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Add Sorting and Multi-Select Bulk Edit to FeatureWriter

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  • July 16, 2026
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reedwhit
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Please improve the FeatureWriter editing experience for large numbers of feature types. Suggested enhancements:

  1. Allow input ports / feature types to be sorted alphabetically, for example by right-clicking the FeatureWriter on canvas and choosing Sort.
  2. Inside the FeatureWriter dialog, support sorting selected or all feature types, either with a Sort command or beside the move up/down controls.
  3. Add bulk-edit behavior inside the FeatureWriter so multiple feature types can be selected and common per-feature-type settings can be applied to all selected items at once, similar to multi-select property editing in IDEs such as Visual Studio.

This would make FeatureWriter much easier to manage when working with many feature types, especially dynamic schema-heavy sources. Right now feature types can be manually reordered, but there is no efficient sort or bulk apply workflow.   This would streamline “create if needed” tables and changing to operations to UPSERT while setting specific or common update key field; “Match Columns”   Also, the bulk change to the table qualifier and other “apply to” like behavior will bring up the parity with the classic Feature Writer workflows.