Get started with the embedded samples

To download and deploy the samples to your Pentaho Server, perform the following steps:

1. On the Support Portal, sign in using the Pentaho support user name and password provided in your Pentaho Welcome Packet.

2. Click Downloads, then navigate to the Pentaho GA Release page, which matches your version of the software.

3. On the bottom of the Pentaho GA Release page, in the file component section, click the SDK folder and download the pentaho-sdk- 10.2.0.zip file.

   The readme file contains the information for deployment.

4. Stop the Pentaho Server.

5. Run SDK > Installer.bat (or the corresponding script for your OS) to uncompress these two folders to your selected location: integration-examples and platform-plugins.

6. Copy the integration-examples directory to your pentaho-server/tomcat/webapps directory.

7. Open the platform-plugins directory and copy the following two directories: example-visualization and oem-tools.

8. Paste the example-visualization and oem-tools directories into the pentaho-server/pentaho-solutions/system directory.

9. Restart the Pentaho Server.

The samples are deployed and can be accessed by opening a web browser and navigating to http://localhost:8080/integration-examples. If you want to access the OEM tools, browse to http://localhost:8080/pentaho/conten...web/index.html. If you want to access the example-visualization, look under the Charts menu in Analyzer. It will be listed as Example KPI.

To deliver content as well as expose various services, we use a REST web interface. These sections comment on the various samples and how they use the REST URLs. For the full reference of the Pentaho REST API, please refer to http://javadoc.pentaho.com.

Note: The REST APIs often allow interaction with repository files. The REST API expects references to repository files to be specified using the : character as file separator.