What technique would you use if you wanted to write your features to both Excel and Esri Shapefile format?

What technique would you use if you wanted to write your features to both Excel and Esri Shapefile format?

• A. A regular expression in your Destination Dataset parameter
• B. Directory and File Pathnames Reader and a FeatureReader
• C. Feature Type Merge
• D. Multiple writers

Answer: (D)

To write your features to more than one format, you use multiple writers. In FME, a Writer outputs data to a single format. By adding one Writer configured for Excel and another Writer configured for Esri Shapefile, you feed the same stream of features to both writers. FME then writes the data to both destinations in a single translation run. This lets you produce both outputs in parallel without duplicating work. Context: Excel and Shapefile have different storage rules—Excel uses tabular sheets, while Shapefile uses a spatial dataset with specific field and geometry constraints. The writer setup handles those format-specific details, so the same features can be saved to both formats simultaneously. Other options don’t enable multiple outputs. A regular expression in the Destination Dataset parameter adjusts a path, not multiple formats. A Directory and File Pathnames Reader with a FeatureReader is about reading data, not writing. Feature Type Merge combines feature types, not outputs.

To write your features to more than one format, you use multiple writers. In FME, a Writer outputs data to a single format. By adding one Writer configured for Excel and another Writer configured for Esri Shapefile, you feed the same stream of features to both writers. FME then writes the data to both destinations in a single translation run. This lets you produce both outputs in parallel without duplicating work.

Context: Excel and Shapefile have different storage rules—Excel uses tabular sheets, while Shapefile uses a spatial dataset with specific field and geometry constraints. The writer setup handles those format-specific details, so the same features can be saved to both formats simultaneously.

Other options don’t enable multiple outputs. A regular expression in the Destination Dataset parameter adjusts a path, not multiple formats. A Directory and File Pathnames Reader with a FeatureReader is about reading data, not writing. Feature Type Merge combines feature types, not outputs.