@lanthar Glad you found that note helpful. Good news: We've fixed that bug in the latest 2019.0. You can test it out in the current beta. Available here: //www.baooytra.com/support/support-resources/fme-downloads/beta/
Good old wrap it in a custom transformer en voila! group by is possible!
After banging my head trying to figure out why this wasn't working, and using feature caching to do my debugging... I saw this handy post, https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/78585/how-to-add-group-by-to-any-transformer.html
With this IMPORTANT note:
One caveat I’ve noticed about this hack:
Make sure to turn off Feature Caching, otherwise the Group by won’t have any effect.
Thanks a lot. It works.
A possible way is to wrap the AffineWarper by a custom transformer and publish the "Parallel Process By" parameter as a transformer parameter. It's not exactly equal to the regular "Group By", but it works like that. Try the steps illustrated in this image.