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Why is a cell in a new row blocked with an "X"?

jmv — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 23:54:30 GMT

Hi all, while manually entering a new row into a data table the corresponding cell in the third column immediately is blocked with a black "X". See attached photo. Any idea as to why this is happening? I closed all graphs associated with the data table. The first two columns are scroll-locked for easy viewing which is the only thing I notice that might be a factor. It looks like a number can be entered into the cell when the cell is selected but I'm still wondering why the cell has an X in it. Thanks! (JMP 16.0.0)

Re: Why is a cell in a new row blocked with an "X"?

jules — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 12:57:39 GMT

Hi jmv,

I can see why that would look strange! The cell isn't actually blocked; instead, the reason you see the x through the cell is because you have no value in that cell. When you color cells by value in a data table, JMP wants to highlight the fact that a particular cell is missing a value. This is important when your color scheme uses white to indicate something (which often happens with gradient color schemes) because it would be ambiguous (especially for a character column) to show a blank cell as white.

I hope this helps!

@jules

Re: Why is a cell in a new row blocked with an "X"?

jmv — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 13:37:31 GMT

Hi Julian,

That makes perfect sense! Thank you!!

Joe