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JMP 16 Action Recorder questions

dale_lehman — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 19:54:12 GMT

I've started using the Action Recorder (very nice feature) - but it has a few strange things. First, the Run scripts button does not seem to do anything. I can run a saved script by selecting the steps I want, right clicking, choosing "run scripts," and it works fine. But the run scripts button does not do anything. Is this a bug? It may be related to my next question.

I do an analysis and save the script. If I then open that script it works as stated above, but it also adds everything I am doing to that same script. I realize it is logging everything, but if I close the script and reopen it, it has all the additional steps (like trying to reproduce the analysis, closing the file, etc.) - and there is no prompt to save or not save these changes to the script. In other words, the script that I saved keeps getting changed by adding everything I am doing to it. If I reopen the script, it is not the same thing I had previously saved, it has added to it.

Can anyone shed light on these issues?

Thanks.

Re: JMP 16 Action Recorder questions

ih — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 18:18:58 GMT

I am afraid I do not follow your question. Can you try the workflow below?

Do an analysis, open tables, graphs, etc.
Open the log
Select the relevant actions
Right click on an action > Save Script > To Script Window
Save the script that opened as a .jsl file somewhere
Close everything you have open
Open the .jsl file and then press Run Script

Nothing should change in this script (jsl file) that you saved and re-opened.

Re: JMP 16 Action Recorder questions

dale_lehman — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 14:22:58 GMT

Thank you, that worked. I looked at the script that did not work the other day and there were some unintelligible characters at the beginning of the script. When I removed those, that script also worked. I think the issue was the timing of when the script is saved. You (I) need to save it before closing the file - then it seems to work and stays intact. I believe I had been leaving the script window open and closing the file before saving the script.