JMP has 1 million cool features which allow the user to analyze the data at warp speed.
There are just a few tiny traps. They are less annoying for users who know where they are hidden.
→ Let's make a map! - and stay away from the dangerous places.
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| Topic: | additional info |
| Graph Builder and Reports | |
| | TS-00034150 actually, not just an issue with histograms ... |
| not possible to create plots with same size of the plot area (e.g. for export to PowerPoint + smooth transitions from page to page) | TS-00076249 |
| In Jmp it is not "as easy as" in Excel to overlay plots from different columns / data tables | workaround |
| the colors in Graph Builder differ from the color settings in other platforms | workaround: use another color scheme, e.g. JMP Blue Red Green |
| The size of xGroup/yGroup/Wrap labels can NOT be changed interactively. | to cycle through differet size settings, use  on the |
| workaround: For each column, manually add a separate plot element. | |
| workaround: use get legend item (1 by 1) | |
| Data Tables | |
delete Files scripts - or merge them into one script | |
| Collisions when several users work on a file stored in Sharepoint. |
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| blocked data tables: it's not possible to sort a table, to concatenate tables or to add rows if a linked subset or a report is open | |
| some platforms don't allow pivate(0) | TS-00127556
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formula column with contains doesn't get updated
| TS-00053745 what's the reason behind this issue? |
When a column data type is changed, e.g. from character to numeric, | |
| Text to Columns differs from Text to Columns in MS Excel: groups of separators are treated as a single one -> empty data leads to shifted data (!) |
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- - a new formula column is generated outside of the group | TS-00035674 |
| TS-00053519 | |
| A collision between localized/translated column names and default column names can lead to a | TS-00176113 |
| Data Filters | |
A Data Filter gets reset if there is no row in the current data table which matches the filter setting. | TS-00046650 |
| JSL | |
| JSL Debugger: doesn't show local variables | |
| inserting an expression into the same kind of expression flattens the expression | TS-00076135 |
| When column names are changed, table scripts get updated automatically (so cool!!!) - but other scri... |
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| By default, the first >full< Week of Year(...) is #2 - and in 2023, the last one was #54. --> use  | Calculating-WEEKOFYEAR-for-weeks-that-start-on-a-day-other-than/m-p/714426/highlight/true#M89773 |
| Informat("XX.YY.year") and File import (!!!) assume "month.day.year" for XX.yy.zzzz with xx ≤ 13 (!) | for informat, use Format Pattern option! for file import, vote here: |
| Date Increment converts missing to 0! Date Increment(., "Week", 0) = 01Jan0000; | harmful because Graph builder uses this trick for its date binning:  TS-00147884 |
| Multi File Import - File List has to be evaluated (Name filter gets automatically evaluated) further info | TS-00152969 |
not fixed yet: Col Sum similar bug with formula column: | workaround: add the table name to the column reference, dt:col instead of :col |
| Application Builder | |
| Table reference is removed from an application if the data table is closed. | |
| Namespaces | |
| root variable to globalize the namespace + local variable to get access from within a project | |
| is namespace() is 1 for deleted namespaces namespace exists(ns) is 1 even if ns is no namespace | |
| Formula Column + Namespaces re-evaluation is triggered every time a cell is selected. | Workaround: |
| Jmp in general | |
| ... it can lead to unpredictable results | TS-00043014 |
| MS Teams and Sharepoint prevent interactive HTML pages from executing the scripts. |
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| -> slow! | TS-00128387 |
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old traps which got fixed in the meantime:
JMP - New Features and Release Notes
| Graph Builder | fixed in Jmp |
| v17.2 | |
| v18 | |
| v18 | |
| v18 | |
| v18 | |
TS-00044559 | v18.1 |
| Tables | |
| v18 | |
| v18 | |
TS-00076052 | v18 |
| did you know that Ctrl + F doesn't work in almost 50% of the cases? | v18.1 |
| ... after copy column/ paste column TS-00127922 | v18.1 |
| Why-does-selecting-deselecting-rows-trigger-column-formulas | v18 |
#1: one cannot move a column to the top of a column group | v19 |
| Data Filters | |
| A data filter ignores all changes of the data table if "conditional" is used TS-00049919 | v17.2 |
A data filter doesn't get updated when the column name or data type is changed TS-00053718 | v18 |
| Tabulate | |
| v17 | |
| JSL | |
fixed: Col Rank | v18 |
