In Chapter 1, Getting Started with Pentaho and MongoDB, you installed both the Pentaho server and client components on a single Windows computer. Instaview is one of those client components; it is exposed as a perspective through PDI. There are a couple of ways to access Instaview, either directly from your Windows Start menu or from the Instaview perspective inside PDI.
You will notice both Instaview and Data Integration in the following Start menu screenshot:
Both links launch PDI; however, the Instaview link launches you directly into the Instaview perspective of PDI. Alternatively, you can launch Instaview or PDI from their respective Windows batch files, Instaview.bat
and Spoon.bat
, located at {Pentaho Install Directory}/design-tools/data-integration
.
The Instaview perspective allows PDI developers to quickly and easily connect to a single MongoDB collection and parse the document hierarchy into a set of fields for analysis. You can then analyze...