Create new record with the attribute names as the attribute values

Hi @aquamarine,

The AttributeExploder transformer should help you achieve this.

"If the attributes are exploded into Features, each input feature will become many - one for every attribute in the original feature. The new features will have both the original attribute names and values added as new attributes. Below, we use the default new attribute names _attr_name and _attr_value."

"In the case of a spreadsheet, where a row is considered a single feature, this is the equivalent of exploding every cell into its own feature."

Hi @aquamarine, I don't think you need to use a template. You can append only data rows into an existing Excel spreadsheet containing field names row.

Try the configuration below. Assuming the destination Excel file exists and the Sheet1 contains header row formatted with some style.

Thanks @hollyatsafe I have tried the AttributeExploder but I now have two columns _attr_name and _attr_value. How do I get the unique values in _attr_name into the rows of the original attributes?

Thanks @takashi unfortunately the destination Excel file does not already exist....

I suppose you have already tried an approach using a template. You can use the template file as the destination file.

I figured out a way to do this. I used a 'Creator' to create a dummy feature and then added a 'Counter' which gave the dummy feature a count value of 0. Then I used 'AttributeManager' to assign all the attributes values of the dummy feature with a value that is the same as their attribute name. I then used a 'TestFilter' with three ports (Header, Even Rows, Odd Rows) and routed each port to a separate 'ExcelStyler' which enabled me to style the rows differently... Probably not the neatest approach but it did the trick!

@aquamarine, I'm trying to do the same thing. How are you adding the attribute names as values? Are you just manually doing that?

Hi @tnarladni please see the screenshot of my AttributeManager. I used a conditional statement within attribute manager to assign a value depending on whether the row was of count 0 or not. If it is count 0 (ie my dummy record) then I input the attribute name as the value manually.