Pentaho Data Integration Quick Start Guide

Sequencing tasks

In the preceding example, we had only two entries: a START entry (mandatory in every job) and a Ping a host entry. This job was deliberately simple, in order to demonstrate how to create and run a job. In the real world, jobs can have several linked entries, as shown in the following diagram:

Sample job with many entries

This sample job was designed to run all of the entries in a row, but that's not always the case. As shown in the very first example in the chapter, the entries can also take alternative paths. Upon the success of an entry, you can take one way or another in the flow. The execution of every entry will depend ...