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scarterContributor

asked in Authoring

Artiificially creating polygons

Hello Forum, Is it possible to artificially create a polygon based on the lower edge of an existing polygon? Imagine I have an existing polygon, I’d then want to create a new polygon that snaps to the lower edge of the existing polygon. The depth of that polygon doesn’t matter, for example it could just be roughly 50 metres away from the shared boundary. What really matters is that is snaps to the lower edge of the existing polygon. An alternative approach could be that the artificially created polygon is a doughnut polygon which wraps around the existing polygon to say, a depth of 50 metres. I could then split it manually where required… I hope this makes sense. Any ideas? Thanks,Stuart

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29 minutes ago

miguelhacarContributor

asked in Transformers

In the exercise: "Add Appearances to a 3D City Model" I have a problem with the "AppearanceSetter"

In the exercise: "Add Appearances to a 3D City Model" I have a problem with the "AppearanceSetter" transformer because I cannot get the colors in the buildings in the PDF output, as described by Liz Sanderson. I always get them in RED in both cases, namely: "AppearancesRed" and "AppearancesBlue". I have run the workspace as I downloaded it but both types of buildings always come out in RED in the PDF.https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407543263373-Add-Appearances-to-a-3D-City-Model

13 hours ago

matthewbContributor

asked in Architecture

Installing Custom Python SDK to FME Flow.

In order to pull data from one of our clients’ data repositories, we are using a custom Python SDK that they have provided. Installation and testing went smoothly for use with FME Form, but no so well with FME Flow. For FME Form, I used fme.exe python -m pip install. For FME Flow, I’ve tried navigating to Resouces>Engine>Plugins>Python>python311 and uploading the directories there, I’ve tried running fme.exe python -m pip install with the target directory set the FME Flow Resouces\Engine\Plugins\Python\python311. No matter what I do, my transformer fails with the following errors:Python Exception <ModuleNotFoundError>: No module named xxxx Any suggestions?

14 hours ago

mark2atsafeSafer

asked in General

Question of the Week: Dynamic (but Hacky) Updates to Published Parameter Choices

Today I'm breaking my rule of never manually (or automatically) editing a workspace file, in order to dynamically update a choice-type user parameter.Question of the WeekThis question was asked by @philippeb who needs to send a list of names to a survey choice field. Q) Our employees fill a weekly survey about their health and their kids going to summer camp activities.The survey [fields] change in time, depending on the kids that subscribed. The subscribed kids are exported into an Excel file every week. I thought to read the file with FME and push the kids into the survey every week. That way the list of kids in the survey could change without our help. And the kid (or his parent) could select his name to fill the survey.The issue is that we don't know any survey platform able to change automatically from a script. Do you know if any kind of platform could change when FME pushes new values into it?A) I know of a platform that could be used to provide a weekly survey: FME Server! Aft

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15 hours ago

willydeveraContributor

asked in Data

Transform values from an attribute into a list

Hi, I need help. I have an attribute column X with string values ‘S001’, ‘S002’, ‘S003’, and ‘S004’, all lined up in 1 column with 4 rows corresponding to the string values. I would like the output Y should to be a single row list, having just one column and one row, containing the four values:Y = (‘S001’, ‘S002’, ‘S003’, ‘S004’) Could you please advise how this could be done in FME Form. Greatly appreciated. Thanks, Willy de Vera

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19 hours ago

willydeveraContributor

asked in Integration

How to configure FME Form to work with Anaconda

Hi,Could you please provide an official documentation on how to configure FME Form to access the latest Python version from Anaconda distribution as well as its machine learning libraries. Admittedly, there are topics already posted in the community related to the subject; however nothing seems to work for me.BTW, I’m running FME(R) 2024.1.2.1 (20240906 - Build 24624 - WIN64) on Windows 11 EnterpriseThanks in advance,Willy de Vera

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19 hours ago

snehaContributor

asked in Automation

I am trying to do a pg_dump using command line in the system caller. It is failing, when i implemented the same command in the linux terminal, it is prompting for the password. I tried all the ways to pass the password value, nothing has worked out.

I tried to find an alternative transformer for the system caller to do the pg_dump, but even that did not work out.

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20 hours ago

felipeverduEnthusiast

asked in Security

Security update affecting FME Flow 2023.2.2

HiI am the admin in my organisation for FME Flow and I woke this mornig with this messagehttps://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/31265482270349-Security-Update-FME-Flow-Privilege-Escalation-VulnerabilityThe problem is that I can’t access it even after it asked me to log in.@safe can you point me out to the right issue so I can understand the vulnerability that it might implicate in out environment?Best regards,Felipe Verdú

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20 hours ago

francisContributor

asked in Security

Broadcast message from Safe Software on FME Flow

Today we saw this broadcast message from Safe Software on our FME Flow servers (2023.2.2):The link in the message is not working and I do not see any recent security issues. We have only external ports configured for dynamic engines and licenses. The FME Flow instance is not accesible from outside out network.I find a strange that they can create broadcast messages on our servers.That is all a bit suspicious, is anyone else experiencing the same?

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20 hours ago

palhermansContributor

asked in Data

Connect to SQL Server 2000 (!)

Hi, got a question from a client yesterday who wants (with FME2018.1) to connect to a SQL Server 2000 database (no the question is not from a museum: ).FME returns a Fetching Feature Types Error, "... SQL Server Native Client 11.0 does not support connections to SQL Server 2000 or earlier versions".Any ideas the minimum hazzle to get around here? Just to install the SQL Server native client 9.00 and problem solved? I do not have an environment for testing this myself :/ cheers

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23 hours ago

fme_hansContributor

asked in Data

Acces FMEflow via httpcaller

Hi,I am trying to request information from FMEflow with an httpcaller. I have created a temporary token that allows everything. If I include the token in the URL, the request works fine. (https://<...?/v3/info?fmetoken=abcdefg...)When I put the token in the httpcaller I get a 401 warning. What goes wrong in the caller?

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1 day ago

mark2atsafeSafer

asked in 12 Days of FME

Data Visualization for the 12 Days Contest

Hello FME friends,If you remember, the 12 Days of FME contest for 2024 has a special prize for data visualization. The idea is to download some of the data from the contest and (preferably using FME) analyze it and visualize it. The best visualization wins a US$100 gift card!It just occurred to us that you don’t even need to have launched a balloon! You can do a visualization anyway! This part of the contest is open to anyone.So, this thread is where I suggest you post your visualization entries. It might be a simple image, a link to an online map, a video animation, or…. anything you can think of.Here are some ideas I came up with. Feel free to use any of these, or create your own:Did any balloons crash into each other? I didn't test for that. If not, what was the smallest distance between two balloons? Assume that a balloon is 20m in diameter and 30m in height. Can you visualize who did the best airport avoidance? i.e. who would have crossed over an airport, if they had not made a co

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1 day ago

danielleatsafeSafer

asked in Question of the Week

Question of the Week: Data Visualization

Hi FME Community,As you may know, our 12 Days of FME Contest is well underway! You can still register and launch your balloon.The contest has a special prize for data visualization and that’s what we’re theming this Question of the Week around.Download some of the data from the contest and (preferably using FME) analyze it and visualize it. The best visualization wins a $100 USD gift card (plus you’ll also be eligible for our monthly Question of the Week draw)! You don’t even need to launch a balloon to participate. This part of the contest is open to anyone.Visualization entries posted on this thread and the contest thread will be entered into the contest! Find some ideas here. We look forward to seeing what you come up with!The contest ends on Tuesday, December 17, 2024 at 8:30 am PST. Data visualization entries will be accepted until Wednesday, December 18, 2024 at 8:30 am PST.

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1 day ago

ydreborgObserver

asked in Data

ChatGPT - The "Generate Workspace Documentation" function in FME

Hi folks! As I was using AI tools like ChatGPT and Copilot to troubleshoot, I suddenly received information from the AI about the "Generate Workspace Documentation" function. Here's what I learned:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Generate Workspace DocumentationThis feature allows you to automatically generate comprehensive documentation for your FME workspace. The output is typically an HTML file that provides detailed insights into your workspace structure, parameters, and transformations. It's incredibly useful for sharing with colleagues or for archiving your workflows. How to Use It: Usage in FME Workbench (GUI):Open the FME Workbench application. Load the workspace you want to document. From the Tools menu, select Generate Workspace Documentation. You can choose to output the documentation in an HTML format, which can be opened in any browser.Command Line Usage:This function is also ava

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1 day ago

davnciniContributor

asked in Transformers

Distribute point within polygon

I have a point feature which has been developed based on the polygon ID. All of these points are created at the polygon Centroid, I want to distribute the point randomly within the polygon

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1 day ago

rossc_propnhsukContributor

asked in Community Q+A

Passing bounding box coords as parameter to API call

Hi I’m calling an Ordnance Survey API using a bounding box of a 25km grid square to just get the building outline features I need. I’m doing a spatial filter and buffer then to further reduce the number of features I want. I’m doing this manually i.e. putting the new bounding box values into the API call parameters then running the workbench again. I want to be able to do this dynamically via a parameter, from a list of bounding box coordinates from another file, so I can effectively loop through and spit out out a file for each grid square (I’ll append these back together later).Is this possible? Any help gratefully received.

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1 day ago

ahuarte47Participant

asked in Transformers

Apache Parquer Writer does not write DateTime columns properly

Hi community, I am using FME Workbench 2024.1 to create parquet files. Those files contain DateTime columns. It seems as those DateTime columns are missing a codec flag in order to enable the loading in other software (Dremio in my user case). Using parquet-tools we can see the problem:java -jar parquet-tools-1.9.0.jar schema ~/Downloads/part0.parquet can not read class org.apache.parquet.format.FileMetaData: Required field 'codec' was not present! Struct: ColumnMetaData(type:INT64, encodings:[RLE_DICTIONARY, PLAIN, RLE], path_in_schema:[_transaction_ts], codec:null, num_values:66, total_uncompressed_size:95, total_compressed_size:113, data_page_offset:35, dictionary_page_offset:4, statistics:Statistics(max:EC 90 D1 36 42 42 10 18, min:EC 90 D1 36 42 42 10 18, null_count:0), encoding_stats:[PageEncodingStats(page_type:DICTIONARY_PAGE, encoding:PLAIN, count:1), PageEncodingStats(page_type:DATA_PAGE, encoding:RLE_DICTIONARY, count:1)]) I include here a small parquet example with two date

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1 day ago

aniqakParticipant

asked in Data

TIFF/GRD Raster Data into a csv/table

Hi, I am trying to convert raster data in the forms of .grd, tiff or GRID from ArcGIS Pro into a csv/table. If anyone can point me in the right direction, that would be greatly appreciated. GRD file loaded on ArcGIS Pro

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1 day ago

malthernParticipant

asked in Transformers

How do I add a folder with FME Packages SDK

I have been using the FME Packager in Python to create my own transformers. I am trying to add an “images” folder to my package that my transformer will use however I get errors whenever I try to package my project.This is my package.yml file, Ive been using the Hello World Package guide for references and trying to look up ways to do it This is my file structure This is the error I get

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1 day ago

tb09114Supporter

asked in Transformers

How to work properly with CoG's?

Currently I have 23 CoG’s in an Azure Blob container and I want to retrieve only the area of those CoG’s covered by a rectangle that I use as the initiator for a FeatureReader.Unfortunately, the FeatureReader is reading first all the CoG’s in before making the decision where the bounding box is within, and then it returns the entire CoG, where I was rather expecting it would return the part the bounding box is covering.The CoG’s originate from the Copernicus DEM coverage GLO-30, contain overviews, etc…It takes almost 3 minutes for the FeatureReader to process the request. The bounding box is within a single CoG.When looking at the parameters for the COG reader, then I can see there is actually the possibility to set a search envelope. I could feed the bounding box to the envelope, which sadly is missing in the FeatureReader. Is there a way to speed things up? I only want to have the parts of the COG’s covered by the bounding box used as initiator, basically performing a range request.

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1 day ago

bingyParticipant

asked in Integration

Can FME Write ArcGIS Enterprise Attachments

Hi Everyone, Looking for some assistance, I’m using FME 2023.1.0.0 trying to migrate some existing Survey-123 forms and data with attachments from ArcGIS On-Line to our new Enterprise portal.Our survey-123 form has a singular photos field for tracking a picture of the bus stop, it also has a repeatable photo’s field (table) where the inspector is able to take and attach multiple deficiency photos to the stop if one exists. In FME, I’m able to read in the AGOL feature service that hosts all of the survey information, I’m also able to write out the tabular information from the point layer to the new Enterprise feature layer that was created when I saved the Survey-123 form in Enterprise.The part that I’m currently struggling with is getting the singular photos to attach when writing the tabular information out to the Enterprise feature service so when I view the points in ArcGIS Pro, they appear in the attachments tab of the attributes editor like they currently do with my AGOL service.

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1 day ago

p_c_20Contributor

asked in Transformers

Fanning out different attribute schemas to different Excel tabs

Am creating three sets of numbers from one source file. Each set has a different attribute structure. I want to fan these out into separate tabs of an Excel spreadsheet, using a created attribute that is common to the three streams, but has a different value for each. Have tried every permutation of setting I can think of in the Writer/dynamic schema defn, and cannot get it to respect the three different attribute schemas. Feels like this should be easy, but…..🤔

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1 day ago

dbannon22Contributor

asked in Transformers

Logging in to new FME AR App

The new FME AR app update has introduced a login page with a URL or Barcode (see attached). Are these logins for a server app or a FME Flow instance? I cannot find any documentation on the process here. I have not been successful in logging into my FME Flow Instance or server apps so I am not sure what else the login url could be. Any help is appreciated.

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1 day ago

atle_hoidalen

asked in Transformers

Convert STEP-files (.stp) using FME?

Anyone who knows a way to convert STEP-files (.stp) using FME? I cannot find a reader for this format, closest one is IFC I guess. The format is ASCII-based so maybe there is some workaround using other readers/transformers?

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1 day ago

vxn43Supporter

asked in Transformers

New record added to table - notification question

I am using FME Form 2021. I have a table with vehicles listed by department. Vehicle 1234 Department 1Vehicle 4532 Department 1Vehicle 5645 Department 2Vehicle 8472 Department 3 When a new record (example: a vehicle) is added to the table, I want an email to be sent only if the new vehicle is associated with a specific department. For example, Vehicle 6577 is added to the table and is associated with Department 3; thus, an email would be sent notifying the recipient that a new vehicle has been added. However, if the vehicle is associated with Department 1, then no email would be sent. What Transformer(s) that would trigger the email do you recommend I use to achieve this? It sounds like ChangeDetector could be an option, but I am only using a single table.

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