Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration Beginner's Guide

Time for action – starting and customizing Spoon

In this tutorial you're going to launch the PDI graphical designer and get familiarized with its main features.

1. Start Spoon.
   • If your system is Windows, type the following command:

     Spoon.bat
     

   • In other platforms such as Unix, Linux, and so on, type:

     Spoon.sh
     

   • If you didn't make spoon.sh executable, you may type:

     sh Spoon.sh
     

2. As soon as Spoon starts, a dialog window appears asking for the repository connection data. Click the No Repository button. The main window appears. You will see a small window with the tip of the day. After reading it, close that window.
3. A welcome! window appears with some useful links for you to see.
4. Close the welcome window. You can open that window later from the main menu.
5. Click ...