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How do I wrap in multiple lines the label of a Group X variable in Graph Builder?

RandomFed — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 11:22:19 GMT

Hi,

I'm doing a very simple graph in graph builder. I have very long name for the sample (used as group X variable).
How can I wrap in multiple lines the labels? I would like to avoid to have half graph which are labels!!

Thanks

Re: How do I wrap in multiple lines the label of a Group X variable in Graph Builder?

Georg — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 11:17:45 GMT

Welcome to the Community!

There are many ways to perform this:

One is to make a Calculation (Transform) on that column in the Graph Builder (in your case you may need character function word to get a part of your column content, my formula was subtr(name, 1,1), that gives the first character, Based on data table "Big Class.jmp" from the Help-Sample Data menu
another would be to generate a new Column by "Recode" (right click on Column name ...)

see also documentation that you can find under Help, or press ? and click on a part of the platform

Re: How do I wrap in multiple lines the label of a Group X variable in Graph Builder?

RandomFed — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 11:55:45 GMT

Thanks a lot for your answer!

Actually I would not change the labels, but only display them in two lines in the graph as in the example below (I did it in power point because I cannot do it in JMP).

Re: How do I wrap in multiple lines the label of a Group X variable in Graph Builder?

ian_jmp — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 12:05:11 GMT

FWIW, when dropping a variable into the 'Group X' zone, I found that (JMP 16.2 on a Mac) Graph Builder did a reasonable job in breaking up the labels. And, if that's not to your taste, you can just drag to make changes to the widths:

Re: How do I wrap in multiple lines the label of a Group X variable in Graph Builder?

jthi — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 14:17:28 GMT

If you want to wrap them on axis, sometimes you might manage with axis settings Wrap Lines, but I think it wont wrap one long string without any whitespace

You might also end up with some missing labels when using this:

When I had this problem in some earlier version of JMP (I think it was 14), I did create new label column with some very complicated regex to handle the splitting at correct place

Re: How do I wrap in multiple lines the label of a Group X variable in Graph Builder?

RandomFed — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 11:38:45 GMT

Thanks a lot! It was exactly my point!
Which version are you using now? I have JMP14 and there is not that option in Axis Label Row, but I will move soon at 15.

Re: How do I wrap in multiple lines the label of a Group X variable in Graph Builder?

jthi — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 11:50:46 GMT

It seems to be already in JMP15, but I'm using JMP16 so it might behave a little differently when compared to JMP15

A little extra: here is the very very scary looking regex I used with JMP14 that I cannot remember anymore how it worked, but I think the idea was to wrap at 15th character if there are no whitespaces which could be used:

Names Default To Here(1);

regex_wrapping = "(?:((?>.{1,15}(?:(?<=[^\S\r\n])[^\S\r\n]?|(?=\r?\n)|$|[^\S\r\n]))|.{1,15})(?:\r?\n)?|(?:\r?\n|$))";

long_str_without_spaces = "very_long_string_with_many_words_and_requires_wrapping";
long_str_with_spaces = "very long string with many words and requires wrapping";

Show(Regex(long_str_without_spaces, regex_wrapping, "\1\!N", GLOBALREPLACE));
Show(Regex(long_str_with_spaces, regex_wrapping, "\1\!N", GLOBALREPLACE));