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Hi all.

Today I needed to build a custom Python based transformer from scratch, after a two year hiatus, and needed to explore some new things in the FMX file part.

So as always I opened https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/p/documentation

But apart from the Format GUI Type documentation, I can only find a new “.fmxj” documentation, but not the proper FMX file ditto. And fmxj looks nothing like FMX, it seems.

Why has this crucial piece of documentation been removed ?

Can I find it somewhere else ?

Cheers

Could this be what you’re looking for?

https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Transformer_Definition/index.html

Could this be what you’re looking for?

https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Transformer_Definition/index.html

Thanks David.

Looks like it, although it doesn’t contain neither TOOLTIP_START/END nor DESCRIPTION_START/END, which were the tag I was looking into. They still do work apparently.

I’ve bookmarked this page, just in case ;-)

I do wonder why it’s not linked to on the documentation page. It’s apparently recently updated (“Build: 24619   Date: 20240729”) !?

Hi @lifalin2016,

Just jumping in here to add a few things, having asked the development team about a similar question recently, and they shared that for missing keywords, you can use our existing GuiType documentation: https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_GuiType/index.html

And in the doc that @david_r linked, TOOLTIP_START/END is documented at the end as a deprecated feature and will no longer have an effect in FME 2024.1 and going forwards. The recommended practice here seems to be use the auto-generated tooltip rather than specifying one for every transformer.

Hope that helps provide a bit of context!

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