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Hi all,

What's the best way of getting FME to populate an attribute field in ArcGIS geodatabase point feature class A (areas of interest) with the total count of features from dataset B (assets)? I.e. find the total number of assets within 10m distance of sites?

I thought the Neighbourhood Finder or Point on Point transformers followed by a Statistics Calculator should do the trick, but can't get it to work.

Thank you!

Hi @lcw,

You are on the right track, just make sure one of these transformers creates a list and then you can count the number of list elements (ListElementCounter) for your result.

Hope this helps.


Hi @lcw,

You are on the right track, just make sure one of these transformers creates a list and then you can count the number of list elements (ListElementCounter) for your result.

Hope this helps.

A list element counter counts the number in the list - no need to add 1

A feature with attributes list{0} and list{1} will give a result of 2 in the listelementcounter


The neighbourfinder with Generate List ticked under attribute accumulation and then a listelementcounter should do the job here. No need for a statistics calculator


The neighbourfinder with Generate List ticked under attribute accumulation and then a listelementcounter should do the job here. No need for a statistics calculator

Fantastic, that worked a treat! Thanks for the fast reply and excellent screen grab. Much appreciated!


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