Best Practice
From fmepedia
What is Best Practice?
In general terms Best Practice means the best way of doing something; in other words carrying out a task in the most effective and efficient manner.
Why use Best Practice?
Workspaces are rarely static and used repeatedly without being edited; sooner or later the source or destination schema will change, or edits will be needed to take advantage of new or updated FME functionality.
Best Practice makes it easier to navigate an existing workspace and understand how it has been designed, and thus simplifies the editing process. It’s very much like a computer programmer adding comments to his code to explain his actions. As an example, In 2006 FME had 2.7 million lines of code, and more than 780,000 (nearly 30%) of these were comment lines.
Sharing and re-using FME resources means that an FME user does not have to create every workspace from scratch: a change to a shared resource will be passed on through any workspaces that make use of it. The technical term for this is scalability.
Specifically, Best Practice in FME can help you to…
- Distinctly define different sections or components of a workspace
- Quickly navigate to a specified section or particular transformer
- Pass a workspace on to another user for editing
- Rename workspaces and content with a more explanatory title
- Re-use workspace components in different projects
- Update multiple workspaces by editing a central, shared definition
FAQ
See this page for Best Practice FAQ.
