Copying parameters between workspaces (like copying transformers)
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Copy Parameters between Workspaces
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that workaround is viable.... if you delete the transformer you copy over before applying its parameters to another transformer, the parameters disappear... still its a viable workaround
BIG second on Andras' request. If you could drag and drop parameters from one workspace to another, that would be great
+10@andras40 @richardsnyder3 If you use the parameter in a transformer and copy the transformer, the parameter will also be copied. Perhaps a workaround for your request?
+22- Safer
@larsdevries1 I'm aware of the transformer published parameters. But as @richardsnyder3 mentioned it disappears when deleting the transformer. (I don't remember if editing the parameter would help.)However it is not that comfortable when I us use the parameters from Python scripts. (create transformer - reference the parameter- copy/paste - disable the transformer or edit something on the parameter if it works...)Copying the parameters would be really an advantage.Especially multiple ones :sunglasses: , when my script reads several parameters eg: shutdown email: fail subject, success subject, fail send to, success send to, timestamp log file, attach fail log, attach success log, attach-log-if-logged-features, etc.
+7Yes please, I would like that! :D
Definitely worthwhile. So far I've seleted he parameters to copy into a ParameterFetcher, which you can then copy/paste to another workspace with the parameter definitions. Work well, but it's needlessly convoluted.
+5- Contributor
I agree. Sometimes I create a certain type of parameter and I want to copy his definition for another.
+10- Contributor
Importing (copying) Published and/or Private Parameter from another workspace would be a big time saver and promotes naming standards and prompt consistency. Can wait when I can store and maintain workspace level parameters in one workspace as my "parameter-repository" workspace!
+22- Safer
Good news, this is in FME 2017.0 build 17181 and later. You can right click on a parameter and copy or duplicate, and then to paste (for now) you right click on the canvas of the target.
+1This has been released as part of FME 2017.0 . Visit http://www.safe.com/downloads to download and give it a spin.
+40- Contributor
I'm using this feature heavily, and I appreciate it very much. A minor improvement would be to have the paste option available on the Published/Private Parameter nodes, not just the User Parameters node.
+8- Contributor
Add copy multiple parameters, please! You could select multiple parameters and choose Copy.
+22- Safer
I agree -- I personally have bumped into this limitation. We'd have to make it a right click option as the tree control doesn't allow multiple selection generally. We'll see what we can do.
+40- Contributor
The ability to copy multiple parameters at once is a nice improvement. It would be even better if the order was maintained when pasting, rather than being sorted alphabetically.
I use a lot of concatenated parameters and when they're resorted I get a lot of undefined macro derefenced errors.
+22- Safer
Hi @jdh. I wanted to let you know that maintaining the order of published parameters has been fixed in 2018.1.
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