JMP Wish List

☐ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☑ removes a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   Is there a column colname in my data table? This is one of the questions which are asked most often in the community: https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Check-column-name-if-existing/m-p/312011/highlight/true#M56... https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/How-to-check-if-list-of-columns-exist-and-report-those-that... https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/If-column-exists/td-p/348 https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/how-to-creat-new-column-if-same-name-column-does-not-exist/... https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Create-a-new-Row-column-only-if-it-does-not-exist/td-p/3091... https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Determining-if-a-column-exists/m-p/6268#M6267 https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Validate-column-name-exists-before-graphing/m-p/5088#M5087   So, it seems that it's not straightforward enough, how it is implemented at the moment.   But it is even more interesting - and bears a lot of dangers. A user who doesn't know about the stumbling blocks associated with JSL naming conventions, most probably just writes Contains( dt << Get Column Names(String), "age" ) into his code. Quite easy ... but extremely dangerous - see: https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/check-if-column-exists/m-p/572468 What looks like strange discussions of some jsl scripting nerds shows that the above statement, sure, will work for many cases, but: will fail once spaces, capital letters, special character are in the column names.   To prevent users from using such dangerous code, it's the best to "instutionalize" - i.e. provide the users an easy solution which accounts automatically for all pitfalls.   My wish: it should be possible to ask a data table:   dt << contains column("colname")     This function can account for all pitfalls: - compare with exact match - or check match for  as name("colname"), accounting for spaces - distinguish or don't distinguish lower/capital letters - handle special characters   The benefit: - less questions in the community - automatically better code. - less frustration.   more wishes submitted by   ... View more

☐ cool new feature ☐ could help many users! ☐ removes a „bug“ ☑ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   In the Fit Model Platform, under Effect Summary, one can remove and add effects. my Wish: possibility  to "disable" an effect ("remove", but keep in the list, e.g. crossed out or grey).   The idea:  With the possibility to "disable" an effect, one could play with the report without big harm to the model.   https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Fit-model-disable-toggle-effect/m-p/572068   more wishes submitted by   ... View more

to limit the number of simultaneous HTTP calls.   Something like this   custom_multi_http = Function( {mm, max = 30}, //mm=multi_http_requests; //max=5; res = {}; status = {}; mm_get = mm << get requests; chunks = Ceiling( N Items( mm_get ) / max ); chunk_list = {}; For( i = 1, i <= chunks, i++, chunk_i = New Multi HTTP Request(); For( j = 1 + (i - 1) * max, j <= Min( max * i, N Items( mm_get ) ), j++, chunk_i << Add( mm_get[j] ) ); Wait( 0 ); chunk_i_requests = chunk_i << get requests; Insert Into( res, chunk_i << Send() ); Insert Into( status, chunk_i_requests << get status() ); ); Return( res, status ); ); ... View more

When we export to PDFs, the dialog shows how many pages it will take. In a lot of applications, I scale down (after setting header and other options) to get to one page. Since JMP already has an estimate of the number of pages, it should be possible for it to automatically tune the scaling so that it is the maximal size that only produces a single page. ... View more

I find that when I am viewing my model with both the Profiler and the Contour Profiler that I usually choose option to Link Profilers. I've run Get Platform Preferences() in the Log, but it seems there is no option to set "Link Profilers" as preferred/default behavior. If there is a reason that users are not allowed to set this preference either via GUI or via JSL, what is it? ... View more

☐ cool new feature ☐ could help many users! ☐ removes a „bug“ ☑ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it     Please allow the user to send                 dt << Get nonExcluded Rows();                 to a data table to get a matrix of all row numbers of non-excluded rows.  Please make the implementation as fast as dt << Get Excluded Rows(); https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/col-lt-lt-get-values-for-non-excluded-rows/m-p/556579/highlight/true#M77051    The fastes single-line command that was posted in the community is almost an order of magnitude slower:                 allRows = dt << get rows where( Excluded() == 0 );                 https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/col-lt-lt-get-values-for-non-excluded-rows/m-p/564380/highlight/true#M77688    And first asking for the non-excluded rows and then "inverting the list" adds 30-50% to the time budget. https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/col-lt-lt-get-values-for-non-excluded-rows/m-p/564136/highlight/true#M77669    more wishes submitted by   ... View more

HeatMap in Graph builder is a great way to visualize data: https://community.jmp.com/t5/Learning-Center/Creating-Heat-Maps/ta-p/271828   Individual "tiles" can represent several rows of the data table (geographic region: data of many countries). Then the values of the rows are averaged automatically. This is very convenient   - but "averaging" (mean) is just one option ... If the user wants to do different aggregations, he has to generate a summary table or use a formula column with exactly the same grouping settings as the desired heat map: https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Heat-Map-Aggregate-Function/td-p/269522   A more straight-forward and flexible approach: In GraphBuilder/Heat Map, please provide a menu to select the aggregation method: - median - any item from the summary table menu:     dt =Open( "$SAMPLE_DATA/Big Class.jmp" ); dt:height[32]=500; Data Table( "Big Class" ) << Graph Builder( Size( 336, 478 ), Graph Spacing( 4 ), Variables( X( :sex ), Y( :age ), Color( :height ) ), Elements( Heatmap( X, Y, Legend( 4 ) ) ) ); ... View more

☐ cool new feature ☐ could help many users! ☐ removes a „bug“ ☑ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it In the NewFormulaColumn/Transform menu there are many useful functions, but a simple rescale function is missing.   The idea:  a window opens and the user can enter a scaling factor. then a new column is created with the rescaled vales.   If more than one column is selected, let's say N,  the window contains a list of N number edit boxes. There should also be a checkbox to tell the function to use the first rescaling factor for all new columns. ... View more

☐ cool new feature ☐ could help many users! ☐ removes a „bug“ ☑ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it In a script window, the user can right click on a function and click on "Help Scripting Index". This opens the Scripting Index with the function selected.    my wish: A Keyboard Shortcut to open the Scripting Index with the function selected.  https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Keyboard-shortcut-for-quot-Help-Scripting-Index-quot/m-p/558962/   (no shortcut will be used more often than this one : )   more wishes submitted by   ... View more

Tabulate cannot handle columns with modeling type "multiple response": https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/tabulate-and-multiple-response/m-p/557674/highlight/true#M77131 With version 17 of jmp, Graph Builder will support culumns with modeling type "multiple response". So people will start to use this feature more and more often. The problem: Columns, for which modeling type "multiple response" will be enabled, will "disapear"  in tabulate.   So, there users will feel some pain when deciding which way to go: - cool new Graphbuilder features? - column still useable in tabulate   alternative to "enabling support for multiple response" mode:  just show the columns as if they were "nominal" mode.       ... View more

☐ cool new feature ☐ could help many users! ☑ removes a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it     The code in the formula editor can be either constructed by clicking on variables, columns or function in the menu on the left, by dragging items into the formula window - or directly by typing in the code. In the latter case, after typing in the first character, a small jsl code editor pops up and the user can continue to enter the code. There is even syntax highlighting :) Unfortunately, it happens very often that the second - or even third - character is lost: Do other users experence the same issue? What's the benchmark typing speed? 3 missed characters? I hope, the issue can be fixed in a future release of jmp :)   ... View more

☐ cool new feature ☐ could help many users! ☑ removes a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it     JSL auto suggestion via object << xy + CTRL + space is great.   But it takes very long for the auto suggestion list to be generated if the user presses CTRL + space and  (*) - JMP doesn't know the object yet - no first letters (xy...) were given Some ideas how the behavior of JSL auto complete could be changed: - make the generation of the list faster [esp. for the unique case "show all commands" (*)] - allow the user to agort the generation of the list by click somewhere with the mouse or pressing esc. - in the case of  (*), generate an empty, list - without waiting time. - in the case of (*) instead of generating a list, fill the Hover Window with a text that says that 1) the object was not defined yet and that 2) the user should enter at least one letter of the command ... View more

When you create a model using the DoE platorms there is the option to simulate responses prior to the table being made but when you run the model script you have generated the :Y response is included, this means you have to change the model to use the :Y simulated responses you have just generated.   The idea is that if you Simulate Responses during the generation of a model the ':Y Simulated' should be included into the model dialogue, not the ':Y'   David ... View more

Several scripts that I have made for operations have no data table associated with them, but rely on input dialogs where the user navigates to the necessary inputs for the script to run. To improve on security, I have started thinking about encrypting the scripts so they can't be edited - or seen - in the case proprietary items may be involved. I haven't found any way in forums or the help guide to encrypt the whole script without knowing anything about a data table.   Thanks! ... View more

Propose adding more organization and displaying of assigned F keys (like F1 through F12 on most keyboards) and other shortcut keys. Currently using JMP16.2. I saw in recent JMP Discovery Summit presentations the great idea to add your own shortcut keys. (Jed Campbell's "Using JMP for Everyday Automation (2022-US-30MP-1143)"  https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discovery-Summit-Americas-2022/Using-JMP-for-Everyday-Automation-2022-US-30MP-1143/ta-p/505846   I have a mac keyboard for work-from-home remoting into my PC at work, so many short cut keys do not translate exactly. I found that there are unused F keys, so I assigned the Scripting Index to F2. I see when you customize the menu bar, JMP does know what is assigned.    Some software like the open-source Freeplane allows you to display an "F-bar" for all the function keys, and easily assign to unused ones. Would propose JMP allow easier tracking under View > Toolbars, and then some shortcut toolbars, other than just the pdf "Quick Reference Guide". Possibly also a category under Preferences. Bigger wish would be to organize F keys AND all known short cut keys, and also track when users update those (like New > Script is CTRL-T, which I use a lot to start a quick script, and Jed used CTRL-shift-X for the Scripting Index in his presentation).   Current F keys: F1 JMP Help F3 Edit > Search > Find Next F6 Rows > Previous Selected F7 Rows > Next Selected F8 Submit to SAS F9 Window > Reveal   F2, F4, F5, F10, F11, F12 not assigned in JMP16.2 (I do not know if Pro has others assigned)   By the way, this assignment is stored in your "usercust.jmpcust" file:   <jm:menu_and_toolbar_customizations xmlns:jm="http://www.jmp.com/ns/menu" version="3">   <jm:insert_in_main_menu>     <jm:insert_in_menu>       <jm:name>HELP</jm:name>       <jm:customization target="SCRIPTING INDEX">         <jm:accel>F2</jm:accel>       </jm:customization>     </jm:insert_in_menu>   </jm:insert_in_main_menu> </jm:menu_and_toolbar_customizations> ... View more

For a lot of my python stuff configs are in .yml.   I'm currently using pyyaml to a dict and pulling it in that way but if it could read it directly, that'd be cool.     That being said, I understand that the yaml spec is a large undertaking.   ... View more

Currently it is quite a hassle to script similar functionality as is already found from the toolbar. Add new element which could be used for this purpose, it should also auto-update. This is fairly common type of element I add to my user-interfaces to let user change current data table, bring it to front or to just quickly see what is current data table.   ... View more

Hello,         Would like to open a request for the ability to allow a user defined function to return more than one argument as output . If I am not wrong , the current definition of a user defined function in JSL , looks something like this :    FunctionName = function({args_list},{localvars_List}, // Logic // Return Return(OutputVar); // where OutputVar can be list or data table or matrix );         I think it would be highly beneficial to allow retrieve multiple arguments easily when calling the function. Please kindly provide an example should such a feature already exist .  ... View more

This is coming to my attention because there are some things that don't seem to work right when a tablebox gets sorted using << sort by column (more so in prior JMP versions).  But this would also be useful if you want to try to line something up next to a tablebox and aligned to some of the table box content.   Related to my other wish to have the ability to disable the possibility to sort by Column:option to disable Sort by Column for a tablebox - JMP User Community ... View more