Time for action – creating a simple job and getting familiar with the design process

Now you will create a job similar to the one you just created, but a little more elaborate. You will add some extra tasks in order to avoid unexpected errors.

1. Run Spoon and open the job you created in the previous tutorial. Save it under a different name.

   Note

   We are assuming that you already ran the job, so the chapter10 folder already exists. If not, please run it or create the folder by hand.

2. Run the job. You should see this:
   
3. It's not good to receive this kind of unexpected errors! Let's modify the job so that it's more friendly. First of all, let's start over by deleting the chapter10 folder.
4. Now expand the Conditions category of entries and select the Checks if files exist entry.
5. Drag the entry to the canvas and drop it over the hop that leaves the START entry. When asked for splitting the hop answer Yes. This is how your job looks like:
   
6. Double-click on the new entry, and in the...