Tagging all features with an attribute

Hi,

Me again. I want to use the date and time the workspace is run as the output file name.

At the moment, I am using a creator, timestamper and featuremerger to add the datetime attribute, then using fanout dataset on the datetime.

This seems a bit of a clumsy way of doing it, as the featuremerger is slow when processing lots of features.

Can anyone think of a better way? Really I want to tag all features with the same value. I could do this by creating a published parameter, but cant think how to populate it with date/time.

Thanks,

Owen

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Put a Creator right at the front of your workspace (create 1 feature and ensure Create At End is set to No, so the Create is the first thing that happens) with a Timestamper going into a VariableSetter. That will set a variable to the first few moments after the workspace was triggered to run.

Then do stuff...

...and at the end use a VariableRetriever to get your value and pin it onto 1 or more features and use it as the attribute to fanout on. See below:

Hi Owen,

Creating the date/time on the features (and formating it accordingly) prevents the merging.

Hope this helps.

GoldenRetrievers! Thanks dave.

Itay- yes you're right, and I tried that to begin with, but it wasnt giving me a unique date/time value, so had multiple fanouts for each minute, etc.

Hi Owen,

You could use a scripted published parameter as the feature type name. The following Python code returns the date & time:

import datetime

now = datetime.datetime.now() # get date & time

return now.strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M") # format the time string

In the Feature Type Properties enter as FeatureType Name: $(NameOfThePublishedParameter)

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