Liz Sanderson
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How to Connect FME Flow Hosted to an External Database
Introduction FME Flow Hosted (formerly FME Cloud) runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Many workflows that you will run on FME Flow Hosted are likely to require a database. FME Flow Hosted instances ...
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Summarize Unbounded Data Streams
IntroductionUnbounded streams can contain large amounts of data, but if your end goal is to summarize the data, it would be very costly to store the data before processing. With FME streams, summa...
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Writing to Database Tables that contain Multiple Geometry Columns - 2025.2 and older
IntroductionThere are two multiple-geometry writing scenarios: Reading AND Writing multiple geometries Reading single geometry features and converting them to multiple geometries If you are usin...
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Automating Dropbox Workflows with FME Flow
Introduction This article is divided into two parts. The first will demonstrate how to upload data to Dropbox at the end of an FME Flow (formerly FME Server) automation workflow. The second will c...
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Dynamic Workflows: Destination Schema Derived from Multiple Sources
IntroductionIn a dynamic workspace, the Writer schema is obtained from either the schema of an existing dataset or a schema constructed with List Attributes. The Writer schema is usually obtained f...
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Detecting Incidents in Unbounded Data Streams
IntroductionRather than storing data from an unbounded stream, we can detect patterns in memory and then trigger an event when certain criteria are met. This means decision-makers can receive alert...
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AutoCAD to IFC Conversion Example
IntroductionThis example uses FME Workbench to convert 2D rooms from a CAD floor plan to 3D Spaces in IFC.This article uses the IFC STEP/XML reader or writer, which was deprecated in FME 2025.0. To...
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FME and Intergraph GeoMedia Compatibility
Question What GeoMedia formats does FME support and what versions of GeoMedia are supported? Answer Available Formats For the context of this article, FME refers to both FME Desktop and FME Se...
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Known Issue: VertexCreator creates lines instead of points
Known Issue ID FMEENGINE-70231 Feature VertexCreator Transformer Product FME Form (formerly FME Desktop) Versions Affected 2021.1 2021.0 Status Resolved 2021.2 Issue In FME 2021.0...
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Data QA Identifying Sliver Overlaps and Gaps in Polygon Coverage
Introduction Overlaps and gaps are problems that occur with invalid polygon coverages. A polygon coverage should be a single, continuous surface. However, this is not always the case. An overlap oc...
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