Through this education, which includes examples you will have to solve, you can learn from the professionals about how to use the main components and capabilities of FME.

Goals:

• making simple and complex translations using the FME Workbench
• visualization and data review using FME Data Inspector
• design and construction of the workbench using the optimal way in FME
• manipulating geometries and alphanumeric attributes with transformers
• construction of simply maintained and reusable workbenches

Topics:

Introduction to Safe Software:

• education overview
• FME versions

Data translation basics:

• what is FME?
• FME Desktop components
• introduction to FME Workbench
• introduction to Data Inspection
• input and output data source parameters

Data transformation:

• what is data transformation?
• structural transformation
• transformation by using transformers
• content transformation
• serial transformer
• parallel transformer
• processing by grouping
• data review and FME Workbench
• coordinate system transformation

Workbench construction:

• elaboration of an idea
• design by steps
• data reading and writing flow
• multiple reading and writing
• using FeatureReader and FeatureWriter transformers
• workbench testing techniques
• inspector installation
• partial start

Practical use of transformers:

• selecting a transformer
• most used transformers
• attributes management
• conditional filtering
• data linking

Practical use of transformers:

• selecting a transformer
• most used transformers
• attributes management
• conditional filtering

Best practices:

• which are best practices?
• workbench style with links and notes
• workbench maintenance and acceleration methods
• error detection using logs and data record numbers

Practical exercises:

• workbench and fast transformation creation
• visualization and data review
• data scheme editing and mapping
• data adaptation, transformation and reprojection
• troubleshooting procedures
• ...and many more