Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE - Third Edition

Using the copied rows to manage files in advanced ways

In Chapter 3, Creating Basic Task Flows, you learned to manage files by copying, moving, and zipping files among other operations. At that time, you were introduced to the different steps and Job entries meant to do these operations. There are still two more ways to manage files:

• Copying rows to the arguments of an entry
• Using result filelists

We will explain the first of these options. In the section, Working with file lists, you will learn about the other method.

As you know, when configuring a Job entry, you have the possibility to type fixed text or use variables. Look at the following sample Job entry:

Sample zip file entry

Using variables for the arguments of the entry is a flexible ...