Hello everyone,
This is just a short post to alert you to a couple of recent updates.
Firstly, the DateTimes and FME tutorial has been revised for use with FME 2019. You can find it here: https://knowledge.safe.com/content/kbentry/715/working-with-date-and-time-attributes-tutorial.html
There's quite a lengthy section on using the newer transformers that explains how to handle datetimes with time zones, daylight savings, leap years, and more. Plus there's a new article that answers questions in general about datetimes, with links to documentation, knowledgebase ideas, and hub transformers. Plus, all the old content that relied on using TCL has been removed!
Secondly, both the FME Desktop training courses have been updated to 2019.1. As usual, the content still works with 2019.0, but where there are differences or updates in .1, additional info boxes have been added to convey that information. All workspaces in FMEData are still 2019.0 compatible.
The main changes relate to the Tester transformer (re-adds the test clause configuration field, and is updated to use Feature Tables) and the Bufferer transformer (incorporates the functionality of the GeographicBufferer); but there is a lot more besides that you can find by browsing the manual or the whatsnew.md file in the Github repository.
Hope you find this interesting. Oh, here are a couple of other 2019.1 updates you might have missed:
- Workbench has been optimized to improve the performance when working with large workspaces
- Ports on transformers and feature types are now easier to select
- The Autolayout now orders feature types alphabetically where possible.
Regards
Mark
FME Evangelist.