Absolutely amazing! I should of asked sooner - could of saved me days!
And thanks for your brisk style in answering, it was perfect.

Let me try to fanout to separate feature classes in a GDB as a
destination seems a very similar process.

Thanks,
Lee G.
Wash DC

--- In fme@yaho..., "Jeff Konnen" <jaykayone@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> open workbench,
>
> - add your GDB dataset in the SOURCE menu
> - add a shape dataset to the DESTINATION
> - click on your datatype (your featureclass) on the left side and choose
> "Duplicate as destination"
> - connect the two with an arrow
> - open the properties of the shape featuretype and choose "Fanout on
> attribute" and choose the OBJECTID
>
> - Run
>
> - Done
>
> ;-)
>
> j.
>
> On 8/6/07, leegold58 <leegold58@...> wrote:
> >
> >   I have a Geodatbase in ESRI. Inside the GDB is one (1) feature
class.
> > Inside this feature class are rows. Each row is a polygon.
> >
> > I want to tranform this feature class inside the GDB into a folder
full
> > of shape files where each shape file is a polygon per each row of the
> > feature class.
> >
> > Using FME 2005.
> >
> > Please keep it simple - I'm new to FME.
> >
> > Thank you sincerely,
> > Lee G.
> >
> >  
> >
>
>
>
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