Cloner

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Cloner is a Workbench Transformer.

The Cloner makes x copies of every feature that passes through. An attribute holding the copy number is added to every feature.

The number of copies may be a constant integer, or can be taken from the value of an attribute on the feature by selecting the attribute from the pull-down list.

Note that cloning of features happens automatically in Workbench whenever more than one connection is made from any output port of a transformer. This transformer can be used to make a dynamic number of copies of a particular feature.

If the number of copies is set to 1, then the transformer acts as a "null" operation and is useful to provide a place to connect several inputs together and join them into single stream of features to be routed elsewhere. This would be purely to make it easier for the user to work with the workbench.