Module Review

This session was designed to help you understand the different components of a translation, how they can be controlled, and how they interact.

What You Should Have Learned from this Module

The following are key points to be learned from this session:

Theory

A translation is made up of a Workspace, Readers and Writers, and Feature Types. Tools exist to manage all of these components
Readers and Writers are defined by entries in the Navigator window, Feature Types by objects in the workspace canvas
Translations are controlled by Reader and Writer Parameters, and Feature Type Parameters
Datasets are selected by Reader and Writer parameters in the Navigator window, not in the canvas
The Unexpected Input Remover filters incoming data if it doesn’t match a known feature type defined in the workspace

FME Skills

The ability to set up and manage the components of a translation
The ability to control a translation with read and write parameters
The ability to handle source datasets regardless of feature type or attributes.

Further Reading

For further reading why not browse articles tagged with Feature Type on our blog?