Chapter 12. Using Cheat Sheets

Cheat Sheets are interactive tools for learning to use CloverETL Designer or other applications and for performing prepared tasks and creating newer ones.

CloverETL Designer includes two cheat sheets. You can view them by selecting Help → Cheat Sheets... from the main menu.

Figure 12.1. Selecting Cheat Sheets

After that, the following window will open:

Figure 12.2. The Cheat Sheet Selection Wizard

The two cheat sheets of CloverETL Designer are as follows:

The first of them describes and teaches useful standard Eclipse commands with respect to CloverETL Designer.

The second one presents a guide of how CloverETL Designer cheat sheets can be written.

Figure 12.3. CloverETL and Standard Eclipse Commands (Collapsed)

When you expand the items, you can see an overview of CloverETL and/or Eclipse commands:

Figure 12.4. CloverETL and Standard Eclipse Commands (Expanded)

The second cheat sheet can teach you how to work with CloverETL Designer. You can follow the instructions and create a new project, a new graph, etc.:

Figure 12.5. CloverETL Designer Reference Cheat Sheet

The basis of these two mentioned cheat sheets are two .xml files. They are included in the com.cloveretl.gui.cheatsheet_2.9.0.jar file located in the plugins directory of CloverETL Designer and situated within the cheatsheets subdirectory of this .jar file. They are EclipseReference.xml and Reference.xml files.

In addition to the prepared cheat sheets, you can write another cheat sheet of your own using these two files as a pattern. Once you have written your custom cheat sheet, you only need to switch on the Select a cheat sheet from a file radio button. Then you can browse your disk and locate the custom cheat sheet .xml file. After clicking OK, your cheat sheet will appear in the same way as any of the two prepared cheat sheets on the right side of CloverETL Designer window.

Figure 12.6. Locating a Custom Cheat Sheet