Accessing Product Help Files

In-depth technical reference documentation is available on the safe.com website at https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/p/documentation.

By default, when you access Help from any FME Form tool (FME Workbench, FME Data Inspector, and others), it opens from the safe.com website. This means that you will always see the latest help topics for updates and for new features.

You can change this default behavior and access product documentation from help files that you install manually to your own system.

To Install Help Files to Your System

Visit the FME downloads page and specify the FME version for which you want documentation.
Note Ideally, the documentation version should match the installed version of FME, but you can install any available version of the documentation.
Under FME Form, click Offline Docs to download the necessary help files.
When the download is complete, extract the zipped files to a folder named help directly under your FME installation folder. You must create the help folder manually.

To Toggle Accessing Help Files Between Offline and Online

Start FME Workbench.
On the menu bar, click Tools and select FME Options.
On the sidebar of the FME Options page, click Default Paths.
Under Documentation Help Locations
- To instruct FME to access help files that you installed to your system, check Use Offline Help.
- To instruct FME to access help files online, uncheck Use Offline Help.
To save the change and keep the FME Options window open, click Apply. To save and close the window, click OK.