Output Connection

The output details connection is used when copying data to a new set of tables or classes in the external data source.

Note: Output mapping is only used for Copy To tasks in a session. If using a Commit task then the inverse of the input mapping is used and the output mapping is ignored.

The Copy Input Details button can be used to copy existing details from the Input Details tab.

When data has been written to a data store type other than Oracle or SQL, the results will be available to download by clicking Download for the Destination Files.

When data is read from Oracle and written to FME, if no Coordinate Reference System (CRS) is defined, the FME data store will attempt to find one and you may need to specify one manually. For more information on CRS please refer to Coordinate Reference System.

Once the Output Details have been entered, Schema Mapping must be performed (see Output Mapping).

Note: The Data Engineer role is required in order to configure Output Details (see Roles).

Enter Output Connection Details

Navigate to the Data Stores page.
From the Navigation Pane, select the data store to be configured.
Open the Output Details tab.
Select the required Data Store Type from the drop-down menu.

Note: Different parameters will appear depending on which Data Store Type is selected.
Enter the details for your selected Data Store Type.
Click Save.
Click Test Connection to verify the data can be accessed.

Output Details Parameters

When setting up an Output Connection, the Data Store Type you select will determine which parameters appear.

The following tables detail the parameters required for each available Data Store Type.

Autodesk AutoCAD DWG/DXF

Parameter	Description
Destination Files (.dwg, .dxf, .dwf)	Results are available to download by clicking Download.
Coordinate Reference System	Required if the data store will be used in a session that will write data to Oracle. This can be used to specify the CRS of the output data if it cannot be deduced from the input data. This will not re-project the data, but allows it’s current CRS to be defined. See Coordinate Reference System for more information on when this is required.
Export FME Log File	Download the FME log file created during export (to help identify any errors).
Reverse coordinate axis order (y, x)	Reverse the x and y co-ordinate values.
See the FME documentation for details on the other parameters for Autodesk AutoCAD DWG/DXF.

Bentley MicroStation Design (V8)

Parameter	Description
Destination Files (.pos, .fc1, .dgn)	Results are available to download by clicking Download.
Coordinate Reference System	Required if the data store will be used in a session that will write data to Oracle. This can be used to specify the CRS of the output data if it cannot be deduced from the input data. This will not re-project the data, but allows it’s current CRS to be defined. See Coordinate Reference System for more information on when this is required.
Export FME Log File	Download the FME log file created during export (to help identify any errors).
Reverse coordinate axis order (y, x)	Reverse the x and y co-ordinate values.
Seed file	Set the location of the seed file, which controls whether or not the output file is two-dimensional or three-dimensional, and sets the models, the global origin, and the unit information of the destination file.
Allow fill	Controls whether or not fill linkages will be written out for ellipses, shapes, and solids.
Create line elements	If selected, type 3 line elements will be created for two point linear features. If unselected, type 4 elements will be created.
Write tags	If selected, the feature type will also be the tagset name.

Comma Separated Value (CSV)

Parameter	Description
Destination Files (.csv, .gz, .txt)	Results are available to download by clicking Download.
Coordinate Reference System	Required if the data store will be used in a session that will write data to Oracle. This can be used to specify the CRS of the output data if it cannot be deduced from the input data. This will not re-project the data, but allows it’s current CRS to be defined. See Coordinate Reference System for more information on when this is required.
Export FME Log File	Download the FME log file created during export (to help identify any errors).
Reverse coordinate axis order (y, x)	Reverse the x and y co-ordinate values.
Field names specified in file	If the field names (or column names) are specified in the file, this option ensures that the names will be extracted from the file. Otherwise, the columns of the CSV table are given default names (col0, col1, ... , colN).
Field separator	Define how the fields are separated in the file (a comma "," is used by default).
Encoding (e.g. UTF-8)	Controls which character encoding is used to interpret text attributes. If blank, the character encoding will be automatically detected.
File extension	The file name extension for the output file (".csv" by default).
Quote output	If selected, every field (including field or column names) will be quoted (by placing quotation marks around the values).
End of line (Macintosh \| Windows \| Unix \| System)	Define the end of line encoding to be used (Macintosh, Windows, Unix or System).

Esri Enterprise Geodatabase

Parameter	Description
Destination Database	The name of the database.
Coordinate Reference System	Required if the data store will be used in a session that will write data to Oracle. This can be used to specify the CRS of the output data if it cannot be deduced from the input data. This will not re-project the data, but allows it’s current CRS to be defined. See Coordinate Reference System for more information on when this is required.
Export FME Log File	Download the FME log file created during export (to help identify any errors).
Reverse coordinate axis order (y, x)	Reverse the x and y co-ordinate values.
Connection File	Select a connection file (.sde) to be used to connect to the Esri Enterprise Geodatabase.
Dataset	The name of the dataset from which features will be retrieved.
Server	The name of the Geodatabase server used to read data from the dataset.
Instance Name	The name of the Enterprise Geodatabase instance. Note: The typical value for systems with a single ArcSDE instance is esri_sde8.
User ID	User ID of the Enterprise Geodatabase user.
Password	Password for the User ID.
Persistent Connection	Select to keep a connection open and save the processing time required to make and break a database connection.
Commit Transactions After Write	Specifies whether to commit transactions at the end of each write operation. Note: Only valid when the versioning type is set to "transactions".

Esri File Geodatabase

Parameter	Description
Destination Files (.gdb)	Results are available to download by clicking Download.
Coordinate Reference System	Required if the data store will be used in a session that will write data to Oracle. This can be used to specify the CRS of the output data if it cannot be deduced from the input data. This will not re-project the data, but allows it’s current CRS to be defined. See Coordinate Reference System for more information on when this is required.
Export FME Log File	Download the FME log file created during export (to help identify any errors).
Reverse coordinate axis order (y, x)	Reverse the x and y co-ordinate values.
Force geometry to be written with X, Y, Z, M	Select to output a fourth z or m ordinate for objects. Only takes effect if the geometry to be written has 3 ordinates.
Select to use zero rather than Null or NaN when writing out ignored Z ordinates	Select to write ignored values as zero in place of null/NaN (NaN is used for the as-standard PostGIS data store).

Esri Shape

Parameter	Description
Destination Files (.shp)	Results are available to download by clicking Download.
Force geometry to be written with X, Y, Z, M	Select to output a fourth z or m ordinate for objects. Only takes effect if the geometry to be written has 3 coordinates.
Select to use instead of NULL or NaN when writing out ignored Z ordinates (if M is the ignored ordinate, this will always write as zero)	Select to write ignored Z values as zero in place of NULL or NaN. If your ignored ordinate is M, this will always write as zero.
The following parameters are only necessary for FME connections (not GDAL):
Coordinate Reference System	Required if the data store will be used in a session that will write data to Oracle. This can be used to specify the CRS of the output data if it cannot be deduced from the input data. This will not re-project the data, but allows it’s current CRS to be defined. See Coordinate Reference System for more information on when this is required.
Export FME Log File	Download the FME log file created during export (to help identify any errors).
Reverse coordinate axis order (y, x)	Reverse the x and y co-ordinate values.
Convert attribute names to upper case	If selected, attribute names will be converted to upper case.
Treat measures as elevation	If selected, measure data is created from the z values on the features (where they exist). If measure data exists, it is not overwritten by the z values on the feature.
Encoding	Note: This parameter is applicable only if you are working with foreign (non-English) character sets. If your source data contains foreign characters, using this parameter ensures that the original data is preserved.
Strict compatibility	Specifies that shapefiles should be written to a stricter interpretation of the specification.
Surface and solid storage	The following values can be entered: shape_multipatch - To preserve the original structure shape_polygon - To break 3D surfaces into polygon components
Force geometry to be written with X, Y, Z, M	Select to output a fourth z or m ordinate for objects.
For X, Y, Z, M data: Use zero rather than Null or NaN when writing ignored ordinate	Select to write ignored values as zero in place of null/NaN (NaN is used for the as-standard PostGIS data store).

MapInfo Tab

Parameter	Description
Destination Files (.tab)	Results are available to download by clicking Download.
Force geometry to be written with X, Y, Z, M	Select to output a fourth z or m ordinate for objects. Only takes effect if the geometry to be written has 3 coordinates.
For X, Y, Z, M data: Use zero rather than Null or NaN when writing ignored ordinate	Select to write ignored values as zero in place of null/NaN (NaN is used for the as-standard PostGIS data store)
The following parameters are only necessary for FME connections (not GDAL):
Coordinate Reference System	Required if the data store will be used in a session that will write data to Oracle. This can be used to specify the CRS of the output data if it cannot be deduced from the input data. This will not re-project the data, but allows it’s current CRS to be defined. See Coordinate Reference System for more information on when this is required.
Export FME Log File	Click if you want to export log information from FME.
Reverse coordinate axis order (y, x)	Reverse the x and y co-ordinate values.
Encoding	Note: This parameter is applicable only if you are working with foreign (non-English) character sets. If your source data contains foreign characters, using this parameter ensures that the original data is preserved.
Bounds ([xmin] [ymin] [xmax] [ymax])	Allows explicit setting of the bounds of the output features. Defining a tight bound on the range of the data can preserve more accuracy.
Filename prefix	Set a prefix for the output filename.
Write region centroids	Calculate the region centroid and store the x and y values in the corresponding mif_centroid_x and mif_centroid_y format attributes.
Force geometry to be written with X, Y, Z, M	Select to output a fourth z or m ordinate for objects.
For X, Y, Z, M data: Use zero rather than Null or NaN when writing ignored ordinate	Select to write ignored values as zero in place of null/NaN (NaN is used for the as-standard PostGIS data store).

Microsoft SQL Server Spatial

Parameter	Description
Destination Database	The location of the data store.
Coordinate Reference System	Required if the data store will be used in a session that will write data to Oracle. This can be used to specify the CRS of the output data if it cannot be deduced from the input data. This will not re-project the data, but allows it’s current CRS to be defined. See Coordinate Reference System for more information on when this is required.
Export FME Log File	Download the FME log file created during export (to help identify any errors).
Reverse coordinate axis order (y, x)	Reverse the x and y co-ordinate values.
Command timeout	The timeout, in seconds, after which to terminate a query to the database if it has not yet returned a result. If set to zero, there is no timeout.
Export host name	The host name of the Microsoft SQL Server.
Export username	The username of the Microsoft SQL Server.
Export password	The password of the Microsoft SQL Server.
Input spatial type is geography (default: geometry)	If selected, spatial type is geography. If unselected, spatial type is geometry (the default).
Spatial column name	Specify the column to use when writing spatial data to tables.
Orient polygons	When writing geography (geodetic) data, polygons must be oriented according to the left-hand rule: outer boundaries must be counter-clockwise and inner boundaries must be clockwise. If selected, polygons will be automatically re-oriented. You may wish to disable this feature if your input polygons are known to have correct orientation.

Oracle

Parameter	Description
Username	Schema containing the required data.
Password	Password for the selected Username.
Net Service Name	The identifier with which Oracle or JBoss identifies this database.
Host	The name of the machine in which the metadata store is created.
Port	The port number of the host.
Service Name	The Oracle system ID (SID).
JNDI Location	Location of the JNDI Java API (Java Naming and Directory Interface).
Schema Name	Name of the schema to be used.
Scale for Coordinate Data	Scale determines how Oracle should round coordinates, using the number of digits to the right of the decimal point (e.g. 1.23456 at a scale of 3 is 1.234, and at a scale of 1 is 1.2). Note: Rounding the data can cause valid data to become invalid. To be safe, we advise you keep two more decimal places than your geometric tolerance. By default, scale is null and coordinate data is not rounded.
Force geometry to be written with X, Y, Z, M	Select to output a fourth z or m ordinate for objects. Only takes effect if the geometry to be written has 3 coordinates.
For X, Y, Z, M data: Use zero rather than Null or NaN when writing ignored ordinate	Select to write ignored values as zero in place of null/NaN (NaN is used for the as-standard PostGIS data store)

PostGIS

Parameter	Description
Destination Database	The name of the PostGIS-enabled PostgreSQL database. The database must exist in the RDBMS.
Force geometry to be written with 4 coordinates	Select to output a fourth m coordinate for objects. Only takes effect if the geometry to be written has 3 coordinates. Note: In PostGIS, ensure that your coord_dimension integer is set to 4.
Use zero when writing ignored coordinate	Select to write ignored values as zero in place of null.
Export host name	The host name for the PostGIS database.
Export port number	The port number for the PostGIS database.
Export username	The username for the PostGIS database.
Export password	The password for the PostGIS database.

Parameter	Description
Destination Database	The name of the PostGIS-enabled PostgreSQL database. The database must exist in the RDBMS.
Coordinate Reference System	Required if the data store will be used in a session that will write data to Oracle. This can be used to specify the CRS of the output data if it cannot be deduced from the input data. This will not re-project the data, but allows it’s current CRS to be defined. See Coordinate Reference System for more information on when this is required.
Export FME Log File	Download the FME log file created during export (to help identify any errors).
Reverse coordinate axis order (y, x)	Reverse the x and y co-ordinate values.
Command timeout	The timeout, in seconds, after which to terminate a query to the database if it has not yet returned a result. If set to zero, there is no timeout.
Export host name	The host name for the PostGIS database.
Export port number	The port number for the PostGIS database.
Export username	The username for the PostGIS database.
Export password	The password for the PostGIS database.
Spatial type is geography (default: geometry)	If selected, spatial type is geography. If unselected, spatial type is geometry (the default).
Spatial column name	Specify the column to use when writing spatial data to tables (default is GEOM).
Orient polygons	When writing geography (geodetic) data, polygons must be oriented according to the left-hand rule: outer boundaries must be counter-clockwise and inner boundaries must be clockwise. If selected, polygons will be automatically re-oriented. You may wish to disable this feature if your input polygons are known to have correct orientation.
Force geometry to be written with X, Y, Z, M	Select to output a fourth z or m ordinate for objects. Only takes effect if the geometry to be written has 3 coordinates.
For X, Y, Z, M data: Use zero rather than Null or NaN when writing ignored ordinate	Select to write ignored values as zero in place of null/NaN (NaN is used for the as-standard PostGIS data store)

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