The why and how-to of authoring dynamic workspaces in FME

1. Dynamic Workflows
Brian Pont
Product Support Specialist

2. Dynamic Workflows
 Are Your Workspaces Dynamic?
 Why Dynamic?
 Flexible, Re-Usable and Less Maintenance

3. Basics
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4. New Dynamic UI | 2015.1
 Compact
 Intuitive
 Flexible

5. Simple Example
 Shapefile Reprojector:

6. Types of Dynamic Workflows
 4 Sources for Dynamic Schema:
 From the Source Dataset
 From an External Dataset
 From a Lookup Table
 From List Attributes

7. Why I Love List Attributes!
 Schema Defined in the Workspace
 Schema Defined at Runtime
 FME Does all the Work
 Can use a FeatureReader

8. How?
 FeatureReader: Schema Output Port
 Other Key Sources:
 Schema (Any Format) Reader
 AttributePivoter, SchemaSetter

9. Where Can I Use Them?
 Writer:

10. What Does The List Look Like?
 Schema in List Attributes:

11. List Attribute Example

12. Thank You!
 Questions?
 For more information:
 Brian Pont, brian.pont@safe.com
 Safe Software Inc.
 Dynamic Workflows Tutorial