JMP Scripters Club

In this Scripters Club session, Justin Chilton, the developer behind the popular Add-In Manager on the JMP Marketplace, will showcase how to better organize, update, and deploy your JMP add-ins. Learn how this tool can simplify your scripting workflow and improve how you manage and share your custom solutions. Video 1: Managing Your Add-Ins Video 2: Updates on add-in builder, view add-ins ... View more

Wishing all our members a joyful holiday season and a fantastic start to 2026! :party_popper: We look forward to connecting with you through more meetings and learning opportunities in the coming year. As always, you’ll find information about new events in the JMP Newswire.  Thank you for being part of our community—here’s to learning, sharing, and growing together in 2026!   ... View more

There are plenty of ways to learn scripting in JMP, however most of you probably will start on a self-study path. To support you we want to provide here a collection of useful resources but also to some of our official trainings relevant to this topic. In addition you'll find at some customer presentations about how JSL changed the way they work (might worth for some arguments to convince your manager): (*updated links and resources 15 Dec 2025)   Scripters Club Sessions: Previous JSL Scripters Club Meetings overview  2023 JSL Learning Sessions A BIG THANK YOU to  @thickey (Troy Hickey, Intel Corporation),  @jthi (Jarmo Hirvonen, Murata Electronics Oy),  @Georg (Georg Raming, Siltronic AG), and  @Mauro_Gerber (Mauro Gerber, Huber & Suhner AG) 2023 was a year of learning scripting from basic to intermediate to advanced in 12 great sessions developed and presented by them for other JSL scripters. Between 50 and 150 attendees in each session says a lot. See here all links to the 12 session recordings in 2023:   25.01.2023: Learning Session 1/2023 (Beginner) The JSL Programming Environment:  Core JSL menus, preferences, the scripting window, JSL syntax, tips and tricks, getting help. 23.02.2023: Learning Session 2/2023 (Beginner) Data Types Variables, strings, paths, dates & time, other numeric types 15.03.2023: Learning Session 3/2023 (Beginner) Programming Structures Operators, for, while, if/else, match, break, continue, etc 19.04.2023: Learning Session 4/2023 (Beginner) Data Structures 1 Lists & Basic Matrices 10.05.2023: Learning Session 5/2023 (Intermediate) Data Structures 2 & Interacting with Windows Associative Arrays, Interacting with Windows 31.05.2023: Learning Session 6/2023 (Intermediate) Data Tables Working with Datatables, Column Properties and Formulas, Iterating over a Datatable. Linking Datatables 21.06.2023: Learning Session 7/2023 (Intermediate) Scope, Properties and Report Layer Scope, Namespaces, Show Properties & Report Layer 05.07.2023: Learning Session 8/2023 (Intermediate) Working with external files & Databases Text files, excel files, Zip files, SQL embedded in your JSL 20.09.2023: Learning Session 9/2023 (Advanced) Advanced JSL Includes, Functions, expr(), 'eval(evalexpr)', 'eval(parse)'. 04.10.2023: Learning Session 10/2023 (Advanced) Making your JSL more Efficient Script Organisation, config files, libraries, templates. 15.11.2023: Learning Session 11/2023 (Advanced) Platform Programming 1 Introduction to Layouts & Widgets 06.12.2023:  Session 12/202Learning3 (Advanced) Platform Programming 2 User Interface Layout, Updating and refreshing your User Interface.   Official JMP training:  Introduction to the JMP Scripting Language - available for free as e-learning here in the JMP Community   JMP Website: The JMP Scripting Index Website   Books:   Jump into JMP Scripting, Second Ed.: Geared toward JMP users who are new to JMP scripting with step-by-step instructions and more than 50 code examples.    JSL Companion: Applications of the JMP Scripting Language, Second Ed.: Designed to help readers move beyond the basics of JSL.    Customer Presentations: Discovery Summit Presentations filtered to Automation and Scripting    On the community: On-Demand Webinars from the Mastering JMP Series:  Mastering JMP Events filtered for Automation and Scripting  e.g. Automating Analyses Using JMP Scripts Scripts posted to the JMP Community by fellow JMP Users  JSL Cookbook - new version  - If you’re looking for a code snippet or design pattern that performs a common task for your JSL project, the JSL Cookbook is for you ... View more

R is making a powerful return in JMP 19, and it’s bringing Python along for the ride! Join Paul Nelson and Evan Carr from JMP Software Development team as they walk us through the new capabilities for R and Python integration in the latest release. This session will focus on how these languages now work more seamlessly with JSL, enabling more flexible and powerful scripting workflows. ... View more

Does it make sense to use the Scripters Club platform to discuss new and future enhancements to JSL? The aim would be to organize ideas, inform people about new features, and advertise future improvements. Game Changers: Expression Handling 9 Data table subscripting  13 Add-In Manager 2017 Python and R embedded  18 Migrate to new JSL code editor    Comprehensive scripting index    chatty mode() for AI debugging              Cool/helpful new Features: Graph dependent formulas (scoped formulas)  [@Graph, @Overlay, @X] 19 new Col aggregations Dif() and Lag() formula functions by column group (byVar argument)        dif() / lag() -> col at(), row() -> col sequence() Add dense ranking to Ranking Tie and Col Rank functions            col score() Col N Categories                                        col N unique() Group by - sooo useful!!! how about Interpolate?                                           col interpolate()  19 Get Unique Items        set unique()   - and other set ...() operations 19 optimized syntax highlighting in JSL editor    (find errors with commas, semicolons and brackets)   Expression Indexing: read and write access    JSL function to get the current status of modifier keys    Option or function to evaluate a custom column formula at once, or cache values between rows    Keyword arguments for functions    Improve and document error messages    Col Median (and others): add "Where" option                  nice to have: JSL bit operations                      ... View more