Color Box-plots

[#1]

I have read the other conclusions for coloring box-plots but there is no such functin in my graph builder

I want the plots in the picture to have diffrend colors, what can i do? I can just change the color of the points and the color of the background. I cant change the color of the plots.

[#2 · Accepted solution]

what happens when you drag the column onto "Color"?

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[#3]

Here is a similar graph to what you are showing in JMP 18

I changed the points to the color black so they are visible

The same similar results are available back through JMP 15.  However in JMP 14 a solid box plot does not honor the Color column 

What version/release of JMP are you using?

[#4]

i am using version 17.2 

The method hogi uses works. 

But I like it your way that every bosplot has got a different color. And that is what doesnt really work

[#5]

Here is the example that I have been using run in JMP 17.2.  Doesn't it give you what you want?

[#6]

It does, now it worked. Thanks

[#7]

I would comment that txnelson's solution is a good example because the same series of categories repeats for the 2 genders.  However, if there was only the one set of categories (without the gender variable), then I think coloring the box plots is a bad idea.  It looks visually appealing but distracts from the actual data - in my opinion, a poor use of color.  With the multiple sets of categories, as in the example you posted, then I think the coloring is useful.

[#8]

Good point.

For some cases it even makes sense to use the color for the "outer" categories: