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

  1. Visit the FME downloads page
  2. Under "View and download FME-related software," download the "FME Form Offline Documentation" for the desired FME version and language.
    Note  Ideally, the documentation version should match the installed version of FME, but you can install any available version of the documentation.
  3. In FME Workbench, select Utilities > FME Options > Default Paths. Under Documentation Access, click the Insert Row icon (+) and select Import.
  4. On the Import Help Documentation dialog, navigate to the Help ZIP File you downloaded and click OK.
  5. When the import is complete, a path to the help folder appears under Documentation Access.

To Toggle Accessing Help Files Between Offline and Online

  1. Start FME Workbench.
  2. On the menu bar, click Utilities and select FME Options.
  3. On the sidebar of the FME Options page, click Default Paths.
  4. Under Documentation Access
    • 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.
  5. To save the change and keep the FME Options window open, click Apply. To save and close the window, click OK.