Is there a generic way to extract the feature count for each feature type in the writer? For example, I would like to capture this information either in the same workspace, or from the log file's Feature Written Summary section. I would like to capture this info for each updated feature type to a central location for review and reporting. Most of our FME processes are running on FME server.
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How to capture writer feature count per feature type?
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By far the easiest (in my opinion) is to use the FeatureWriter rather than the regular writers. You can then use a ListExploder on the Summary _feature_type{} list, which will contain the counts for each feature type. You can then pass those values to a second FeatureWriter or a regular writer to update whatever it is you need.
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By far the easiest (in my opinion) is to use the FeatureWriter rather than the regular writers. You can then use a ListExploder on the Summary _feature_type{} list, which will contain the counts for each feature type. You can then pass those values to a second FeatureWriter or a regular writer to update whatever it is you need.
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By far the easiest (in my opinion) is to use the FeatureWriter rather than the regular writers. You can then use a ListExploder on the Summary _feature_type{} list, which will contain the counts for each feature type. You can then pass those values to a second FeatureWriter or a regular writer to update whatever it is you need.
@david_r, thanks, will give it a try.
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By far the easiest (in my opinion) is to use the FeatureWriter rather than the regular writers. You can then use a ListExploder on the Summary _feature_type{} list, which will contain the counts for each feature type. You can then pass those values to a second FeatureWriter or a regular writer to update whatever it is you need.
@david_r. Created a customer transformer to take the FeatureWriter's Summary port and capture the feature type and write count and save them to a table Data_Update_History. Works great. The problem is now the FME server only reports the Feature Written to Data_Update_History table which is always "1" for the workspace run, rather than the feature written by the FeatureWritter. Is there a way to configure this to report the features written by the FeatureWriter?
@david_r. Created a customer transformer to take the FeatureWriter's Summary port and capture the feature type and write count and save them to a table Data_Update_History. Works great. The problem is now the FME server only reports the Feature Written to Data_Update_History table which is always "1" for the workspace run, rather than the feature written by the FeatureWritter. Is there a way to configure this to report the features written by the FeatureWriter?
This is a known limitation, I've posted a workaround using a Cloner and a NULL writer here:
Please also consider voting for the idea to get this fixed :-)
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This is a known limitation, I've posted a workaround using a Cloner and a NULL writer here:
Please also consider voting for the idea to get this fixed :-)
@david_r The FME log includes count for featurewriter in 2018.1. Yes I would vote to include the featurewriter counts in FME server.
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@david_r The FME log includes count for featurewriter in 2018.1. Yes I would vote to include the featurewriter counts in FME server.
The FME server report writer count should include both featurewritter and conventional writer.