Transformers

Hi @mark_1spatialI'm in process of transforming the oracle Spatial data to Autocad.dwg format by creating the FME 2016 workbench(fmw), i'll need to create/define my own symbology/block for a particular POINT feature class(which is not available in my existing Template.dwg), is there any option in FME that we can create/define our own symbology/block for a point feature class that needs to be displayed in the .DWG output file. Any help would be appreciated.

I have a collection of surfacess that want to run a Dissolver on.  The problem is that while all the surfaces are planar, they are in 3D-space and aren't necessarily parallel to the XY-plane.  Dissolver seems to only work with 2D surfaces.   Any ideas?     Thanks Dag

I have a LandXML file that contains clothoids, i.e. spiral geometries. When I inspect the file, I get warnings like this:The Coord child element is not currently supported. FME Currently only supports Chain, Line, and IrregularLine. A Spiral or Curve geometry has been droppedWhat does "dropped" actually mean? The geometries are in fact aggregates of straight line segments and curves (road and rail designs). Some are simple (radial) curves, and some are clothoids (spirals). There seem to be small gaps in the geometries in the data inspector viewer.

Does FME have a transformer for "hiding", as opposed to "removing" an attribute? I am using the FeatureReader to dynamically read a feature class that is specified by parameter. This script is then called for many feature classes. The attributes of any one feature class are thus not exposed.However, for some features I need to access the ID field of the feature class, for example, "FID". I do this by an AttributeExposer in a custom transformer that is only called for a particular feature class. But I don't want the ID field to carry on as an attribute when it is time to write the feature class to the output table. It would be great if I could then "un-expose", or "hide" the attribute, back to the level of visibility it had when I used the feature reader. Is it possible?

Hello,is anybody here, who could help me with XML creating please?What I have to solve: I have one feature with list of references to another features. I need to create XML record which contains all of these references and also keeps number of reference in Index. Example is below:I know that I have to use XMLTemplater, I am able to create schema, but I cant identify, how to figure out list values behaviour and also how to insert into index parameter sequenced value from list.Thank You so much!Lubo

As part of our role in providing humanitarian aid, we need to identify potentially thousands of shelters/tents in refugee camps with ghe aid of current satellite imagery (in the future possibly from drone imagery). It would be sufficient to identify their existence and capture a point feature - perimeter would be a bonus but not absolutely necessary at the moment. Doing verification on automatically generated output would be much faster than the current options of manually digitising elements or field data capture.Is there anyone who has experience in something comparable? I have virtually no experience with raster data, so thought I'd see if anyone in the FME Community has any inputs/thoughts on this.Thanks in advance.

I had the chance to assist a Dale's presentation recently and I noticed his homepage on his MacBook's browser.Do you know what he's using when he opens a new tab? It is not Google nor Safe, I can tell you this!Thanks!

I have the following root template in an XMLTemplater:Where {fme:process-features("FEATURE_CLASSES") occurs I want to insert the following subtemplate within the sequence elements, grouped by an attribute so that it repeats according to how many feature classes I have:The result, however, loses the nesting and leaves elements retreating to the root element level - the subtemplates start inserting at row 6 with the first element showing in the correct position:What can I do to avoid this, or is it just a case of using a separate templater for the subtypes and then appending them into the root in an XMLAppender?

Can anyone suggest a way to use FME to find gaps in a daily time series?I'm looking to generate a report for missing days of data in an effort to QC a dataset and know there must be a way to do this, right?

Hello FME users, I need to trim parts of a string and have been using the Attribute Trimmer's ReplaceRegEx function. I noticed however that while some fields are trimmed correctly while other's aren't. I have not be able to find a patter or correlation between the length or type of string that isn't trimmed perfectly vs. the ones that are. It looks like this:@ReplaceRegEx(<|| Toronto>,<|| Scarborough>,<|| Scarborough|| Toronto>,<|| East York>,<|| North York>,<|| York>,<|| Etobicoke>)The result:Notice how || Etobicoke is still there. I have tried different Attribute trimmer functions like ReplaceString or TrimLeft and the part I want to keep is sometimes trimmed off.Would you have any suggestions for a more effective method

I'm trying to edit my workspace to handle the ovevrlapped polygons on the boundaries.How can I remove overlaps?Here I isolated a location. Dues to overlaps this location is falling under both the polygons. The boundaries on both sides of location are opposite boundaries of overlapped polygons. In other words, boundary shown on right would also be part of left polygon.Please note that this happens only when I write to Netezza.

Thoughts on the most efficient way to get a single raster with the max value from 50+ rasters with the caveat that the top 10% for each pixel need to be discarded.  ex. if a pixel had the following values [0,7,3,7,2,6,8,2,3,1] then the result would be 7.If it has [4,6,8,2,4,9,5,4,9,2] it would be 9.Because of the percent clip, I cannot simply use a RasterMosaicker with Overlapping Values set to Max.The inputs are over 10GB of data, so I would prefer not to coerce to individual points if possible.

Hi,I use the LandXML template to create a LandXMLI would like to insert all the vertex in cgpointwith the template i can export 1 coordinate with Name and Code but i when i try to process my files (multiples points) its not working

I have the following string in an attribute: "Jan 1 1960; Jan 1 1900; Jan 1 1960; 01/05/1890; Jan 1 1960; Jan 1 1960; Jan 1 1960; Jan 1 1960; Jan 1 1960; Jan 1 1960; " I need to extract the earliest year from the attribute, since this is input from a reader the attribute will have different values, but the year will always be in a 4 digit format. I want to use a regular expression to extract the earliest year, in this case it would be 1890. Is this possible?

I like to rename all my attribute names using a list in Excel For example:- Current attributesAaaa | Bbbb | Cccc- Renaming listAaaa | Address Bbbb | Basenumber Cccc | ContactID- New attributes:Address | Basenumber | ContactID What are my options?

Hello, I have a problem with some transformers. I have two shapefile with TERYT number, one shapefile contains TERYT number for communes - e.g. 0201032 and second one TERYT number for country - e.g. 0201. As You see four first characters are the same. I have to trim from right side communes TERYT number to look like as country TERYT number. Secondly, I have to find this trimmed number in a list to say which communes are in the country.  I used AttributeCreator to copy TERYT number, SubstringExtractor to trim commune TERYT number. Now, I would like to use TESTER to check if my new number is in the list and if it passed I would like to create new attriute with contains the name of country. Everything failed on TESTER. Could anyone help me?

Can we do location search based on lat/long in data inspector.I'm trying to locate few points on the polygons.

I have a csv file looking as below ATT1 ATT2 ATT3 New Attribute Fri Jun 24 08:01:00 2016 1.46676E+12 A Sat Jun 25 08:01:00 2016 1.46684E+12 A Thu Jul 07 08:01:00 2016 1.46788E+12 A Fri Jul 08 08:01:00 2016 1.46796E+12 A Sat Jul 09 08:01:00 2016 1.46805E+12 A Sun Jul 10 08:01:00 2016 1.46814E+12 B   Mon Jul 11 08:01:00 2016 1.46822E+12 B   Sat Sep 24 08:01:00 2016 1.4747E+12 B  Sun Sep 25 08:01:00 2016 1.47479E+12 B  I want to set the "New Attribute" to 'Yes' based on the "ATT3" value of the last row. Or i want to filter the records based on the ATT3 value of the last row.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><SDDOT>  <item>...</item>  <item>    <id>497751</id>    <status>active</status>    <categories>      <category>        <name>conditions</name>      </category>    </categories>    <descriptions>      <description>        <phrase>dry</phrase>      </description>    </descriptions>    <locations>      <location>        <route>US-212</route>        <direction>Both Directions</direction>        <start>          <lat>45.0056</lat>          <lon>-102.8765</lon>          <milepost>71.713</milepost>          <landmark>            <place>Mud Butte</place>          </landma

For any users who aren't on Twitter, we are on the lookout for any users who have used FME to create maps, or prep data for maps. This is for an upcoming webinar, so we're looking for customer examples and experiences to share.  If you've used FME to create some PNG or PDF outputs or used it to prepare data for a map we want to know what your workflow looked like. What transformers did you use? Did you face any challenges?  If you've got something you're interested in sharing, let me know below!

Can somebody please help me understand how to use the python caller? I have looked at tutorials, older code and even help for the error i get which is - Python Exception <NameError>: global name '_file_contents' is not definedI am unable to resolve this. I need to match the coordinates in my shapefile to the coordinates in my point cloud file and extract the point cloud classification data. I have a number of unresolved issues with my logic but my important question is the followingHow do I import and manipulate attribute values in a python caller in fme?In my workspace, I have a shapefile with 12 points. I am extracting the coordinates of it and storing it as a string in the _file_contents variable [in format (x,y),(x,y), ]. I need to perform a lot of manipulations on this but to understand if I am using the transformer correctly, I am performing this first basic function of removing the last comma from my string. However, I keep getting the error

Hi FME'ers,It's that time to celebrate the top reputation-winning knowledgebase member for October.This - you'll remember - is the person who earned most reputation during a calendar month (and you had to be in the top ten with at least 100 points, and haven't won this before!)The winner for October is @cartoscro with a score of 410 reputation. It wasn't a high-scoring month, but he scored enough points to achieve the top-ten in most months so far. He joins the list of previous winners:@takashi@david_r@jeroenstiers@jdh@itay@gisinnovations

I have a dataset with a name field and an index field which is in order. I want to output a shapefile that orders the FID numbers like so in order but I can't figure out how to output the file without it randomnly assigning any number as the FID. It needs to be ordered correctly so any help with this one would be appreciated.FID Id Name0 1 Northland1 2 Auckland

I am having issues dissolving large sets of data, the Dissolver works fine and achieves the results I would expect but when I increase the number of data going in the process becomes painfully slow and often results in a crash because of memory.