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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

Designing transformations and jobs


The following are the shortcuts that help the design of transformations and jobs:

Action

Shortcut

New step/job entry

Drag the step/job entry icon to the work area and drop it there

Edit step/job entry

Double-click

Edit step description

Double-click the middle mouse button

New hop

Click a step and drag toward the second step while holding down the middle mouse button or while pressing Shift and holding down the left mouse button

Edit a hop

Double-click in transformations, right-click in jobs

Split a hop

Drag a step over the hop until it gets wider

Select some steps/job entries

Ctrl+click

Select all steps

Ctrl+A

Clear selection

Esc

Copy selected steps/job entries to clipboard

Ctrl+C

Paste from clipboard to work area

Ctrl+V

Delete selected steps/job entries

Del

Align selected steps/job entries to top

Ctrl+Up

Align selected steps/job entries to bottom

Ctrl+Down

Align selected steps/job entries to left

Ctrl+Left

Align selected steps/job entries to right

Ctrl+Right

Distribute selected steps/job entries horizontally

Alt+Right

Distribute selected steps/job entries vertically

Alt+Up

Zoom in

Page up

Zoom out

Page down

Zoom 100%

Home

Snap to grid

Alt+Home

Undo

Ctrl+Z

Redo

Ctrl+Y

Show output stream (only available in transformations)

Position the mouse cursor over the step; then press Space bar

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