IMPORTANT: Changes to FME Community
	Hello FME'ers, As you may already know, today marks the start of a transition as Safe moves the FME community group from here to a new location, called FME Community Answers. It's felt that, by hosting the community ourselves, we'll be able to avoid the restrictions imposed by a Google group and can implement new... more » By Mark Ireland  - Nov 14 2012 - 4 new of 4 messages

	Important: Group Closed
	Hello FME'ers, As you know, Safe has moved the FME community group from here to a new location, called FME Community Answers. We've left this Google group open for a short time, but now we're starting off 2013 by closing it to all new discussions. If I've pressed the right buttons you won't be able to post here, but you will be able to... more » By Mark Ireland  - Jan 8 - 1 new of 1 message

	ESRI File GDB - Not nullable attributes
	Hi, I want to transform data from Oracle Spatial to ESRI File GDB with FME 2012. I succeed in writing nearly what I want in my file GDB, but I would like to set some attributes as not nullable. Is there a way to do that directly in FME ? I found a way integrating a ArcGIS XML Workspace Document as template for... more » By Fab_  - Jan 3 - 1 new of 1 message

Connect the dots

I need to connect a stream of consecutive input points into a series 2-point line segments. I need to retain the attributes of each point. This seems like an easy problem, yet I cannot find an efficient way to do it. PointConnector wants a "break" attribute, which causes a new segment to start at the "breaking" point, not at the previous point.... more » By blekros powereng  - Dec 31 2012 - 2 new of 2 messages

	SOSI
	Hi, It seems that it is not possible to write to SOSI format in FME. Is that true? If so, are there any future plans to implement SOSI as a reader/writer? Greetings Hans By Hans  - Dec 20 2012 - 8 new of 8 messages

	base64binary gzip
	Hi Folks, my workbench asks a web service by a httpfetcher upload. The result is presented as a base64binary gzip file. How can I convert this result into an xml file? It looks like this H4sIADdP0FAA/+y9y3LbSrrvOe+Ifg f0Gpw4J3rTRuJGUkfbJ0jrQltXi7Lk 5UkFSKYImCAgA6Bk6UH2qCNqUpN+ ....... thanks... more » By barbara  - Dec 18 2012 - 1 new of 1 message

	looping attributes - create features
	Hi, I want to create a point for each species row 11, need create 3 points with the column name as an attribute NB the source data has approx 50 columns OBJECTID * SHAPE * WPT East North Date Azolla_filiculoides Blechnum_minus Carex_breviculmis... more » By Brian McAuslan  - Dec 11 2012 - 3 new of 3 messages

	MicroStation V8 to MicroStation V7
	I am having to convert MicroStation V8 to MicroStation V7 design files. In doing so I am required to select a seed file for the V7 design file output. Is there a way to use the global origin and units of resolution from the source V8 file? Is there a way to strip off the element linkages that are... more » By Kevin  - Dec 7 2012 - 1 new of 1 message

	Output filename
	I have a number of text files in a directory which I'm processing. The data from these text files is used to retrieve data from an Oracle Spatial table. The results are being output to shapefiles. Is there any way I can read the filename root and use this as the output filename for each of the shapefiles.... more » By Pete Ireland  - Dec 7 2012 - 4 new of 4 messages

	Shape to DWG, multiple layers depending on value?
	Hello all, I have a shape with over 200 unique values in a feature. For every unique value, I want a different layer in my DWG export. Is it possible to do this, without having to make 200 testfilter cases + 200 writers? Thanks in advance. By Peter Snepvangers  - Dec 6 2012 - 4 new of 4 messages

	GeoTIFF to Vector using RasterToPolygonCoercer
	Hello all, What I want to accomplish is to obtain a shapefile representing what I have in the tiff files. Using RasterToPolygonCoercer I get polygons based on color values. For each RGB in the file, with AttributeFilter and StringReplacer I assign a zoning code (in this case) and a description. In the end, I can color the... more » By Robert R. Raiz  - Dec 6 2012 - 1 new of 1 message

	Text file using within Oracle where clause
	I have a text file which contains a list of values. I want to retrieve data from an Oracle Spatial table where a column in the database matches each value contained within the text file. What is the best way to do this? I could mount the text file as an external table but wanted to process entirely using FME.... more » By Pete Ireland  - Dec 5 2012 - 10 new of 10 messages