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Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration: Beginner's Guide

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Product type Book
Published in Apr 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847199546
Pages 492 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration Beginner's Guide
Credits
Foreword
The Kettle Project
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
1. Getting Started with Pentaho Data Integration 2. Getting Started with Transformations 3. Basic Data Manipulation 4. Controlling the Flow of Data 5. Transforming Your Data with JavaScript Code and the JavaScript Step 6. Transforming the Row Set 7. Validating Data and Handling Errors 8. Working with Databases 9. Performing Advanced Operations with Databases 10. Creating Basic Task Flows 11. Creating Advanced Transformations and Jobs 12. Developing and Implementing a Simple Datamart 13. Taking it Further Working with Repositories Pan and Kitchen: Launching Transformations and Jobs from the Command Line Quick Reference: Steps and Job Entries Spoon Shortcuts Introducing PDI 4 Features Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – assigning tasks by distributing


Let's suppose you want to distribute the issues among three programmers so that each of them implements a subset of the new features.

  1. Select Transformation | Copy transformation to clipboard in the main menu. Close the transformation and select Transformation | Paste transformation from clipboard. A new transformation is created identical to the one you copied. Change the description and save the transformation under a different name.

  2. Now delete all the steps after the Sort rows step.

  3. Change the filter step to keep only the unassigned issues: Assignee field equal to the string Unassigned. The condition looks like the next screenshot:

  4. From the Transform category of steps, drag an Add sequence step to the canvas and create a hop from the Sort rows step to this new step.

  5. Double-click the Add sequence step and replace the content of the Name of value textbox with nr.

  6. Drag three Excel Output steps to the canvas.

  7. Link the Add sequence step to one of these...

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