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fmelizard
Safer

Leaving the original idea below for future reference. In FME 2016.1, we have a right-click on a connection to allow you to "hide" it. And you can again see it faintly if you click on either its source or destination transformers. You can "Show" the hidden connection again by right clicking on the source/destination transformer to bring it back.

In combination with the new "Junctions" that are in 2016.1, we intend to yet make a right-click shortcut on a link to "replace with tunnel" which will inject 2 junctions, label them, and hide the line connecting them. That will complete the original vision. Without the most cool terminology :-(


The ability to connect two points on a workspace without a visible connection line. Each wormhole would have 2 ends to it -- you'd have a depiction of the entrance, and then elsewhere a depiction of the exit, and you could route things through them without needing a long line crossing your workspace.

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srg
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  • January 27, 2015
wormholes should be part of advanced workspace functionality since for long the pipelines connecting feature types have been simple way to understand what in source maps to destination (though sometimes pipelines criss cross)

sigtill
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  • January 27, 2015
It might get too messy to understand for new users

  • January 27, 2015
I have this idea in my head quite long time. But I name it "portals" ;)

Fantastic idea. Please!

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  • January 29, 2015
Maybe a line between the in and out ports that only shows up when you hover either port. I like it for error reporting, e.g., I pipe the error reporting features from multiple validations into the wormhole and manage writing the error reports in one spot without lots of messy links.

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  • February 6, 2015
Absolutely. I need these - and would prefer them to be annotated by number. So IN 1 goes to OUT 1, etc. Simple, and no more lines running under other things! Much like a wiring diagram if you will. They should either be created as pairs (and delete as pairs) - or color them different if not connected (only an IN or an OUT).

fmelizard
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  • February 8, 2015
Surprised and pleased with all the attention this one is getting and the great implementation ideas below. We were close to getting this done about 3 years ago, definitely something to resurrect for FME 2016. Keep the ideas coming!

fmelizard
Safer
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  • April 21, 2015
How about the lines become wormholes automatically if they cross one or more transformers? Also, definitely need a setting to enable/disable wormholes (revert to lines).

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I already asked for this 8 years ago :) although I called it molehole at the time

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  • June 8, 2015
Great idea I always seem to have crossed streams! I think an insert and Aux channels similar to an audio mixing desk would also be really useful. They could link up to ready saved bank of custom transformers that do certain tasks. It might be an easier way of implementing looping functions as well.

takashi
Evangelist
  • November 7, 2015
I really like this suggestion. Personally call "black hole" and "white hole" for in and out :-)

bruceharold
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  • November 20, 2015

I remember the conversation. I suggested Swiss holes, like the cheese.


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  • November 26, 2015
I so need this today!

mark2atsafe
Safer
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  • November 26, 2015

The terminology is definitely up for discussion. Not everyone at Safe likes 'wormholes'. Though I don't think Swiss Holes is going to work either ;-)


erik_jan
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  • December 1, 2015

Good idea, but with a catch: it might lead to the bad practice of placing transformers far apart. The "wormholes" need to be convertible into regular lines (from the menu) and should appear as a category in the navigator window.


fmelizard
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  • December 5, 2015

Portals? Stargates? Broadcaster/Receiver (probably not).


fmelizard
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  • December 5, 2015

Our idea is to show the connecting line if you click on the icon representing the wormhole. And also we'll provide an easy way to jump from one end to the other.


geosander
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  • February 4, 2016

If this is going to be implemented, then maybe this would also allow for looping outside of custom transformers. Basically, the "Transformer Loop" port now already is a sort of wormhole to another "Transformer Input" port, so maybe this concept just needs to be implemented on a workspace level.

 

I would call it a "Tunnel(Sender)" or "Router", by the way :)

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  • March 1, 2016

Putting forward alternative name for wormholes - Teleport !


fmelizard
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  • May 8, 2016

This has been released as part of FME 2016.1 . Visit http://www.safe.com/downloads to get it.


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This has been released as part of FME 2016.1 . Visit http://www.safe.com/downloads to download and try it.


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