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Appearance

Select Tools > FME Options and click the Appearance icon.

Fonts

Set the default font to be used on the workspace canvas and in the translation log.

Object Names

This option allows you to specify how object names are truncated: from the left, right, or center.

For example, if object names consist of frequently occurring prefixes, you may want to truncate the text from either the center or the left so you can see more descriptive text at a glance.

This option affects reader, writer, and transformer object names.

Sound Options

You can adjust FME sound events using the Windows Sound and Audio Devices Properties. You can set Workbench to make a distinctive sound whenever an object is copied, cut, pasted, connected, and deleted. It will also tell you when a translation is successful or has failed. You can also set two events in the FME Data Inspector: when a data load is complete, and when a redraw is performed (but only if the redraw is longer than 3 seconds).

Note that by default all the sounds are set to Off. Follow these steps to enable them:

  • Click the Configure Sound Events button.
  • Scroll through the Program Events until you find FME Workbench or FME View.
  • Select the sound to associate with the applicable event.
  • Click OK.

Workspace Search Options

By default, the Workspace Search appears as a link in the Navigator. When you click the link, the Workspace Search dialog appears:

You can change the way the Workspace Search appears in Workbench. Check Search bar embedded in Navigator window to change the link in the Navigator to an embedded search bar at the bottom of the Navigator window.

Detailed information on using Workspace Search

Themes

You can change the way objects are displayed on the canvas. Currently, there are two different themes to display: Default and Classic.

Default Theme

Classic Theme

Themes are stored in the <FME_Dir>\res\themes folder. Advanced users can customize the theme in the following ways:

  • In the Classic folder, edit any of the images, or edit the settings.ini file.
  • Click Install, to upload your own theme, then use the Current Theme drop-down to switch to that theme.

Restore Defaults

Click the Restore Defaults button at the bottom of the dialog to revert this page to FME installation defaults. You will be prompted to confirm your selection.