> Latest FME builds seem to have dropped the 'global' from their 
> names, can anybody from Safe confirm this?

Yes, that's correct - but of course the old GlobalVariable
transformers will still work if contained in a workspace opened in 2007

I think the issue that forced the change was using Counters in Custom
Transformers.

Counters use GlobalVariables to keep a running count where several
Counters use the same count sequence. This would happen automatically
where used in a Custom Transformer (because each instance of the
transformer would share the same Counter name). 

But this isn't always the effect you need. So GlobalVariables simply
became Variables and now have a local/global setting to determine if
they should apply to the workspace as a whole or separately within
each instance of a custom transformer. 

Hope this explains.

Regards,

Mark

Mark Ireland, Senior Product Specialist
Safe Software Inc. Surrey, BC, CANADA
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