Transformers

Hi, I have a single point cloud which has contains both points with colour and points without. Does anyone know how I can split it so that I can separate the two types of points? I have a script to turn the intensity component into black and white colour values but I don't want apply it to points that actually have colour information already. Does anyone have any ideas? Possibly there is some expression for the PointCloudExpressionEvaluator I could do? But I can't think what.  Any help would be appreciated

I'm having trouble using AttributeSplitter to split everything with a semicolon as delimiter, EXPCEPT skip seimcolon's that are within parentheses. Please help! Thanks! Example 1424462 (EXT: 1488296; 1491537); 1428106; 1436651; 1436653 What I need is:1424462 (EXT: 1488296; 1491537)142810614366511436653 

Hi altruist, I am trying to fetch data through API for the first time through GET method. However, I am getting error message each time with a code 401 (unauthorized access). Can you kindly tell me from the first image, whether I have correctly put information in the HTTPcaller transformer? I mean the access is really unauthorized or need to other parameter values? I have used the site owner provided credentials to get the request URL. A help will be really appreciated.

Hello. There is an interesting problem, but I can't solve it. I really need your help.1. I have an image footprint. This geometry (polygon)2 . I have an image from a drone. I know the area of interest on the raster. But the area of interest in the local coordinates of the raster , for example, the size of the raster is 80x100 pixels and the area of interest is set to Row and Column 11,13;11,64;25,64;25,133. how to create a zone of interest with a distortion in the geometry, based on this data ?

I have an XML attribute containing metadata of a large number of tables. For each table I want to search through the metadata and extract the table name, all of its attributes, and the attribute descriptions. Each table has a varying number of attributes. Once I have the values want to print them clearly on a Word document where the table name is at the top of the page with all of the attributes listed below.

i have a feature in the sde db that is 1.7M records, the data i am trying to select has a field i want the user to select from. the 1.7M records data set does not have that field so i want to select them spatially, which i am doing now, without all 1.7M records having to be read by the workbench. 1000 or so records to select takes about an hour due to the workbench reading all the records before the spatial selection happens. is there any way to pass my buffer results from the users selection to the reader in the envelope section of the reader before all the record are read?

Creating and enclosed polygon of the point data. Hi, I have a pole data connected to houses. I wanted to create an enclosed polygon with the pole and all its corresponding demand points. Can some one help. Attached is the requirement

Hello, i have problems to write data with the Esri ArcGIS Portal Feature Service Writer.The writer is not able to write the date-values into the date-type-attribute. I've did research in the internet and tried a lot of different date-formats but nothing is working.I've also created a hosted feature layer in Portal for ArcGIS to see how the dates are written when i add features. I cloned that date-format in the workspace but this also failed. Is anyone out there who successfully wrote date-data with the Esri ArcGIS Portal Feature Service Writer or has an approach to solve the problem? I'm using Workbench 2020.2.0.0 (20201027 - Build 20787 - WIN64). Thank you very much! Greetings!

I need something like 3*bottle = bottle;bottle;bollte. First table is what I have and second what I need. 

I have created a 3D object that used as a geometry instance and placed at a set of point coordinates. My input was a citygml exported from an original sketchup model and a shapefile file for the points. I created a final citygml file combining those two with the instanced geometries. When I upload it to cesium ion as the citygml it works perfectly fine and cesium creates the tiles for me.  Since I need the 3D Tile to use in my application, I then also tried to transform this citygml into a 3D Tile with FME. I simply used the 3D Tile writer. It works without errors and I also can upload it in Cesium ion and I don't get an error. However, when I try to use this 3D Tile in my Stories on Cesium Ion, I cannot see anything. My 3D objects do not show up.  Does anyone have an idea what the problem might be? The citygml that I created seems to be perfectly fine and usable in cesium but the 3D Tile that I create with FME does not show anything in Cesium.  I would really appreciate some help

Hi, I am new to FME. I would like to concatenate two columns into one by simply putting the names of the title of columns together in the text editor in attribute manager. It is always successful in 2018 but keep failing in 2022. The two columns are ordinary character type of data without any special characters like * or / etc. Thank you for the help!!!

Hey community! How can I create DWG blocks with related attributes? I need to create topographic point blocks with various attributes, such as point number, point type and other attributes Thanks

I have an excel file, it has a sheet with quotes inside its name:I created a workspace that includes a  feature reader with the following configuration: and use an Attribute Creator transformer to pass the correct information about the file path and sheet name:When I run the workspace, I receive :Opening the GENERIC Reader on dataset `C:\Temp\problematic_excel.xlsx'Excel Reader: Output cell formulas: 'false'Excel Reader: Output cell formatting: 'false'Excel Reader: Output cell comments: 'false'Excel Reader: Force full datetime values: 'false'Excel Reader: Opening dataset 'C:\Temp\problematic_excel.xlsx'...Excel Reader: Reading sheet ''OSVAT-42"''...Excel Reader: Internal error: Could not find any sheets to readCreating reader for format: Generic (Any Format)Trying to find a DYNAMIC plugin for reader named `GENERIC'FME API version of module 'GENERIC' matches current internal version (3.8 20210203)Generic Reader: No valid reader name specified, guessing reader name from dataset 'C:\Temp\

Hi Guys,for sure someone has aked this before but i didnt find an article.....it is a very simple questioni have to handle with a lot of excel sheets i have to select always the first sheet in any excel file.....but sometimes they have different namesso how can i select the first one.... Greetz and Cheers Franco

I want to delete the input data in my script with the help of the Featurereade and the hub FileDeleter , but only when all features have been beforehand wrtitten to an export map in the FeatureWriter (see image below). So I don't want featurereader and the FileDeleter already running when not yet all files have been exported . I was wondering how that can be achieved in FME desktop? In case my question is a bit vague, just let know.

I have one shapefile with polygons representing a cartographic sheets at some scale. Each polygon has an unique identifier (IDn). I have used SpatialRelator transformer (see attached image) to look for neighbor sheets for each of them, and ListConcatenator to save for each polygon the list of neighbor polygons identifiers.  The attached example shows that selected polygon (ID0) has 3 neighbor polygons (ID1,ID2,ID3). The IDn is the identifier included in the shapefile name located in some directory following this pattern: .\\IDn\\*IDn*.shpI have to merge the 4 shp corresponding to ID0, ID1, ID2, ID3 to output only one shapefile.  I have used Directory and File Pathnames READER in other context but here I don't know how to look for these files. Maybe using WorkspaceRunner or PythonCaller? Please, could you give some advice?  Thank you in advance! 

We're experiencing issues accessing raster data through WMTS from a particular provider. After discussing with the provider what the issue could be they said that seeing FME is downloading all the tiles rather than streaming them, it places a massive request so it is blocked.Is there a way to make FME stream rather than download?

I have a ESRI SDE Geodatabase that was created using an identity field. So, to update the table I am using the Microsoft SQL Server Non-Spatial Writer. For some reason though it won't update the table. The table parameters I have are as follows:Feature Operation: UpdateTable Handling: Use ExistingWhere Clause: **Set to the unique fields necessary**Insert into identity column: Yes Is there anything else that needs to be set to update a record? 

Hello,I am loading citygml data with the OGC Citygml Reader and afterwards I want to calculate the normal vector of each roof surface.How can this be done in FME for a big data set? Using the SurfaceNormalExtractor I get some errors that result in stopping the calculation. After sorting out that surface I have to restart the reader and the surface normal extractor. Is there a better workaround?Thank you for your help in advance!

I have a dataset with 29m polygons some of which have the same attribute (say Key ID). I need to aggregate them by the Key ID but the dataset is not ordered. After nearly 12 hours of run time it has only aggregated 1.1m features. I need to find a better way of aggregating. Any ideas?  The data is being read from about 10 shapefiles as the source data. I have access to Postgis if that would help.

I am trying to find out if there is a way to label some line features (lets say some streets or rivers) so that when I write HTML file to see directly these labels (like we label features in any GIS Platform e.g. ArcGIS). My solution so far (look the image below but I am not very happy with it): I used "Labeller" Transformer and then "TextStroker" but not very hapy since text stroker gives text outlines which is not very nice to see and therefore I dont have a lot of control over font style, font size etc. Any Idea ? I am using FME 2022.0.0.1.    

I've search quite a bit and can't seem to find an answer. Why would a log file not get created? If anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate it. -Kurt

Hi, A question closely related to this older post: https://community.safe.com/s/question/0D54Q000080hE6vSAE/workspacerunner-how-to-catch-all-items-created?t=1657893646062 I have placed a WorkspaceRunner in a Custom Transformer. The WorkspaceRunner is set to Wait for Job to Complete. With the suggestion from the older post, I have placed it in a custom transformer so it can run multiple jobs in parallel but still is able to wait untill jobs are completed. Parallellism is set to Moderate, so 7 threads can be used on my machine. I can see the first 'batch' of 7 results being send out of the custom transformer. Later I can see the next 7 results being send out. But immediately after, it's not longer waiting for the other 115 Jobs to finish and continues. I have tried to prevent this by using a FeatureHolder and a Sampler (Last), but no result.  Flow should only continue after finishing all 129 features. Any ideas? In the older post there was a Python suggestion of @Takashi Iiji

I have DGN file. In Microstation I can see that it had a defined GCS (ETRS89 / UTM zone 32N) When I read the file with FME the coordinate system is not recognised. How do I get FME to read the GCS details?

Hi,I have a shapefile with municipality polygons and I am using the SpatialRelator with the option "Requestor Touches Supplier" to count the number of neighbours of each polygon. However, I need to know the lenght of each common border for all polygons. Is there a way to output that information? In QGIS is posible (as explained on this link https://spatialthoughts.com/2020/04/08/calculating-shared-border-lengths/#more-962 ) but it's not very fast to run, therefore I would like to do the same in FME.Thanks and best regardsOscar