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A zip file containing the Pentaho Design Studio for the Windows platform various platforms is available from the Pentaho Clients download site Sourceforge website. The full design studio download contains Eclipse 3.2 bundled with the all the Pentaho plug-ins needed to run both the action sequence editor as well as the Report Design Wizard. Download the pentaho-design-studio_X.X.X.X.zippds-ce* file, and unzip the file to your location of choice, it will create a directory named "pentaho-design-studio" and extract all its files there.  No other setup is required.  To run the platform, execute PentahoDesignStudio.exe .

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or PentahoDesignStudio.sh.

Installing the Plug-ins

A zip file containing the Pentaho Action Sequence Editor plug-in for Eclipse 3.2 on all the platforms is available for download from the Pentaho Clients download site. Download the org.pentaho.designstudio.editors.actionsequence_X.X.X.X.zip and unzip the file into the top level of your Eclipse installation. The zip will extract the files into your Eclipse plugins directory. There will already be many plugins in that directory, both as JAR files and subdirectories. You'll also need the core,  org.pentaho.designstudio.editors.core_X.X.X.XX-0.zip and the reports wizard org.pentaho.designstudio.editors.reportwizard_X.X.X.XXX.0   There is no Eclipse Update Manager method to install this plug-in as yet.

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At this point, you have either installed the standalone Design Studio or installed the Design Studio plug-in into Eclipse. If you have already done so, you should also install and run the Pentaho BI Server and test the samples in samplesbi-developers/getting-started to insure your BI Server is functional. Also try one or two reports in samples/steel-wheels/reports within your environment and with your browser. For more information about installing and configuring the Pentaho BI Server refer to   Getting Started with the BI Platform

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You should now see your Pentaho Solutions project displayed in the tree on the left side of the Design Studio. If you expand the solution folder you'll see plenty of files. These are the files that make up your solution and are managed within the Design Studio. Let's take a look at one to get a feel of what the Design Studio can do for us. Go ahead and in the left hand tree, open the Pentaho Solutions/samplesbi-developers/getting-started folder. Double-click on the HelloWorld.xaction file and the Action Sequence editor will open in the edit pane.







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