Skip to main content
Question

Smallworld translator 4.3 export changes from baseline

  • October 17, 2017
  • 2 replies
  • 32 views
M

Hi,

I use the smallworld 4.3 translator to read data from a Smallworld database in FME 2016.1 32bit

In the SWORLDSWAF reader i enter an alternative that I am interested in (Alternative: |design_top|xxxxx|) and set export changes from baseline = Yes and Baseline Alternative= | to read changes from the top.

I then expect to only get the changes made in this alternative in the database.

When i run the query early in the morning (close in time to a nightly system restart) I get the expected result with changes from the alternative of interest. However during the day I get more and more data that has nothing to do with the alternative. I seems like there is a session created at my first connection attempt whitch is then used as top and all changes in or outside the alternative of interest is considered a change.

Powergrid is the software we use for network design and in there I can refresh the session I work in by clicking a button. This function is what I need to access via FME somehow.

I have tried setting my alternative as Baseline Alternative but that gives the same result.

Anyone having any idea?

Thanks,

Mårten

This post is closed to further activity.
It may be an old question, an answered question, an implemented idea, or a notification-only post.
Please check post dates before relying on any information in a question or answer.
For follow-up or related questions, please post a new question or idea.
If there is a genuine update to be made, please contact us and request that the post is reopened.

2 replies

M
Forum|alt.badge.img+2
  • markatsafe
  • October 18, 2017

Mårten: is it possible that you're also seeing the changes that are occurring in |design_top that are posted by other users? So if you are editing the version:

<top>|design_top|working_versionA

and another user is editing :

<top>|design_top|working_versionB

and they post changes to their changes to |design_top, we think that you might see those changes when you diff <top> with |working_versionA

M
  • marten_m
  • Author
  • October 19, 2017

Yes, I think that is the case here. I find this a bit of a strange behavior since I enter the alternative (working_versionA) that I an interested in?

It is like the Alternative is not considered when the diff is calculated.

Community Stats

32,207
Posts
122,305
Replies
39,891
Members

Latest FME

Terms & ConditionsCookie settingsAccessibility statement
A product of
Safe Software respectfully acknowledges that we live, learn and work on the traditional and unceded territories of the Kwantlen, Katzie, and Semiahmoo First Nations.