Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration Beginner's Guide

Time for action – using a Database join step to create a list of suggested products to buy

If your customers ordered a product that is out of stock and you don't want to let them down, you will suggest them some alternative puzzles to buy.

1. Open the transformation of the previous tutorial and save it under a new name.
2. Delete the Text file output step.
3. Double-click the Group by step and add an aggregated field named customers with the list of customers separated by (,). Under Subject, select idcus and as Type, select Concatenate strings separated by ,.
4. Double-click the Database lookup step. In the Values to return from the lookup table grid, add pro_theme as value in the String field.
5. Add a Select values step. Use it to select the fields customers