Thanks for the advice Jason. I guess I was looking for a way to save this one project back to the previous version and I already knew the answer. I've started rebuilding it in the previous version so that takes care of it this time.
Usually when I build a workbench file with the intention of sharing it afterwards, I do build it on a development machine but this time, I got caught up in the FMExcitment and forgot about the end users. BTW, sorry for the spelling error in the Subject Line - how embarassing! Thanks again, Wayne. --- In [email protected], "Jason Birch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FME has awesome, even inhuman, backwards compatibility, to the extent that some day I think their office will come crashing to the ground from the amazing effort it takes to maintain this. This is only from the sense of backwards compatibility of running older workspaces in newer versions of FME. Unfortunately, they do not have any way of saving back to previous versions, which I think is more like forwards compatibility. > > The strategy that I have adopted is to ensure that everyone stays on the latest release version, and to use a development machine with that release version to develop any workspaces that I might want to share. On my desktop, I generally keep the latest and greatest beta, but have to be careful not to do anything that I might want to share. Floating licenses make this pretty easy to do. By the way, the most recent beta has some really cool UI improvements, though graphics seem a little glitchy at the moment. Worth a look. > > If you're on AMC, you have the right to run the most recent version, so the simplest solution is to upgrade those users to 2006. > > Jason > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] on behalf of bettyford79 > Sent: Thu 2006-09-21 11:23 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [fme] Backwards Compatability > > > > Hi; > I hope the UC is going well. I wish I could be there but..... > > I'm reluctant to post this as I'm sure that I'm either missing > something really simple or what I want is impossible but either way, > it's making me pull out the little bit of hair I have left so here > goes: > > I've created a workbench file that translates a .dgn file into a > series of shapefiles. The .dgn features are filtered according to > their geometry type, igds_level and other attributes and put into > shapefiles as streams, roads, or what have you. This is a task that > needs to be done often and by a variety of people with a variety of > skill levels so I saved the workbench file (.fmw) as a mapping file > (.fme), set up a nice GUI and distributed it amongst my colleagues. > > The problem is that some of the end users of this bullet-proof > mapping file have got FME2005 on their machines and I've created it > using FME2006 (Build 2182). When it's run with the 2005 versions, it > almost finishes but just before the end, FME stops (the log file > says "Translation complete" but the shapefiles are not created) and > Windows provides a vague message suggesting that there's a problem > with FME EXE and I should tell Microsoft about the problem. If I run > the same file using my FME2006 version, the process is smooth and the > outputs are fine. > > I've tried creating a custom translator from the FME2006 workbench > file and opening it with FME2005 but that's even worse - the machine > hung up for about 2 minutes but eventually opened the .fmw. When it > did, some connections were scrambled, some transformers were missing > (well, at least a bufferer was missing), etc.. I'm not using any > transformers that are not in FME2005 but maybe although they're named > the same they may have subtle differences in their functionality. I'm > going to re-create the workbench file using FME2005 and see if I can > make that work. > > Does anyone know of a way in which I can save my file as a mapping > file so that it's compatible with older versions of FME? Does anyone > have any suggestions for alternatives? (i.e. Editing the mapping > file, replacing the XX transformer with a YY transformer, setting the > bufferer to <fill in the blank>, etc.). > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fme/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fme/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
