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FME Weekly Quiz: Can you outscore Carolyn Vantol (February 2020-4)

mark2atsafe
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Hey FME'ers,

Today I span the wheel of fortune and it landed on... Carolyn Vantol, who is responsible for running our annual maintenance program. If you're involved in the financial aspects of purchasing FME, you may well have interacted with Carolyn at some point.

She's not an FME user; in fact she says "I can't think of a staff member that knows less about FME than me" and "it'll be good for our users' egos"! But she put the apostrophe in the right place there, so you know she's detail-oriented and won't be a pushover.

Think you can beat her score?

As always, here's the link: https://demos-safe-software.fmecloud.com/fmeserver/apps/FMEQuiz

Good luck folks.

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jdh
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  • February 24, 2020

Question 3, my preferred answer wasn't one of the choices :(

mark2atsafe
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jdh wrote:

Question 3, my preferred answer wasn't one of the choices :(

But taking their license away is a bit drastic, don't you think?!

OK, seriously, questions like "what is the best way..." are always more subjective than they claim and I'm not always right (though, for quiz scoring purposes we have to assume I am). But I'm genuinely interested to know what your "best" method is.

jdh
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mark2atsafe wrote:

But taking their license away is a bit drastic, don't you think?!

OK, seriously, questions like "what is the best way..." are always more subjective than they claim and I'm not always right (though, for quiz scoring purposes we have to assume I am). But I'm genuinely interested to know what your "best" method is.

Make it a private parameter. That way it is still readily available for the FME authors to maintain, but not immediately visible to the users, especially if you have them running workspaces via the Quick Translator.

jdh
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mark2atsafe wrote:

But taking their license away is a bit drastic, don't you think?!

OK, seriously, questions like "what is the best way..." are always more subjective than they claim and I'm not always right (though, for quiz scoring purposes we have to assume I am). But I'm genuinely interested to know what your "best" method is.

Note I also said preferred not best.

 

Part of that is a lot of cases we have structured directories, for both input and output. So I might have a setup with the following parameters:

 

 

$(Tile): Published parameter

Private Parameters

 

$(RootDir): c:\\data\\

 

$(Source_Shape): $(RootDir)\\datasetA\\$(Tile)\\x.shp

 

$(Source_Tif): $(RootDir)\\datasetB\\$(Tile).tif

 

$(OutDir): $(RootDir)\\output\\$(Tile)

 

 

mark2atsafe
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jdh wrote:

Make it a private parameter. That way it is still readily available for the FME authors to maintain, but not immediately visible to the users, especially if you have them running workspaces via the Quick Translator.

Good point. In fact I did that on a project, just this morning! Not sure why I didn't think to add it as an answer (though that would have made the list even more subjective!)

jdh
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mark2atsafe wrote:

Good point. In fact I did that on a project, just this morning! Not sure why I didn't think to add it as an answer (though that would have made the list even more subjective!)

I have other comments about the choices for that question, but i'll wait until after the quiz is closed, as it may influence answers.

oscard
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  • February 25, 2020
jdh wrote:

Make it a private parameter. That way it is still readily available for the FME authors to maintain, but not immediately visible to the users, especially if you have them running workspaces via the Quick Translator.

I was expecting that one, too.

 

It wouldn't be FME without at least 2 o 3 ways to achieve the same.

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