Transformers

Is there a transformer to read the unique values contained within an attribute and then assign a new value? Similar to the way that the attribute manager works but for values. For example I have a dataset with the columns fruits: Fruits New Value-------- ----------------Apple > Green AppleBananaOrange > Blond OrangeKiwi > Golden Kiwi  Ideally the transformer would read the unique values listed in the Fruits attribute and then I could specify the new value for the output.  As I am working with large datasets, I do not want to have to create a mapping rule for every value individually. Ideally the values would be automatically clustered and would be presented in a table and I could then just specify the newly mapped value.

How would I go about spitting a column every 12th row so I have three features from column a instead of one

Hello everyone, I have this very large raster and a shapefile with polygons. My process is a looping one where the raster is clipped with each polygon. In order to avoid reading the whole raster everytime, I've created a subprocess that uses the polygon bounds directly in the search envelop of reader. Then, it is clipped.My problem arise when the polygon used for clipping is outside the raster extent. The "inside" port of the transformer is empty but the process continues. This output is supposed to be used later on in a script (arcpy custom transformer) to align many other rasters. But clearly all this fails because there is no raster.  The best solution I have come up with would be to add a Tester or something after the transformer and create a bolean value which would allow me to deal wi

Hello,After using the CenterLineReplacer transformer on a ploygon I get the following result. Is it possible to extend the line that was created before so that it reaches the edge of the polygon?  Thanks for your help

I have a 3D building file (stemming from a PostGIS reader) that is read correctly in FME (green object below). After exporting it as a File Geodatabase with geodb_multipatch geometry, I get the orange result. Any idea on what might be going wrong in the FeatureWriter?

I have a set of tabluar data with attributes (X, Y, EPSG). Where the ESPG can be any valid coordinate system. My goal is to create a set of points in a common coordinate system. I understand I could use a TestFilter for each EPSG I'm expecting then create points, but the workbench will fail if the data contains an EPSG code I didn't expect. What is the best approach to create points in a single coordinate system without hard-coding the workbench for a set of expected coordinate systems? Thanks

I have been linking S3Connector and the RasterExtentCoercer via the FeatureReader reading a downloaded COG to get its extent, but thinking about the nature of COGs, is there a way to only read the top layer overview instead of having to download the whole tiff? Downloading is ok for smallish files, but this would save a lot of time for large COG files.

Hi all, Today I wanted to set an attribute based on incoming values of an fme_feature_type name. I noticed that if I wanted to avoid getting an 'Incomplete Transformers' warning from FME, I would have to expose the fme_feature_type attribute first, before I could use it in e.g. an Attribute Value expression of e.g. an AttributeManager or AttributeCreator. Note that it was possible to disregard the warning, and the expression would still work. I wanted to avoid the incomplete (red cogwheel) warning. But as I also wanted to keep things clean in the workspace, I wanted to perform both actions in an AttributeManager; first expose fme_feature_type in the first line, and then in the second line set a new attribute using the exposed fme_feature_type attribute. However, I noticed that the AttributeManager still shows up as incomplete (red cogwheel), and if I look at the summary annotation of the AttributeManager it only shows the line about

Last week a colleague asked me to help him to help him change his dependency of an Esri licence for his workspace, which in this case meant changing from an Esri GDB reader to an OpenAPI GDB reader. In his initial implementation, an Esri GDB FeatureReader was used, in combination with a Where Clause (constructed from incoming attributes), to only read in a portion of the GDB. So for example:However, when we switched from Esri GDB to OpenAPI GDB in the FeatureReader, I noticed that the Where Clause of the FeatureReader was greyed out, so unfortunately using a where clause directly at the FeatureReader was not possible. e.g.:So from there I assumed that a Where Clause would unfortunately not be possible for the OpenAPI GDB Read

Hello everyone,  I have an issue with an automatic process generating PDFs since an upgrade of FME server from FME 2017 to FME 2021. The process is quite complex but basically it creates network maps on demand. My issue is that, since the upgrade, the symbols rasterized on the maps are not rendered as usual. The symbols are imported from SVG files generated from an AutoCad dwg (because the network information is from an Autocad/Oracle DB). It uses MapnikRasterizer to produce a raster version of all the information, including the symbols as markers. I have identified the source of the difference in the rendering, it is how MapnikRasterizer handle the SVG. But I don't think it is directly related to the developement of MapnikRasterizer but how FME is integrating it and how FME handle the SVG. The SVG are made from Autocad blocks and most of them have an outline/contour of a slightly different color. So even a plain round symb

FME Desktop 2022: Polygons fail to be saved in esri geodatabase polygon feature class, In the screenshot below, and the attached data and workbench, I couldn’t figure out why polygons fail to be stored in esri geodatabase polygon feature class             

I'm attempting to dynamically map 141 different excel files containing attribute names (but no attributes) to the corresponding files that contain the actual attributes. There are 51 different files (.txt files in csv format) containing attributes for the 141 "schema" files, so a total of 7191 files containing data - none of which have attribute names in them (they all come in as col0, col1, col2...). Because there are 141 different schemas and because there might be new schemas added over time, I don't want to manually map the attribute names using an AttributeManager or AttributeRenamer. Also, they can change each year, so manually creating a schema file to use in a schema mapper doesn't make sense (the schema file containing the attribute names is horizontal, not vertical as well). I have been trying to use the FeatureReader to map the attribute name files to the attribute value files, as well as the FeatureWriter but I'm not having any success. Does any

Hi, fellow FME-ers! I have a NetCDF-file I have exported from ArcGIS Pro that I have attached (zipped). It was exported using the settings in the png-file in the same zip-file. I want to export every grid point in the file as a 3D-point with the Prediction as an attribute. Can anyone help me? I saw other threads about this but still couldn't figure out how to do it... Kind regards,Peter

Hi, I will calculate the average z-value of a ground surface based on a point cloud.So at the moment I am using SurfaceDraper to drap the ground on the surface. After that I am using BoundsExtractor. But here I have only the possibility to get the min_zvalue. I will get the average z-value calculated on all z-values of the polygon. How can I do this? I saw thatt there is also an elevation extracotr. But this transformer only extract the first z-value of the first coordinate. I cannot calculate the average on al z-values. Can anyone give me some help or hints?

For example, we have walls lines, but some times the room has only 3 wall lines. Or sometimes there is gap between wall lines. Is there way to create room shape(area or polygon)? Please see attached Sample CAD Cleaned File.dwg. This is my input dwg file. And I want to create a new layer called _Plines, this layer will have the enclosed polygn created based on the wall lines. The out put is something like CAP Level 1_RevC_MB.dwginputresult

I am experimenting with an aerial raster over a river delta trying to find the fastest way to extract centre lines over the water ways. Creating a point cloud with some sorting has resulted in a multipoint geometry that does a decent representation of the shore lines. Up until this stage the workspace is blazingly fast. But in the next step it becomes painstakingly slow. I have tried both creating a hull around the multipoints as well as buffering them. The former was slightly faster but still very slow. Are there other methods that might process faster? 

My data is all in LL84. I'm curious if I should reproject into UTM or other coordinate system before I use Buffer and Dissolver?  This is due the answer that I got for my other question https://community.safe.com/s/feed/0D54Q00009LDzFBSA1 The solution was changing LL84 into UTM and then everything found correct matches for nearest neighbor. I'm doing additional work with same data but this time applying a 4 foot buffer to each point and then running them through dissolver to see which points are near each other. It appears to work fine but after my last answer I'm thinking I should reproject the data to UTM and then do this work.  Thoughts?

However, if an old verison of file is already present in the path, then it is able to rewrite the file. But i want each time it creates a new file. Kindly suggest

Hi FME'ers, I have access to Ordnance Survey's CodePoint with Polygons through the PSGA. I am trying to write a workbench that would dissolve the individual postcode polygons into the areas (DN), districts (DN1) and sectors (DN1 1). The issues here are vertical streets (sometimes stacked) and islands postcodes. I haven't had too much issue with areas and districts, they iron themselves out at these scales, but sectors are just a mess. I have been playing around with the Dissolver, Clipper, DonutBuilder and DonutHoleExtractor but each approach has it's issue.  I would be very grateful if anyone could share how they have achieved the above.  Many thanks,David.

Dynamic attribute name reading does not seem to work still (FME 2021). I'm trying to extract attribute names from certain excel row. I don't know the attribute names beforehand and workflow should be completely automatic. Basically I have attribute names like Extra1, Extra2, Extra3... and if there is any extra attributes, those names would be changed in excel: "Extra1" --> "car". What I'm trying to do is reading those changed attributes automatically, but can't get excel reader to dynamically detect changing attribute names. I know there is a work around with generic reader (link to question below) but that really don't work because I have to read specific cell range from excel and can't determine that cell range with generic reader. Any ideas how to work around this?  

I am using the DuplicateFilter to remove features with the same attribute. It does work well but I am having an odd issue with the geometries behind each feature. The features that gets filtered out somehow 'still exists in the background'. It doesn't get counted as a normal feature if loaded in GIS, nor appear as one, but when using transparent symbology it is visible, as if it hasn't been fully removed. Just the attribute seem to be removed. The filtered out feature still seem to exist hidden in the dataset (a shapefile in this case).  How can geometries be filtered out properly with their attributes?

I'm sure this is really basic but I'm stumped. How do I take some sort of action based on the number of features emitted by a previous transformer? In this particular instance I need to abort the final write (and send an email) if the number of features are less than 2000. I have a Counter, and can see the number of features. I have a Tester, but it appears to be testing each feature instead of the total count.   

I have a shapefile of the road and I want to convert it into GeoTIFF But I want the GeoTIFF should show the road name

If I use a Counter Transformer in my workspace, I often find myself using a 'Local' Count Scope, and also I prefer to start counting at 1 (instead of at 0).  Also, I would prefer to use the count functionality through Count() FME Feature Function(s) as opposed to using Counter Transformers, as this makes my workspace a bit more compact.  Unfortunately, I haven't been able to combine both of these goals. In particular, I haven't been able to use the 'Count()' FME Feature Function in combination with a Local Count Scope and a Count Start of 1. See below screenshot and the attached workspace (FME 2021.2.2.0 b21806, Counter Version 3)). I had a look at the

I have Esri SDE writer that is not updating a representation domain. I am trying to update two fields, a string for color and the rep field with an integer. If I remove the color field it writes the domain field fine. If I "enable" the color field it nulls out the domain field and writes the color. The log is not showing any errors. The workspace is super simple. I don't understand why it is doing this.FME 2021.1Esri 10.6.1Oracle 12c