Creating a New Workspace

When you select File > New, you will see the FME Workbench welcome dialog. From here, you will have three options to create a new workspace (or you can open an existing workspace):

• Create a blank workspace: Opens a blank workspace file. You can build a workspace and then save it to a file later.

• Use the workspace wizard Lets you quickly define source and destination formats and generate an initial workspace.

• Open the workspace dialog Opens a traditional dialog, from which you can set up your initial workspace. This dialog also appears when you drag a file onto the Workbench icon or click the New Workspace button .

• Open an existing workspace: Open a workspace from the displayed list, or browse to another directory.

What's next?

After you create your initial workspace, you might want to

• refine the existing source data by importing feature type definitions

• add additional source datasets

• merge datasets that have the same format and schema

• insert transformers

• add additional destination datasets

• merge feature types

• set feature type fanout properties

• set dataset fanout properties

• convert to a different coordinate system

• run the translation