I am new to FME and going through the unit "Quickly Create a Conversion Workflow " of "Integrate Your Data with the FME Platform". In that unit, we create a reader to a PostGIS database.
My understanding is that what we see on the canvas is just the "feature types" of that database, aka individual tables. I thought that they would all connect to the same "reader" in the background.
But when I added two new readers to the canvas (marked 2 and 3 in the image), they created brand-new readers in the navigator. Even in the case of reader 3, which has the exact same parameters as reader 1!
Can you please suggest if there's any way to modify the feature type marked 3, to make it use the reader marked 1? When I open the feature type's properties, they are greyed out.
The only options I see right now are:
- keep both readers and maintain "connection parameters" in both, or
- recreate that feature type from reader 1 and manually configure it as per the original feature type
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