Hello everyone,

Welcome to the first quiz results on the new-style FME Community. This week you were up against the entire staff of Safe Software - where the answers were chosen as the most common choice.

Quick Note

We've done 30 User vs Safer quizzes now, and with the change in community and ongoing hackathon, I'll think we'll take a short break in the quiz, and restart in September.

Maybe I'll change the format, but either way, I think it's a good time to reset the scores. So the scores at the foot of this page are final!

So let's see how you all did...

Answers

1) How do you collapse a bookmark on the FME Workbench canvas?

• Set it in the bookmark properties dialog
• Using the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+C
• Click the drop-down arrow on the bookmark header
• The Collapse Bookmark toolbar button
• All of the above

The only correct answer is that you click the drop-down button on the bookmark header:

I don't usually do "All of the Above" questions, so you can pretty much tell that wasn't the answer!

Safer Answer: Click the Drop-Down Button (votes: 0-0-17-0-0) (Correct)

2) Safe recently ordered face masks for all staff members in a range of designs. Which of these was a design on offer?

• I XML
• FME Lizard face
• A Don or Dale face
• Zipster on Mars (2013 splashscreen)
• The IP number 255.255.255.0

OK, this would have been an easy question for Safers, but could you get the correct answer? It is a Lizard face, which goes quite nicely with the eyemask from the World Tour:

It's not the IP number 255.255.255.0. That would be a "subnet mask" 😏

Safer Answer: Lizard Face (votes: 0-18-0-1-0) (Correct)

3) When you export a custom transformer, the five parameters available are:

• Name, Category, Insert Mode, Password, Save Location
• Name, Category, Description, Help, History
• Name, Category, Group By, Group By Mode, Parallel Processing
• Name, Category, Description, Use Markdown, Attribute References
• Name, Category, First Pet, Mother's Maiden Name, Credit Card Number

When you export a custom transformer, it looks like this:

These are the items we need to know in order to create the fmx file (what to call it, where to save it, and so on).

Safer Answer: Name, Category, Description, Help, History (votes: 4-11-0-1-0) (Incorrect)

4) The Transformer Gallery on our web site got a major update last week. Which of these is NOT a new item of functionality?

• There is the ability to select a random transformer and view its information
• There is an option to switch between the normal view and a list view
• The transformers are now spread across several pages
• The URL now changes to match the filters or sorting (making sharing easier)
• There are now more detailed usage statistics about each transformer

Yeah, the gallery got a great new update and now looks like this:

There are now multiple pages, but that's OK because the search option is pretty much instantaneous. You can also switch between a table or grid view. The URL does match the updates, so you can share the URL with settings applied.

Did you find the random transformer tool? It's at the top of the screen:

Just hover over the transformer icon and a random transformer appears. You can click that and open up the info for that transformer.

So, the only item that we don't have is detailed usage statistics. But guess what? We're working on that and will have them shortly!

Safer Answer: More detailed usage statistics (votes: 1-0-0-1-12) (Correct)

5) Which of these items is NOT an operation in the FME Server API?

• /cleanup/tasks/jobs
• /info
• /tokens/<username>/<token name>/disabled
• /transformations/jobs/completed
• /user/favorites/workspaces

This is a sneaky one, because there is an operation to enable/disable a token, but it's called "enabled" and is an on/off toggle.

Safer Answer: tokens/username/token name/disabled (votes: 5-1-8-0-0) (Correct)

6) The support team have a special bot (actually, it's Jen) who posts what message to us all each week?

• Monday's knocking on the door!
• Time for Tuesday!
• It's Wednesday my dudes!
• Thursday! Thursday! Thursday!
• Itttttttttttttttt's FRIDAY!

How would you know that? Well, I used it in last week's answers post:

It's always accompanied by a video (this is a great example) and just gives us a pick-me-up during the week.

Safer Answer: It's Wednesday My Dudes (votes: 0-0-13-1-3) (Correct)

Results

So here are the results...

• Quiz Week: 37 (July 27/2020)
• Number of Entries: 32
• Best Score: 6
• Worst Score: 1
• Average Score: 3.84
• Perfect Scores: 5
• Easiest Question: 5 (29)
• Hardest Question: 6 (8)

Who'd have thought a question about an obscure part of the FME Server API would be the easiest question?!

So how did you do as a group?

• Beat Safe: 5
• Equalled Safe: 6
• Were Beaten by Safe: 21

So there we are. A win for the Safers. The overall score:

• Users 22 Safers 8

The user table:

The Safer table:

SO... A big congratulations to you users for beating the Safe staff so comprehensively over the last few months, 22-8. You are definitely the winners.

Individually... for Safe, Ryan Cragg is the clear leader and the marketing team were the ones that produced the best results over several Safers.

Your individual results are a little less clear, due to the variation in number of entries. Again, I'm going to leave it up to you folks to decide who is the winner.

If anyone wants access to my database and spreadsheets to produce your own statistics and results, and maybe pick an individual winner, then do let me know. It would make a great hackathon project.

But great kudos to @srg to @redgeographics and to @warrengis for being the three persons who took part in 30/30 quizzes! Well done folks. Regardless of your win/loss percentage, that's a great achievement.