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amit
asked in Data
Writing to a dwg block hyperlink attribute

Hi,  I want to create a .dwg with clickable hyperlinks from a .shp file, however I can't see an attribute I can expose on the .dwg writer that can take the hyperlink attribute from the shp file.  Does anyone know is this is possible?  Also, bit of a secondary question (that may make the first one invalid!) , but could I write this straight to an interactive PDF?  (I know I can create it via (Acrobat / AutoCAD).  I'm not very familair with FME's PDF capability.  Thanks.

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A
11 years ago
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garrett
asked in Transformers
Arithmatic in Tester transformer, syntax? wrong approach?

Hello...  So I trying to run a multi criteria test on some data.  the first 2 criteria and simple column = xxxxxxxxx  The third criteria is a arithmatic query that I use in arcgis.  Here is what I though might work:  =((@Value(SWIFT_LOAD)-@Value(Permit_License_Date))<30)  I am returning no passing values and I know for a fact due to my arcgis map that there a a few hundred returns.  Any ideas? Shpould I not use the tester to peform this part?  I am very new to FME (a few weeks)  Thanks!

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G
11 years ago
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angela
asked in Data
Writer - an Access database with special characters in field names causing issues

My workspace's goal is to import the contents ot two old Access databases into a new, differently structured Access database.  The new database has four fields that have forward slashes in the field names. These are being interpreted as underscores by FME.  When I run the workspace, I get an error indicating that my new database doesn't have the field `Esmt_ppty_lease Date' (the first field it runs across with an underscore I guess) -which of course it doesn't.  What's the simplest solution here?  I'd rather not have to rename the four fields in the new Access database as that has other implications.

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C
11 years ago
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seshu
asked in Transformers
Merfing fields of records in Same Table

Hi All,  I have two different tables(A & B) in SDE, which are having a common field to maintain relationship between the tables. I have requirement like finding the relation records in table B with respect to the records in table A. In table B it may contains one or more (max 4) records will available. After finding the relationship reords, then merge the fields of relation records to record in table A.  Can anyone please suggest of how to approach my requirement.  Thanks, Seshu

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sigtill
Contributor
11 years ago
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pietro
asked in Data
Equivalent of the ArcGIS "Update"

Hi, Does anyone know what is the FME quivalent of the "Update" tool? Thanks. Pietro

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davideagle
Contributor
11 years ago
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suvo
asked in Architecture
Can FME Desktop install on windowsVM which sits on Linux box

Dear All,  Need your assistance.....  We run our FME Desktop 2012 64-bit PC using Safe Floating Licence. Due to the amount the data which we process on daily basis, it takes days to complete and the FME process used up all CUPs.  Going forward we are building Application Server (not FME Server) to run FME and other geo-spatial applications.  But the problem is: -           App Server will be built on Linux RedHat 64-Bit and as per my research FME Workbench is not available on Linux. http://www.safe.com/fme/fme-technology/fme-desktop/tech-specs/  So, we were thinking, we will configure windows VM on Linux and install all the FME components but not 100% sure this will work or not.  Could someone please share some knowledge or advise that would it be good to run FME on windowsVM which sits on Linux box.  Thanks in advance for your help. Regards Suvo  

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sigtill
Contributor
11 years ago
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harry
asked in Transformers
Changes to geometry comparisons in 2013?

I have a workbench developed in FME2012 which, given a set of lines representing a river network, generates a parallel line to the left and right of each bit of river.  My workflow is to use the normal polygon buffering on each river line to generate the geometries for each river line separately. Then I need to get rid of the bits that are inside the "overall" buffer so I intersect the buffer outlines with one another and use a spatial filter to remove the intersected parts that are "within" the dissolved overall buffer polygon itself.   This works absolutely fine in FME 2012. In FME 2013, at seemingly random locations it fails in that some of the buffer outline portions are found by the spatial filter to be inside the buffer polygon. These are the SAME geometry!   I have noticed similar problems on other occasions. Given a general workflow of take a feature, do something with it, match the unaffected portion of the geometry back to the original - this generally see

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sigtill
Contributor
11 years ago
A
aml
asked in Transformers
converting Shapefile polygon zm to polylines with z values

Hi.  I am looking for a way to convert Shapefile zm polygons to Shapefile polylines whereby the z values are inherited along the line segments.

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A
11 years ago
mapnut
mapnut
asked in Authoring
FME Executing system commands

Hi All,  I have a FME Workbench which runs every night via a scheduled Windows process which looks at a MapInfo TAB file which has been edited during that day by users.  It QAs the data and then spits out the "good" elements to a Production area for use by the orginisation the following day.  This workbench works fine.  We can run it manually and the process executes perfectly.  The problem is that over the past few nights the process has failed to execute because it fails to read the TAB from the editing directory.  We have checked the system logs and it seems that (different) users have left their computers on overnight with the file open...  My question is (finally) can FME execute any "system" commands?  We obviously want to kick any users off who have a lock on these files and I just wanted to know if we can write it into the workbench.  There is some talk in the office here about using some Python to do it, but I have only dabbled in it and am not really sure

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mel
Contributor
11 years ago
owen
owen
asked in Authoring
Dynamic writer user attributes

I have a workspace that writes out an excel file using a dynamic writer, to which I have added some user attributes.  The output puts the user attributes at the end of the dynamic schema attributes, ie, in the last columns of each excel worksheet.  Is there a way to control the order of these field using a dynamic writer?

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owen
11 years ago
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rickyt
asked in Transformers
VOXET Import and Export

Hi There,  Are there any ways of reading VOXET models into FME from Geosoft Oasis Montaj?  If so, can these be exported into useable formats into GOCAD?  Regards Ricky  

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R
11 years ago
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ojohano
asked in Transformers
Quick Translator 2013 dialog box

Hi,   With earlier versions of FME I have always saved .fme files that I  launch with a .bat file.  Now in FME 2013 when I start a .fme file it always start up a dialog box and I need to confirm all paths used in the file. This means that I am not able to start a .fme thru a .bat file.  Is there a good work a rount och setting that can help me?  //Johan  

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O
11 years ago
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seshu
asked in Transformers
Merging attributes of 2 records

Hi All,  As per the answer in the path " https://safe.secure.force.com/AnswersQuestionDetail?id=906a0000000chYcAAI ", I was succeed to get the overalapped features at the start and end nodes of a linear feature. But the overalpped features are getting as two separate records. My requirement is to combine the attributes of overlapped feature with the linear feature attributes. I used aggregator to combine atributes, but it is not worked correctly. Can any one please suggest the correct approach.  Thanks, Seshu

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davideagle
Contributor
11 years ago
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gisballarat
asked in Transformers
Raster Mosaic

Hi All,  I am using the raster mosaicker with lots of jpeg images (aerial imagery), but they are all at different resolutions eg: 7cm, 15cm and for different areas.  When I mosaic them the higher resolution images drop back to the equivelent of the lowest resolution.  How can I keep all the resolutions the same but also mosaic them into the one file?  Cheers

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sigtill
Contributor
11 years ago
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sudhakar
asked in Transformers
Application Crash error

During exporting Smallworld 4.1.2 data to shape file using FME Workbench 2011, for some objects it is crashing.  It gives message "FME EXE has stopped working"       Problem signature:     Problem Event Name:        APPCRASH     Application Name:        fme.exe     Application Version:        2011.0.0.6538     Application Timestamp:        4e5c7d57     Fault Module Name:        SWORLDSWAF.dll     Fault Module Version:        1.0.0.11     Fault Module Timestamp:        45d5ddec     Exception Code:        c0000005     Exception Offset:        0000f896     OS Version:        6.1.7600.2.0.0.18.10     Locale ID:        1033     Additional Information 1:        0a9e     Additional Information 2:        0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789     Additional Information 3:        0a9e     Additional Information 4:        0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789     I tried using FME Universal and FME data inspector, it is crashing with above error.   Also I tried using service = "FMENOFAC

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S
11 years ago
ebygomm
Contributor
ebygommContributor
asked in Transformers
FeatureReader, adding multiple files

I have an issue with the FeatureReader. Within the FeatureReader Parameter dialogue I'm adding multiple Mapinfo files, and choosing to select all FeatureTypes on the next screen. When I run the workspace only one file is read and when I return to the FeatureReader Parameters it only lists the parent directory of one file, rather than the individual files selected .  If I add a directory and then just choose some FeatureTypes the reader works as expected and I get multiple outputs.  If I add multiple directories then only files from one directory are read.  Am I trying to do something that's not possible, or am I missing a setting or similar somewhere?  ( FME 2012 (20120115 -- Build 122212 - WIN32) ) 

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ebygomm
Contributor
11 years ago
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ah_lang
asked in Transformers
How to do generalization according to scale

Hi, i'm new here ..  I got problem to do generalize from 10k scale data to 25k & 50K scale. Some of the generalize building will intersect with the generalize road, I give the fme template sample, plz correct and guide me the right way to do the generalization. Currently im using FME2013 to create the fme template sample.  Thank You FME template sample link https://www.dropbox.com/s/s9wg2ubr6tkepcw/script.fmwt

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sigtill
Contributor
11 years ago
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msmgis
asked in Data
MapInfo polygon order

Hi, I have created a workbench to translate British OS Mastermap from gml to .tab which works fine and I have multiple MapInfo. Tab outputs.  I also have a combined topography. tab which has all the features present but some building features are above land features and vice versa I have tried sorting prior to and after testing and styling but I have not been able to place all building feature above land features, fairly new to FME so any suggestions would be greatly received.  Thanks in advance  M

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M
11 years ago
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seshu
asked in Transformers
Browse Connected Features

Hi,  I have a requirement of browsing  the connected point features at start and end nodes of a linear feature in shape file. I am trying with "Intersector" transformer to browse the connected feature, but it not works as per our requirement. Can any one please provide the correct approach of finding the connected point features.  Thanks, Seshu

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S
11 years ago
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guido_s
asked in Authoring
WGS84 Elipsoid parameters

Dear All,   I have made some ascii grids in different software packages. I used a lambert confomal conical projection, with de WGS84 as coordinate system.   The three software packages used different elipsoid parameters: Global Mapper: Semimajor Axis: 6378137.0; Semiminor Axis: 6356752.314245 ESRI: Semimajor Axis: 6378137.0; Semiminor Axis: 6356752.314245179 FME: Semimajor Axis: 6378137.0; Semiminor Axis: 6356752.3142  Can anyone explain me the consequences of these differences? The grids can be 1000 km in length. And maybe somebody also knows why the software packages have used these different parameters?   Hope you can clarify.   Kind regards,   Guido    

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fmelizard
Contributor
11 years ago
geolassi
Contributor
geolassiContributor
asked in Data
Ignore Failed Readers when reading a Zip file with FME 2013 b13261

Hi!  I'm trying to set up a workspace with three Readers: TAB, MIF/MID and Shape. I've published a parameter, which contains the path to a zip file. The zip file could contain either TAB, MIF/MID or Shape files. If the zip file has only Shape files, the TAB Reader fails and gives an error. I would like FME to ignore failing readers. Setting up the parameter Ignore Failed Readers to Yes doesn't seem to have an effect.  BR, Lassi

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sigtill
Contributor
11 years ago
Z
z77
asked in Data
Why do file geodatabase and SDE readers produce different fme_geometry types?

  I have one very simple workbench that I am running against both SDE (9.3) and FGDB (10.0) sources.   I noticed two different fme_geometry values for same type of objects.   For the first one, i.e SDE 9.3, I have fme_geometry=fme_donut, but for the same features in FGDB 10.0 I have fme_geometry=fme_aggregate.   Is this a "problem" of converting ESRI data from 9.3 to 10.0 or how FME interprets geometry?   Because in case of fme_aggregate, FME is doing "additional" job of constructing donuts again:  Calculating inside points Determining uppermost containment Constructing donuts from xxx points    (Visible in log window)

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Z
11 years ago
E
endest
asked in Integration
FME 2013 Startup question and suggest

Hi,  FME 2013 may connect to amazon AWS cloud service to update some data like FME Store or something else. And I donn't know if the reason is Chinese network, just like we always cann't browse Youtube, Twitter, etc, and have problems to use any Google services from time to time. I have to spend a few minutes to startup FME 2013 for some times. But if I disable my network or use firewall to block FME to connect WWW, it gets normal.  So would this problem be fixed by doing some modified to the stage of connecting web? Thanks.

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sigtill
Contributor
11 years ago
J
jeremy
asked in Authoring
FME - Blue Marble HTDP Integration?

Does the new Blue Marble intergation allow for Horizontal Time Dependent Positioning (HTDP) reprojections? The blue marble software does allow for this type of transformation and I want to know if FME can take advantage of this if I have Blue Marble installed.

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P
11 years ago
jakethepainter
Contributor
jakethepainterContributor
asked in Transformers
Zipped mdb error

Just tried to write out to a .zip file for the first time in 2013.  It is a personal geodatabase (mdb).  When I use WinZip to unzip it, I get the following error which causes the unzipping to fail:    Extracting to "C:\\Documents and Settings\\eej2013\\Local Settings\\Temp\\" Use Path: no   Overlay Files: yes For file "AvistaFacility.mdb", the time stamp in the central directory is invalid, using the current system time instead. For file "AvistaFacility.mdb", the time stamp in the local directory is invalid, using the current system time instead. Extracting AvistaFacility.mdb Error:  invalid compressed data to inflate    Anyone else having trouble or know what I'm doing wrong or if there's a bug?    FNE 20130109 - Build 13261 - WIN32

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sigtill
Contributor
11 years ago

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