FME 2024.2 is here, delivering powerful new features that enhance your data integration experience. The improved Quick Add now offers smarter, faster search results with a refined algorithm that boosts accuracy and ease of use. Strengthen your security with support for encrypted deployment parameter passwords, and discover a revamped Examples Gallery designed to inspire and accelerate your workflows.
Plus, stay tuned for a deep dive into the upcoming FME Hub redesign. This redesign will make it easier than ever to find verified, high-quality content, ensuring you get the best resources FME Hub is committed to delivering.
Feature Highlights
Improved Quick Add: The Quick Add dialog in FME Workbench is now powered by a new search algorithm, with results sorted by relevance by default. Improving search accuracy by handling mistyped terms, expanding keyword matches, and suggesting related transformers makes it easier to find exactly what you're looking for. Paired with the filters feature (introduced in 2024.1), Quick Add stays fast and intuitive while offering smarter search results.
Want to see this feature in action? Watch our short demo video here.
Encrypted Deployment Parameter Passwords Supported: Improve your security practices with the new Password Deployment Parameter type. FME Flow Administrators can now create Password Deployment Parameters that are stored and shared with managed access to specific FME Form users, while keeping the password value obscured.
New Examples Gallery Experience: The new Examples Gallery in FME Workbench, featuring curated, high-quality template workspaces for every user. Simplify onboarding, reduce the learning curve and speed up adoption with beginner-friendly examples, and accelerate advanced workflows with easily discoverable, pre-configured workspaces.
New Integrations
Generic XYZ Tiled Web Map for Background Maps: Enhance your spatial data visualization with a new Generic XYZ Tiled Web Map for background maps in FME Data Inspector. This new format allows you to seamlessly integrate custom XYZ tiles, such as OpenStreetMap, into data visualization workflows.
Want to learn more about this feature? Watch our short demo video here.
New Navisworks Reader: The new Autodesk Navisworks reader for FME expands the reach for professionals in the architecture, engineering, and construction industries. By enabling direct reading of NWD, NWF, and NWC files, this feature simplifies the inclusion of complex project models into existing data workflows.
Microsoft Azure Synapse Writer - Added Support for Microsoft Fabric: Data Warehouses hosted in Microsoft Fabric is now supported with the Microsoft Azure SQL Synapse writer.
Additional Enhancements
AIXM Reader / Writer GML Profile Format Update: The updated AIXM reader/writer, now utilizing GML+ to tackle complex aviation data structures like Geoborders. This enhancement ensures full support for AIXM 5 data, reducing data conversion complexities and improving interoperability across aviation systems.
Integrate Azure AD (now Microsoft Entra ID) as Supported Authentication into all Azure Components: Simplify and secure your Azure integrations with support for Azure Active Directory (now Entra ID) authentication. By integrating Azure AD into all Azure components, users can build workspaces and automations without needing to manually manage keys, ensuring robust, enterprise-level security.
Added Rejected Port to PythonCaller: Streamline your error handling and reduce complexity with the new Rejected Port for the PythonCaller transformer. With the new reject_feature() method, users can now output failed features directly through a dedicated rejected port in the PythonCaller, streamlining workflows.
Improvements to the Surface Model Transformers: New "Breakline Method" parameter in the ContourGenerator and SurfaceDraper provides you with the flexibility to choose between preserving the Delaunay condition or maintaining breakline edges. Increased stability and performance across all related surface model transformers: SurfaceModeller, ContourGenerator, DEMGenerator, RasterDEMGenerator, SurfaceDraper, TINGenerator, and VoronoiGenerator.
VertexCreator: Add Coordinate System Parameter: The VertexCreator transformer now has an optional coordinate system parameter for “Replace with Point” mode. This enhancement workflows and reduces complexity, when working with large datasets or multiple coordinate systems.
Watch a video to see the updates to the PythonCaller, SurfaceModeller, and VertexCreator - and the ShortestPathFinder - here.
Catch up on additional Workbench improvements in one quick video here.
Learn about an important update to the FeatureReader transformer here.
