FME Form Best Practice
Welcome to our FME Form (formerly FME Desktop) Best Practice training course. We focus on equipping you with the techniques you need to build functional, performant, and easily maintainable FME Workspaces. We'll explore the fundamentals of best practice, highlighting their importance and the FME tools that support them.
This hands-on course uses the latest version of FME and features exercises and examples with both global and local datasets. You'll participate in interactive workshop activities focused on building modern and efficient FME Workspaces, helping you maximise your FME investment.
- Hone your FME Best Practice techniques
- Up-to-date expertise from our team of FME Certified Trainers with real-world project experience
- Training with the latest version of the FME Platform for up-to-date skills
- Exercises and examples based on UK, European and global datasets for local and international context
- Get best practices, tips, and tricks to be effective quickly
Goals
- Build functional, high-performance, and easily maintainable FME Workspaces.
- Understand the fundamental principles of FME best practices and the tools that support them.
- Master effective workspace authoring techniques, including prototyping, testing, debugging and data visualisation with feature caches.
- Learn to leverage FME Parameters for optimal workspace reusability and efficiency.
- Expertly utilise FME Form's tools for comparing and managing workspaces.
Our FME Form Best Practice training focuses on equipping you with the techniques to build functional, performant, and easily maintainable FME Workspaces. We'll explore the fundamentals of best practice, highlighting their importance and the FME tools that support them. You'll then delve into effective workspace authoring, covering everything from prototyping and mastering testing, debugging, and data visualisation with feature caches, to leveraging FME Parameters for optimal reusability. Finally, the course will guide you through expertly utilising FME Form's powerful tool for comparing and managing workspaces.
With so much data out there for you to process, we’ve built our content around custom UK, European and global based examples, that we use to give you both a local and a broad context to the course. We use this data so you can see how to read and write data effectively and make new integrations, whilst adhering to best practice techniques and offering tips and tricks to help you be effective quickly.
Who?
This course is intended as an early intervention to provide users, ideally in their first year of using FME Form with some guidance to make you an efficient and effective FME workspace author, right from the beginning. Typical candidates are:
- Users that want some guidance on core things to think about to make their workspaces easier to maintain and more performant.
- Completely new users that have just been given access to an FME Form licence.
- Users that have used FME for a while, but never had any formal training.
- Users returning to FME after a break, who want to refresh and update their skills.
- Candidates studying before taking the FME Certified Professional Exam.
TESTIMONIAL: "Very helpful tips and tricks were learned." Thuyen Buendia, Geographic Information Systems Analyst, Pinellas County Government
Our Approach
To ensure a flexible training experience, we deliver this course in the following formats:
- Half a day of focused training time between 12:30 and 16:30.
- Bundled with content from other courses as part of a bespoke offering just for your organisation.
If you'd like something bespoke or would like to chat about the details, just get in touch by completing the form below and adding some extra detail to the 'please tell us more' text box.
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Training events:
- 9th December 2025
- 27th February 2026
- 26th June 2026
- 30th October 2026
- Bespoke or Private? Just ask!