Previously for simplification purposes on reports, I would use the Total Count feature and define the attribute name as TOTAL for the number of objects with an id field. Now it dumps my counts to a field called id.total_count which I then have to run through an attributerenamer to change the attribute name to TOTAL which adds more transformation, clutters the workspace further, and uses more memory. Why was this function removed? Was it really such a big issue to be able to define the name of the output attribute?
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Why was the ability to define the Summary Output Attribute Name removed from the newest versions of StatisticsCalculator? Was it really such a big issue to be able to define the name of the output attribute?
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Hi @gmbutler2 thank you for the sharing your thoughts on the StatisticsCalculator in 2020. The GUI and the Output names was changed to match other Statistics Calculator transformers like the RasterStatisticsCalculator and the PointCloudStatisticsCalculator . The new interface allows users to customize which statistics they want for which attributes and whether they should be calculated numerically or lexically regardless of input attribute type. The stat suffix names are consistent. If you are upgrading the transformer from 2019 to 2020 the output names will be preserved if they had custom names. Please see this article.
Also I would like to make you aware of an idea on the community that you could add a vote to. I hope this information was helpful.
Thanks, Daragh