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On FME Flow we added a Network Based Resource. In FME Flow, I can see that the system path of this Network Based Resource is characterized with a parameter, e.g. '$(My_Network_Based_Resource)'. I had some trouble on using that parameter in a workspace with FME Form Workbench. FME Form is not aware that this parameter exists, and upon using it in e.g. a path reader.Is there any way that you can expose additional FME Flow parameters to FME Form Workbench? As a workaround I was able to use a ParameterFetcher, and then feeding in the attribute value of the Network Based Resource into the FeatureReader, but that seems not ideal. Also, the ParameterFetcher does show a Red Cogwheel, because it is not aware of the parameter. Another alternative is probably to create an additional 'FileURL' type of parameter, and set the (default) value for that parameter to '$(My_Network_Based_Resource)'. However, also here it seems th

Hi,As Safe people do some fun projects with AI like https://hub.safe.com/publishers/safe-sandbox/templates/agentic-ai-spatial-schema-mapping-template-gemini, would it be possible to do one preparing one or multile schema mapping file(s) instead of mapping all data through AI? You could just send a sample to Gemini/OpenAI (you name it), with the associated schema and restructure the output into something accepted by SchemaMapper. This would be better for performance, safety and the planet 😊. Quite many transformers could be adapted to digest an input like schemamapper so that they can be configured by AI agents in a nicer way. Thanks! 

Hi.I just had a job on our FME server 2022.2.2 go haywire.When reading from one or more database tables, it suddenly spews out a _lot_ of error messages, repeating the same two lines from line 319 to line 865997 (on page 1734):Microsoft SQL Server Spatial Reader: An internal error has occurred. Please visit http://www.safe.com/supportMicrosoft SQL Server Spatial Reader: Failed to parse datetime, attribute set as nullWhat gives ? Should I be concerned ?I've occasionally encountered huge log files before, but haven't had any idea why. Next time I'll see if it's the same issue.The job took several minutes (as opposed to normally a handful of seconds) to finish, which is not good.Cheers.

I followed the procedure for silent installation of FME Form 2023.2, but without succcess. Here is the command I write in the console, with Admin rights :fme-form-2023.2-b23764-win-x64.exe -d"C:\\FME\\installer" -s -sp"/qn /norestart" The fme-form Logfile which is created notes a successful installation in the end:Product: FME Form 2023.2 (Build 23764 - win64) -- Installation completed successfully. However, I cannot find the software installed... No shortcut and no program in the default C:\\Programs\\FME.Could you explain why the installation is not finished?

I have a workspace that works without issues in FME 2024.2.1. We are planning to upgrade to FME 2025, but I am facing issues. When riunning the workspace in FME 2025, it seems to work fine, but after a while I get lots of a recurring message like this one:2025-06-02 11:38:25| 119.2|  0.2|ERROR |FFS reader: Failed to open file 'D:\FMETemp\wbrun_1748852462857_30000\fmetmp_0\FMETable_1748853274266_18156\FTShim_1019.fts' for reading.  Please ensure that the file exists and you have sufficient privileges to read itThese messages DO NOT appear when running the workspace in FME Form/Flow 2024.2.1I have tried FME Form/Flow 2025.0.2 and FME Form 2025.1 (beta) and all of these fails.I have set my FME_TMP environment variable to D:\FMETempDoes anyone have an idea?

As the question title states, I would like to use the SharePoint Online Connector to download files from SharePoint to my local computer's drive. I was able to set up the connector using a web service and it says "translation successful" when I run the SharePoint Online Connector on it's own but I'm not sure what readers and/or writers to add, or is there something wrong in the parameters? The files on SharePoint vary from .docx, .xlsx, and .pdf formats If someone has a basic template to show that would be great. Thanks!

Is it possible to map an AUTOCAD Attribute prompt rather than the AUTOCAD attribute Tag to the FME Input Attribute for the purpose of extracting AutoCAD block data. I am trying to gab the following data from AutoCAD. All the properties have a tag name of - so only the last one (SCALE) is able to be mapped currently. Can this be done please? Thanks.

My current FME Server setup includes a CORE/2 Engines set up on one machine with another Engine-Only Host running remotely on another machine. Recently, I noticed jobs on the remote machine queuing up and never processing. Restarting the FME Server Engines Windows service temporarily fixed the problem. But only for a few hours. I don't see any errors in logs. But I've just switched to debug level logging for more info and hope to capture some. What I do notice is that in FME Server web console, under licensing & engines, the remote engine just won't show up. Once I restart the service, I see it under both the Engines tab and the Deployment Status tab, until it disappears again. Unlikely this is service account related (as other similar post/solutions suggest) since I can restart service and then it runs for a bit. I did make a change regarding domain controller/Active Directory recently but rolled that back and it didn't

I have a WFS that has over 500K features. I want to retrieve just those that intersect my area of interest. If I have a polygon of my AOI and send it to a FeatureReader, with no spatial filter, then I get 30K features (or whatever the Max Features is set to on the WFS connection).  If I set the Spatial Filter to Bounding Boxes OGC-Intersect or Initiator OGC-Intersects results, I get the schema, but no actual features. My aoi and the WFS data are in the same projection. If I use a boundsExtractor and HTTPCaller and manually create the call, {redacted}/ows?service=wfs&version=2.0.0&request=GetFeature&typeNames={redacted}&bbox=@Value(_ymin),@Value(_xmin),@Value(_ymax),@Value(_xmax) Then I get just the subset of features I'm interested in. I would much rather use a FeatureReader. What am I missing to get a spatial constraint working?

When using the FeatureWriter, it wants me to provide a subfolder. I cannot leave it blank. I need to be able to write the file to the root of the file share. I am doing a move and not a copy. any thoughts?

Hi everybody, Do you know if Home licence of FME still available?

Interpreting an FME model can be challenging at times, so having a function that exports every transformer/tool used in the model and automatically providing an interpretation of their actions would be helpful. Is this possible in FME?

I'd like to use non capturing groups in StringSearch. It is possible in the PCRE expression but seems not to work in FME :Example :On the string "This is a text string"(?:This is )(\\w)* should return only the string "a", but StringSearch returns the whole "This is a" in the "first_match", and only "a" in the subgroup when activated.First match should be the same as the first subset ?

Is it possible to only read the (selected) attributes, and not the geometry?Quite often, I need to join the attributes from two spatial datasets, but only need the geometry from one. And I am assuming that reading in only the selected attributes without geometry is noticeably faster than reading the attributes with geometry.Is it possible to read any dataset without geometry (other than reading it with and then doing a GeometryRemover)? And does this apply to all formats?

Hello, I want to access an api (not open to public but from one of our suppliers) using the HttpCaller .Connecting to the API with postman works fine. Connecting from the same server with FME gives the error: HTTPCaller (HTTPFactory): HTTP/FTP transfer error: 'SSL connect error'HTTPCaller (HTTPFactory): Please ensure that your network connection is properly set upHTTPCaller (HTTPFactory): No proxy settings have been entered. If you require a proxy to access external URLs, please ensure the appropriate information has been entered Connecting with FME from another environment works fine. We dont use a proxy.I have changed the option: Verify SSL certificates to NO Any ideas on what could be the problem?

Hi All I have an FME Server App configured for data streaming with two output: one a HTML page, the other an MS Excel file. Independently, either output is streamed to the browser but when both selected, a zip file containing both is streamed. Is it in any way possible for the HTML to be streamed to display, with the Excel file streamed for download?

Setting up writer by default adds attribute: fme: fill-opacity="0.1" to each feature. Is there a simple way to add  fill-opacity="0.1"to each feature instead ?  UPDATE: As per a comment by @chrisatsafe, I am interested in setting style per feature in this scenario to obtain this transparency effect you see below. The thing is, 'fill-opacity' has to be set to the same value 0.1 for all features within dataset.  Thank you,Aleksei

On the item page of a hosted service you can export to fgdb and other formats. The benefit of this over an fme reader and writer workflow is the easy preservation of unique ids, relationships and attachments. The also take no local compute power/time. Is there a way perform the "Export To FGDB" or other formats within FME?I see that there is a method to download items from arcgis online with the use of the ArcGISOnlineConnector (https://docs.safe.com/fme/2020.1/html/FME_Desktop_Documentation/FME_Transformers/Transformers/arcgisonlineconnector.htm)If I could create the fgdb through fme, I'm pretty sure I could also download and manipulate it within a workspace. I'm doing some lengthy transformations on a million+ records. Performing these actions through the Onlin

I have a large PDF that has bookmarks set up. So far I have not figured out how to access. Thanks

I want to download a PDF with the HTTP_Caller and then write it to a directory on the local computer.

Hi,I am trying to produce a list of all layers that are in Esri webmap. I have the private url of the webmap and I found this Python codefrom arcgis.gis import GISfrom arcgis.mapping import WebMapgis = GIS('home')# if running this from Notebook for ArcGIS in AGOL/Enterprise, replace this line with gis = GIS('home')wmItemId = "myid" #put the id of the webmap in herewmItem = gis.content.get(wmItemId)wm = WebMap(wmItem)for lyr in wm.layers:    print(lyr.title)    print(lyr.url)Could some please tell me how to use this code in FME?

Hey,  I am trying to create a workspace with a HTTP Caller, that needs a Bearer token.  I use an earlier HTTP Caller to obtain the Bearer token with a login call. This is put into an attribute, which I then edit to add the phrase "bearer" infront of.  After which I want to use this attribute as a header in the next HTTP Caller to do the call I'm interested it.  This does not work, It gives me a error 401 Unauthorized, but if I copy and paste the bearer token into the header manually, it works.  Anyone any idea why this happens?   

In FME 2016 there were a possibility to set how geometries would be stored in the MSSQL writer. For instance, Arcs could be stroked with a setting within the writer when stored in the table, without using the Arcstroker-transformer.However, in recent version this isn´t possible any more. My problem:I have a set of polygons in a MSSQL-database table (let's call it table 1) that was written thru the 2016 MSSQL-writer. (The original data is stored in a different database (oracle) which i use to update and create new data)  I then use FME-server to write all the data (edited, new, untouched ) from Oracle to a different table i MSSQL (let's call it table 2) each night . The MSSQL database then comapers the areas of the original table (1) and the comparison table (2) which I'm writing data to each night. I do this check to see if I got any new, deleted or changed geometries (area comparison) be

Hello. I'm trying to host FME Server under AWS's Application Load Balancer (ALB). A SSL certification (which is provided by AWS) is attached to the ALB and ALB listens to 443 port.The EC2 insance runs FME web application on the standard HTTP port (80). Let's say the domain I host FME Server is mysite.com.When I open https://mysite.com , the browser redirects to http://mysite.com/fmeserver/ (port 80) instead of https://mysite.com/fmeserver/ . How can I configure FME Server web application to redirect to https ? EDIT:I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.F

Hi Guys, I have a strange error when i running an testfilter transformer.When I want to pass data through the test filter, then set it to "No" and all other must be filtered. The Test filer give an output as you could see on the pictures. Also i'm seeing chinese characters......is this a bug?Before testfilter.....   Same feature after testfilter...