Revisiting the Spoon interface and the editing features

You already know how to use Spoon for designing and running transformations. As you must have noticed, there are a lot of similarities when it's time to design and create a Job. Let's explain how Spoon looks like when you work with jobs:

Spoon interface

The following table describes the main differences you will notice while designing a Job, as compared to designing a Transformation:

Area

Description

Design tree

You don't see a list of steps but a list of Job entries.

Job toolbar

You no longer see some options that only make sense while working with datasets. One of ...

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