Hi Jeff, --- In [email protected], "Jeff Konnen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi FME Experts, > > I have got FME 2006GB and ArcGIS 9.1 installed. > FME seems to always check out my Single Use ArcView Licence even if > the ESRI Desktop Adminitrator points to the ArcInfo Floating > Licence.
Do you have any ArcGIS product running at this point? I'm assuming that you don't - that you merely have FME started up. Can you try opening ArcCatalog (for example) using the ArcView license, then try starting FME. Hopefully then you'd have FME using the ArcInfo license. This would be awkward to do for each translation, but at least it would be a short-term workaround. > Do you know how I could force FME to use the floating licence rather > than the single use licence? > > I can't write to geodatabases with relationships as FME only checks > out the ArcView licence. I'm told the default action ought to be that FME checks out the highest level license it can - for the very reason that you point out, that we don't know what function the user requires. Either way I'll file a report with the developers (or log a support ticket for you) for two reasons... 1) FME ought to be taking the ArcInfo license - but you report it isn't. 2) There ought to be an option to choose which license to use. I can see the situation when someone says the reverse - that FME is taking the ArcInfo license when they need that elsewhere. Therefore I'll suggest a choice of license. > I had a similar problem with the FME Extension for ArcGIS. > > When I am in ArcInfo and start an "FME Extension" Model in > Modelbuilder, the extension tries to check out an ArcInfo licence, > but as I only got one, and ArcGIS already got that one checked out, > the Models do not execute unless I am in ArcView Single Mode with > the known limiations... Not sure what the exact situtation is here. Is this just the FME ArcGIS Extender, or is it the ArcGIS Data Interop Extension? The ArcGIS Extender should simply share the same license as the ArcGIS that is running it - for example start ArcGIS with the ArcInfo license and that's what the FME extender will also use. > Greetings from Switzerland, > Jeff Konnen Hope this helps, Mark Mark Ireland, Senior Product Specialist Safe Software Inc. Surrey, BC, CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.safe.com Solutions for Spatial Data Translation, Distribution and Access Join us at the FME Worldwide User Conference Sept. 21-22, 2006 Vancouver BC Canada. For more information, visit www.safe.com/2006uc. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fme/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
