The features are a subset of US Census tracts, and a handful of them have multi-part geometries that do not share a boundary. My goal is to treat these multi-part geometries as a single unit based on the unique ID (FIPS code) for each tract.
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If you have the Group By set to the unique id it should be retained after dissolving
If you have the Group By set to the unique id it should be retained after dissolving
The only problem is, I have the Group By set to the state code (as I want to form dissolved groups by state) but this results in a loss of the unique ID's (FIPS code for each tract). My only idea at this point is to repeat a dissolve and aggregate process (using the unique ID's as the Group By parameter for both transformers) for each state by first filtering out Census Tracts that belong to that state, but this would be quite inefficient.
The only problem is, I have the Group By set to the state code (as I want to form dissolved groups by state) but this results in a loss of the unique ID's (FIPS code for each tract). My only idea at this point is to repeat a dissolve and aggregate process (using the unique ID's as the Group By parameter for both transformers) for each state by first filtering out Census Tracts that belong to that state, but this would be quite inefficient.
I'm not sure I quite understand your requirement, but you can put both the state code AND and unique ID as group by, in which case it is the combination of these values that is considered.
You can also configure the Dissolver to generate a list attribute containing the attributes from all the polygons that were dissolved.