FME Hub Unlocked: Your Guide to Sharing and Discovering Resources

Upgrade how you work with FME by taking advantage of all the FME Hub has to offer! Whether you’re creating custom transformers, discovering new tools and resources, or streamlining your workflows: the FME Hub is your ultimate go-to.

During the hour, we’ll guide you through practical steps to create and contribute your own resources, find valuable tools shared by the Community, and make the most of the Hub’s search capabilities. Whether you’re publishing custom transformers or exploring community contributions to improve your workflows, this session will equip you with the skills to save time and elevate your project’s success.

We’ll walk you through:
- How to create and upload resources like transformers, web services, and packages.
- Tips for efficiently navigating the Hub and finding valuable resources.
- Real-world examples of how the FME Hub adds value to user’s workflows.
- Highlighted transformers to watch out for and leverage in your workflows.

Don’t miss this chance to learn how to get the most out of the FME Hub and take your workflows to the next level!

1. FME Hub
Unlocked: Your
Guide to Sharing
and Discovering
Resources

2. Nick
Ison

Product Manager
Cloud Products,
Incl. FME Hub + FME Flow Hosted
Sienna
Emery

Technical Support Specialist
Customer Solutions
Meet the Team

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FME Hub?

6. ●May 6-8, 2025
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7. Agenda
1Introduction
2What’s in the Hub?
3The Redesigned FME Hub: What’s New?
4FME Hub for Form
5How to Navigate and Use the FME Hub Most Effectively
6Real-World Applications and Use Cases
7Safer’s Favourite Resources
8Conclusion
9Resources & Next Steps
10Q&A

Agenda

8. 1
Introduction

9. FME Hub is widely used but
often underutilized—today,
you’ll learn how to unlock its
full potential to save you time.

10. FME Hub is a powerful online platform
where the FME Community comes together
to share, discover, and utilize tools and
resources that enhance workflows and
maximize productivity. Think of it as a library
of solutions, created by Safe Software and
FME users, designed to extend FME's
capabilities and simplify complex tasks.
FME Hub Defined

11. FME Hub empowers you to
achieve more while
simplifying your workflows.

12. One platform, two technologies
FME Form FME Flow
Data Movement and transformations
(“ETL”) workflows are built here.
Brings life to FME Form workflows
FME Flow Hosted
Safe Software managed FME Flow
fme.safe.com/platform
FME Enterprise Integration Platform
Safe & FME

13. With 500+ supported data types in FME.
Unrivalled Data Support





GIS
CAD
Database
XML
Raster
3D
BIM
Web
Point
Cloud
Cloud
Big Data
IOT
Gaming
BI
Indoor
Mapping
AR/VR
Generative
AI
Cloud
Native
Tabular

14. 2
What content
goes in the
Hub?

15. A tool in FME that processes and
manipulates data within a workspace.
Examples include AttributeManager,
Clipper, and Reprojector.
Transformers Formats
A specific data structure that FME can read
from or write to, such as GIS, CAD, or
databases.
Examples include Esri Shapefile (SHP),
GeoJSON, AutoCAD DWG, PostGIS, and
Excel (XLSX).

16. An external API or online platform that FME
can connect to for data exchange.

Web Service Workspace Template
A reusable workspace file that serves as a
starting point for similar projects.

17. A bundled set of custom transformers,
formats, and scripts for extending FME’s
functionality.


Package

FME Flow Project
An FME Flow Project is a packaged
configuration of workspaces, resources,
and dependencies used in FME Flow.

18. 3
The Redesigned
FME Hub: What’s
New?

19. UX and design makeover to align with our new branding and deliver a user-friendly,
cohesive experience
New Branding and Usability Enhancements
Safe & FME

20. Coming Very Soon: Search results now return individual transformers within packages
Enhanced Search
Safe & FME

21. Revamped display of publishers in search results to help users understand the tiers
for contributors
Publisher Display Update
Safe & FME

22. We have streamlined our publisher offerings. Individual user contributor-type publishers have
been transitioned into Organizational publishers making it easier to collaborate with other
users when publishing content to the FME Hub, and enhancing management abilities of your
own published content.
Simplified Publishing
Safe & FME

23. The entire FME Hub is now mobile friendly and fully optimized for use on any device.
Mobile Friendly
Safe & FME

24. 4
FME Hub for
FME Form

25. Accessing
FME Hub
From FME
Form

26. FME Hub Overview
A community platform where users can
access and share pre-built, customized
FME tools like transformers, readers, writers,
templates, and web connections.
Accessed directly in the product. No
signup required.

Items are published into tiers:
●Official
●Verified
●Community

27. FME Hub Overview
A community platform where users can
access and share pre-built, customized
FME tools like transformers, readers, writers,
templates, and web connections.
Accessed directly in the product. No
signup required.

Items are published into tiers:
●Official
●Verified
●Community

30. Demo

31. Uploading
Content To
FME Hub

32. Have you built something that solves a common challenge? Whether it’s a
custom transformer, template, or web service you can contribute to the FME
Hub!

●Anyone with a Community Account Can Publish: Share your tools and
ideas with the global FME community.
●It’s Quick and Easy: Upload your resource in just a few steps and start
making an impact.




Want to Contribute? Share Your Creations!

33. Demo

34. Developing FME Packages
●Python based way to build and share
custom integrations.
●More powerful alternative to Custom
Transformers.
○Enables complex user interfaces
& code.
●Front end built in the FME Transformer
Designer to design parameters,
input/output ports, etc. in a graphical
environment.





See Creating a New FME Transformer for
more info.

35. Web
Services

36. Using Custom Web Services
FME Hub offers web services that act as templates,
simplifying API connections by handling OAuth
requests for you. These resources remove the
complexity of authentication, making integrations
faster and easier.
However, many web services require some
configuration from the end user to fit specific needs.
Be sure to review the setup instructions provided
with each web service to ensure a smooth
integration into your workflows.

37. Using Custom Web Services
FME Hub offers web services that act as templates,
simplifying API connections by handling OAuth
requests for you. These resources remove the
complexity of authentication, making integrations
faster and easier.
However, many web services require some
configuration from the end user to fit specific needs.
Be sure to review the setup instructions provided
with each web service to ensure a smooth
integration into your workflows.

38. Demo

39. 5
How to Navigate
and Use the FME
Hub Effectively

40. Content provided by the
Safe Development team
High-quality content
provided by partners.
Content provided by
everyday FME Users

41. 1 2 3
Verified publishers have a
commitment to providing
reliable, well-documented,
and tested content.


Production QualityBuilt to be Secure
Developed and designed with
security in mind, protecting
the integrity of your valuable
data throughout your
workflows.
Maintained
Verified items will be
maintained with updates to
improve functionality, fix bugs,
and ensure compatibility with
new versions of FME.
Verified FME Hub Publishers

42. Effective
Searching +
Management
Tools

43. Demo

44. 6
Real-World
Applications and
Use Cases

45. Customer Story
City of Surrey
Project
Water Meter Improvement

Solution
FME provides real-time, API-driven workflows to
integrate data between systems.

Results
●Live communications are orchestrated between
Amanda, Cityworks, and ArcGIS.
●Meter status is now available immediately,
rather than weeks to months delay.
“FME provides a flexible and powerful toolkit to coordinate information
integration between applications. This dramatically simplifies service
delivery to citizens and businesses.”
- Roger Wong-Moon, IT Architect, City of Surrey

46. Customer Story
Vancouver International Airport (Indoor Mapping)
Project
Provide passengers with an indoor map.

Solution
Integrated data from Maximo & CAD into ArcSDE &
GeoJSON & IMDF.

Results
●Indoor mapping in Apple Maps & the YVR app.
●Passengers easily find routing through the
terminal, and locate retail & restaurants.
●The data is automatically updated nightly.
“I love FME because it just makes my job easier every day.”
- Carlos Silva, GIS Specialist, YVR

47. 7
Safer’s Favourite
Resources

48. NoFeaturesTester
Quick Facts:
●First built in 2012
●12,672 Downloads
●#5 rank on the Hub

Use case: tests if no features make it to
the transformer. Really useful for
automated workspaces

Mark Ireland
Senior Knowledge & Community
Specialist

49. FuzzyStringComparer
Quick Facts:
●First built in 2012
●6,905 Downloads
●#18 rank on the Hub

Use case: Have messy string data?
Compare two values and get see if you can
match the values.
string 1 = 'South Dayton Street' string 2 = 'S Dayton St.'

Evie Lapalme
Technical Support Specialist, FME Form

50. Looper
Quick Facts:
●First built in 2019
●7,419 Downloads
●#18 rank on the Hub
●Built by Sigbjørn Herstad

Use case: Need to loop through an API?
Use this transformer as a template for how
to loop in a custom transformer.

Liz Sanderson
Knowledge Team Lead

51. UniqueValueLogger
Quick Facts:
●First built in 2012
●10,256 Downloads
●#10 rank on the Hub

Use case: Good data exploration and
reporting. Tracks unique attributes and
records their occurrence counts.

Kailin Opaleychuk
Technical Support Specialist, FME Form

52. AI Transformers
Need to connect to an AI
Service? Check out one of
our many transformers on the
Hub.

53. AI Transformers
Need to connect to an AI
Service? Check out one of
our many transformers on the
Hub.
URL Parser
Need to split up a URL this
transformer has you covered.

54. AI Transformers
Need to connect to an AI
Service? Check out one of
our many transformers on the
Hub.
MicrosoftTeamsConnector
Allows you to write a
message to Teams!
URL Parser
Need to split up a URL this
transformer has you covered.

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57. 8
Conclusion

58. Next Steps: Get the
Most Out of FME Hub
●Explore: select the linked Hub
content and discover what it can do.
●Try It Out: Test the resources in your
own workflows.
●Contribute: Built something useful?
Share it on FME Hub and help
others!

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