JMP Wish List

☐ cool new feature ☐ could help many users! ☑ removes something that looks like a bug ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it     What inspired this wish list request?  In GraphBuilder, there is an option to add labels "by value" directly inside the graph. Unfortunately, there is no option to adjust the orientation of the label. Therefore, labels are sometimes hard to read: How to rotate a label?    What is the improvement you would like to see?  For axis labels and annotation text, there exist options to adjust the orientation. Please implement a similar option to adjust the orientation of "labels by value."   edit: Please also add an option to control the placement: Graph Builder Bar Graph Label Offset    Why is this idea important?  Labels in Bar graphs are often not readable and via the GUI the user doesn't have a chance to fix that. Just some JSL experts can generate graphs with readable labels. [the issue got more severe in JMP 18 doe to the new way of label placement]   With the new options, any user could make the labels readable      more wishes by   ... View more

☐ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☐ removes a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   What inspired this wish list request?  Some while ago, I found this post in the community: In graph builder, is there a way to set the default color code gradient range to "Middle 90%"?  by @tsg.     Up to now, there was no reply - and I could not find a related wish ...     What is the improvement you would like to see?  Possibility to set the default range of a color gradient to Middle 90%.   Alternative options: 1% - 99%?       Why is this idea important? The middle 90% option is amazingly useful - outliers don't destroy the color settings. Especially for exploratory data  analysis of a "dirty" dataset - e.g. by using the Column Switcher!   But at the moment, the user has to enable the setting manually - and concerning Column Switcher it's disabled after every single switch. Argh!   The possibility to set the default range of a color gradient to Middle 99% would solve the issue         more wishes submitted by   ... View more

What inspired this wish list request? I will get graph builder to a state that looks really good for exploring data, fitted to my whole screen, and I will need to make some changes to the layout.  It is inconvenient to have to show the control panel, make the change and then remove the control panels.  For example, I may want to overlay a factor for one or two items in a column switcher then remove it for the remaining ones.  Or I may want to change the variables that a smoother respects.     What is the improvement you would like to see? I would like to see the ability for the Graph builder controls be in a floating window, so elements change be changed without having to open and close the "fixed" control panel.   So have a window that looks like this where it won't show any data but shows the general layout and chart elements that you can manipulate but can be on another monitor so you can change the layout of the chart but not affect the viewing of the data. Maybe even have the ability for the filter and column switcher to live in this floating window as well   Why is this idea important? I think will allow for the following Keep the flexibility of exploring the data while allowing the data viewing area to be as large as possible Some efficiency gains by not having to turn on and off the control panel Allow the control panel to be accessed even if you have to scroll down to a "tall" chart layout Takes advantage of multiple monitors     ... View more

What inspired this wish list request?    The problem occurs in the following situation: When you plot various parameters/columns and rename one or more axis labels, the renamed axis label is tied to the position of the parameter on the graph and not to the parameter itself. For example, you can plot columns A, B, and C on the y-axis. Then rename the axis label of column A from "A" to "New label A". If you now insert a new column D above A, the axis labels will be: "New Label A", "A", "B", "C". So "D" will be directly labeled "New Label A", but in reality we only wanted to rename "A" to "New Label A". In some cases, this behavior can cause a lot of confusion.   What is the improvement you would like to see?    When an axis label is changed, the change should be associated with the parameter/column, not just the chart position. Sometimes you want to change the order of the parameters in the chart and of course the change of the axis label should also change its positions accordingly.   Why is this idea important?    This problem seems to be a bug and should be fixed since the behavior of JMP is unexpected. Wrong labels can cause a lot of confusion. ... View more

What inspired this wish list request?  When I use filters JMP is very happy to add Where(something something something) text box to all of my reports.   What is the improvement you would like to see?  Add option to local data filter to prevent the creation of Where text boxes. Option could be located inside red triangle of (local) data filter I don't want to see this TextBox     Why is this idea important?  If I'm using a filter I already know my Where statement (it is visualized as the filter...). I don't want to always see the Where text box ... View more

What inspired this wish list request? Need to be able to match background color in Graph Builder to certain value in gradient legend.     What is the improvement you would like to see? Add ability to use an eyedropper to sample a color from within or outside of JMP and be able to set that color for lines or background.     Why is this idea important? Further flexibility in visualization capabilities.   ... View more

What inspired this wish list request? When I need to filter multiple items in a list it is great to be able to type in the main portion of the "item" so that the filter only shows relevant items.  However, when I then go to filter additional items and thus clear the filter text box when I type in a new main portion of an item into the filter text box it resets the selections.   In this example I want to select all names starting with C and J.  So I start with c's:   clear the filter text box and so far so good....   Then go to J's: and now my c's are no longer selected...         What is the improvement you would like to see? Please allow the ability for the previously selected items to not be cleared, thus the change in filtered items can be additive.     Why is this idea important? This will speed up the process of filtering columns with lots of levels that are not in easy to find blocks.     ... View more

☑ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☐ removes a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it     What inspired this wish list request?  Strange that that function is not available in the formula editor (statistical) or JSL... Maybe next version.     What is the improvement you would like to see?  please synchronize the different platforms: - Tables-Summary - Tabulate - Header Statistics - new column formula right click menu - JSL aggregation function  - and most important:   Summary Statistics in Graph Builder every aggregation function which is available via Header Statistics could/should be available via the other "platforms" as well.   At least:  - add a JSL function Col N Unique. - add a unique entries to the new column formula  menu - and in Graph builder, add  Statistics for Unique entries. - and please (!),Add dense ranking to Ranking Tie and Col Rank functions  missing entries should not be counted (see below) for the JSL function: option to count /not count missing entries   Why is this idea important? In Semiconductor Industry, users often ask: - how many wafers (in this list of devices) - how many batches (in this list of wafers)   other JMP users need the functionality for: - how many countries (list of covid affected people) - how many companies (list of employees) - how many cities (list of people) In JMP it's too complicated to get such answers! Header Statistics is great - the other platforms should be optimized. I guess, no user complained about "too many" options in the Header Statistics? Nevertheless, to save newbies from crowded lists, the additional options could be hidden in a submenu - or behind a Shift-Click. * )available via header statistics nominal: continuous:     more wishes submitted by   ... View more

☐ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☑ feels like a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   #myTop10_2022 #myTop10_2023 #myTop10_2024   short: against issue like this one:   long: What inspired this wish list request?  Heatmaps are great to display variations of a value depending on 2 input variables. prominent use case: measured values vs. x/y position (e.g. chips on a wafer)   Unfortunately, Heatmaps use the minor Tick spacing to determine the size of the individual "tiles". This leads to a which actually feels like a bug for many Jmp users - the issue: The tick settings (and with them: the Heatmap tile size!) are automatically adjusted whenever the user changes the axis range by dragging the axis or by zooming with the magnifier tool: Some problem using Heatmap    Concerning axis adjustments by dragging, @julian 's suggestion helps: hold down SHift while changing the axis scaling. But it just helps when you drag one end of the axis - if you want to zoom out by grabbing the axis and moving it away from the plot, you will ruin you plot - with and without pressing Shift. Same issue with the magnifier tool: https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Some-problem-using-Heatmap/m-p/571751/highlight/true#M78136     What is the improvement you would like to see?  An option for GraphBuilder/Heatmap to forces JMP to set the tick spacing fixed. This will allow users to keep the tick spacing exactly as it was defined by the user. Why is this idea important?  Under the line: tiny change of the program - tremendous improvement for the users. maybe there are some users who don't need it - or: some users who don't know yet that they need it :) No longer destroyed plots after adjusting the axis range/zoom :)   most important use case: "1x1" (for chip wafer maps in Semiconductor Industry) error 1) Jmp clusters multiple chips into one cell by increasing minot tick step size to > 0 -> individual outliers get averaged out! error 2) Jmp invents empty "sub-Chips" by automatically changing minor tick step size to < 1:   To be on the safe side, cautious users abandon the Heatmap style and plot wafermaps as Points: either with mainly white area around the "points" - which makes it hard to get the actual info: or with overlapping points -> dangerous, almost as bad as the clustering issue (#1) (!)   more wishes submitted by   ... View more

The GraphBuilder can be used to visualize sensor data as Y's and a DateTime as X to make trends.   However, when Y's have different units or scales, the only way is to pre-standardize the columns and plot them all together.   An axis default option that allows this visualization without having to transform the columns will be very essential for new JMP users that are getting data from their manufacturing systems (e.g., Osisoft PI in JMP 17).   See how it is done in historians below (+video). To be clear, this is already standard in JMP, but only if you put variables in one axis: Again, the moment you add an X variable (DateTime), the plot squeezes variables using only one scale.           ... View more

What inspired this wish list request?  Depending what you are doing in JMP, you sometimes have to unnecessarily move from wide data to tall data due to how column switcher / local data filter work - we cannot "filter" columns currently. This is one of the reasons why I did create Enhanced Sankey Plot (ESP) add-in as it is fairly difficult to quickly add/remove specific columns from graph builder.   What is the improvement you would like to see?  I would like to have new tool? "Column Filter" which would allow me to determine which columns I want to show. This would function basically like Data Filter but for columns. If I have a situation like this where I have multiple columns in my Y-axis for example I don't have any easy options to hide or add extra columns. If I want to some of those columns or add new ones, I have to stack the data first and the create a graph with local data filter This does work great but sometimes this feels very unnecessary step.   Why is this idea important?  This would make the gap between tall/stacked and wide/split data smaller. ... View more

What inspired this wish list request? need to make transparent PNG with graphic script   What is the improvement you would like to see? Allow graph background color of 'transparent'. This is not the same as the window background color. Currently the graph always creates a rectangle of color, making it impossible to capture an image with transparency.   Why is this idea important? https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/How-to-use-JSL-graph-background-for-transparent-graphics/m-p/627070#M82571   Need a way to *also* request the graph background be 'none' or 'transparent' or 'missing' ... View more

☐ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☑ removes a „bug“ (unexpected behavior of Jmp) ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it What inspired this wish list request?  Sometimes a data filter doesn't do what the user wants it to do - because the filter auto-adjusts the settings by intersecting the filter settings with the values in the current data set.   What is the improvement you would like to see?  To solve the issue please add an option to adjust the filter settings to the current data - which can be enabled (like now) and disabled (new).   Why is this idea important? At the moment, it is the standard behavior of a Data filter to adjust the settings to the current data. With the new setting, a user will have the chance to prevent Jmp from doing so.   Application cases: If there is NO overlap between the data filter settings and the content of the current data table, the data filter is removed (?!) The expected behavior for 0 overlap is: the filter is not removed - no data is displayed. With the new option (disabled), the data filter can be kept like it is and it will be possible to generate a report with "filter = outliers", which shows "0 outliers" if there are 0 outliers: Outlier screening with Jmp Dashboards - how?  If a limit for a continuous variable is outside of the range of values in the current data table, the current version of Jmp automatically adjusts the limit to the data. Data filter: how to specify the limits  With the new option, the user will have be able to disable this effect if he doesn't want that the filter gets adjusted.   For Modeling Type Multiple Response there is an option to invert the filter (option "None"). So, the user can list values which should not be displayed. If by chance, such a value is not in the current data set, the value will be removed from the filter. If the user saves the new setting, the filter setting will be lost: https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Data-filter-how-to-specify-the-limits/m-p/642751  The new option will give the user the chance to keep the settings.        more wishes submitted by   ... View more

Multivariate SPC is commonly used to monitor process data (sensors), as they can detect and alert shifts in a dataset.   The current platform has an interactive plot to diagnose what are the variables contributing to anomalies. https://www.jmp.com/support/help/en/17.1/index.shtml#page/jmp/model-driven-multivariate-control-charts.shtml     A very useful feature is to obtain the mean contribution given to a selected number of points.   Having an additional option that gives you the "accumulated contribution", will help during the diagnosis. ... View more

The Profiler is a powerfull tool in JMP and widely used for the analysis and interpretation of Design of Experiment models. To make prediction about future runs, the uncertainity of a model has to be considered. However, JMP is currently limited to confidence intervals, which only allow to make predictions about the range where the true mean falls into. Prediction and tolerance intervals on the other side would extend this so single runs or even for a poportion of a population. Other software tools such as DesignExpert offer these options already for years and I guess many other JMP users would appreacitae such an option in one of the future JMP versions.     ... View more

What inspired this wish list request? I use the cross-hair tool and measurement tools a lot but find myself having to write down a lot of information I gain from them, which is a waste of time.      What is the improvement you would like to see? I would like to see the following: Cross hair Ability to "Pin" the cross-hair tool image Ability to save out the values of the cross hair to a table   Measurement tool Ability for the cross hairs to calculate a slope value that would show under the dx and dy values Ability to force the measurement tool to stick in an "x / y" mode (like when the axis are different data types) vs the "slope" mode (when data are the same data types).  This will allow you to line up the X and Y values to the data more easily. Ability to "Pin" the measurement tool image  Ability to save out the values of the cross hair to a table     Why is this idea important? The cross-hair and measurement tools are amazing at allowing you to interact with your data but the usefulness is muted by having to resort to hand calculating / documenting the information that you gain.     ... View more

☐ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☐ removes a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   #myTop10_2024     In Column Properties, one can define the colors and the order for specific "values" - but ist astonishing that JMP is lacking a possibility specify the marker settings as well. Therefore, the user has to synchronize the settings manually for every single plot: https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/color-settings-for-quot-missing-quot-values/m-p/565346/highlight/true#M77738    "Marker by Column" sounds almost like the missing feature - but a closer look shows that the functionality is "related", has little overlap and several disadvantages.   My wish: An additional column property setting to specify Marker settings for specific column values. The functionality should be analog to "value colors", but for markers.   The benefit: The user can specify (colors and) markers for specific values and make them more visible (e.g. highlight and differentiate between different fail categories, show "pass" with a tiny standard marker).     WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT? "Marker by Column" uses row states to assign Markers. the issue: The setting is active for ALL (!!!) Plots - not just the plots where a specific column is used as overlay. With the help of Value Markers, one gets the chance to specify different sets of markers for different columns. This is already possible for Value Colors and Value Order. Why is it not possible for Markers.     more wishes submitted by   ... View more

similar wish: Add CDFs to Graph Builder    ☑ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! - especially in semiconductor industry. ☐ removes a bug ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   What inspired this wish list request? Short: The summary statistics option in GraphBuilder are amazingly useful. Unfortunately, there is no setting for Cumulative Probability,  CDF, Normal Quantile Plots. to generate a plot like this one:       What is the improvement you would like to see?  Please add Cumulative Probability as an option for Summary Statistics in Graph Builder.   Why is this idea important?  In Graph Builder, there is a setting: Cumulative Percent An innocent user might fall into this trap and use Cumulative Percent instead of Cumulative Probability. BUT: Cumulative PERCENT is NOT Cumulative PROBABILITY  it is: -> Save us from falling into this trap!!! ... View more

☑ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☐ removes a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   #myTop10_2023   What inspired this wish list request?    Some days ago, I posted here a wish Tables/Update: add aggregation option . The idea: aggregate the data of the update table before it's merged into the main table. This could make Tables/Update much faster (!) AND more powerful.   Hm. Actually a user could implement the feature right away if he applies 2 steps: 1) aggregate via Tables/Summary 2) merge via Tables/Update.   But that's not true - because some aggregation options were proposed which are not available yet in Tables/Summary - those for non-numeric values like first/last entry,  mode ...   So, if there is something missing in Jmp ... let's write a wish (especially as @jthi already proposed to do so: https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Summarize-Function/m-p/658685/highlight/true#M84794 )   Actuall, in 2019, @ewittry1  posted a first version of this wish - to add an aggregation option for character columns in Tables/Summary (via concat): Summerize/Summary aggregation function for character data. Concat Charcter Vector into a Scalar (by)  Amazingly useful!   Unfortunately, the wish was archived at that time. So, here is a new wish:   What is the improvement you would like to see?  Please add aggregation functions for Character columns  .... to Tables/Summary AND Analyze/Tabulate.   Possible aggregation options are: mode (most common entry) entry of first matching row entry of last matching row concatenate the entries of all matching rows (with space, comma, underscore) option: drop multiples are all values the same? number of distinct values concatenate distinct  *)   Why is this idea important?  With the current version of Jmp, users can use Summary and Tabulate just for numeric values.   With a future version of Jmp users will be able to use Summary and Tabulate for ANY table, including character columns. They just have to choose the character aggregation which fits their needs.   *) I guess there are many more aggregation options for text. What are the other ones?         more wishes submitted by   ... View more