Can a reader have a user parameter set up? I want to have the user be able to enter a zip file and have the zip file extract the shapefile located in the zipfile.

Hi @chris28​ ,

FME can read directly from archive formats without any extra work in a workspace.

And typically when a reader is set up, a user parameter is already created and typically already has the appropriate file filtering needed.

However, I'm not sure if your workflow needs are a little different where you need to save an unzipped copy of the shapefile. If that's the case, depending on how you set up your workflow with a zip file extractor, you would then want to make sure there is an attribute available that would have the location of the shapefile. You could then use a FeatureReader to read in the shapefile, with the dataset parameter set to the attribute holding the file location. For more information on using the FeatureReader, see this article.

-Andrea