Time for action – creating a folder with a Kettle job

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

  1. Open Spoon.
  2. Navigate to File | New | Job or press Ctrl+Alt+N. A new job is created.
    Time for action – creating a folder with a Kettle job
  3. Press Ctrl + J. The Job properties window appears. Give the job a name and description as shown in the following screenshot:
    Time for action – creating a folder with a Kettle job
  4. Press Ctrl + S to save the job.
  5. To the left of the screen, there is a tree with job entries. Expand the General category of job entries, select the START entry, and drag it to the work area, ...

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