Introduction to FME Desktop
Overview
This course introduces the essential components and capabilities of FME through hands-on problem-solving exercises. It is a condensed version of the more in-depth FME Desktop Basic training and is a great start to become an efficient user of FME.
The course covers:
- Format Translations
- Transformation Tools
- Common Workflows
Learning Objectives
- Learn what FME Desktop is and what it can do for you
- Convert data from one format to another using FME Workbench
- View and inspect data using the FME Data Inspector
- Manipulate data structure and content with transformers
- Work with multiple datasets in a single workspace
- Apply best practices to workspaces
Prerequisites
- None
Training Resources
To complete this training, you need a licensed version of FME Desktop installed. You can request a free trial or may be eligible for a grant license. The training material is produced using FME Desktop 2018.1, but many of the steps are applicable to older versions.
You can download the data here. After downloading, extract the data to C:\FMEData2018.
Overlap with FME Desktop Basic Training
| Introduction | Basic | |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | - | |
| Getting Started (20 minutes) | Similar skills as first half of Data Translation Basics | |
| What is FME? | What is FME? | |
| FME Components | FME Desktop Components | |
| FME Workbench | Introduction to FME Workbench | |
| Exercise 1.1 | Similar skills as Exercise 1: Exploring FME | |
| Quiz | - | |
| Translations (30 minutes) | Similar skills as second half of Data Translation Basics and first half of Data Transformation | |
| Generate Workspace | Creating a Translation | |
| Exercise 2.1 | Similar skills as Exercise 2: Basic Workspace Creation | |
| Inspecting Data | Introduction to the FME Data Inspector | |
| Exercise 2.2 | Similar skills as Exercise 3: Basic Data Inspection | |
| Feature Caching | Integrated Inspection | |
| Exercise 2.3 | - | |
| Schema and Data Model | Structural Transformation | |
| Exercise 2.4 | Similar skills as Ex 1: Schema Editing and Exercise 2: Structural Transformation | |
| Quiz | - | |
| Transformations (45 minutes) | Similar skills as first third of Practical Transformer Use | |
| Transformers | Transformation with Transformers | |
| Exercise 3.1 | - | |
| Locating Transformers | Locating Transformers and children | |
| Exercise 3.2 | - | |
| Common Transformations | Most Valuable Transformers | |
| Exercise 3.3a | - | |
| Exercise 3.3b | - | |
| Quiz | - | |
| Workflows (30 minutes) | ||
| The Workflow | Transformers in Series and Transformers in Parallel | |
| Multiple Readers, Writers, and Feature Types | Multiple Readers and Writers | |
| Exercise 4.1 | - | |
| Best Practice | Annotating Workspaces and Bookmarks | |
| Exercise 4.2a | - | |
| Exercise 4.2b | - | |
| Quiz | - | |
| Wrap-up | - |