting to disable the translation log window from automatically popping up when running a workspace? I’ve disabled all logging and hidden the window, but it pops up as soon as I run. I’m trying to record the execution of the workspace for a presentation, and the window keeps getting in the way.

Hi,  I have some questions about how to make a CityGML more efficient. Context: I have about 1.8m pipelines and cables. I want to visualise these as 3D cylinder/pipes (not actual ‘FMEPipeGeometry’), regardless of the ‘is it necesary to do this’. All features also have attributes like diameter and such. I want to write this to CityDB and CityGML. This results in huge filesize (somwhere like 15gb or 20gb). What I did: My thought process was it would be more efficient to use relative geoetries (a circle) that I extrude/scale/offset/etc to the proper location using the transformation matrix. Of course I cut the original geometry into pairs of 2 vertices. I wanted to reaggregate this to 1 feature once I had the relative geometry up and working. This all worked just fine until I discovered that in CityGML schema the cardinality is 0-1 on features with relative geometry. This means I cannot gather all separate bits of the cables again, giving me an even more absurd amount of features. I also

I have a datetime in the format YYYYmmddHHMMSS.SSS and want to convert it to any other format e.g. YYYYmmdd or DD-MM-YY or whatever. My super simple workspace is below. My FME version is Windows 2022.1.3.0 The DateTimeConverter version is 4 The result I get with every combination is INVALID_INPUT The Preview suggests everything is OK and what I expect: Any suggestions?

I would be interested in a dark/night mode for the community. This may be something that is already on the roadmap for future development. Perhaps another community poll could help determine how many others would also like a dark mode in the future?

The Esri ArcGIS Portal Feature Service Reader has most of the capabilities needed to read from a Utility Network including being able to set branch versioning. However there doesn't seem to be a way to resolve domains that are defined at the subtype. The Utility Network uses the subtype layer concept where domains can be applied differently on each field by subtype. Is accessing the subtype domains something the FME can/will support?