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Hello,

I work with FME 2018 and I have generate a simple model with this version. Is possible to save models .fmw in 2016 version? I would need to open this models in 2016. If not, I could generate it again using 2016.

Thanks,

I don't think you can use FME 2018 Workbench to create workspaces compatible with a previous version of FME. You can download and install FME 2016: Previous Versions of FME

I don't think you can use FME 2018 Workbench to create workspaces compatible with a previous version of FME. You can download and install FME 2016: Previous Versions of FME

It might work, depending on the versions of the readers, writers and transformers. But no guarantees.

 

 

I don't think you can use FME 2018 Workbench to create workspaces compatible with a previous version of FME. You can download and install FME 2016: Previous Versions of FME

Yes, theoretically it might be possible to create a workspace compatible with FME 2016 if you could use only readers/writers/transformers that had not been updated since 2016, but it would be hard to do that actually.

 

The easiest may be to copy-paste the workspace contents from FME 2018 to 2016. However, be aware that any transformer or reader/writer that is of a version more recent than what was available in FME 2016 won't be transferred.

Yes, theoretically it might be possible to create a workspace compatible with FME 2016 if you could use only readers/writers/transformers that had not been updated since 2016, but it would be hard to do that actually.

 

Would be an interesting challenge though, are you reading this @Mark2AtSafe?

 

Would be an interesting challenge though, are you reading this @Mark2AtSafe?

 

The problem is, how do you back-port functionality or settings that weren''t previously available...
The problem is, how do you back-port functionality or settings that weren''t previously available...
You'd have to compare the transformers fmx file (you know the one I mean) in 2016 and 2018 to see which didn't have newer versions. Then it would be OK to add them in 2018. In theory creating a list of transformers from 2018 that work in 2016 would be quite simple. Then you *could* (and you really shouldn't) remove all newer versions from the 2018 fmx file, so that FME2018 was 2016 compatible. Of course, readers/writers are a completely separate deal! And even then I don't know what would happen. But it would be an interesting and fun experiment, really putting the "hack" in hackathon! cc @redgeographics

 

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