Excel Writer
Working with Excel ..
Steel Wheels intends to automate their half-yearly Sales and Expenses Report. The process for extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL) data has been delineated into several workflows. Upon the completion of these workflows, data will be automatically populated into a predefined Excel template.
In this Lab, you will configure the following steps:
• Excel Writer
• Block Step
To create a new transformation
In Spoon, click File > New > Transformation:
Any one of these actions opens a new Transformation tab for you to begin designing your transformation.
By clicking New, then Transformation
By using the CTRL-N hot key
The various stages of the transformation write data to a template.xlsx. The template has 2 worksheets:
• Sales Chart - this worksheet creates a 3D stacked graph based on the data in the SourceData worksheet.
SourceData - the datasheet. Transformations write to the required cells that are used to create the graph.
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