Hi,

I need to write to several feature classes with the same schema but different prefixes to the names e.g. FAIL_wPressureMain. I am using an XML workspace schema only as template to define the output ( has subtype and domains). In the schema there is wPressureMain. The writer creates a feature class wPressureMain with everything correct but when I output a prefixed name e.g. FAIL_ the the subtype is not respected (haven't checked domains yet).

I am presuming at the moment that somehow the new name does not match the schema 'name' wPressureMain and hence thinks it's something new and just writes out the data with the new name , loosing the subtype definition?

Is there a way to fix this or is this correct behaviour? Or something broken in my script?

I could create a schema for FAIL_wPressureMain and all my other classes and prefixes likewise, the result would empty feature class output, creating a different problem of deleting empty stuff ... python script ... Shouldn't there be a way internal to FME to allow deletion of unwanted data in a gdb in this sort of case?

Thanks in advance,

Ian