Feature suggestion: Table to Cell node and "Data table" column type

Dear @mlauber71 ,

I am not exactly sure what that does… Do I understand correctly that this work with a collection of KNIME tables on disk?

I would like to keep the data in the workflow itself. I can hack together components which kind of do this:

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It starts with 2 tables:
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and
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By using a sequence of GroupBys and Column Aggregators it is possible to gather all the data into a single Collection cell:

These cells can then be concatenated:
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…and subsequently unwrapped again into a full table:
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But I think I can hear the Java memory management system / garbage collector scream in agony when I combine lists with different element types in this way :slight_smile:

Naively I don’t think that it should be hard to send whatever output the Table Writer node is creating to a table cell instead of a file, which would probably be more efficient than the method above.

Best
Aswin

KNIME_project14.knwf (61.3 KB)

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