Transformers

Hi, Can someone explain the following behaviour?Goal: create one mesh with each surface as a ‘flat’ color’ without shading. Problem: I get a shading effect that I do not want after merging many faces into one mesh. Images are attached. The first image is correct, it shows each side as one flat shading of the color #c8c8c8 (200, 200, 200). This is when I applied that as appearance to each single part (40.000). After merging all these 40.000 Faces or Meshes into 1 mesh, a new shading is applied that is undesired. I use MeshMerger with default settings. Can someone explain to me why this is happening and how I can prevent this to happen? If I re-apply the appearance to the single mesh it still gets the shading. Why is this happening? Where is it coming from? I also tried using appearance from a single jpg with the solid color, but this also did not work.  Thanks.

I have an issue in which my HTMLExtractor does not give the page time to load before it returns a null value for the DIV im trying to scrape.  It works well on pages that load quickly, but this particular page can take up to 10 seconds to load.   How do I work around this?  Thank you!

How to identify Geometry and Street name attributes gaps continuity checks considering the flow of street name starting point to end point where street name  ends.Please help me in this continuity checks logical approach or any flow of transformers to consider for this street name attribute values checks for the complete stretch in the geodatabase  line feature file or shapefile.

I find that the string functions on FME2024 don’t work similarly in FME 2023, in this case, it led to some problems with the outcome as not expected. Example:I have 2 strings:“EMD-1” “ÊMĐ-1”I use string functions as below: I received 2 outcomes differently:With the text 1: Count_index = 4With the text 2: Count_index = 6It is not right, in FME 2023 the outcome is 4 for both situations.Is this a bug in FME2024 ? 

Hello,I have just upgraded to FME 2024.1 (was originally using FME 2022) and when running an SQLCreator using ODBC3.x I get an error, this was working just fine when using FME 2022.What’s strange is that even though I receive an error, all expected features are semi-cached and observable in the translation view as shown in the picture, the problem is that I can’t continue to run the following transformers as FME is taking it that the SQLCreator failed.Does anyone have any advice on how to get around this? My SQL code is fairly simple, just pinging an Azure database and doing some basic joins (the code also works fine when running on Azure Data Studio). Thank you! 

I am using the FME objects python API including the FMEUniversalReader. fmeobjects.FMEUniversalReader — Python FME API FME 2024.1 b24615 documentation (safe.com)In the documentation for this API it says to pass “Reader’s type mneumonic as found in the FME Reference Manual Part II” but the reference manual isn’t linked.It isn’t in the admin guide: FME Desktop Administrator's Guide (safe.com)And Safe Docs just link back to the python API Search (safe.com) which doesn’t actually tell me the mneumonics.When I pass it’s reference in the UI for FME Form I get this error in my python caller.This FME edition does not recognize the `ARCSDE GEODB' reader. Please ensure that the current platform supports this reader, the reader name is spelled correctly, and that you have installed all required plug-insThe reason I am doing is because of this issue; AreaonAreaOverlay with intersecting features | Community (safe.com) and using the python caller seems like the best median to keep this in FME.

I have a glut of features of multiple types coming in from a handful of .ifc files. I am attempting to write a transformer as a proof of concept that will allow me to filter the features (currently 174000+) to different writers based on a small difference within their source filenames. Basically what I want to know is if it is possible to use the text editor to create an “if filename contains text (abc)” filter. If not, what would be the best way to filter for something like this.  

I need to use the PythonCaller because the area on area overlayer doesn’t work with my input featureset. I want each polygon in featureset A to overlay against all the polygons in Featureset B (which does not self intersect) and then drop overlays with NA values in specific columns. I found documentation for the fmeobjects.PythonCaller, but the documentation doesn’t include how to actually run the transformer.fmeobjects.FMETransformer — Python FME API FME 2024.1 b24615 documentation (safe.com)i.e. what do I do with f = fmeobjects.FMETransformer after I’ve set the attributes?Additionally, it’s unclear what the parameters are for this object, as there is no function definition returned to define what is required for each transformer type.AreaOnAreaOverlayer (safe.com)Related questions:AreaonAreaOverlay with intersecting features | Community (safe.com)Where is the FME User manual | Community (safe.com)

Is there a transformer that can create classes based on natural breaks, quantiles or equal Intervals?

I have a complex workflow where a specific attributes, i.e. “PositionID”, which are referenced across multiple transformers. I need to rename these attributes to another name throughout the entire workflow. Manually opening each transformer to change the reference would be very time-consuming.Is there a way to quickly rename this attribute in all transformers without having to edit each one individually? Any tips or tools within FME that can help streamline this process would be greatly appreciated.Alternatively, next time I create a project can I set these up as parameters or variables and reference them that way and hence change them more easily? Thanks

Hello,I am trying to start a workbench that uses data from my enterprise geodatabase. I have a feature class called WaterDevices and it has attachments. However, the FeatureReader does not read the relationship class. I attached an example where does read the relationship class in a different enterprise geodatabase for sewer.I’m not sure where to start troubleshooting this. Any advice would be appreciated. I’m on FME Form 2024.0.3.0.  

how to find the all paths between start node and end nodeexactly i have 8 nodes ,as point A,B,C;D;E;F;G ;Hi want to check the all paths possible what ever the length of path but i want to find any path available between every Node between Node A and the rest of nodes (B,C;D;E;F;G;H)then checck between Node B and the rest of Node (A,C;D;E;F;G;H)and so on ,i want to check between one node and the rest of nodesfor sure some of them has no connections liens ,i want to define that also which two nodes has no possible paths. i used shortest path finder but i think,it is working only to find the short path between path A and path B,but i want to find all possible paths between A and B even it is long or short and get the id of each line through this path . i prepared my network so all lines are connected without any gaps so i have now paths between some nodes and some not depend on the network .Thanks for any help

Hello,I am trying to start a workbench that uses data from my enterprise geodatabase. I have a feature class called WaterDevices and it has attachments. However, the FeatureReader does not read the relationship class. I attached an example where does read the relationship class in a different enterprise geodatabase for sewer.I’m not sure where to start troubleshooting this. Any advice would be appreciated. I’m on FME Form 2024.0.3.0.  

Hi friends,I am trying to do converstion from a vertices to lines that I am working on for a somebody. He use a GPS to track prarire dogs for his work.So I looked at the shapefile he provided me and it has no GPS. So I create them with the latitude and longtitude. What I am trying to do here is to use the LineBuilder here and then use writer to create a new shapefile…It came out nothing…What might I go wrong here ? I work for US agency and we have FME Desktop 2022.2 version. Do not ask me why. Thanks

 Hello dear community,For our student project, we need to provide an evaluation using the FME software. We obtain our data via a REST API, which has a limit of 500 records. The output is provided in JSON format, and the JSON is structured as shown in the code. { "count": 523, "totalCount": 523, "results": [ { "score": 0.3534, "object": { "id": "1234234", "type": "LO/LOV/LOVZ", "leikaKeys": [ "99005004114000" ], "name": "Reisepass beantragen", "teaser": "Zur Einreise in bestimmte Staaten benötigen deutsche Staatsangehörige einen Reisepass. Über die Einreisebestimmungen weltweit informiert das Auswärtige Amt auf seiner ...", "textBlocks": [ { "type": { "id": "835343545", "name": "Type (z.b. PostAdress, Telefon, Stadt, etc.", "description": "Beschreibung/Hinweise", "key": "KEY", "notPublic": true }, "text": "Da

Which transformer can I use to identify overlapping polygons in a single dataset and show them as the output.

I have a very large dataset where all of the polylines have elevation that should be measure data.  The custom transformer ElevationtoMeasureCopier is such a memory hog that the workbench is failing on my computer and on my server.  Is there a different way to copy the elevation data to measures? 

I have two workbenches, in which the emailers fail every night, the error being:Emailer_<Rejected> (TeeFactory): Emailer_<Rejected>: Termination Message: 'Emailer output a <Rejected> feature. To continue translation when features are rejected, change 'Workspace Parameters' > Translation > 'Rejected Feature Handling' to 'Continue Translation''Error encountered while calling method `input'for the one that runs first, and:Emailer: <class 'TimeoutError'>: [WinError 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respondfor the second. First is an all out error that terminates the workbench, the second just being a warning, but the outcome is the same - no emails sent! It works perfectly fine on FME Form, and it was working perfectly fine on FME Flow for the last 2 months, now all of a sudden, it has stopped. This isn't affecting

I have a summary query with GROUP BY, HAVING, and ORDER BY clauses and I would like to send an email with the results from this query. My workspace can send html results of a query of listing all the records but that is not the summary I’m looking for. The Aggregator transformer doesn’t seem to have what I’m looking for either. Is there a way to send the result of this query shown below? My data is in SQL Server.  SELECT caseID 'ID', count(*) 'Count'  FROM my_table  group by caseID  having count(*) > 1  order by count(*) desc 

Hi everyone,I am currently comparing lines in database A and database B, and I want to categorize them based on distance from each other:If line A < 10cm line B → class 1If line A 10 - 30cm line B → class 2If line A < 30cm line B → class 3I thought I'd do this using the Clipper transformer: if part of line A is within 10cm of line B, and another part of line A is 12cm from line B, I want line A to be split. See my workflow below:I have my Clippers grouped by ‘type’ and ‘level’, so [railroads on level 1] are compared to [railroads on level 1] and [road lines on level 2] are compared to [road lines on level 2]. I have Overlapping Clippers set to ‘Clip Interim Results’ and I am generating a list of IDs from line B on line A. This is the situation im currently facing:Database A in red, database B in black and a 10cm buffer around database B in grey. The darker grey area is where the two database B buffers overlap.In the situation above I want to compare ID_A = 1 to ID_B = 1, but ID_B

As title says, unable to convert lat/long to MGRS when latitude is -80.01 through -81. e.g., x= ‘100’, y= ’-80.1’ . I’m sure this isn’t the exact range but am able to reproduce the error.Was wondering if someone had additional information on how transformer calculated polar zones and, if there is preprocessing required for points located in south and north polar regions?Additionally, lmk as comment if you’re able to reproduce error in other FME versionFME Form 2023.2 

I am transforming an IFC file to CityGML to upload the CityGML model to the 3DCityDB. I used the workspace published by Liz (https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407718003341-BIM-to-GIS-Intermediate-IFC-LOD-300-to-LOD-4-CityGML). The CityGML file created looks fine in the FME inspector. However, when I try to import the CityGML into the database, I get a lot of errors saying, “Failed to resolve XLink reference”. I was doing some research, and it seems the problem is that 3DCityDB does not support a gml:MultiGeometry with different dimensions (This is what they mention in the GitHub: In general, a gml:MultiGeometry is a collection of geometries that are allowed to have mixed dimensions: points (0D), curves (1D), surfaces (2D) and solids (3D). The 3DCityDB can handle geometries of different dimensions and collections of geometries having the same dimension. But collections containing geometries of different dimensions are not supported.). Is there a way I can modify the FME works

I have installed FME Server on a machine called "fmeserver-dev.com" and also used this as the hostname.Later we switched everything to SSL (including the Websockets) and the external web host name to "(https://)fmeserver-prod.com".  Now, everything (Web UI, Services, Websockets...) is working fine, except the Topic Monitoring!  Using the Developer Tools of a web browser, I have identified that there is still a parameter 'webSocketServerName' set to the old hostname "fmeserver-dev.com". This must be causing the issue as the SSL certificate is not configured for that domain. How can I fix this?

I am attempting to add a Geocoder transformer to spatialize address data using a published geocoding service on ArcGIS Server. When running the address data to the transformer, it rejects every feature with “Code 403: Access to this resource is not allowed”. The REST URL and Portal credentials are all correct and I am able to get to the service in a browser, as well as access and use the Locator in ArcGIS Pro to geocode addresses. With that being said, I don’t know why access to the resource would be disabled in FME but nothing else. Any insight or suggestions would be appreciated, thank you!

I need to warp some data, so I'm using the RubberSheeter. This works fine except that in certain parts of the data I also need to create a gap. In broad terms the situation is as shown here: I need to cut along a line (the red line) and then use the control vectors (green) to pull things apart, leaving an empty void in the middle. What I've done is use a Bufferer / Clipper to remove a little bit from the original feature, along the cut line. Then I've added a bunch of control vectors, making sure they don't start exactly on the cut line but just a little bit on either side. However, FME is still showing data inside the gap and I really don't want to have to manually edit that. Does anybody have a suggestion?