Pentaho design studio user guide

Pentaho Design Studio User Guide
Version 1.2 August 25, 2006

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Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................. 1 Review of Action Sequences.................................................................................................................1 The Design Studio ...............................................................................................................................1 Design StudioDetails...........................................................................................................................1 Plug-in Architecture .............................................................................................................................1 Installation ................................................................................................................................... 2 Installing the full Design Studio............................................................................................................2 Installing the Plug-ins ..........................................................................................................................3 Design Studio Basics .................................................................................................................... 4Workspace..........................................................................................................................................4 Perspective .........................................................................................................................................4 View...................................................................................................................................................4 Editor .................................................................................................................................................4 Projects, Folders and Files ...................................................................................................................4 Getting Started............................................................................................................................. 6 Working with Pentaho Samples ............................................................................................................6 Running the Design Studio...................................................................................................................6 QuickTour..........................................................................................................................................7 Creating Your First Action Sequence ............................................................................................ 9 General Stuff ................................................................................................................................. 10Inputs, Outputs and Resources ....................................................................................................... 10 Actions .......................................................................................................................................... 12 Running Your ActionSequence........................................................................................................... 15 Editing Your Action Sequence............................................................................................................. 15 Where To Go From Here? .................................................................................................................. 16

Introduction
This document describes how to use the Pentaho Design Studio to build...