I am analysing a series of our workspaces using the FMW reader and trying to ascertain which have templates. I have found the DEFLINE_TEMPLATE parameter in the 'workspace parameter' attribute and assumed that where this has a value there is a template, but I cannot find the location of the template file itself. If the reader does not pick this up it would be useful to add in future, thanks.
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Add template location to writer parameters for the FMW reader
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+22- Safer
Glad to know the FMW reader is getting just. But @chrisw84, you've found deep secrets of ancient FME workings.
DEFLINE_TEMPLATE is actually not referring to any external files. Instead, this is a copy of a special line in the format's "metafile" which helps FME understand how to communicate static details of a particular feature type from Workbench to the actual FME Engine format-specific writer module. It will most often be blank, but occasionally for some formats have a cryptic text value. Definitely not anything that would be externally useful.
+22- Enthusiast
Thanks @daleatsafe, so is there a definitive way to identify writers using templates?
Also, can we identify using the workspace reader which ones are using readers as resources?
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