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Changing FME_Attribute

  • 18 September 2014
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Hi,

 

 

I am facing a situation here, I am reading a huge topographic data stored in ESRI MDB format and want to write that data into generic GML format, While reading FME internally changes the source data type "date" into native "fme_date" type, now my problem is that the source date fields are all a mess and are stored in different formats and I want the GML output to be exact replica of the source but due to the fact that while reading fme has internally changed its format and if I try to match it to the source format I have to use several date formaters, so I thought it would be better if I read the date attributes in string format and write them as it is, but I am unable to do so since the reader user attribute tab is non editable.

 

 

I appriciate if anybody will help me solving the above issue.

 

 

Regards

 

IMRAN

 

 


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Hi,

 

 

normally it should suffice to just change the datatype to string on the Writer. No need to change the internal FME datatype.

 

 

David
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Thanks david

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