FME Workspace

Best Practice Report

Report Name	Best Practice check
Report Generated	09:11:58.259638 UTC 22-08-2018
Workspace Analyzed	C:\ProgramData\Safe Software\FME Server\resources\system\temp\emailattachments\20180822091129-BestPractice@34.207.198.62-Best_Practice_check\311.fmw
Workspace File Size	155 kb
Workspace Created	20180822091129
Workspace Last Modified	20180822091129
Workspace Last Run	20180822091129

This report examines best practices for a workspaces that is about to be put into production.

It is assumed that the version of FME being used to generate this report (18520) is the newest release version available. If not, please contact the administrator of this system.

Note that this report does not comment upon the suitability of the workspace to produce the desired result, merely the practices by which it has been constructed.

Workspace Analysis

Last Edited in Build: 18284

PASS:The major version of your workspace (18xxx) is the same as the current release build (18520).

Workspace Name: 311. Workspace Category: None.

WARNING:The workspace category is not set in the workspace properties dialogs.

Recommendation:This is an important piece of metadata. It should be set for all workspaces, particularly those to be deployed on FME Server or FME Hub.

Style Analysis

Bookmarks

Transformer to Bookmark Ratio: 1.4 transformers for each bookmark

WARNING: This value is lower than desirable, indicating an excess of bookmarks.
Recommendation: Use fewer, larger bookmarks.

Recommendations: Use fewer, more targeted, bookmarks; one bookmark for approximately every 5-10 transformers.

Annotation

Transformer to Annotation Ratio: 0.6 transformers for each annotation

WARNING: This value is lower than desirable, indicating an excess of annotations.

Recommendation: It's not necessary to add annotations to every transformer. Use fewer, more targeted annotations.

Reader Analysis

Readers

Reader Generation Versions

PASS: All readers were generated with the same major version of FME (18xxx) as the current release build (18520).

Disabled Readers: 0

PASS: No reader in this workspace is disabled.

Disabled Reader Feature Types: 0

PASS:No reader feature types in this workspace are disabled.

Dangling Readers: 0

PASS: This workspace contains zero "dangling readers", readers without an attached feature type.

Reader(s) with excessive feature types

PASS:No reader in this workspace contains an excess of feature types.

Automatic Source Dataset Published Parameters

WARNING: This workspace contains an automatically published source dataset parameter: SourceDataset_XLSXR.
WARNING: This workspace contains an automatically published source dataset parameter: SourceDataset_OGCKML.

Recommendation: Such parameters are published automatically by FME but are not always needed. If not required they should be deleted, so there is no confusion about what source datasets are allowed.

Unconnected Feature Types: 0

PASS: This workspace contains no reader feature types that are unconnected to the workspace.

Writer Analysis

Writers

Writer Generation Versions

PASS:All writers were generated with the same major version of FME (18xxx) as the current release build (18520).

Disabled Writers: 0

PASS: No writer in this workspace is disabled.

Disabled Writer Feature Types: 0

PASS:No writer feature types in this workspace are disabled.

Dangling Writers: 0

PASS: This workspace contains zero "dangling writers", writers without an attached feature type.

Odd Feature Type Names: 0

PASS: This workspace contains no feature types whose name contains characters outside A-Z and 0-9

Writer Feature Type Attribute Names

WARNING: This workspace contains a writer - LMS Module #1 [CSV2] (CSV2_1) - with a feature type - 311 Data - that has attribute names with mixed cases (Title case, Full Title Case).
WARNING: This workspace contains a writer - 311departments [OGCKML] (OGCKML_2) - with a feature type - 311 Calls by Department - that has attribute names with mixed cases (Title case, Full Title Case).

Recommendation: Although a mix of cases rarely breaks the rules of a format - a mix of Title case and Full Title Case in particular can just be CamelCase - it's better to stick to a single naming case convention.

Coordinate System Parameter Mismatch

PASS: This workspace contains no writer with a coordinate system set that relies on reader coordinate system information being stored in the source dataset.

Automatic Destination Dataset Published Parameters

WARNING: This workspace contains an automatically published destination dataset parameter: DestDataset_OGCKML.
WARNING: This workspace contains an automatically published destination dataset parameter: DestDataset_CSV2.

Recommendation: Such parameters are published automatically by FME but are not always needed. If not required they should be deleted, so there is no confusion about what destination datasets are named.

Transformer Analysis

This section lists the number of times each transformer is used within your workspace. A high number of uses of one or more transformers may indicate that an improvement, such as a custom transformer, is possible.

Transformer	Number Used	Percent
AttributePivoter	1	14
FeatureJoiner	1	14
AttributeManager	1	14
AttributeExposer	1	14
Tester	1	14
KMLStyler	1	14
AttributeValueMapper	1	14

Transformer Percentage

PASS: No single transformer is used more than 25% of the time in this workspace.

Transformer Versions

WARNING: This workspace contains a transformer (AttributeManager) that is out of date. Its version is 1 but the most recent version is 2

Recommendations: You may wish to upgrade these transformer(s). Although this is not compulsory, newer transformers are generally better performing, with fewer errors and more options.