Hi all,

I’m trying to figure out how to use the CodedDomainGDB custom transformer in FME to create domains in an Esri Geodatabase dynamically from an Excel input.

I understand that FME does allow creating domains, but it’s generally a manual process—similar to what you’d do in ArcGIS Pro—and Safe Software doesn’t recommend creating domain in FME. However, I’d like to automate this process as much as possible.

Input: An Excel file containing coded domain values and descriptions.

Goal: Take those Excel values and feed them into the CodedDomainGDB transformer to create or update coded value domains in an EGDB or FGDB.

I’m not fully clear on how to structure the input features for the transformer so it produces the correct output.

These are the references I’ve found:

CodedDomainGDB documentation: 

https://hub.safe.com/publishers/spatialexjames/transformers/codeddomaingdb

Example workflow blog:

https://www.spatialex.co.uk/blog/automating-coded-domains-geodatabase/

If anyone has an example workspace, a schema description, or step-by-step guidance for preparing the input to the transformer, I’d really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance!