Designing and previewing transformations

In the previous chapter, you created a simple Transformation, previewed the data, and also ran the Transformation. That allowed you to get your first contact with the PDI graphical designer. In this section, you will become more familiar with the editing features, experiment the Preview option in detail, and deal with errors that may appear as you develop and test a Transformation.

Getting familiar with editing features

Editing transformations with Spoon can be very time-consuming if you're not familiar with the editing facilities that the software offers. In this section, you will learn a bit more about three editing features that you already faced in the previous...