She expected silence. Or a snarky RTFM (Read the Friendly Manual).
“It’s open-source,” he said. “You can pull data from anywhere. And the community is… weirdly helpful.” pentaho community
But they all remembered the lesson:
Instead, within 20 minutes, a reply came from "MattC_EE" in Seattle. It read: “Elara, you beautiful baker. You’re trying to feed a number into a text field. Right-click your ‘Sales Amount’ column in the ‘Select Values’ step and change the type to Number. Also, I love croissants. Here’s a screenshot of my fix.” She expected silence
Then came "Maria_D" from Brazil: “Don’t use JavaScript for butter cost, silly! Use a ‘User Defined Java Expression.’ Or better, a ‘Calculator’ step. I’ll send you a sample .kjb.” within 20 minutes