Workbench, FME Desktop's graphical authoring environment, lets you specify data flows ("workspaces") to convert, transform, and integrate spatial data and its associated attribution. Like all Graphical User Interfaces, occassionally you need to include a task that the GUI does not support. For these rare occasions you can use some of the scripting tools that are included in FME. FME supports the Python and TCL (Tool Command Language) scripting languages. There is a number of ways to include Python or TCL scripts in your workapce. The primary ones are:

• Startup and Shutdown Python or TCL under the workbench advanced parameters
• PythonCaller or TCLCaller transformers

The articles in this category illustrate many of the ways scripting can enhance your FME workflow.