Hi, In answer to your questions... --- In [email protected], "barryeakins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have two changes to FME batch processing that I'd like to see > added to the next FME build. > > 1) currently (FME 2006GB) batch processing creates new files in a > folder below where the workbench outputs its files. Thus, if you set > up a workbench to write a file to one folder (for testing purposes), > when running batch on multibple files a subfolder gets created that > contains the output of the files being processed. We routinely have > to then move the 'batched' files up one folder so that they are all > in one place. Please do something about this. Seems to me that when > a folder is specified in the workbench for output, that is where the > output files should go, even when using batch mode.
Well everything SEEMS ok to me - but I could be wrong. It really comes down to is your source format file or folder based, and is your destination format file or folder based? You can get what appear to be weird results - but which in fact are logically correct. If you can give me an idea of the source data structure (format and location) then I might be able to investigate further. > 2) similar issue, this time with coverages (FME ESRI addition). ESRI > coverages have names for the folder/coverage, plus a generic file > name like "arc" underneath. When running batch on multiple coverages > (i.e., >50) in the same source folder, each output file (ESRI shape, > in our case) gets put into a subfolder with the same name as the > source coverage (e.g., h1204/h1204.shp). In order to merge all of > the output shape files into one file, or even view them all in > ArcMap, you have to select them one by one (by going up and down the > directory tree over and over again) or manually move them one by one > up one folder to the original output folder. This is maddening. I've > spent the past hour doing this, and expect that I'll still be doing > this tomorrow as we have a lot more data to process. While ArcGIS > uses folders for some of its data types, you should remove that > structure when writing output to a non-folder data type. Correct - it is a similar issue. Source Coverage files count as file-based datasets - each file is a dataset by itself (in the same way as DXF is). Shape is a folder based dataset - each dataset gets written as a separate folder. Therefore you get an output folder per input file. It's not always how it works, but it is usually logical once you think about it. Anyway, this is an issue that commonly trips up users. I've filed an enhancement request to add a batch processing option to collapse multi-folder output into a single folder, for situations such as this. For your reference it's PR10201 - I'll post a message here when it's implemented. In the meantime, you can always save the batch as a TCL script and make certain changes to that to get the effect you require. This message... http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/fme/message/12623 ... should explain how. Hope this helps, Mark Mark Ireland, Senior Product Specialist Safe Software Inc. Surrey, BC, CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.safe.com Solutions for Spatial Data Translation, Distribution and Access For insights into what's up at Safe Software and what's on the development horizon, visit Safe's blog at spatial-etl.blogspot.com. Safe Software has also made slides available that outline enhancements planned for FME 2007. The slides are from the "Road Ahead" presentation given on Day 2 of the FME Worldwide Users Conference. To view these slides, visit www.safe.com/2006uc. 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/
