I am working with a fairly large dataset and using FeatureWriter to write more than 200 data layers to a GDB. You could say that it is a complete template that can be reused. However, FeatureWriter seems to have an issue where it automatically defaults the Geometry Type of all features to a fixed type when I click on each input row to inspect it, even though my 200+ layers contain many different geometry types (points, lines, and polygons), all of which have been explicitly configured rather than using the “From First Feature” option.
Initially, I thought I might have configured the Geometry Type incorrectly for some of the layers. However, after I manually configured the Geometry Type for all 200+ layers and clicked on FeatureWriter again, the same issue occurred.
To be honest, I preferred the FeatureWriter in previous versions. I believe the version before 2024 was very stable. However, since the FeatureWriter interface was changed and the “From First Feature” option was introduced, I have noticed that it seems to be less stable. That said, operations involving more than 200 layers, such as copying information from one table to another within FeatureWriter, do seem to be faster.
By the way, it would be extremely helpful if FeatureWriter could be further improved with features such as the ability to copy layers or select multiple layers and perform operations such as Move Up, Move Down, or Delete. At the moment, I still have to click on each layer individually, and moving or deleting layers is quite slow when working with such a large number of layers.