FME Workspace

Best Practice Report

Report Name	test
Report Generated	18:42:14.913404251 UTC 02-05-2017
Workspace Analyzed	/data/fmeserver/resources/system/temp/emailattachments/20170502184211-BestPractice@fmewt2017-safe-software.fmecloud.com-test/TrainingWorkspace3.fmw
Workspace File Size	41 kb
Workspace Created	201742184211
Workspace Last Modified	201742184211
Workspace Last Run	201742184214

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 (17259) 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: 16674

WARNING:The major version of your workspace (16xxx) is less than the current release build (17259), indicating an older construction.

Recommendation: Before deploying your workspace on the latest FME version you should be sure to thoroughly test the results it produces on that version.

Workspace Name: None. Workspace Category: None.

WARNING:Neither the workspace name or workspace category are set in the workspace properties dialogs.

Recommendation:These are important pieces of metadata. They should be set for all workspaces, particularly those to be deployed on FME Server or FME Hub.

Style Analysis

Bookmarks

Transformer to Bookmark Ratio: N/A

ERROR: You have zero bookmarks. This indicates a lack of best practice!

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

Annotation

Transformer to Annotation Ratio: 0 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

WARNING: The reader C:\FMEData2016\Data\Parks\Parks [MITAB] (MITAB_1) was created in a major version (16xxx) less than the current release build (17259).

Recommendations: You may wish to check if there are functionality and performance gains to be made by replacing these reader(s) with one generated with the current FME version.

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_MITAB.

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

WARNING:The writer C:\FMEData2016\Output\Training1 [FILEGDB] (FILEGDB_1) was created in a major version (16xxx) less than the current release build (17259).

Recommendations: You may wish to check if there are functionality and performance gains to be made by replacing these writer(s) with one generated with the current FME version.

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: 1

WARNING: This workspace contains a feature type, Parks_polygon, whose name contains characters outside A-Z and 0-9

Recommendation: The Workbench interface tries to prevent feature types being given invalid names. However, it's still worth checking to ensure all feature types have names that are valid for the format they are being written to.

Writer Feature Type Attribute Names

WARNING: This workspace contains a writer - C:\FMEData2016\Output\Training1 [FILEGDB] (FILEGDB_1) - with a feature type - Parks_polygon - 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_FILEGDB.

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.