im trying to craete a workbench to backup my agol group content into local shapefiles.
ideally i want to use _name (feature service name) as folder names so web layers (using fme_feature_type as dynamic shapefile name) goes into each folders by their service name.
however, for some reason the fanout option couldnt work. Also tried to create attribtue with the output file path then use it as destination esri shapefile folder on the writter - this solution doesnt work neither.
wondering if anyone know a good practice for this?
Thanks!
Best answer by virtualcitymatt
pinkopo wrote:
Thanks Matt.
using feature writer it did successfully create the folders based on service name but somehow only schema went into these folders as shapefiles (named creator).. all other shapefiles are still get written on the higher level folder..
Definitely interesting here - it's hard to say what's going on here without looking at the attributes and where they're coming from.
One thing which you might want to make sure is that the schema and data features both have an attribute called _name as this is deciding where the data should be written to. You might need to change the attribute merge mode in the FeatureReader to have merge attributes instead of just using those from the restul. I see that the ArgGIS connection also produces a _name attribute? I assume it's the same?
You might have more luck using the FeatureWriter instead of the Shapefile writer itself. Personally I find it a little easier to configure for these kinds of workflows.
something like this:
If this doesn't work then you might need to explain more about specifically what isn't working here
You might have more luck using the FeatureWriter instead of the Shapefile writer itself. Personally I find it a little easier to configure for these kinds of workflows.
something like this:
If this doesn't work then you might need to explain more about specifically what isn't working here
Thanks Matt.
using feature writer it did successfully create the folders based on service name but somehow only schema went into these folders as shapefiles (named creator).. all other shapefiles are still get written on the higher level folder..
using feature writer it did successfully create the folders based on service name but somehow only schema went into these folders as shapefiles (named creator).. all other shapefiles are still get written on the higher level folder..
Definitely interesting here - it's hard to say what's going on here without looking at the attributes and where they're coming from.
One thing which you might want to make sure is that the schema and data features both have an attribute called _name as this is deciding where the data should be written to. You might need to change the attribute merge mode in the FeatureReader to have merge attributes instead of just using those from the restul. I see that the ArgGIS connection also produces a _name attribute? I assume it's the same?
using feature writer it did successfully create the folders based on service name but somehow only schema went into these folders as shapefiles (named creator).. all other shapefiles are still get written on the higher level folder..
Thanks Matt by changing the attribute merge mode it worked`` wohoooo😁
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