Software updates - list of transformers that are affected

Yes, you will need to install the latest FME Form/workbench. Then open the “Workspace Statistics” workpspace template provided by safe software. They were asking for your feedback, but you can run it for your own internal needs instead.

https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407628307597-FME-Workspace-Statistics-You-Can-Help

You will need to copy the FME server/flow respositories directory to somewhere you can access with Workbench. Alternatively if you have workspaces saved on a file server, point the workspace statistics fmw there.

I will give you a report in excel of all the transformers that require upgrading. 

Please note. You don’t have to upgrade transformers. It’s optional, if you find the new parameters developed helpful. There are only a few transformers that have seen significant processing time improvements such as the spatial operators like Clipper, StatisticCalculator, Spatial%, GeometryFilter/Validator, FMEServerJobSubmitter

• If you have multiples of the same transformer, upgrade the first transformer early in the workflow, on the left of the canvas. These changes will save through to the same transformers 

Watch out for transformers that get deprecated. You will need to find the new complimentary transformer for any deprecated transformers.  As such, deprecated readers/writers cause far more problems in my experience….  e.g. formats:

• Use  GEODATABASE_SDE, ORACLE_NONSPATIAL, SHAPEFILE, XLSXR

• Do not use   SHAPE, ESRISHAPE, SDE30, XLS_ADO (all deprecated) ORACLE8I_DB

Thank you, James ​@j.botterill 

Apologies for the delay in responding, I am just having too much fun on all of my projects! 🤓

I will look into this solution, something we were nowhere near thinking of, so this is a proper left-field surprise that we can run a workspace statistics workspace to do this.

Thank you again.

Stu

j.botterill wrote:

Yes, you will need to install the latest FME Form/workbench. Then open the “Workspace Statistics” workpspace template provided by safe software. They were asking for your feedback, but you can run it for your own internal needs instead.

https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407628307597-FME-Workspace-Statistics-You-Can-Help

You will need to copy the FME server/flow respositories directory to somewhere you can access with Workbench. Alternatively if you have workspaces saved on a file server, point the workspace statistics fmw there.

I will give you a report in excel of all the transformers that require upgrading. 

 

Please note. You don’t have to upgrade transformers. It’s optional, if you find the new parameters developed helpful. There are only a few transformers that have seen significant processing time improvements such as the spatial operators like Clipper, StatisticCalculator, Spatial%, GeometryFilter/Validator, FMEServerJobSubmitter

• If you have multiples of the same transformer, upgrade the first transformer early in the workflow, on the left of the canvas. These changes will save through to the same transformers 

Watch out for transformers that get deprecated. You will need to find the new complimentary transformer for any deprecated transformers.  As such, deprecated readers/writers cause far more problems in my experience….  e.g. formats:

• Use  GEODATABASE_SDE, ORACLE_NONSPATIAL, SHAPEFILE, XLSXR

• Do not use   SHAPE, ESRISHAPE, SDE30, XLS_ADO (all deprecated) ORACLE8I_DB

Great!