Question 3, my preferred answer wasn't one of the choices :(
Question 3, my preferred answer wasn't one of the choices :(
But taking their license away is a bit drastic, don't you think?!
OK, seriously, questions like "what is the best way..." are always more subjective than they claim and I'm not always right (though, for quiz scoring purposes we have to assume I am). But I'm genuinely interested to know what your "best" method is.
But taking their license away is a bit drastic, don't you think?!
OK, seriously, questions like "what is the best way..." are always more subjective than they claim and I'm not always right (though, for quiz scoring purposes we have to assume I am). But I'm genuinely interested to know what your "best" method is.
Make it a private parameter. That way it is still readily available for the FME authors to maintain, but not immediately visible to the users, especially if you have them running workspaces via the Quick Translator.
But taking their license away is a bit drastic, don't you think?!
OK, seriously, questions like "what is the best way..." are always more subjective than they claim and I'm not always right (though, for quiz scoring purposes we have to assume I am). But I'm genuinely interested to know what your "best" method is.
Note I also said preferred not best.
Part of that is a lot of cases we have structured directories, for both input and output. So I might have a setup with the following parameters:
$(Tile): Published parameter
Private Parameters
$(RootDir): c:\\data\\
$(Source_Shape): $(RootDir)\\datasetA\\$(Tile)\\x.shp
$(Source_Tif): $(RootDir)\\datasetB\\$(Tile).tif
$(OutDir): $(RootDir)\\output\\$(Tile)
Make it a private parameter. That way it is still readily available for the FME authors to maintain, but not immediately visible to the users, especially if you have them running workspaces via the Quick Translator.
Good point. In fact I did that on a project, just this morning! Not sure why I didn't think to add it as an answer (though that would have made the list even more subjective!)
Good point. In fact I did that on a project, just this morning! Not sure why I didn't think to add it as an answer (though that would have made the list even more subjective!)
I have other comments about the choices for that question, but i'll wait until after the quiz is closed, as it may influence answers.
Make it a private parameter. That way it is still readily available for the FME authors to maintain, but not immediately visible to the users, especially if you have them running workspaces via the Quick Translator.
I was expecting that one, too.
It wouldn't be FME without at least 2 o 3 ways to achieve the same.
