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FME Best Practice for 2014Fighting the Bad Practice Pirates

Organization is Important!

You wouldn’t not organize your child’s birthday party!

You wouldn’t not organize your trip to the FME International User Conference 2014!

So why would you not organize your FME Workspaces?

Bad FME Practices are not a victimless crime

For more information on how unorganized workspaces harm the economy, please visit

www.safe.com

Best Practices

FME Best Practices are split into four categories:

• Methodology• Style• Performance• Debugging

Methodology

Use Workbench efficiently, to speed up creation of workspaces.

2014

• Custom Transformers• Versioning

• Constants• Replaced by “Edit Value”

• Canvas• Right-click resets zoom

Style

Create workspaces that are easy to read and understand.

2014

• Improved annotation• Font• Font Color/Size• Background Color• Tables and Hyperlinks• Bullet Points

Style

Create workspaces that are easy to read and understand.

2014

• Layout without a grid• Align• Spread

• Add as Toolbar shortcuts

Performance

Think about your actions. Small changes can have a big impact.

2014

• FeatureMerger• Suppliers First Parameter

• GeometryReplacer• Remove Attribute Parameter

Debugging

Use all the available tools and resources to aid in debugging.

2014

• Help Window• Includes all Help docs

• FME Server• Topic Monitoring• View log of job

in progress

The unauthorized absence of FME methodology, style, debugging, and performance is illegal.

FME Best Practice infringement is investigated by FME law enforcement agencies and is punishable by up to five years

in a correctional training institution.

Thank You!

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