What inspired this wish list request?
One of the biggest bottlenecks in using JMP is creating structured formatted output to use in technical reports and presentations. The current best practices include either a lot of scripting, journaling, and/or copy/paste actions. It would be nice to be able to define a report structure with elements from JMP outputs included at specific locations, along with formatted text.
What is the improvement you would like to see?
Markdown is a well established approach for simple general construction of formatted output. I would like to see a "JMP Markdown" capability, where I can create a markdown document that includes formatted text, JMP output (specific graphs from a report, specific tables from a report, and specific values from a report) in defined locations in the document. The output would be a markdown document which could then be converted to various formats particularly PDF, Word DOCX, and Powerpoint PPTX
Potential Workflow:
- Create blank markdown
- In parallel/sequence:
- Create JMP analysis report
- Select output from analysis report (with selection tool) and insert placeholder from the output in the markdown document.
- Add text with formatting tags
- Save markdown file
- Run markdown conversion to desired format
A GUI to facilitate creating the markdown formatting would be nice, also. WYSIWIG interface in the markdown document would also be nice.
I could see this also be something that could be published to JMP Live (by converting the markdown to HTML).
Why is this idea important?
This would greatly improve the ability to create formatted output from JMP that meets the specific needs of the user without extensive copy/paste and editing. It would also enable standardized reporting and automation of analysis all the way from data ingestion to final reporting.