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***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Installer Default to override the existing install. Put buildnumber in install directory so can have multiple installers.
File Geodatabase version choice.If I have ArcViewer v10.2 installed, it would be great to be able to set scripts, when using that license to write File GDB's to choose what version to produce from 9.3 - 10.0 - 10.1 - 10.2I'm not sure if ESRI has this ability in their software though. We have to worry about backwards compatibility for clients using the exported data.
Find out the number of features that have actually been written, rather than the number that have been sent to the writer. This would make it easier to tell at a glance that something has gone wrong with the workspace.
I would like to have a "preview $(n)" as a right click option on a connection or output port. A pull request "preview to here" sort of thing thrown to Inspector. I think this would speed up my debug iterations in a big way.
ALT + TAB to switch between the windows shows now (2015) the format of the reader and no more the file name (2013). With multiple opened workspaces it could be tricky to navigate between the different or similar format name. It was easier before =).
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Generic Writer: Add the Option to use an Attribute to Set the 'Output Parameter'. For the Generic Writer: Add the option to use an attribute to set the 'output parameter'.
I think someone suggested something similar, but I'd like to be able to right click on a Tester, and turn it into a TestFilter. Copying the rules across is very painful!
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Ensure that Named connections think about the migration problem between different servers. No description.
Ability to adjust the height or the width of the 'SummaryAnnotation' Or Start standard annotation with 'SummaryAnnotation' contents
For the IFC and Revit reader add the option to distinct between true attributes and settings/parameter properties. Now it is often hard to distinct between both.
Integration not just with Hadoop but Apache Spark in particular for reading and writing to RDD:s would be very useful for anyone with a Big Data Hadoop cluster. The machine learning algorithms and the graph database features of Spark would complement FME really well.:smiley_cat:
While typing, press the tab key to change from transformers to Readers to Writers
Not strictly a Canvas idea, but... As a consultant, we often have to use specific versions of FME for different projects. But it is too easy to open a workspace in the wrong (newer) version of FME Workbench, and by the time the save dialog comes up you might have done a lot of work that gets lost because of lacking backwards compatibility.How about an opt-in setting that prints the Workbench version clearly somewhere on the interface? e.g "FME 2014 SP5" either on the main window title bar or watermarked on the canvas somewhere? This information would stay there as long as the GUI is open.
I would like to see clasification transformers such as maximum likelihood classification (MLC), Inverse Distance weighting. Also auto object recognition for raster digitising would be brilliant- i.e. extract buildings from a raster map.
Change Transformers section in Navigator to be organized into collapsible groups by FME transformer name (not the name assigned when the transformer is used multiple times in the workbench (e.g. AttributeCreator, AttributeCreator_2, etc.).
Rather than having them as separate transformers, just have these as "decorations" on links (or ports). Con: the new Run With Inspection effectively does this with Inspectors everywhere automatically.
Turn on or off functionality based on format spaces. ie. if you have no intention of using BIM/3D get rid of all formats and transformers that play in this space.
In the new 'Attribute Accumulation' I miss the option 'do not accumulate attributes' / 'Only use base'
Possibility to add junctions to connections between transformers, when a transformer receives data from multiple transformers.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Enhance transformers that modify results to be able to use a previous result in a subsequent calculation Enhance transformers that modify results to be able to use a previous result in a subsequent calculation. e.g. AttributeCreator could create a attributes "A" and "B", then create attribute "C" = "A" + "B" in the same transformer. This functionality would be especially useful in the InlineQuerier, to be able to build "views" (Output Ports) that could be used in subsequent OutputPort SQL Queries.
DateFormatter transformer with a regex preview read of first record. And date formats suggestions by writer target fieldtype e.g. JSON or Oracle timestamp out
Have the workspace description meet ISO 19115-1 so it can be searched by the metadata in the description and as a service end point
(basically copy Raster Calculator from ArcMap)
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Reader/Writer Versioning. Indicate visually which transformers could be updated.
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Templates 2.0 - Look at experience between installed and those on FME Store. Current experience is not good. Maybe use "Gallery" idea from Revit for other formats.
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