This was posed as a question a few years ago so I thought I’d turn it into an idea as it doesn’t seem to exist as yet. The single merged feature type is a powerful feature of reader feature types and the behaviour should be replicated easily in the Feature Reader - an example being where one wants to scan all feature classes in a file geodatabase and read only the features that intersect the initiator’s geometry.
This means not specifying particular feature types to read, as the existing reader functionality goes. The Feature Reader has the option of a single output port but the existing reader behaviour takes care both of the feature types to read and the output port and that’s what I’m talking about here.
If I’ve missed an idea then feel free to close this and to redirect.
