Set published parameters by another workspace

An option might be to create a PRIVATE Parameter with choice and alias.

And then at runtime you fetch the FME_SECURITY_USER parameter (not sure about the name - but I think there is a parameter that gets the username of the user that runs the workspace)

And then you can "select" that path in the workspace by saying runninguser = find correct choice.

Not sure if this helps @whkarto ?

Full list of parameters and description can be found here: https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Desktop_Documentation/FME_Workbench/!Transformer_Parameters/FME_Server_Parameters.htm

Ohh this is cool, I'm going to make some user specific office pranks. :-D

Please share :)

Make all the workspaces run by your boss, with a fail message :)

Yes, or send him here http://tiny.cc/ffabgz

I wonder if we can build a RickrollDetector custom transformer...

@sigtil, interesting idea, but I it's going to be quite complicated if there are several parameters to be set with multiple users. I had hoped for some sort of look up table solution where I can set up the proper configuration in some external software (e.g. Excel) and use the published parameter name as join attribute. That way I don't have the need to edit the workspace itself for every new client/parameter

This got me thinking - and since it is friday - ENJOY :) https://hub.safe.com/publishers/sigtill/transformers/webpageopener

Blast you beat me to it! Well here's the RickRoller: https://hub.safe.com/publishers/virtualcitymatt/transformers/rickroller

You can use the link to my Custom transformer inside your Custom transformer. Then your RickRoller can benefit opening it on multiple browsers. Well, time for a beer and weekend now. Have a nice weekend!

I mean, at the end of the day FME workspaces are just text files. You could try with the txtfile reader/writer to replace the places needed.

Then I guess you can use a python startupscript to read a "settings file" in the users folder or something?

https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/59997/startup-python-scripts-in-fme.html

If you want to have a 'helper' file for each user, you could go down the route of using a scripted python parameter to read a csv file and create a dictionary as a global parameter

Then further scripted parameters to retrieve all the relevant parameters

I've already worked on this approach and am quite sure that I could do it that way. But if I simulate this manually with just one parameter and do a file compare in notepad++ alot more lines than expected are highlighted. So I'm absolute not sure If I can guarantee file integrity! Maybe someone form Safe could comment on this.

I think this is why FME doesn't really work with the Git/versioning workflow. They are working on it though

https://hub.safe.com/publishers/virtualcitymatt/transformers/3dclipper-notproductionready Mwahahaha!