Transformers

Hello,I have a general question regarding the RCaller. I have been actively coding in R over past 10 years, and started playing with integrating my code into FME for automating some of the analyses about a year ago, but what bothers me most is that FME is always putting up a fight whenever facing more complex custom R functions, i.e. loops, advanced raster processing involving raster lists/stacks, LiDAR, etc. It is always a problem when trying to get FME recognize the results as fmeOutput, and it is just never easy compared to how other things work in FME...It just seems like the RCaller is so basic in FME, rudimental even, not allowing no unleash the full R potential within the FME environment. Hence is my question to you, have you guys considered developing it further or is it because nobody is really interested in using R inside FME? Or is it just my subjective opinion and I am basically missing something? :)@

Is there a way to specify removal of “white collar” areas in Adobe Geospatial PDF outputs? I don’t see any options in the Page Size parameters to restrict the output to be just the extents of the Reader-specified image source.

Just curious. Currently it takes about five clicks using the AttributeManager to get to AI Assist. Any shorter way?

Hello,I created bounding box in FME and I need to get from this polygon WKT file. How can I reach this in FME please?Thank You so much!

Hello,I’m trying to read specific feature classes from an SDE database using a user parameter within a feature reader.I’ve not had a problem with this previously so not sure if it’s a bug (I’m using FME 2023.1.2.0 (20231110 - Build 23641 - WIN64) The issue I’m having is:When selecting feature classes manually in the ‘Feature types to read’ section of the Feature Reader window I can select as many as I want and they’ll all read fine.When using the user parameter (please see settings in screenshot below):Selecting one dataset reads fineSelecting 2 or more feature classes I get the error “Error creating feature dataset 'feature class a feature class b'. The table name or field names may be too long or invalid for the server” Thanks for you time

Hi.I’m using the snipper transformer to extract portions of a line at specific values from the attribute table.I set these parameters for the transformer. I set these parameters for the transformer.The problem that I noticed is that the program considers the first vertex of the line as 0 and the last one as the maximum, and the snipper will split between these two values.Is there a method to define the start value using another value, not 0? I would like to start from 4.21 km.Thanks.

Hello ,i would like to create new points and new lines in FME and write the output in Esri arcsde (I have license for that )I have to write the new data in Feature class and and table class and establish a foreign key  relationship between the data between the two classes .      1. is there other classes should I write the new    data into it ? what should be i edit in workbench and the next steps to show the data in arcmap without any problem ? Arcmap generates obj_id when we add the new point ,will be possible to write obj_id that not used before in arcmap ? does anyone did a simple workspace ,could upload it to understand the idea ? thanks in AdaVance Fme 2021

Hi.  I’ve a FGDB how contains polygone and line feature,.I need to create a separate shapefile for all feature of the FGDB.After that, I’ve to create a zip with all the shapefile. Can i do that with FME ? Thank for help

Hello everybody, i want to know if someone know how i can to do to rename a value in an attribut ? which name for the transformer ? thank you !! Bonjour tout le monde, je voulais savoir si quelqu’un savait comment modifier une valeur dans un attribut ? quel transformer dois-je utiliser ? Merci par avance.

Let's assume we have a feature attribute called "two_digit_number". The attribute can have any integer value from 10 to 99. The condition "not an unlucky number" is met, if the value is not "13".  I was wondering if I could represent this condition in a single line of my SchemaMapper's lookup table? Something like two_digit_number != 13.  I could probably use a "TesterFilter" to filter out features with unlucky numbers before they enter the SchemaMapper - however, in my project I have dozens of attributes that need to be handled in a similar way. I would have to send all of them through a "TesterFilter". And this is what I would like to avoid. I am excited to learn if there is a simple solution I may have overlooked.

When converting a Cloud Optimized TFF to a Geospatial PDF, the output resolution is very pixelated (see attached file). How can the output Geospatial PDF resolution be specified?GeoPDF Resolution Example

I see an idea to add/support bulk mode in the PythonCaller has just been updated to "Released" - https://community.safe.com/s/bridea/a0r4Q00000HbriAQAR/support-bulk-mode-in-pythoncaller I'm wondering what the usage of the bulk mode is in the PythonCaller, by design the PythonCaller iterates over each feature individually, therefore going against the idea of bulk mode.    

I need to create a JSON attribute with a key that only has an empty object as its value as you can see at key1.{ "key1": {}, "key2": { ... } "key3": [ ... ]}Problem is that the JSONTemplater turns empty objects into null. An empty object is valid JSON and is very different from the value null so this behavior is completely incorrect.How can I set an empty object as a value inside a JSON attribute?I tried using the JSONUpdater but it works in the same way. If you set value type to JSON/XQuery it replaces the object with null. If you set the type to plain text, it only creates a string “{}” containing two curly braces.

I have several Excel writers in a workspace and one throws the warning below. I checked the parameters and they are all the same. Does anyone know where this can be changed? Thanks!Excel Writer: Invalid value '<Unused>' supplied for parameter 'xlsx_field_names_formatting'.  Reverting to default value 'yes' 

Hi All,I am updating few values in ArcSDE Geodatabase (in flat table) using FME workbench but its giving an below errorerror : Error while retrieving an ArcObjects update cursor for the table/feature class 'gis.xxx'. The error number from ArcObjects is: '-2147220652'. The error message from ArcObjects is: {}Stack  : FME workbench 2021.1 , ArcSDE Geodatabase, Flat table ,MS Sql Server Workbench screenshot :  Error message :    Feature writer properties Till now tried below : Us

Hi!I have to extract data and write it into excel sheet. I got to the point where I have the information ready but I need to delete missing values and move the features so the table looks different. I add an example.This is what I get:DaysMonthsCity<Missing>March<Missing><Missing>March<Missing><Missing>MarchParisMonday MarchParisWednesday <Missing>ParisSaturday<Missing>Paris<Missing><Missing><Missing><Missing><Missing><Missing><Missing><Missing><Missing> And this is what I want to write into my writer. DaysMonthsCityMondayMarchParisWednesdayMarchParisSaturday

I am working to compare the geometry of two datasets and I am specifically interested in doing so with Vector Tolerance. For some testing purposes I have tried two different transformers to do so, namely the ChangeDetector and the Matcher. I added them in the same workspace with the same input data. For both I only checked the geometry (not the attributes), with the settingsMatch Geometry: 2D Lenient Geometry Matching: No Check Coordinate Systems: No Vector Tolerance: the same user parameter, e.g. set at 0.5 or 0.1. Always the same though.When looking at the documentation the vector tolerance seems to have to work the same for both transformers (https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME-Form-Documentation/FME-Transformers/Transformers/changedetector.htm &

Hi all, Yesterday this worked fine, but today its returning ‘{ "success": 0, "errorMessage": "API Limit Reached!" }’ in _reponse_body column? What do I need to do to resolve this issue? Thank you in advance!

In ArcGIS Pro a TIN can be created using the “Create TIN” tool. The usage notes of the tool say that it should be avoided to use a geographic coordinate system when creating the TIN, as the Delaunay triangulation might not work correctly when the coordinates are in angular units.The “TINGenerator” transformer in FME does not provide such a usage note in the documentation. Does this mean that the “TINGenerator” transformer can create a TIN without problems when the input dataset is in a geographic coordinate system or is it also recommended here to reproject the input data to a projected coordinate system first?

Hi All,I am new to the FME Software and have a small question related to NeighborFinder.We have points and contour tables in Arcsde Geodatabase. We are finding points near contour by providing specific distance say 20 in neighborfinder In actual case distance is varies  like in some cases nearest contour is at 30 , some contours at 40 etc. How do I tell to neighborfinder that select a point which is near by contour having distance in between 10 to 40 ?. In SQL if we use between operator then we are getting values so similar I want to use this for neighborfinder Below is the screenshot :    What I tried so far : Creating Custom parameter  On Web found below useful post

Hi,Unfortunately i cannot provide the test data due to confidential data. I also cannot encode/dummify the data because then the issue no longer occurs. It is likely related to the large amount of data being processed. What I can include is the image you see here. My question is: how can the following happen? Is this a bug? I merge two flows, both have a lot of attributes. Requestor is 1.9m features. Supplier is 6k features. Supplier has only in ~1% of cases a value for attributes ‘X’ and ‘Y’ - the other 99% is <missing>. But supplier also has a lot of other data and attributes.After merging, for attributes x and y a lot more values are found. They are chinese or japanese characters. They are supposed to be numbers or english words.. Also I think they are getting also values from other attributes entirely, but then the actual value instead of random chinese or japanese characters. How is this happening?  I am sure that: t

I am using customer transformers in a work space, but they are converting a string value to integerThe values are 002 and 003, they need to stay this way for the http calls inside the custom transformer but are getting converted to 2 and 3 (without the 00)As read from dbAfter entry into the custom transformer​​​​Any thought on how to prevent this?I would like to have to avoid having do something in each custom transformer to revert the values back to the strings 

Hello,I'm having trouble converting shp file to City Gml, can you please help?

Hello, I have an input dataset, that has numerous fields which are Null, and only a handful of fields that are useful. I want to completely remove the attribute fields that are Null, only leaving the useful data. Input is a geo-package, and output is a file geodatabase. I have actually achieved the goal to 90% but have hit a snag, which this post is about. The geopackage has numerous layer I am doing this for, but for this post I will focus on the OBSTRN layer. My current work flow is:Reader (OBSTRN) > NullAttributeMapper (Sets Nulls to Missing) > SchemaScanner (Removes Empty Attributes) > Dynamic Writer The dynamic writer settings: Feature Class/Table Name: fme_feature_typeGeometry: From Schema DefinitionSchema Source: “Schema from Schema Feature”Schema Def Name: fme_feature_type_name

Hi all,   I am relatively new to FME, it would be greatly appreciated if someone can shed some light on a couple of problems I can't seem to figure out.  1.  Is there a transformer similar to the attribute filter transformer but would enable me to route unique value to the output port dynamically? I understand that I can using the import value function to bring in the unique attributes values, but sometimes I would only like to only filter a portion (which could be about 50 unique values) of the total number of unique values.  Inputting the required attribute value manually is laborious and prone to mistakes.   What I would like to achieve is a 2 step dynamic filter of features, each feature has a Local Government Area (LGA), and a Suburb (suburb is a subset of LGA) attribute. Depending of the first LGA filter (ideally a check box list), the second transformer would route filtered features with unique suburb attributes to an o