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  • August 12, 2019
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Hello,

 

I apologize for my somewhat elementary question here, but I am a relatively new user to FME software. I was wondering if someone could explain to me the difference between some of the options for running a workbench. When you right click on the work bench, and choose Run > you got a few options, (run just contained, run from contained, and run to contained).

However for some of the workbenches there is only one option available, and with searching online I cannot find any helpful/simple explanations to what each do, or the right one to choose in a given scenario. We are swapping CAD base drawings, and implementing them into a GIS Database.

Any help appreciated - Thank you!

Best answer by chrisatsafe

Hi @sanna,

Building on @danullen's excellent answer, all of the Run to, from, etc. options are used to partially run a workspace which goes hand in hand with feature caching

Feature caching allows you to inspect what your data looks like from any object on the canvas - check out this blog article if you are interested in learning more about feature caching and how to use it. Additionally, the About Feature Inspection documentation is also a great place to find detailed descriptions about each of the partial run options and working with data caches.

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  • danullen
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  • August 12, 2019

There are lots of ways to run a workspace partially and you have discovered some of them. If you right-click a selected transformer you'll find the options to "Run from this" (unless it's the last one), "Run to this" (unless it's the first one) and "Run just this" (if it's possible with the selected transformer). If you select several transformers you'll get run options relevant for them, like "Run between selected".

 

 

On a larger scale you get the corresponding options for bookmarks, where you can run things that are contained in the bookmark. That's probably where you found your "Run just contained" etc.

 

 

Hope this helped! :-)
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  • August 12, 2019

Hi @sanna,

Building on @danullen's excellent answer, all of the Run to, from, etc. options are used to partially run a workspace which goes hand in hand with feature caching

Feature caching allows you to inspect what your data looks like from any object on the canvas - check out this blog article if you are interested in learning more about feature caching and how to use it. Additionally, the About Feature Inspection documentation is also a great place to find detailed descriptions about each of the partial run options and working with data caches.

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  • August 12, 2019

Thank you!

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