Text File Output

Workshop - Text File Output

Customer Survey

Create a new Transformation

Any one of these actions opens a new Transformation tab for you to begin designing your transformation.

  • By clicking File > New > Transformation

  • By using the CTRL-N hot key

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Get System info

The Get System Info step retrieves information from the Kettle environment. This step generates a single row with the fields containing the requested information. It also accepts input rows. The selected values are added to the rows found in the input stream(s).

We'll be using this step to input the Customer Name as an argument.

  1. Start Pentaho Data Integration.

Windows - PowerShell

Set-Location C:\Pentaho\design-tools\data-integration
.\spoon.bat

Linux

cd
cd ~/Pentaho/design-tools/data-integration
./spoon.sh
  1. Drag the ‘Get System Info’ onto the canvas:

  2. Double-click on the step, and configure the following properties:

Get system info
  1. Click OK.

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