Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration Beginner's Guide

Time for action – creating a hop with the mouse-over assistance

You already know several ways to create a hop between two job entries or two steps. Now you will learn a new way:

1. Create a job and drag two job entries to the canvas. Name the entries A and B.
2. Position the mouse cursor over the entry named A and wait until a tiny toolbar shows up below the entry icon as shown:
   
3. Click on the output connector (the last icon in the toolbar), and drag toward the entry named B. A grayed hop is displayed.
4. When the mouse cursor is over the B entry, release the mouse button. A hop is created from the A entry to the B entry.

What just happened?

You created a hop ...