The number of regular transformers is now more than 450. This allows users to perform various translations depending on requirement. On the other hand, this also brings some difficulty when searching a required transformer, especially to beginners.
To reduce user's effort to search a transformer, how about adding a special folder (e.g. "Favorites") to the Transformer Gallery?
- The folder contains most frequently used and/or most fundamental transformers (30-50) by default.
- The user can add/remove any transformer to/from the folder optionally through easy operations on the Gallery interface. Maybe right-click menu commands are preferable.
- The default transformers set can be restored. FME Options | Transformers: Click a button -> Show a message "Are you sure...?" [OK] -> Restore the default.
- The folder can also be hidden optionally. FME Options | Transformers: Uncheck a checkbox e.g. "Show Favorites Folder in Transformer Gallery".
The folder may be useless to users who are familiar with most transformers, but I think it would help beginners to make things easier.
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That ability used to be there - with a TransformerCategories folder in the <user>/FME/ shared resource folder. Not sure but I guess we must have removed it. Maybe send a message to the support team to ask why? But whether we'd add it back - given the general use of Quick Add - I don't know.
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