I am having issues using Feature Reader to access ArcSDE geodatabase in FME Form 2023.1. When opening the Feature reader in the old FME version, there is a DataSet option to select after choosing the Format. I also have the option to create connection files as a user parameter. Now in FME Form 2023.1, After selecting Format, the Dataset option changed to Connection. However, when I try to select a new connection file within the parameters, I am unable to find the option. In my previous FME workspace, I utilized connection files as user parameters. Please let me know if I am missing anything while configuring the Feature reader to read ArcSDE data in FME Form 2023.1. Thank you!
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Feature Reader in FME form 2023.1
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I think whats changed (and hasn't really been that well documented or conveyed - that I've noticed) is that SDE connections are now a DatabaseConnection. So you don't reference a file, instead you create a connection and reference that instead of directly referencing the connection file.
So you can still use parameters, its just that now the parameter type will be a database connection (when it used to be a file)
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I think whats changed (and hasn't really been that well documented or conveyed - that I've noticed) is that SDE connections are now a DatabaseConnection. So you don't reference a file, instead you create a connection and reference that instead of directly referencing the connection file.So you can still use parameters, its just that now the parameter type will be a database connection (when it used to be a file)
@hkingsbury When working with my workspace, I require referencing multiple SDE connections. I have set these SDE connection files as User parameters so that they can be changed when needed. Is there a way I can accomplish the same thing in the newer version of FME reader as referencing database connection only won't be helpful in my case?
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@hkingsbury When working with my workspace, I require referencing multiple SDE connections. I have set these SDE connection files as User parameters so that they can be changed when needed. Is there a way I can accomplish the same thing in the newer version of FME reader as referencing database connection only won't be helpful in my case?
You'd have to set them all up as Database Connections, but then you can reference them in parameters as a "database connection". Make sure you set the type as "Esri ArcSDE Geodatabase"
