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Sorting attributes by name ?

  • July 17, 2026
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lifalin2016
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Quick question.

Are there alternatives to using AttributeManager to manually sort attributes by name?

Sort of an AttributeSorterByName or AttributeSortedReexposer transformers ?

Cheers.

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danilo_fme
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  • July 17, 2026

Hi ​@lifalin2016 ,

 

I suggest you to use the transformer Sorter. In this transformer you can choose the Attribute, Method ( Natural, Alphabetic, Numeric) and Order.

 

Thanks in Advance,


todd_davis
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  • July 25, 2026

So I have taken it that you want to order by attribute name (rather than attribute value) and that this is purely something you want from the user interface because you have lots and lots of attribute names.

There may be better ways, but I just create a 4 step process which involves reading the schema and create an ordered schema, which can be imported via data cache into the attribute manager. You could of course just write that feature out into a separate file (like excel) and just import that into the attributemanager.

Then you can connect your real data connection, and remove all the processes used to sort the schema.

There may be a better ways, but this certainly works.

I have ordered each step with 1 through to 4. Hopefully the basic instruction makes sense.