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Redirect to Data Inspector, user preferences instead of saving to .fmw

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  • October 7, 2025
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dustin
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I love the redirect, but please move this to user preferences instead of being saved with the workspaces. It is way too easy to forget to turn redirect off before saving a workspace and sending it to production. 

 

Also, it doesn’t appear that the Redirect option is discoverable by using the FMW Workspace reader. We have 100s of tools, and would be convenient to have ability to search for workspaces that have Redirect turned on.

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ebygomm
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  • October 7, 2025

It’s not something I use much anymore, as most workspaces I deal with now don’t have traditional writers, but if you want to search for workspaces that have redirect turned on, you can read the .fmw as text (whole file at once) and look for 

LOG_END_BANNER *** All writer output has been redirected to the Data Inspector ***


dustin
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  • October 7, 2025

It’s not something I use much anymore, as most workspaces I deal with now don’t have traditional writers, but if you want to search for workspaces that have redirect turned on, you can read the .fmw as text (whole file at once) and look for 

LOG_END_BANNER *** All writer output has been redirected to the Data Inspector ***

 Thank you, and that's what I ended up doing. But it seems like something that should be included in the FMW reader.