Good afternoon,
My question is quite similar to Steven's, except that I have been
using Workbench. My Source Datasets are for U.S. counties, and I'd
like to allow the user to specify a county name and destination folder
in the FME Mapping File Arguments window, and then the full
path/filename for Destination Datasets to be built from that (using
county name as filename). I know it's easy to set the path and name
for a single Destination Dataset, but I have 7 of them (all text
files, each with a different custom file extension), and since they're
all going to the same place, I'd rather not have 7 different
path/filename parameters to specify at runtime.
I gather from this thread that this sort of thing is possible,
but does it absolutely require a macro? If so, can these macros be
easily integrated into Workbench? I've never created a Custom Mapping
File before.
Regards,
JD
--- In [email protected], "Mark Ireland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Hi Steven,
> Look at the online help for FME Universal Translator. See the section
> entitled 'User Interface Directives'
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> Once you have a GUI that reads a source/destination as a macro you can
> use that macro to define your sourcedataset/destdataset.
>
> Mark
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> Mark Ireland, Product Support Engineer
> Safe Software Inc. Surrey, BC, CANADA
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: stevenp032 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 3:00 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [fme] Variable with Relative data source/destination paths
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> > Does anyone know how to set a user prompted variable, and
> > then utilize relative pathnames for source and destination
> > datasets? I am trying to build a re-useable FME mapping file
> > translation that will prompt for a folder and an additional
> > naming prefix variable. I can easily do this in AML, but I
> > would really love to have the same re- useability in my FME
> > translations.
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