JMP Wish List

What inspired this wish list request?  I write a lot of code that is sometimes long and complex, as a result there's certain functionalities or expressions located throughout the code and it would be nice to have the ability to highlight a variable or function or expression and right click > Go To, and then the JSL Editor takes you to that block of code. Being able to more easily move around the code as needed would be very helpful     What is the improvement you would like to see?  A right click command that takes you to the highlighted section of code a Go To function or something similar. See screenshot.   It would be a functionality very much like if you have a tall data table and have highlighted a data point on a graph and use the Rows > Row Selection > Go To Row function, but this would be for functions and expressions and so forth in the JSL.      A Go To Line functionality would also be very helpful. For example, if you run your code and then it says there's an error at line 2657, sometimes it doesn't always jump to that location and having a Go To Line functionality where you enter the JSL line number and it takes you there could be very helpful.   Why is this idea important? It should make going from place to place in the code and be able to hop around much easier than having to do a Ctrl-F or something. Same with the Go To Line functionality, it would help to navigate longer JSL codes.   I know this would help me a lot, and could imagine it helping others who do a lot of scripting.   Thanks!, DS   ... View more

☐ cool new feature ☐ could help many users! ☑ removes a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   Text to Columns is a cool tool to split data from a single column to multiple columns - with a user define separator.   The tool has a neat feature - which (in manny cases) acts more like a bug:   If there  are consecutive separator characters, they are automatically treated like a single character (!) Definitely, this makes sense for spaces.    But let's assume that the data is from a data table. Then two consecutive separator characters indicate that there is an entry with a missing value in-between. And Text to Column interprets it as a single character, this leads to shifted entries, like illustrated here: https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Cols-utilities-how-to-let-lt-text-to-columns-gt-take-care-of/td-p/254339   My wish: please add a checkbox to enable/disable the "use multiple separators as a single one"  feature. Out of historic reasons, one could enable the feature by default.   It's clear that there are workarounds like: - write your own Text to Columns tool. - add additional characters between adjacent separator characters. - export the data set and use the txt import (which fortunately doesn't have this bug/feature) - use Excel (which has the checkbox) ... View more

Often I want to know the distance in x, y, and absolute distance between points.  I can't find any way to do this currently in JMP.   Gnuplot has a mode where you press a key and it anchors a start point, then you can move the mouse around in the window and it shows the delta-x, delta-y, and distances of the mouse from the start point.     Something like this in JMP would be very handy! ... View more

Currently when you export a Profiler to Interactive HTML the confidence intervals are not displayed.    Please add support for these confidence intervals for Profilers in interactive HTML.   This issue was raised in a recent discussion: Sharing model profiler results within company   Compare the report in JMP vs. interactive HTML shown below.   Profiler in JMP w/Confidence Intervals Profiler in interactive HTML ... View more

☑ cool new feature ☐ could help many users! ☐ removes a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it     Adjusting gradient settings is very time consuming because the menu has to be closed to get the changes applied. Often, the settings have to be tried and optimized iteratively. A "live view" could help:   alternative: direct mouse control of the gradient scaling settings: https://community.jmp.com/t5/JMP-Wish-List/mouse-control-for-color-gradient/idi-p/486588 ... View more

☐  cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☐ removes a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it     sometimes it's hard to find the right column again and again.   some suggestions to make it easier:       - define special colors for special columns (or groups):   - make the vertical line between groups thicker     more wishes submitted by   ... View more

I would like a button in Graph Builder that opens a table, like shown below, that allows me to change all of the major font settings in Graph Builder without having to go into each axis separately or even into the main Preferences.   I like the CTRL - SHIFT - +/- functionality, but that doesn't solve everything (especially as it enlarges everything in JMP which I often don't want).       Maybe there could be more subgroups than shown in my table for which to change all settings at once. ... View more

Dear all, we use Box Plots a lot, and the new features in JMP 16 (notched ...) are great, but it would be quite helpful to be able to control these features already in preference settings.   So I would vote for including features like  Box Style( "Solid" ), Notched( 1 ), Fences( 1 ), Name( "5 Number Summary" )(1) in preferences to not need to specify them in each plot again.   See script and screenshot for illustration. Thanks,     Names Default To Here( 1 ); // styled Box Plot with notch and colos dt = Open( "$SAMPLE_DATA/Big Class.jmp" ); dlg = Column Dialog( xCols = Col List( "X, Factors", Min Col( 1 ), Max Col( 1 ), Modeling Type( "Categorical" ) ), yCols = Col List( "Y, Response", Min Col( 1 ), Max Col( 1 ), Modeling Type( "Continuous" ) ) ); gb = Graph Builder( Show Control Panel( 0 ), Variables( X( dlg["xCols"][1] ), Y( dlg["yCols"][1] ), Color( dlg["xCols"][1] ) ), Elements( Box Plot( X, Y, Legend( 3 ), Box Style( "Solid" ), Notched( 1 ), Fences( 1 ), Name( "5 Number Summary" )(1) ) ) ); ... View more

It would be cool if we had the font size options included to the tool bar in the graph builder and other data visualization platforms. ... View more

What inspired this wish list request? Silent installation of JMP using DSC tools like Ansible, Chef, SCCM, GPO, fail with an InstallShield error. While the .iss file is a neat feature, InstallShield installs of JMP will fail using these methods.     What is the improvement you would like to see? The ability to silent install JMP repeatedly with DSC tools :D     Why is this idea important? IT departments are increasingly using DevOps tools to automate their environments and deployments. Ensuring compatibility with such package managers like Chocolatey or SCCM would be a huge benefit. Using a MSI installer would do that, I believe.     ... View more

What inspired this wish list request? We're building a tool that loads well-documented data sources to JMP (a data mesh, essentially). We'd like to reveal the documentation about column governance, data types, and meaning to users conveniently. We can add these details to the Notes property, but this isn't highly visible.     What is the improvement you would like to see? When hovering over a column header, if the Notes property is defined, show a tooltip containing the column notes. Practically, this would display in just the same way Event Handler tooltips display, but rather than being defined at the cell level, it's defined at the column header.     Why is this idea important? Well-documented data sources allow other capable data-workers to understand, work with, and gain value from the data sources generated by others. For us, this means that the scientists who deeply understand, say, protein chemistry can create data tables with notes that allow those of us (like me) who don't really know what a "pI" is to use the dataset fluently.     ... View more

☑ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☐ removes a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   #myTop10_2022   If a user changes the name of a column, references to the column in table scrips are (sometimes) automatically corrected, references in user scrips unfortunately not: Column() vs As Column() vs datable:column vs dt:As name("column")    So, column name changes are very dangerous: there is always the risk that a jsl code doesn't work anymore after the change - like illustrated in the example below. JMP detects that a noc-existing column is requested and throws an error:   My wish: Instead of throwing an error, JMP could open a window and provide a list of column names. Then the user can select a replacement column. There should also be a toggle box, allowing the user to decide if the JSL code should be automatically adjusted wit the new column name. The new behaviour could be enabled/disabled in the preferences menu such that users which got used to error message still have the choice to get it.     NamesDefaultToHere(1); dt = Open("$SAMPLE_DATA/Big Class.JMP"); Data Table( "Big Class" ):age << Set Name( "age_" ); s = dt << runScript("Distribution"); // column names automatcally adjusted wait(2); s = dt << runScript("Set Age Value Labels"); // this script throws an error   more wishes submitted by   ... View more

Every Computer change I appreciate the "Get" Funtion for the Preferences.    I'm missing that the AddIns will be integrated into my preferences. Now I need to install them every time again. It would be helpful to have one Click and have Jmp running as is ran on the old computer. Thanks Peter ... View more

What inspired this wish list request?  Can the listbox have a select all command, at the moment you can only select one by one. Use lb<<set selected(1)   What is the improvement you would like to see?  listbox has a command to select all elements at once.   Why is this idea important?  Many commands have this, but listbox does not; for example, checkbox   ... View more

Previously I asked a multiple Y-axis overlay chart in the user community (Multiple Y axis in a chart. (Multiple Y axis scales)) and Byron made a scirpt for it (Multiple Y-Axis Graphs).   I hope I can get this feature from the 'Graph Builder' in next JMP version with interactive Y-axis setting. Currently the multiple Y-axis graph (from the script) dosen't link with the data in the graph. If the data is linked with multiple Y-axis interactively, it will be better than other supporting programs. Thank you. : ) ... View more

As far as I can tell, the discussion here is still accurate for how to include a hyperlink in displayed text in a New Window to the user. None of the solutions presented are, in my opinion, intuitive, and often require hacking the UI together piece by piece just to include a hyperlink somewhere in the text.   It would be great if JMP would automatically find URLs in Text Boxes via regex and convert them to clickable links, preferably with a scriptable property on the Text Box to turn this behavior off. Alternatively, support for <a> tags when the Markup option is enabled would also work. ... View more

Please allow users to select the time format (12 vs 24 hour) directly.   time = today(); //3619617166 formattedTime = format(time, "m/d/y h:m:s"); print(formattedTime); //"09/12/2018 5:12:46 PM" //What user wants: "09/12/2018 17:12:46" Options: m/d/y/ H:m:s (capital H to denote 24 hours -- common in other languages) format(time, "m/d/y h:m:s", 24) - allow it to be specified in the format function, similar to Hour() function   There's some cryptic notes in the Scripting Guide that suggest the format() function chooses 12hr or 24hrs based on the computer settings, which means scripts would end up breaking on some users computers and would be difficult troubleshoot. ... View more

JMP Windows Specific preferences does offer "Dock the Window List in maximized windows" option which is from time to time great. What I would like to have, is to be able to quick hide that window list in maximized windows. This could be implemented in similar manner as Hide/Close Left Panels in data table.   Why? This is because the Window list takes quite a bit space if it is set in usable size and I would like to hide it when I have no need for it BUT get it back when I need it again. ... View more

This would fall under a small "quality of life" improvement but the legend for a stacked bar chart is always in the opposite order of what one would intuitively expect when going scanning from top to bottom (the top item in the legend is the bottom item in the stacked bar) . If that isn't changed it would be nice to have a "reverse" order button in the legend settings box, similar to what is available when changing the Value Ordering property for a column. ... View more