I wanted to share some materials I presented recently to my local regional JMP User's Group in Phoenix about getting started with Application Builder. The first time I opened Application Builder back in JMP 10, I got frustrated very quickly. It wasn't until I took a course from JMP on the subject that I was able to really do anything with it. Since then, I have developed all my JMP applications using Application Builder.
For me, the largest benefits are organization and efficiency gains in designing the interface. Dragging display boxes out into the workspace is a much faster and more pleasurable experience than scripting them from scratch. There are separate scripts for each module in your application, each with its own namespace. This helps keep things compartmentalized and avoids variable name collisions.
There are just a few things you need to learn to quickly get over the steep initial learning curve. I illustrate those concepts with a toy example in my presentation where we build a simplified front end to Fit Y by X that just does simple linear regression. It is sort of a minimal working example, not particularly useful, but you will learn how to put the pieces of an app together.
If you have shied away from Application Builder in the past, I encourage you to give it another look. Once you get the hang of it, it is a lot of fun.
The document has a couple links to some other materials on the subject. Dan Shikore's materials are really good, and I know they have also been posted to the community.
Anyway, hope this helps some folks.
-- Cameron Willden
