Hi Owen - Ahh, now I know it's you now you have added a pic! Hope all is well!

 

 

As far as I'm aware it's not possible to create a dynamic dialog box where certain parameters appear and disappear depending on which other paramaters the user selects. It would be a nice feature definately to be able to configure parameter dependency.  I think the best you can do right now is make the paramater prompt descriptive enough and also make sure to use the options to define if a parameter is mandatory or not.

 

 

Sorry I can't be more help.

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Hi Dave, yes all is well thanks. Still loving FME!

 

 

Okay, there didnt seem to be an obvious way. I'll try to combine the choices into more options (text) and use testers.

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Hi!

 

 

It might be possible to do this in the web-interface only?

 

You would need to ask the user 1 question first (Which Filetype) and then show/hide boxes depending on that choice.

 

 

So if you for instance have 2 possible output-types:

 

 

Type: SHAPE 

 

Geometry: POINT

 

 

and

 

 

Type: PostGIS

 

Username: my

 

Password: mypassword

 

 

You can for the 

 

Type: SHAPE 

 

Geometry: POINT

 

also send EMPTY strings for the other variables

 

Username:

 

Password:

 

 

And for the opposite:

 

Type: PostGIS

 

Username: my

 

Password: mypassword

 

Geometry:

 

 

And then as you mention have a Tester within the workspace (or perhaps you do not need this? If you have a dynamic writer and the correct Type and Parameters set then it should automatically choose the correct writer and find the right parameters, and ignore the empty unneeded parameters)

 

 

Good luck!

 

 

 

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Thanks Sig, sounds good and I see how you could get the right output with testers. How can you show/hide boxes depending on the choice?

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Hi Owen,

 

 

Hm. I was assuming you did not use the "normal FME login" but have created your own webpage using your own code. Then I am sure some AJAX thingy would make 

 

 

By the way, are you on FME2012 or FME2013?

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Ahh, no. Just the standard fme server interface. Using 2013.

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