What I've tried so far in the Startup TCL Script is:
FME_LogMessage fme_inform {FME_MacroValues(inputParameter)}
This was really just a stab in the dark, and didn't return what I was hoping for.
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Logging input parameters to log file
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I would like to log the parameters that the user inputs to the log file. I realize that the information can be found throughout the log file, but I would like to have a list of the inputs in a central location. At the moment, the user is taking a screenshot of the input screen for QC verification. If QC could simply check the log file, the user wouldn't have to worry about screenshots.
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Hi,
I've never made the effort to learn TCL, so I can't help you there, unfortunately. If it can help, equivalent in Python would be
fmeobjects.FMELogFile().logMessageString("MyPublishedParameter is: " + FME_MacroValues["MyPublishedParameter"], fmeobjects.FME_INFORM)
As I see it, there are currently three issues with outputting the published parameters to the log:
- The workspace parameters are currently echoed to the Workbench log window on execution, but they are not written to the log file.
- FME_MacroValues contains a lot of internal stuff that is of no interest to the regular user, so logging everything makes little sense.
- There is, as far as I can tell, no way to get a list of all the values in FME_MacroValues that correspond to a published or private parameter.
My solution for QC-based logs have so far been to use a Python shutdown script to write a custom log file containing the published parameters and the number of features read and written. The list of the values passed to FME_MacroValues has to be hard-coded into the script, though, so that only the relevant parameters are echoed.
Hopefully this can give you some ideas.
David