Add toggle control enabling the startup/shutdown python scripting

This really needs to be implemented. Particularly since feature caching has been introduced. If I run my script to a particular transformer, it runs my python startup and shutdown script. If I then run to the next transformer (using cached features) it runs my startup and shutdown scripts again. Some of these scripts are not trivial, the startup script deletes a geometric network, the shutdown script turns off versioning on the datasets, rebuilds the geometric network and turns versioning back on again. This doesn't need to occur every time I want to follow the outputs of each transformer. Please enable a switch to ignore startup/shutdown scripts when running a translation.

As @samisnunu suggested, it could be a toggle in the navigator window, or possibly, a pop up when executing along with the published parameters pop up.

Can you just create a start.txt and/or stop.txt file and populate it with "Debug" when you want to do testing and set it to something else otherwise? Then at the top of your python you could do:

import fme, fmeobjects

f = open("start.txt", "r")

if (f.readline() == "Debug"):

  print("***** in Debug Mode, skipping normal startup *****")

else:  

  print("****** Running usual startup *****")

# USUAL STARTUP ROUTINE HERE

Another vote for a much needed functionality.

I only feel the situation already.... Who in the team deployed the workspace with the toggle still off???

Just like 'redirect to inspector'...