Flatten Collection

Synopsis

This operator receives a 'collection of collections' and unions all content into a single collection.

Description

The Flatten Collection operator receives a 'collection of collections' and unions the content of each collection into a single collection. For example, if your collection object contains three collections which contain 5 objects each; this operator will return a single collection with 15 objects. Operators like the Collect operator can produce collections and 'collections of collections'. In the Process View, collections are indicated by double lines.

Collections can be useful when you want to apply the same operations on a number of objects. The Collect operator allows you to collect the required objects into a single collection, the Loop Collection operator allows you to iterate over all collections and finally you can separate the input objects from a collection by individually selecting the required element by using the Select operator.

Input

collection

This port expects a collection object. This operator can be useful when this object is a collection of collections.

Output

flat

The given collection object is flattened and delivered through this port.