[teiid-users] Teiid Quick Start Example feedback

[David Egts]

----- "Ramesh Reddy" <rareddy at redhat.com> wrote:

| Hi David,
| 
| Sorry for the missing links, go ahead and create JIRA we will take
| care of it in the next release.

Done.

https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/TEIID-922

| 
| Here is the direct link to the missing video.
| http://docs.jboss.org/teiid/6.2/quick-start-guide/en-US/html/images/EmbeddedDesignerExampleVideo.swf

I'll give it a look.

Thanks Ramesh!

Dave


| 
| Thanks
| 
| Ramesh..
| 
| On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 17:08 -0500, David Egts wrote:
| > Hi folks,
| > 
| > Over the holiday slowdown, I was able to partially run through the
| Teiid Quick Start Example [1] to get up to speed on Teiid.  Good
| stuff!
| > 
| > [1]
| http://docs.jboss.org/teiid/6.2/quick-start-guide/en-US/html/index.html
| > 
| > I did notice however that the doc has some possibly outdated links
| and I got stuck part way due to lack of detail when combined with my
| relative newness to Eclipse.
| > 
| > This is what I saw so far...
| > 
| > - References to the downloads.
| > *** Artifact names in Chapter 1 [2] don't match the names on the
| download page [3].
| > [2]
| http://docs.jboss.org/teiid/6.2/quick-start-guide/en-US/html/download.html
| > [3] http://www.jboss.org/teiid/downloads.html
| > *** The download links in the doc for Teiid and later for Designer
| point to broken links [4] which reroute back to the main Teiid page. 
| This leaves the reader to drill down on the Download link as opposed
| to going directly there [5].  No biggie, but I figure I'd mention it.
| > [4] http://teiid.org/Download.html
| > [5] http://www.jboss.org/teiid/downloads.html
| > 
| > - The Teiid family only comes as a zip files, but the doc references
| tar archives too.  Again, no biggie, but I figure I'd mention it.
| > 
| > - Section 4.2 [6] says "There is a video at the end of the list that
| will take you though all the steps involved."  I don't see a video
| there.
| > [6]
| http://docs.jboss.org/teiid/6.2/quick-start-guide/en-US/html/designer.html#step-3
| > 
| > - At this point, I get to step 3 and I'm stuck due to lack of detail
| when combined with my relative newness to Eclipse.  Any pointers? 
| Possibly the missing video mentioned above would add the needed
| detail.  The "File->New..." guidance was very helpful in steps 1 and
| 2.  Replicating that on the other steps would be a huge help.
| > 
| > THANK YOU for putting this together!
| > 
| > Dave
| > 
| >

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