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Data popularization in table

Forum|Forum|10 years ago
August 4, 2015
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sega

Hi for all!

I have xls table with huge datas about inspection for different zones as shown in attached picture (this is the small example).

How can I write text values from "Area n." column to "Area"?

F.e. for rows with "Area n" 1, 12, 3 I want write East gate in "Area" column and etc.

Thx

Best answer by takashi

This is a solution example based on Gio's suggestion - VariableSetter/VariableRetriever.

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david_r
Forum|Forum|10 years ago
August 4, 2015

Hi

Look into the Excel writer template file and the named ranges option:

http://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_ReadersWriters/FME_Readers_Writers.htm#xlsx/XLSX_writer.htm%3FTocPath%3DFME%2520Readers%2520and%2520Writers%7CMicrosoft%2520Excel%2520(XLSXR%252FXLSXW2)%2520Reader%252FWriter%7CWriter%7C_____1

David

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takashi
Forum|Forum|10 years ago
August 4, 2015

Hi,

I'm not sure how the table should be transformed.

Do you need to add the area name to the "Area" column like this?

Takashi

Why not inspect features with Visual/Data Preview and Feature/Record Information before writing them into a destination dataset?

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gio
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Forum|Forum|10 years ago
August 4, 2015

You can achieve this by reading the column "Area n." into a variable for each occasion the value is not a number.

You parralely (..is that a good word??) read the variable (using a VariableFetcher) into Area attribute.

Or you can simply use a conditional attribute creator with adjacent feature reading. (though with big data this will use more memory,( i have scripts that crash on memoryusage when using adjacent featuresettings)