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FME Desktop 2020: How to disable writing (duplicating) the result of workbench at each run?

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jamal
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FME Desktop 2020: How to disable writing (duplicating) the result of workbench at each run?

 

I couldn’t figure out how to disable writing the result of workbench as each run. I observed that the output is duplicated in the esri file geodatabase at each run

 

 

 

Best answer by david_r

On the output feature type, set the table operation either to "Drop and create" or "Truncate existing".

Example:

This only affects a specific feature class.

Alternatively you can force FME to overwrite any previously existing file geodatabase at each execution:

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On the output feature type, set the table operation either to "Drop and create" or "Truncate existing".

Example:

This only affects a specific feature class.

Alternatively you can force FME to overwrite any previously existing file geodatabase at each execution:


jamal
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Many thanks david_r for the help. It works fine

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Jamal