I'm having trouble locating a clear answer because of some of the upgrades to the tools that have occured in the 2017 version. PointConnector was superceded by LineBuilder, which works well when I have multiple features with the same value in one field, but sequential values in another field.
What I can't figure out is how to create lines from points by specifying certain fields to connect. For example, I have around 30,000 point features in two different point layers (60k total), which need to be connected based on shared values in a shared field.
I know I can combine these as Suppliers in the FeatureMerger, join them with a requester, and build lines from points, but the tool seems ambiguous on exactly how this works. In other words, I don't know how the tool knows how I want to build lines.
The concept of what I need to do is as follows:
VertexCreator A --> Points A (created from A field) -->
VertexCreator B --> Points B (created from B field) -->
---> Connect point layers as lines with unique shared values in C field of each point layer.
It seems pretty simple from an ArcGIS perspective, but I can't seem to find the right tool for this.
Thanks.
I'm using FME 2018.
