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Question of the Week: Which transformer do you think you’re strongest with?

  • January 14, 2026
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creeatsafe
Safer
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Hello and Happy New Year! 👋

There’s no single way to use FME — and everyone has a transformer they feel comfortable with in their own way. Whether it’s a longtime favourite or something newer you’ve been experimenting with, your go-to transformer is all part of your FME journey. 

This week’s Question of the Week:
💭 Which transformer do you think you’re strongest with?🏅 🤔
It might be a transformer you keep going back to, a new one you’re exploring, or something you’ve been enjoying learning lately. Share your answer in the comments — and feel free to tell us why and how you like to use it!

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3 replies

hkingsbury
Celebrity
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  • Celebrity
  • January 14, 2026

I’m gonna pick the Junction!

It doesn’t change your features or attributes, in fact it doesn’t do anything to your data!

But what it does do, is provides you with a tool to organise and set out your workspaces to make them easy to view, document and maintain.


geomancer
Evangelist
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  • Evangelist
  • January 15, 2026

FME's Swiss army knife for attributes: the AttributeManager.

The AttributeManager contains many many functions to create, rename, delete and reorder your attributes. It allows you to set the value of attributes, using other attributes of the same feature, but also based on the values of attributes of features that come before or after the current feature.

Also the AttributeManager can be used to set the data type of attributes.

 

 


philippeb
Enthusiast
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  • Enthusiast
  • January 15, 2026

Recently the FeatureReader saved my life into a big project so I will say this one ! Thank you to be so flexible !