Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration Beginner's Guide

Time for action – aborting when there are too many errors

1. Open the transformation from the previous tutorial and save it under a different name.
2. From the Flow category, drag an Abort step to the canvas.
3. Create a hop from the Write to log step to the Abort step.
4. Double-click the Abort step. Enter 5 as Abort threshold. As Abort message, type Too many errors calculating age of film!.
5. Click OK.
6. Select the Dummy step and do a preview. As a result, a warning window shows up informing you that there were no rows to display. In the Step Metrics tab, the Abort after 5 errors line becomes red to show you that there was an error:
   
7. The log looks like this:

   ... - Bad ...