Hello Anders Olsson,
No question is stupid as long as the intention is to learn in this land of FME!
I have seen this happen many a time when I was a learner of FME (Which I continue to do even today and I am still a learner:-)).
One check that you could try with the workbench mapping is to see if the attribute names(column names) in your MapInfo TAB file are in upper/lower case.
ESRI Shape always ( I believe) takes them in upper case. Becuase of this there will be a feature connection existing between the MapInfo TAB and the ESRI SHP definition but not the attributes themselves. (That could be one reason for you to see the right column names but not the attributes in them).
This could also be checked by exposing the attributes on the destination SHAPE file in FME Workbench and to see if the incoming ports are red/green/yellow.
It is my gut
feelings (which may not be right) that you have yellow ports, which mean mismatch in the attribute column names because of the upper/lower case issue.
Check this and see if this solves your problem.
Cheers
Happy FME-ing :-)
SRG
anders_carlbro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to transform MapInfo TAB-files to ESRI SHP-files using
FME workbench (and I have a feeling I am not the first).
For some TAB file I lose the attribute. When I open the shape file
the geometries are their and it is a table whith the rigth column
name but it does not contain any value.
If I transform the TAB-file to a dbase(III)-file it works properly.
So i guess I can do two transformations and then merge the result.
But I wonder why it doesn't work.
I cant open the TAB-file taht fails in my MapInfo v.6.0 it says I
need v.7.0 for that.
I am really a beginner in FME. So I am sorry if this is a stupid
question or I am in the wrong forum, maybe I shold try some MapInfo-
forum.
Anders Olsson
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