Does anyone know of any tools to automatically document workbenches an organization may have in a searchable way? Similar to DocUtils for python?
Best answer by brianatsafe
Hi @ian_s,
One thought is to use FME to read each workspace file using the FMW reader. This can pull out the workspace properties (Name, Description) or even workspace annotations into something that can be searched. A simple method may be to store a text file for each workspace with these key pieces of information within it and then use Windows File explorer to search. Something more complicated would be a database such as ElasticSearch to store the information and make a spiffy tool from.
These are rough ideas only, has anyone in the community done something like this before??
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Hi @ian_s,
One thought is to use FME to read each workspace file using the FMW reader. This can pull out the workspace properties (Name, Description) or even workspace annotations into something that can be searched. A simple method may be to store a text file for each workspace with these key pieces of information within it and then use Windows File explorer to search. Something more complicated would be a database such as ElasticSearch to store the information and make a spiffy tool from.
These are rough ideas only, has anyone in the community done something like this before??
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Hi @ian_s,
One thought is to use FME to read each workspace file using the FMW reader. This can pull out the workspace properties (Name, Description) or even workspace annotations into something that can be searched. A simple method may be to store a text file for each workspace with these key pieces of information within it and then use Windows File explorer to search. Something more complicated would be a database such as ElasticSearch to store the information and make a spiffy tool from.
These are rough ideas only, has anyone in the community done something like this before??
http://docs.safe.com/fme/2017.1/html/FME_Desktop_Documentation/FME_ReadersWriters/fmw/Feature_Representation.htm
@ian_s
This Idea goes somehow into the same direction I guess. Might be worth to check it out:
https://knowledge.safe.com/idea/43327/ability-to-search-fme-server-workspaces.html?childToView=43338#reply-43338
Hi @ian_s,
One thought is to use FME to read each workspace file using the FMW reader. This can pull out the workspace properties (Name, Description) or even workspace annotations into something that can be searched. A simple method may be to store a text file for each workspace with these key pieces of information within it and then use Windows File explorer to search. Something more complicated would be a database such as ElasticSearch to store the information and make a spiffy tool from.
These are rough ideas only, has anyone in the community done something like this before??
@ian_s
This Idea goes somehow into the same direction I guess. Might be worth to check it out:
https://knowledge.safe.com/idea/43327/ability-to-search-fme-server-workspaces.html?childToView=43338#reply-43338