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Question of the Week: Tips & Tricks You Wish You Knew Sooner...

  • November 18, 2025
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creeatsafe
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There’s always more to uncover in FME. From sneaky shortcuts to powerful features, it’s full of “why didn’t I know this sooner?” moments! 💡

This week’s Question of the Week:
💭 What’s an FME trick or shortcut you wish you’d known sooner? If another Community member showed you this trick - tag them in the comments!  😊

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8 replies

hkingsbury
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  • Celebrity
  • November 19, 2025

Keyboard shortcuts!

ctrl+k for annotations
ctrl+b for bookmarks
ctrl+e to enable/disable
ctrl+shift+j for jucntions
ctrl+shft+i for inspectors


I’m sure there’s more that I use and don’t even think about!


geomancer
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  • Evangelist
  • November 19, 2025

Giving color to (hidden) connections.

 


mark2atsafe
Safer
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  • Safer
  • November 19, 2025

Pressing the <alt> key when moving an object shifts the quick insert point to the other side. Just a little tip to make it easier to drop transformers into the correct position more easily.

 


redgeographics
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The Feature Connections window continues to amaze people 😄


ebygomm
Influencer
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  • Influencer
  • November 20, 2025

Transformer Presets

 

 


ebygomm
Influencer
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  • Influencer
  • November 20, 2025

Giving color to (hidden) connections.

 

Expanding on this, applying a connection style to upstream/downstream connections

 


danilo_fme
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  • Celebrity
  • November 29, 2025

Hummm interesting and curious question.

 

ctrl+k for annotations is very interesting and fast!


j.botterill
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  • Influencer
  • November 30, 2025

When you want to merge every feature from one stream with every feature from another, regardless of attribute values

Union - Feature Merger 1=1

Compared to other join conditions (like matching on a key attribute), "1 = 1" ignores attribute values and simply joins everything. Be cautious: with large datasets, this can create a huge number of output features