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JSL how to change the color of a single column in a Pareto plot?

SDF1 — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 19:27:27 GMT

Hi All,

I'm interested in using JSL to change the color of a single bar (or perhaps multiple bars) in a Pareto Plot and not rely on the interactive row selection of a data table to do so.

I found these two helpful discussions here and here, but they're not quite what I'm after. I can of course make the graph using Graph Builder instead of the Pareto Plot platform, that's not the problem necessarily. After a lot of searching, haven't really found how to do it as I would like.

I'd prefer to not have to create a Transformed column, like in one of the examples, and I'd also prefer not to change the preferences within JMP.

For example, using the Car.jmp file, and making a Pareto Plot of :Make as the Cause and :Wt as the Freq, I'd like to color a few specific columns. In the screenshot below, the car Makes Chevrolet, Toyota, and Honda are selected and "highlighted", but I'd like to make these a specific color (eg: red, or black, or green) -- hopefully using JSL.

Any thoughts/suggestions are much appreciated.

Thanks!,

Re: JSL how to change the color of a single column in a Pareto plot?

jthi — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 20:00:46 GMT

Pareto plot seems to offer option of coloring selected causes

And JMP will give you a script like this (using Failure Raw Data)

Pareto Plot(
	Cause(:failure),
	Cause Colors(
		{{"contamination", "Gray"}, {"oxide defect", "Red"}
		}
	),
	SendToReport(
		Dispatch(
			{"Plots"},
			"",
			TextEditBox,
			{Rotate Text("Left"), Set Wrap(277), Set Base Font("Axis Title")}
		),
		Dispatch(
			{"Plots"},
			"",
			Text Edit Box(2),
			{Rotate Text("Right"), Set Wrap(277), Set Base Font("Axis Title")}
		),
		Dispatch(
			{"Plots"},
			"",
			Text Edit Box(3),
			{Set Wrap(277), Set Base Font("Axis Title")}
		)
	)
)

So you should be able to color them by building value,color pairs into a list

Re: JSL how to change the color of a single column in a Pareto plot?

SDF1 — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 14:54:18 GMT

Hi @jthi ,

Thanks for the info and pointing out that the Pareto platform already has a built-in option for coloring columns. Once I was able to build the nested list correctly, I was able to pass it to the Pareto platform and it works great.

Thanks!,