Starting BA design tools

As part of the installation, we provide different ways to help you start each design tool, depending on the operating system you use. This table shows you the options.

Operating System	Installation Method	Start the Design Tools
Microsoft Windows	Pentaho Installation Wizard	Click Start > Programs > Pentaho Enterprise Edition > Design Tools and double-click one of these items to launch the design tool.- Aggregation Designer Metadata Editor Report Designer Schema Workbench
Microsoft Windows	Manually installing with your own repository	Create shortcuts to the .bat file or each design tool and add them to the Start menu. Or navigate to the one of these directories and run the design tool's batch file to launch it. Aggregation Designer pentaho\design-tools\aggregation-designer\startaggregationdesigner.bat Metadata Editor pentaho\design-tools\metadata-editor\metadata-editor.bat Report Designer pentaho\design-tools\report-designer\report-designer.bat Schema Workbench pentaho\design-tools\schema-workbench\workbench.bat
Linux	Pentaho Wizard, Manually installing with your own repository	Navigate to the one of these directories and run the design tool's shell file to launch it. Aggregation Designer pentaho/design-tools/aggregation-designer/startaggregationdesigner.sh Metadata Editor pentaho/design-tools/metadata-editor/metadata-editor.sh Report Designer pentaho/design-tools/schema-workbench/workbench.sh Schema Workbench pentaho/design-tools/schema-workbench/workbench.sh
Mac OS	Pentaho Wizard, Manually installing with your own repository	Navigate to the one of these directories and double-click the application file to launch the design tool.- pentaho/design-tools/aggregation-designer/Aggregation Designer.app pentaho/design-tools/metadata-editor/Metadata Editor 64-bit.app pentaho/design-tools/Pentaho Report Designer.app pentaho/design-tools/schema-workbench/Schema_Workbench.app