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Copy Parameters between Workspaces

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Copying parameters between workspaces (like copying transformers)

@andras40 @richardsnyder3 If you use the parameter in a transformer and copy the transformer, the parameter will also be copied. Perhaps a workaround for your request?
BIG second on Andras' request. If you could drag and drop parameters from one workspace to another, that would be great
that workaround is viable.... if you delete the transformer you copy over before applying its parameters to another transformer, the parameters disappear... still its a viable workaround
@larsdevries1 I'm aware of the transformer published parameters. But as @richardsnyder3 mentioned it disappears when deleting the transformer. (I don't remember if editing the parameter would help.)However it is not that comfortable when I us use the parameters from Python scripts. (create transformer - reference the parameter- copy/paste - disable the transformer or edit something on the parameter if it works...)Copying the parameters would be really an advantage.Especially multiple ones 😎 , when my script reads several parameters eg: shutdown email: fail subject, success subject, fail send to, success send to, timestamp log file, attach fail log, attach success log, attach-log-if-logged-features, etc.
Yes please, I would like that! 😃
Definitely worthwhile. So far I've seleted he parameters to copy into a ParameterFetcher, which you can then copy/paste to another workspace with the parameter definitions. Work well, but it's needlessly convoluted.

I agree. Sometimes I create a certain type of parameter and I want to copy his definition for another.

Copying conditional statements between transformers would be invaluable.

Importing (copying) Published and/or Private Parameter from another workspace would be a big time saver and promotes naming standards and prompt consistency. Can wait when I can store and maintain workspace level parameters in one workspace as my "parameter-repository" workspace!

Good news, this is in FME 2017.0 build 17181 and later. You can right click on a parameter and copy or duplicate, and then to paste (for now) you right click on the canvas of the target.

This has been released as part of FME 2017.0 . Visit http://www.safe.com/downloads to download and give it a spin.

I'm using this feature heavily, and I appreciate it very much. A minor improvement would be to have the paste option available on the Published/Private Parameter nodes, not just the User Parameters node.

Add copy multiple parameters, please! You could select multiple parameters and choose Copy.

Agreed. We'll see what we can do.

 

 

I agree -- I personally have bumped into this limitation. We'd have to make it a right click option as the tree control doesn't allow multiple selection generally. We'll see what we can do.

 

 

The ability to copy multiple parameters at once is a nice improvement. It would be even better if the order was maintained when pasting, rather than being sorted alphabetically.

I use a lot of concatenated parameters and when they're resorted I get a lot of undefined macro derefenced errors.

Hi @jdh. I wanted to let you know that maintaining the order of published parameters has been fixed in 2018.1.

 

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