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I want to tile cache images and write them to the folder by Mapbox structure with PNG files.I have tried using WebMapTiler to tile cache images and found it different from Mapbox structure.I tried also Writer Mapbox Vector Tile (MVT) Tileset to write them and i found that the folder structure was correct (Level-Row-Colum) but its file is pbf formatHow do I create tiling cache images with the same structure above when I use Writer Mapbox Vector Tile (MVT) Tileset in order to write PNG files instead pbf files?Pls, help me! ... 🙂

I am calculating angle between two points using the geographical neighbor finder. This returns an angle which starts from East and goes counter clockwise. To map to geographic coordinates I use the formula 90 - angle, if angle < 0 then angle +360 This is resulting in a set of angles which when visually inspected appear to be shifted clockwise. In Washington and on the West coast, this shift ranged from 50-70 degrees. on the east coast, it ranged from 20-40. Louisiana sat right in the middle at 40 degrees. These shifts seem reminiscent of the transforms between magnetic north and true north.  Is there a way that I can derive angles from the geographical neighbor finder so that they line up with angles expected through inspection? Thank you.

So i have a sheet that contains a bunch of unsorted rows, and i want to read the most recent file, create separate tabs within the existing file for each unique attribute value and then copy all of the rows with that value into the associated tab. So i've got an excel reader to read the directory, then i'm sorting the files to get the latest one, sampling just the newest one and using featurereader to feed into the writer. i've attached a copy of my workspace for reference, as well as an input file. i've been trying to use this article as a guide:https://community.safe.com/s/article/fanout-1 but what is happening right now is the writer is creating a new file, with NULL as the filename with the new tabs, and, then editing the original file with an empty tab named "fme_blank_sheet" instead of writing them all back to the original file. here is a snippet of the original tab's data: so i'd like all of the unique specialchar values to be copied to their o

Hi, I have 2 attributes that are text from a pair of text files, i want to combine them into a single attribute. I'm using an attribute text file readers to pick out the text, then creating an attribute for each of the text_line_data ouputs and naming them initial (first file contents): First string contents:******************************************************************************  THE FIRE TROUBLE CIRCUIT IS REPORTING A MALFUNCTION!  ****************************************************************************** 3 and extended (second file contents - second file's filename is contained inside the first file, hence the extra processing):Second file contents: THIS INDICATES A MALFUNCTION OF THE FIRE SYSTEM MONDAY THRU FRIDAY, 8:00 TO 4:30 PM, PLEASE NOTIFY Bob MAINTENANCE DISPATCH AT XXX-XXXX ALL OTHER TIMES, NOTIFY THE TELEPHONE OPERATOR.  i'm then using stringconcatenator to combine the two file's contents with a new line between: My expected result here would be

I have a Geospatial PDF file, I want to convert it to Raster (Geotif) but I can't put any text into the Raster output. I use the TextStroker transformer before connecting it to ImageRasterizer Transformer but it always error, I also tried some way to run the TextStroker transformer but I have just received only one message "Error running translation".Anybody help me! ..... I'm using FME 2023 version

I created a workbench that reads attachments of AGOL feature layers and write them into a GDB. The scripts works fine for features with one attachment. However, when a feature contains multiple feature, it's only reading one in my script. Does anyone know which setting I have to set, to read all attachments for every feature?

I am working on an Excel spreadsheet that contains employee information from various markets. My aim is to extract this data and import it into the ArcGIS portal. However, the only transformer I know of that can accomplish this task is the ArcGIS Online Connector. The problem I am facing is that it requires a file to be uploaded, which is not very useful in my workspace. I do not want to save my output file; instead, I want to write it directly to the portal. I would greatly appreciate any feedback. Thank you!

I define a bounding box in JSON as UserParameter but when processing it, the JSONFragmenter fails when I refer to the UserParameter.Simply converting the UserParameter to an attribute, and reading the attribute into the JSONFragmenter works! There is no change to the JSON string done, and the source for the JSONFragmenter offers the use of UserParameters.The documentation for the JSONFragmenter though is pointing at "any string expression, including attribute values and workspace parameters."

A colleague recently installed Desktop 2018.0 and later on 2018.1. Workspace seems to run correctly but when the inspector pops up it logs the following error:Failed to create the reader in the worker process for 2D rendering We can see the tabular data but the geometry won't show up.  He does have a 2017 version of desktop installed, this installation seems unaffected by this problem. Any ideas where to look / what to do with these symptoms / logs?

I have read through the documentation regarding distributed deployment of FME Flow but I can't figure out if all of the distributed engines need an ArcGIS server license, or just the main server. Thanks

I would like to know how to build the JSON body for an HTTP POST request to pass in Published Workspace Parameters, opt_requesteremail (who to send an email to), and nm_jobsuccess_topic (which topic to notify on success) for the Data Download Service.  The goal is to interface with another web application where a user can  to submit an asynchronous "report request," that emails a download link when their report has finished processing. I am specifically looking at the POST to avoid any potential issues with large/complex geometries being passed in as a parameter and being too long for the URL. I had started looking into the FME REST API, and figured out how to define the parameters in a JSON body, but eventually ran into an article that states "A Web Service URL looks similar to the REST API Request URL; however, it exists outside of the REST API. A Web Service URL should be used instead of a REST call if you are intending on using the Data Streaming or Data Download Service. A job sub

I have a (FME Form 2023.0) workbench that generates three Excel files, where running locally via FME Form gets me a zip with this structure:my_data_$(TODAY).zipfoo_$(TODAY).xlsxbar_$(TODAY).xlsxbaz_$(TODAY).xlsxAll three XLSX files are generated by three separate writers and have very distinct structures and different template files. When I publish the workbench to FME Flow and try running it with the DataDownload or Data Streaming services, however, I get a completely mangled zip file with this structure insteadOutput8719176120317945288.zipXLSXW_1foo_.xlsxXLSXW_2bar_.xlsxXLSXW_4baz_.xlsxIt seems like both services ignore whatever path the readers are configured to write to, and instead use a XLSXW_1_DATASET override that gets set by FME Flow, whose value seems to be $(FME_SERVER_DEST_DIR)/MULTI_WRITER_KEYWORD{0} with the file name appended at the end, without parameter expansion. Is there anything I can do to control the file structure inside that generated zip file, or perhape have a

About the projectWe have individuals checking traps and bait stations (points) located on different properties (polygons).  Every time someone goes to visit a property they create a point record so we know who has been there and when. Output requirementsWe need to fill out a word document (template given to us by the client) for each property we visit. What I thought I could do to automate this process currently being filled out manually by the team lead:Set up an FME process using the property parcels (polygons) and trap and bait station records (points). Use a PointOnAreaOverlayer and add the important point data onto to the property addresses. Each property has one form (filled out with a list of visit dates and who was there). I watched this really useful webinar. It's gotten me far considering I've never worked with word in FME before, but I still have some questions.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H1BsmXCTrY  QuestionSometimes there are multiple point records if multiple

Hello all, I've been trying to delete a folder containing some data after processing. I cannot use a temp folder so have turned to python to complete the task.I've tried following the comments in the following thread but it doesn't seem to work for me File Copy - DELETE (safe.com)I can get the process to work when 'hard coding' as shown below. But when I try to make it dynamic by replacing 'location' with feature.getAttribute('filepath') and dir with feature.getAttribute('directory') it fails.The filepath and directory attributes are shown below:'filepath' = C:\\Project\\FME\\processing\\data'directory' = 20230925

Hi everyone, I have split a pt cloud into 2 : Ground and Rest (Ceiling and Beams). and I would like now to calculate the minimum verticale distance (along z axis) between the 2 clouds. to avoid false results with the beams i want to eliminate any results smaller than 2meters. I am a little bit new on FME and i don't know which transformers would be best for this operation if it's doable. Thank you

Hello, I'm attempting to use an attribute with HTML as a value into the HTML2PDFConverter. What's odd is that said transformer asks where the HTML will originate from (a file, attribute, or URL), but when you select one of those options, it's still asking for the other two as a requirement. Is this a bug?     

Hello! I am trying to add an attribute to a table from a dataset that is specified by the user. This input data varies in attributes, so I don't know the format of them beforehand. However, I am consistently just adding 1 attribute to this data and writing it to another table. It looks something like this: The first dataset that I input works fine, but any dataset after that does not match the attributes of the first dataset will not go through properly. I've done some research on dynamic workflows in FME, but I'm still struggling a bit to find a solution to this. Any ideas?

Hi FME community, I am trying to start a job on FME Flow from another application by making use of a webhook and a token. The trigger results in succesfully starting a job on FME Flow, but the response is most of the time the following:502 - Web server received an invalid response while acting as a gateway or proxy server.It looks like this only happens when the job takes longer than 2 minutes. Does anyone have an idea where the 502 response comes from? This indicates an error while in fact the job is started as expected. Version 2022.2Build 22765 - win64

In a lot off my workspaces I need to fetch some 'global' values based upon user input. Example: user needs to provide project name: first check if projectname complies with the rules, once that is ok, use some api's to fetch global values for that project.Now those global values are in an attribute and need to keep track of those when using attributekeepers, list builders,...I can set them as a global variable with variable setter but it means that I need to use a lot off variable retrievers (10+).  Is there a way that I can put that value in a private parameter so that I can use it across the workspace without the variable setter and retrievers?

Hi Everyone, I am relatively new and in my current position I am replacing someone who was a bit more advanced than me. I understand a lot of what the workspace is trying to do (and it worked in FME Server) but once we migrated to FME Flow, the workspace no longer works. The premise is similar to the FME Demo "Map Based Data Distribution". The difference in our workflow has an Input Project Area instead of an Area of Interest which allows the user to upload a shapefile or use our municipal boundaries which is stored in our Repository. We also create a waiver for our Digital Licensing Agreements, but that's a User Parameter with "yes/no" and with either setting, the workspace/app fails. I've included images for the parameters for the FeatureReader (but not the connection parameters). For "Feature Types to Read", we have a User Parameter ($(FEATURETYPES_2)), which is Choice List. It's the FQN of our Feature Types in the database connection file (

I have geodatabases, which can contain strictly structured data of linear utilies and related objects, such as powerlines, utility poles etc. However, geodatabase sometimes contains only powerlines, sometimes only poles, sometimes powerlines, poles, power plants and more. So, one geodatabase may contain two layers of data with strict and specific names and attributes, the other may contain all of defined layers, and so on. I convert this geodatabase into an XML file through XMLTemplater provided with an input from XSD file. Since the structure of the geodatabase is always the same, XML Templater allows me to set the template beforehand, and XMLTemplater just writes the attributes afterwards. The reduced ROOT template looks something like this:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><geodatabase:Utilities xmlns:gss="http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gss" xmlns:xsi=  ... namespaces etc.>  <geodatabase:Data>    <geodatabase:PowerLines>   <pwrlns:GeneralInfo ... />  

I have switched from using a custom transformer to a linked custom transformer for the sake of reusability. While there were no errors when I ran it with the local custom transformer, I started encountering an error message randomly after seeing the "Translation was SUCCESSFULLY" message, which reads "Error missing translation." after I changed it to a linked custom transformer. Here's some additional information that may help:1) The number of records outputted by the custom transformer in both cases is the same.2) In both scenarios, they were executed in "Moderate" mode with parallel processing.3) Debug logs are enabled, and although there are some "BADNEWS" messages, they were present in both cases. Can anyone provide me with some hints or guidance to resolve this unknown error message?" Here below is the screen capture for the error message. 

How can I fix the texture that the 3D-tiles writer puts out? When converting from obj(including .png and .mlt) to 3D tiles, the writer makes the texture very dark when they are being viewed in Cesium. There is no problem converting to kmz, the textures is perfect there but we need to use 3D-tiles for its streaming capabilities. KMZ: 3D-Tiles:  I have read multiple posts on FME forum and on Cesium forum:including this idea: https://community.safe.com/s/bridea/a0r4Q00000Hbqi5QAB/options-to-choose-and-set-gltf-appearance-settings-in-cesium-3d-tiles-writer https://community.cesium.com/t/how-to-set-lighting-for-cessium-3d-tile/5140 https://community.safe.com/s/question/0D54Q00009cNpu2SAC/i-want-to-create-textured-models-to-cesium-3d-tiles-from-obj-files And more posts. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this issue? Right now I use this, this helps to fix a transparent issue I faced before.Here is the .mlt from the obj if it helps:newmtl SolidKa 1.0 1.0 1.0Kd 1.0 1.0 1.0Ks 0.0 0.0 0.0d 1.0N

I have a tree canopy coverage layer where tree canopies are overlaid. The layer contains around 5,000,000 entities and I need... :1) remove the overlapping area of the entities (I've tried with the space and overlap cleaner but it takes too long, I have 32gb RAM)2) merge all entities into one, and for display performance reasons, the resulting layer must be cut on a 1 km or 500 m grid. In attached an exemple of the layer  Any idea how to proceed? Thanks to all

I'm trying to setup a workspace that allows the user to choose what attributes to keep in the final spreadsheet. But AttributeKeeper seems to work wrong when passing User Parameters in the "Attributes to Keep" box. I've created a User Parameter of the type "Attribute Name" that allows to select multiple attributes, and I've setup AttributeKeeper to use this parameter. I'm facing the following:1- When selecting only one attribute: Schema gets lost, but the attribute is still retrievable by exposing it.2- When selecting more than one attribute: Both schema and attributes get lost.3- Noticed that AttributeKeeper has a comma delimiter when multiple attributes are selected, while "Attribute Name" User Parameters use a blank space as a delimiter. So I've created a third parameter of the type "Text" with the value "a1,a2" (where a1 and a2 are the attributes), to see if this makes any difference. This again results in no sch