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Not sure whether this is a bug or a works-as-designed but I've just noticed this with FME 2016.1

I have started with an empty workspace and added 2 Shapefile readers, which I renamed to "OLD" and "NEW" (setting up a simple ChangeDetector demo). I then realised I made a mistake, so I deleted both readers and re-added them. However, on re-adding them, even though they were pointing to different shapefiles as before, the names were automatically set to "OLD" and "NEW".

It keeps happening, so if I delete NEW and add another Shape reader it'll be named NEW. If I add a reader for another format it'll get a default name, if I then add another Shape reader it's again named NEW. It kinda looks like the 1st Shape reader in this workspace will be called OLD and the 2nd one NEW.

Right now that's totally fine with me for what I want with this demo, but I'm just wondering whether this is how FME is designed to work :)

@redgeographics if you shutdown workbench and restart, does the problem persist?

 

Hoi Hans ,

 

I have noticed this mant many times but never wondered if it's a bug....so I guessed it how it's supposed to be and yes @MarkAtSafe restarting does solve the issue.

 

Cheers,

 

Itay

 

@redgeographics if you shutdown workbench and restart, does the problem persist?

 

Nope, as @itay mentions the problem goes away after workbench is restarted. So I guess this is a feature :)

 

 

I've asked our development team to take a look at this. There are a couple of other places where the changes in readers are not reflected in workbench so I suspect these issues are related.

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