Say I want "new_att" to = count. How can I "reset" the count so that each of the shp files will start at 0 rather than keep going from where it ended on the last file?
I thought that the "local" vs "global" setting controled this behavior but it seems not to make a difference.
If you set the "counter name" parameter of the counter to an unique value for each shapefile (basname for example) it will group the counting of all features with said value.
Global means the counting for this feature is made over the whole workspace whereas local means the counting is only considered in this transformer.
I hope this helps.
Simon
Create a dynamic grouping attribute like for instance this:
First do a counter on all items. (as i created objects, i used the creation instance)
Then create a attribute on your objects:
Grouper = -count/10 (do not use decimal point!)
Now u can set a new counter with counter name = Grouper
Greets
Gio - another good approach - I didn't try it out but from what I understand, your model would need to be further tuned if each incoming shp file had different # of rows in the attribute table? (which is my case)
Owen - got your model working too! Seems to be a lot more clicking than Simon's solution, but I think your approach might be interesting to work with in more complex workspaces!
U could have it change per featuretype. But when your featuretypes have different names anyway, u just use fme_featuretype as counter name (of course)
But it shows the flexibility of generating groups within a featuretype, u could use math for instance to create groupings. Or u could use a table, with fixed values and a merger to create a fixed grouping scheme.