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Can I find out how to use FME to transfer data between programs I am using? To export? Import?

The first thing to do is determine what the native data format of your application is and look it up on the Safe website:

http://www.safe.com/fme/format-search

If the data format is not listed there, then take a look at what formats your application can export to or import from. Lookup those formats using the link above. You may be able to have FME read and write one of these formats.

If you really, really want FME to directly read or write your application's native data format, then ask in the community if anyone has used FME with that application. You might find someone. If you don't find anyone, then I would suggest adding an entry to our Ideas Exchange, asking for native support to be added to FME.


The first thing to do is determine what the native data format of your application is and look it up on the Safe website:

http://www.safe.com/fme/format-search

If the data format is not listed there, then take a look at what formats your application can export to or import from. Lookup those formats using the link above. You may be able to have FME read and write one of these formats.

If you really, really want FME to directly read or write your application's native data format, then ask in the community if anyone has used FME with that application. You might find someone. If you don't find anyone, then I would suggest adding an entry to our Ideas Exchange, asking for native support to be added to FME.

For example, we have had inquiries about "PI Historian". We don't have a reader for this system. However, it sounds like the data in this system can be accessed via a database that is connected to "PI Historian" including: MS Access or SQL Server. FME can read both MS Access and SQL Server.

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