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  • siennaatsafe
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Not a good start with FME. More time spent telling me to post in the "right area" than necessary.

Anyway.....

There needs to be a glossary of terms from a database perspective. FME appears to be good at etl in a non spatial world (or at lest that's my priority at present).

There are hundreds of readers/transformers/writers and it appears you can use many to achieve a similar result.
Finding the best r/t/w is tricky then not knowing the FME terminology adds to the "interest".

Thanks.

400+ transformers but how many in reality?

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  • June 25, 2018

Hi @saj42saj -- sorry for the rough introduction to the community.

Your feedback is very valuable and yes, we too feel that FME is very useful in a non spatial universe. But we realize that our documentation, training, and terminology are quite spatially tilted. So your idea of an FME Glossary for the traditional IT industry is a very good one.

I took a peek through our existing glossary now: https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Desktop_Documentation/FME_ReadersWriters/!FME_Terminology/terminology.htm and I do find that it is a good start but it still has quite a spatial flavor to it. We'll continue to work on this area.

Thanks for giving FME a try. If we can help don't hesitate to post anywhere you want on this forum, chat with us directly if your business hours match ours via the chat box on the bottom right, or be in touch via support@safe.com

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  • saj42saj
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  • June 26, 2018

Hi @daleatsafe. Thank you very much for your response, it is appreciated. I'll have a look at the glossary link you sent.

Thanks again

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