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Multiple shapefiles with different schema

Forum|Forum|12 years ago
July 19, 2013
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aquamarine

Hi,

I have hundreds of shapefiles for which I need to transform coordinate systems and I have a custom built transformer to transform the coordinate system.

My issue is that each shapefile has a different set of field names. I don't want to have to link up each input and output manually and have a hundred different workbenches, one for each shapefile.

I want to be able to bach transform all the shapefiles, but keep the field names the same in each output file as each input file.

I am using FME 2012 desktop.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

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fmelizard
Safer
Forum|Forum|12 years ago
July 19, 2013

HI,

This is a typical case for the dynamic translation mode (no need to map the attributes) in combination with a writer fan out.

Itay

Upvote

takashi
Forum|Forum|12 years ago
July 19, 2013

Hi,

I strongly agree Itay. I believe It's one of the most typical and also effective use cases of dynamic schema functionality.

I think learning this documentation will be a good starting point to understand dynamic schema. Example 1 of this documentation is similar to your case.

Takashi

Why not inspect features with Visual/Data Preview and Feature/Record Information before writing them into a destination dataset?