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Any plans to include Formats and Custom Transformers in the Compare application?

virtualcitymatt
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I've just been exploring the Compare worksapces tool in FME 2023. Great to be able to integrate this as both a diff and merge tool.

 

But I noticed that currently there is no way to compare CustomTransfomers or CustomFormats.

 

Any plans to add this to the workflow? A large part of out FME projects are CustomTransfomers which we use in final workspaces.

 

For now the only way to compare a CustomTransfomer is to have it embedded in a workspace. This makes it Impossible to use as a Diff or Merge tool in Git.

@mark2atsafe​ - pinging you here Mark to get Safe's take

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jkr_wrk
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  • jkr_wrkInfluencer
  • June 30, 2023

But a not embedded CustomTransformer is not within the FME Workbench File, but a separate file. This separate file you could compare to previous versions of the CustomTransformer.

 

Don't know if you create a new version of your CustomTransformer everytime you change it? Does it compare the customtransformer file location and version?

 

 

 

 

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virtualcitymatt
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jkr_da wrote:

But a not embedded CustomTransformer is not within the FME Workbench File, but a separate file. This separate file you could compare to previous versions of the CustomTransformer.

 

Don't know if you create a new version of your CustomTransformer everytime you change it? Does it compare the customtransformer file location and version?

 

 

 

 

The thing is, we have a lot of Custom Transformers which we use across projects. Typically these are linked until it's time for production and then they're embedded to keep the behaviour consistent and to make it easier to handle. Once embedded then you can compare, however, you can't compare the Custom Transformer itself with an old version of the custom transformer. The same is true with a Custom Formats.

The compare tool in workbench doesn't yet support comparing the .fmx or .fds files.

JennaKAtSafe
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Hi @virtualcitymatt​, support for .fmx is something the team definitely has their eyes on for future improvement and maintenance for the Comparison Tool. Glad to hear you've enjoyed playing around with this new feature.

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