Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration Beginner's Guide

Time for action – creating a simple hello world job

In this tutorial, you will create a very simple job so that you get an idea of what jobs are about.

Although you will now learn how to create a job, for this tutorial you first have to create a transformation.

1. Open Spoon.
2. Create a new transformation.
3. Drag a Generate rows step to the canvas and double-click it.
4. Add a String value named message, with the value Hello, World!.
5. Click on OK.
6. Add a Text file output step and create a hop from the Generate rows step to this new step.
7. Double-click the step.
8. Type ${LABSOUTPUT}/chapter10/hello as filename.
9. In the Fields tab, add the only field in the stream—message.
10. Click on OK.
11. Inside the folder where you save your work, create a folder named transformations.
12. Save the ...