Module Review

This chapter looked at User Parameters and some of the more advanced techniques involved in their use.

What You Should Have Learned from this Module

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

Theory

• FME is used by both workspace authors and end-users. In general, authors make use of FME parameters; end-users make use of user parameters.
• User parameters accept user input that can be used within a workspace
• User parameters can be linked to FME parameters as an indirect form of control
• Many types of user parameters exist, to allow the user to enter different types of information in a controlled way
• Parameters can be shared to reuse their content in multiple places.
• Parameters can be embedded or scripted to construct complex values from simple input

FME Skills

• The ability to use FME parameters and to create user parameters
• The ability to extract information from user parameters and/or link user parameters to FME parameters
• The ability to use complex parameter types such as Choice with Alias, or Attribute Name.
• The ability to use shared, embedded, and private parameters