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Importing a demo project

About this task

Talend provides you with different demo projects to help you understand the functionalities of Talend Studio.

You can import the demo project either from the login window of Talend Studio as a separate project, or from the Integration perspective into your current project.

Importing a demo project as a new project

Procedure

  1. Launch Talend Studio and from the login window select Import a demo project and then click Select.
  2. In the open dialog box, select the demo project you want to import and click Finish.
  3. In the dialog box that opens, type in a new name for the demo project and click Finish.
    A bar is displayed to show the progress of the operation.
  4. On the login window, select from the project list the demo project you imported and then click Finish to open the demo project in Talend Studio.
    All the samples of the demo project are imported into Talend Studio under different folders in the repository tree view including the input files and metadata connection necessary to run the demo samples.

Importing a demo project into the current project

Procedure

  1. Launch Talend Studio and in the Integration perspective, click Import Demos on the toolbar.
  2. In the open dialog box, select the demo project to import and click Finish.
    A bar is displayed to show the progress of the operation and then a confirmation message opens.
  3. Click OK.

Installing example files in the Data Integration demo project

After importing the Data Integration demo project and opening it for the first time, you are required to install the example files that are used in the example Jobs.

Procedure

  1. Expand the Contexts node in the Repository tree view, and open the context group globalContext.
  2. If needed, change the value of the root variable to define the directory where the example files will be generated, C:\TalendDemoFiles\ being the default value.
  3. Change the value of the workspace variable according to the path of the local workspace of the Talend Studio installation.
  4. Click Finish, and then click Yes to propagate the modifications.
  5. In the Update Detection dialog box, click OK to update the selected items.
  6. Open the beforeRunJobs Job, and press F6 to execute the Job.

Results

All the example files are generated in directory you specified with the root variable.

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