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Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook

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Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook

Overview of this book

Pentaho Data Integration (PDI, also called Kettle), one of the data integration tools leaders, is broadly used for all kind of data manipulation such as migrating data between applications or databases, exporting data from databases to flat files, data cleansing, and much more. Do you need quick solutions to the problems you face while using Kettle? Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook explains Kettle features in detail through clear and practical recipes that you can quickly apply to your solutions. The recipes cover a broad range of topics including processing files, working with databases, understanding XML structures, integrating with Pentaho BI Suite, and more. Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook shows you how to take advantage of all the aspects of Kettle through a set of practical recipes organized to find quick solutions to your needs. The initial chapters explain the details about working with databases, files, and XML structures. Then you will see different ways for searching data, executing and reusing jobs and transformations, and manipulating streams. Further, you will learn all the available options for integrating Kettle with other Pentaho tools. Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook has plenty of recipes with easy step-by-step instructions to accomplish specific tasks. There are examples and code that are ready for adaptation to individual needs.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Populating a CDF dashboard with data coming from a PDI transformation


A dashboard is in its broad sense is an application that shows you visual indicators, for example, bar charts, traffic lights, or dials. A CDF dashboard is a dashboard created with the Community Dashboard Framework. CDF accepts many kinds of data sources being the output of a Kettle transformation being one of them.

In this recipe, you will create a very simple dashboard that shows this capability. You will type the name of a city and the dashboard will display graphically the 5-days forecast for that city. The forecast information will be obtained with the sample transformation explained in the introduction.

Getting ready

In order to follow this recipe, you will need a minimal experience with the Pentaho BI Server. Some experience with the Community Dashboard Editor (CDE) is also desirable.

Before proceeding, make sure you have a Pentaho BI Server running. You will also need the CDE. You can download it from http://cde.webdetails...