Pentaho writing to log but not text file

Question

I have a transformation that is successfully writing the first row to the log file. However the same transformation is not writing the first row to a text file. The text file remains blank.

Does anyone know why this may be?

edited - only focusing on the applications to run and set pm variable transformations, as the other transformations are replications of set pm variable but for different fields

Answer 1

It looks like your Set Variables step is distributing its rows over the two follow-up steps in a round-robin way, which is the default setting in PDI.

Right-click the Set Variables step and under Data Movement, select Copy. That will send all rows to BOTH steps. You should see a documents icon on the hops then.