Chapter 22. Graphs

CloverETL Graph is a smallest executable work flow unit.

The CloverETL Graphs are created within CloverETL projects.

In the following sections we are going to describe how you can create your graphs:

  1. As the first step, create an empty graph in a project. See Creating Empty Graphs.

  2. As the second step, you create the transformation graph using graph components, elements and others tools. See Creating a Simple Graph.

[Note]Note

Remember that once you have already some CloverETL project in you workspace and have opened the CloverETL perspective, you can create your next CloverETL projects in a slightly different way:

  • You can create directly a new CloverETL project from the main menu by selecting FileNewCloverETL Project or select FileNewProject... and do what has been described above.

  • You can also right-click inside the Navigator pane and select either directly NewCloverETL Project or NewProject... from the context menu and do what has been described above.

When creating a pure ETL graph, mind these two options in the FileNew menu: