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Add fuzzy string compare to Workbench's 'type to find transformer' feature

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  • July 2, 2020
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stevenjh
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If I had a penny for every time I've miss typed "attributemanager" on workbench, well I'd have a lot of pennies, but I think FME should figure out what "attriutemanger" is for me.

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david_r
Celebrity
  • July 2, 2020

Since the find function also works with substrings, try only typing "utem", that works for me and as a bonus it's much quicker to type.


ebygomm
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  • July 2, 2020

I think adding an open list of aliases is probably more useful and easier to implement, that way you could add attriutemanger as an alias and I could create an alias for the Snipper of LineTrimmer :-)

https://knowledge.safe.com/idea/22186/open-list-of-aliasses-for-transformers.html

I use "man" for attributemanager, even easier to type than "utem"


bruceharold
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  • July 6, 2020

Yeah I never remember what the working aliases are. Fun could be had by incorporating a word graph and a spelling distance function to search it.


david_r
Celebrity
  • July 7, 2020

If that's your sort of thing, have a look in <FME>\\transformers\\fmesuite.fmx and search for the TRANSFORMER_NAME and ALIASES keywords :-)


stevenjh
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  • July 15, 2020

I have used that trick, but adding even more obscurity to the transformer names doesn't seem a great approach!


LizAtSafe
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  • February 8, 2024
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