Hope this isn't going against posting etiquette, but I've got a
number of disparate questions for which I can't readily find the
answer. Here goes:
1. Surely this has been discussed before, but is it the case that
there is no facility to resize (i.e. widen) the boxes on the
workbench canvas for features/attributes/transformers? I tend to use
quite verbose names (and indeed plenty of the transformers have long
names), so I'm constantly having to hover the cursor over on object
and wait for the tool tip before I can identify it absolutely.
2. The Move Up / Move Down facility on the User Attributes tab of
the Feature Type Properties window for a destination feature type
seems not to work most of the time; I've had to resort to manually
moving one attribute up/down by one position at a time by right-
clicking on the main canvas. Is this a bug/feature, or is there a
trick to using it?
3. I've noticed that the AttributeRemover does not appear to support
the removal of list attributes - such attributes are not included in
the "Attributes to Remove" pick list. Why is this? The documentation
for the @RemoveAttributes function suggests that list attributes
should be supported.
4. Looking at the documentation, there are plenty of functions (e.g.
@Coordinate) with different 'modes' of invocation, depending upon
the type/value of the supplied parameters. Each transformer supports
one any only one mode of invocation (e.g. CoordinateFetcher calls
@Coordinate((x|y|z),(<index>|END),[FLATTEN_AGGREGATE])) - does this
mean that there will always be other transformers that use the other
invocations, or do you have to get your hands dirty to use them?
5. ... which leads to the question: if you do decide to get your
hands dirty in the mapping file, does this mean that you have to
ditch workbench because it won't necessarily be able to visualise
your script?
Please let me know if I'm doing the right thing in piling such
questions (and there will be more) into this forum, and feel free to
recommend how I might find the answers elsewhere without bothering
everyone ...
Thanks in advance
Simon
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