The IDRISI writer creates and writes feature data to IDRISI files in the folder specified by the DATASET directive. As with the reader, the folder must exist before the translation occurs. Any old IDRISI files in the folder having the same name as files being written are overwritten with the new feature data. As features are routed to the IDRISI writer, the IDRISI writer determines the file into which the features are written to and outputs them accordingly. Many IDRISI files can be written during a single FME session.
In IDRISI, each vector file can have only one type of feature. Any feature not matching the feature type as specified in the mapping file will not be written to file. In addition, any user-defined attributes are written to the database only if an Access database is available.