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oliver.morrisContributor

asked in General

Remote Engine Service - credentials never seem right?

Hi I am trying to add a engine via a remote engine service FME Flow 23 but the credentials always seem to be rejected, tried with superadmin etc no luck. Any ideas? Many ThanksOliver

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1 year ago

arthyContributor

asked in Transformers

No error but nothing was written in AZURE SQL table using sde connection file

I'm trying to write to a table in Azure SQL using a sde connection file.There is no error when running the workspace but nothing change in the table.What could be the issue?

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1 year ago

jeaton

asked in Transformers

How do I get a schema to carry from a Feature Reader to a Dynamic Writer? I keep getting errors saying that 'Feature Type Definition {feature here} was requested, but not defined. I'm stumped. Thank you in advance!

P.S. When I have managed to get this to work, the attributes from the various features read by the FeatureReader aren't being written.

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1 year ago

galigisEnthusiast

asked in General

ArcObject Error with FME 2020 / Migrated from FME 2018 version

Hi Community, I'm trying to run an existing FME 2018.0 workbench on FME 2020.2. and just received ArcObjects is: '-2147219879' error. Tried to search online but couldn't find the workaround/solution. The FME workbench reads a GDB and applies metadata based on XML file as well as an excel file. Attached the log file for reference. Any help more than welcome 🙂

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1 year ago

lifalin2016Contributor

asked in Automation

Trigger an automation with parameters ?

I've built an generic automation that encompasses some business logic. I've isolated the variable input as global parameters, and duplicating the automation and only changing the global parameters to adopt them for another dataset. Is there a way to initiate an automation and setting these parameters ? The automation server app does not provide for this as-is (2022.2.2), so I'm curious as to whether there are other ways to accomplish it ?Cheers.

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1 year ago

hlove2023

asked in Transformers

Sophos Virus protection is preventing install of Transformers which are supplied with FME which are not installed by default. Being detected as suspicious behaviour .

Within Sophos can exclude event id but as file locations for each transformer is different would have to keep adding them. Command used to install like below. Have excluded paths with no success. Is it possible to install transformers from command line rather than within FME application. Tried to use below command but file not found. Manual install may get round Sophos blocking . Thanks in advance for any advice supplied. pip install --force-reinstall --no-deps --no-index --find-links C:\\Users\\test\\AppData\\Roaming\\Safe Software\\FME\\Packages\\22800-win64\\PackageFiles\\safe.s3connector\\python --target C:\\Users\\test\\AppData\\Roaming\\Safe Software\\FME\\Packages\\22800-win64\\python\\safe.s3connector --upgrade --no-compile fme-amazons3'

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1 year ago

dustinInfluencer

asked in Transformers

Deleting duplicate geometries in Oracle via SQLCreator

I'm working in an Oracle database, where there are multiple duplications of features with matching geometry that shouldn't be in a table named "TDS71"."METADATASRF". There are millions of records, and I haven't found a native FME transformer that can handle this in a timely manner (Matcher, AreaOnAreaOverlayer, etc). So I'm experimenting with deleting the duplicates in SQLCreator. For now, I'm simply just trying to return all but 1 of the duplicated geometries, and will worry about deleting after I can identify them. The code below is returning many more features than expected. I'm not really sure why to be honest. For example, a feature is duplicated 6 times in the database. From the query I have currently, 15 records are returned. Does anyone have experience doing this in SQLCreator/Executor?select a.OBJECTID, a.SHAPEfrom "TDS71"."METADATASRF" a join "TDS71"."METADATASRF" bon sdo_relate(a.SHAPE, b.SHAPE, 'mask=equal') = 'TRUE'and a.OBJECTID < b.OBJECTID

Since upgrading to FME Flow, the webmap for Geometry Picker is no longer working in my published workspaces.

I have workspaces that allow a users to define an area of interest when looking for data. Instead of the openstreetmap coming up, now it is just a grey box. Coordinates still get passed, but the user cannot see where they are drawing their polygon.

Issue with ArcGIS Server Feature Service and AttributeError in Python

Introduction: I am encountering an issue with an Esri ArcGIS Server Feature Service link. Over the past few days, the link has been functioning correctly; however, starting yesterday, it started throwing an error. As a newcomer to FME, I lack the necessary understanding to interpret the error message, specifically the AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'name'. I would greatly appreciate any assistance in resolving this issue.Problem Description: The link causing the problem is as follows:Link: https://mapservices.weather.noaa.gov/tropical/rest/services/tropical/NHC_tropical_weather_summary/MapServer/Details: Upon accessing the aforementioned ArcGIS Server Feature Service link, I receive the following error message in Python:Python Exception <AttributeError>: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'name'Request for Assistance: Since I am new to FME, I am unsure about the root cause and implications of this error. I am seeking guidance an

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1 year ago

thijsknapenContributor

asked in Transformers

How come JSON null values are handled differently by different transformers?

Hi folks, While working with some JSON data, I seem to have noticed that null values are sometimes interpreted as a literal string, instead of a true <null> value (like non-existent/empty). When I just tried to replicate this, it seems that different FME JSON transformers seem to handle null values in a different manner. E.g. when using a JSONFragmenter or a JSONFlattener, it seems that null values are indeed recognized as true <null> values (like non-existent/empty), but when using a JSONExtractor or an XMLXQueryExtractor (with a JSONiq query), it seems that null values are returned as a literal string. Of course in the latter case I could add a NullAttributeMapper transformer to change the literal string 'null' to the <null> value, but this seems like a bit of a workaround (and also, how would you then distinguish between a literal string value "null" in JSON, and the true null value) Is there something I'm missing, or is this a bit of a bug? K

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1 year ago

fmeContributor

asked in Transformers

PDF2TextReader does not recognize my published parameter for selecting a pdf file into the transformer. Anyone else experienced this?

PDF2TextReader does not recognize my published parameter for selecting a pdf file into the transformer. Is there any workaround this? PDF2TextReader runs when I select the pdf file directly but not when I use a parameter in selecting it.

1 year ago

aronContributor

asked in Transformers

Documentation for Deployment Parameters?

It looks like Deployment Parameters might make some of our processes more manageable. Is it intended for use with workspace runners? Is there any documentation out yet for this new feature?

Using FileCopy Writer to copy single file to multiple subfolders

I have managed to use The Directory and File Pathnames reader, Attribute Manager and File Copy Writer to copy a file from one location to another. How would I be able to copy that same file into multiple subfolders of a single parent folder? I used this method so far.

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1 year ago

conrad.schaeferContributor

asked in General

"Job Status: Awaiting Worker" - job is endlessly stuck - Thoughts on cause?

For a job that has been working for years, it is now endlessly polling job status and returning awaiting worker. In Server, the last message you get is about the Socrata Write executing. In the desktop software you get more information and it reflects endless polling. Something has changed and I'm having trouble figuring out the cause. 2 of 24 of these (county specific) ran and the rest hung, and now even the two that ran initially will hang. It appears to be happening in the last step involving the Socrata Writer. This is the last log information, with the "Polling the job status: Awaiting worker" repeating endlessly. Other jobs that write to Socrata are still working. It isn't blanket failure on writing to Socrata. Any thoughts on cause or leads to investigate are welcome. ThanksSocrata Writer: 0 features treated as points, 0 features coerced to point, 0 features with unsupported geometries written without geometrySocrata Writer: Invoking Socrata DataSync with control file action 'Ap

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1 year ago

gboquinContributor

asked in General

Read a single file from a zip file

I have a zip file that has a csv file and multiple jpgs. I tried a CSV feature reader-- not a CSV reader-- as I was trying to read the file with in the zip file but that didn't work. I am using FME 2022.2.2. Is there a way to only extract a particular file from the zipfile? I dont want to unzip the entire thing as it will take a long time. Thanks in advanced.

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1 year ago

robertoContributor

asked in Data

Oracle Spatial reader very slow

Hello,I am experiencing difficulties reading an Oracle Spatial table with FME.The table (linestring) has about 250K records.FME starts to log the first 10000 records after about 10 minutes. And then 10000 at a time every 6 minutes.The table is displayed in GeoMedia and also QGis in about 5 minutes.Feature Caching is disabled.I have tried both with the reader and with a SqlCreator. Same results.What checks/configurations can I try?This is the first time it happens and not sure if some metadata could be wrong or corrupted.This sounds strange because of the tests with other products.TIARoberto

We recently upgraded our FME server and now the file upload in Server apps is no longer working? When i click upload file the app says "There was an error uploading the file."

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1 year ago

btlContributor

asked in Transformers

Waiting for FME Server jobs to complete

I have an intermittent problem where an FMEServerJobWaiter fails to wait for a job to complete and rejects it after 30 mins-or-so when in fact the job is still running and completes successfully (it gets rejected with a 502 gateway error).Is there a difference in the way the FMEServerJobWaiter works compared to the Wait for Jobs to Complete parameter in the FMEServerJobSubmitter? - might that give more reliable performance?Using FME2021.2.

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1 year ago

bhkContributor

asked in Automation

How to Pass AttributeCreator Values into PythonCaller Custom Array

Having a Workspace like this and the AttributeCreator like Can you please let me know how I can pass the AttributeCreator Values into the PythonCaller. Like following pseudo code to loop in the attributes from the AttributeCreator def input(self, feature): for attr in .pythoncreator.getAttribute: print(attr ) self.pyoutput(feature)

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1 year ago

spidermanContributor

asked in General

How to avoid the file geodatabase from creating objectid_1

Hello ,i am working with file geodatabase then writing the output into file geodatabase so my input :file geodatabase and it contains ObejctIdbut when I write the output into file geodatabase after finish work on the data .i have found that the output contains new attribute called objectid_1how to avoid the data from creating the new objectid_1 because I have already attribute Name called objectid and I do not need extra .fme 2021 thanks in advance

Job Cancel and engine restart

Hi, I have a question regarding job cancelling on FME server UI. I have a job running which I would need to cancel during it running. When I select the job and click cancel button, it will cancel job but starting the engine. and all others in the queue will be failed directly. I would like to know if there is a way that we can cancel running jobs without restarting engine and the next in the queue will be starting to run? I did realise we could set up "Running Job Expire Time" to cancel job with specific max running time. but I would like to know, if I set it, when it cancel job that over that time, will engine be restart? Thanks for any advice in advance

Switch Esri Geodatabase Reader/Writer from traditional Versioning to Branch Versioning

Is it possible to switch the Versioning in an Enterprise Geodatabase (on SQL Server) from "traditional" to "Branch Versioning" without touching FME Workspaces containing Esri Geodatase Readers and Writers (GEODATABASE_SDE)? In a first attempt in the test environment, everything seems to be running like before, after we switched to Branch Versioning of our feature classes. A quick look in the geodatabase tables seems to prove that the internal fields like GDB_ARCHIVE_OID, GDB_FROM_DATE, ... are filled correctly. Can it really be that simple? Does FME support the switch to Branch Versioning while keeping the Workspaces untouched? Of course, this would be a dream, but this seems too good to be true.

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1 year ago

checcosisaniContributor

asked in Transformers

OSM downloader failed

HiI tried to download some data using OSM downloader but I recevid an errorcan ypu help plesae ? thx Francesco

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1 year ago

marrysharif

asked in Transformers

I have an Excel dataset and I want to translate features to different formats. I don't know what is the best practice? should I create multiple workspace with multiple readers and writers or one workspace and several readers and writers?

or one reader and several writers? and there are some extra output feature must be derived from open data first.

1 year ago

mariasContributor

asked in Architecture

Insufficient memory available -- error code was 2. Offending plug-in is 'shapefile_dbase' error in FME Workbench 2020.2

I am doing a simple clip function in FME Workbench 2020.2. Clippee area is quite huge. Clipper - small and simple. Getting this error:Failed to free sufficient memory to reach the process usage limit. To improve stability and performance please increase the memory available to FME. Available memory can be increased by adding physical RAM, increasing swap space, or closing other applicationsInsufficient memory available -- error code was 2. Offending plug-in is 'shapefile_dbase'Warning: not all FMESessions that were created were destroyed before shutdown. This may cause instabilityWarning: not all Stashed Objects that were registered were dropped before shutdown. This may cause instability I never received memory problem with much more complicated workbenches. What can be the workaround?I have read an advice somewhere, to set Clipper type as "Clippers First", but it doesn't help.

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1 year ago

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