JMP Wish List

As the title says,JMP really needs the possibility to superscript text in the graph titles and axis labels. The current workarounds unfortunately are cumbersome and do not meet the needs of users coming in chemistry and physics.   Worth noting that this is a standard function in most other competitors of JMP ... View more

What inspired this wish list request? I was trying to make some errors easily visible in wafermaps and started playing around with Fill Selection Modes. I managed to make my graphs visual enough (but there is no "perfect" option), but I could make it even more visual if I could combine multiple modes (at least two). Also changing and trying out different options requires me to go through multiple menus using mouse.   What is the improvement you would like to see? I have few suggestions regarding Fill Selection Mode in JMP graphs to make JMP visuals provide more information quicker. There are a lot of different situations where JMPs default option of Selected Patterned isn't really that helpful. I will use Wafer Stacked.jmp as an example dataset for most of these with this starting situation (stacked wafermaps and Defects mean used as color) and I have selected some random areas. There are a lot of other situations where diffee Not very easy to see QUICKLY what has been selected if I'm using default option "Selected Patterned".   1. Let us combine multiple Fill Selection Modes OR provide new options which have these combinations predefined Depending what you are trying to present, you might want to highlight your graphs in different ways. In this case I would like to quickly highlight the specific areas of wafermap. Few selection modes work quite well   Selected Darkened   Selected Outlined   Unselected Faded (best for this case in my opinion with current options)   And finally Selected Same Color (otherwise good but it is difficult to change the color AND I will lose information on the graph, so I wouldn't use this in this case)   But what I would like to do is to combine these (at minimum two) or at least have few new options. I would like to combine at least Selected Outlined+Unselected Faded or Selected Darkened + Unselected Faded.   Demonstration of Selected Outlined + Unselected Faded   And in this case maybe better option Selected Darkened + Unselected Faded   2. Let us easily change the Fill Selection Mode without always going though the hassle of right-clicking the graph Drop-down menu toolbar could be one idea, similar to data table list in Script Editor (of course dropdown wouldn't work unless they are checkboxes if we can make our own combinations). I will most likely write my own add-in which will let user to go to next selection by pressing a button (or shortcut key) for now.    3. Let us easily change the "Fill Selection Color" from somewhere else than JMP Preferences or make the color choice somehow smarter.  Currently I don't know if this color can be changed anywhere else than preferences and depending what I'm doing, the preference color might be very bad.   4. Maybe nice to have in some cases let us define which Pattern to use when using Selected Patterned Sometimes different pattern could solve a lot of visual issues. We do have a lot of different patterns already available, they are just "never" used    Why is this idea important? Makes JMPs visuals more visual, quicker and more easy to use.   Other Other a bit similar suggestion for just graph builder and marker selections: Graph Builder: Marker Selection mode -> multiple selections!  ... View more

I enjoy using JMP and have been a user for many years.  But one area that is lacking is the ability to make notes on a file.  Compared to Jupyter notebooks/Lab or R.  There isn't really a place to add comments to your work on the file.  I guess you can use the Journal tool, but that is more for use when you want to combine several studies.  i don't have a way of making notes to remind me or someone whomever I'm sharing the file if there were any interesting insights.  ... View more

What inspired this wish list request? This post Referencing a table that is created via "make into data table"  where user is creating complicated Workflow and tries to get values from report tables (when JMP creates tables from report table boxes they will get named "Untitled automatically.)   What is the improvement you would like to see? When user uses Make Into Data Table or Make Combined Data Table let them choose the name of resulting table.   Why is this idea important? Improves JMP's capability to provide robust scripts to user (easier for non-scripter people to create automatisations with enhanced log and workflow builder). ... View more

What inspired this wish list request?  There are some features of interactive Dashboards which are not implemented in interactive HTML yet. If such a feature is present in a Dashboard, the exported HTML file will no be interactive and a message is displayed: A question that arises very often: why is a local data filter not interactive: The Data Filter window is not interacting in HTML    JMP16 HTML Filter Disabled  Interactive HTML reports - local data filters not working in JMP 16?  Interactive HTML & JMP report: different behavior, different values  Need help. Got some error during create interactive HTML file  JMP16 Graph Builder publish in HTML not interactive      an the easy solution: it's due to the "Include" functionality: the graph adjusts (fit lins, X/Y Groups, plot region etc.)  to the displayed data points.  And at the moment, such an interactive adjustment is not yet possible in interactive HTML. A kind of solution: disable the Include mode.   There is a similar issue with "filter by" or "filter + 1 dashboard", where one graph is used to filter the other graphs in the Dashboard.   In this post: Filtered data function didn't work for JMP 14 dashboard interactive HTML report   @John_Powell_JMP provided a workaround: replace the selection graph with a local data filter and disable include mode. Till 2020, selection filters have not been implemented in Interactive HTML. when @josh_markwordt reported that  a request was added for the feature request being used internally to track it. Unfortunately, there were too few votes to support the feature in the internal tracking list, such that selection filters are not yet possible in interactive HTML: https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Interactive-HTML-and-Filter-By/m-p/629842/highlight/true#M82795    What is the improvement you would like to see?  Please implement selection filters in interactive HTML, i.e. the functionality that one graph can be used to filter the other graphs in the Dashboard. Please provide similar option like for Local Data Filter: Show and Include such that the selection filter can be used on any system -  the need for a Jmp Live Server.   Why is this idea important?  Interactive Plots in Jmp are very cool. Interactive Plots exported as interactive HTML are convenient to share some kind of this spirit with non-Jmp users. Non-interactive features in interactive HTML are not cool. -> remove them!         more wishes submitted by   ... View more

☑ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☐ removes a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   #myTop10_2022     For Local Data filters, the Select option is missing: https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Collection-of-quot-funny-quot-JSL-newbie-questions/m-p/579590/highlight/true#M78685   Is the absence of Select mode a fundamental necessity for Jmp to work - or is it just like @ian_jmp guesses: https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Collection-of-quot-funny-quot-JSL-newbie-questions/m-p/580295/highlight/true#M78738 ~ It's removed because otherwise the user could be confused by the too many possibilities/too much functionality.   I understand that not every user needs a Select option in a local data filter.   But on the other hand - with the select option enabled, you could generate a completely new generation of Dashboards. Even after generation of the Dashboard, the user can add variables to the Data filter - and use them to highlight points in the plots! Thereby, the user of the dashborad is no longer restricted by the creativity of the coder of the dashboard.   The Enhanced Sankey Plot Add-In is a great example of how versatile a Dashbord can be with a select - enabled Data Filter: https://community.jmp.com/t5/JMP-Add-Ins/Enhanced-Sankey-Plot-ESP/ta-p/549745 Here, @jthi uses a generic Data Filter as a universal highlight tool. Wether you want to analyze mushrooms, chips or populations, you will always be able to select the values which you want to use to highlight data points. The only disadvantage here: @jthi  had to use a global data filter to provide the functionality - i.e. with all the disadvantages of a global data filter!   The additional benefit of a Select-enabled Local Data filter: If you just have a GraphBuilder report open, you can enable/disable "Dashboard" mode with a single click on the Local Data Filter Icon on the Report Toolbar. Cool, right? So here is my Wish: Please >don't< disable select mode for Local Data Filters.                 more wishes submitted by   ... View more

☐ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☑ removes a „bug“ (although it's mainly not a Jmp bug :) ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it     What inspired this wish list request?    At the moment, when I want to share an interactive Jmp file via Teams or Sharepoint, my colleagues just see: ... and think that there is an issue with Jmp - or an issue with my Jmp file.   For them, it's hard to find out that actually it's a Teams / Sharepoint  issue with the interactive JavaScript code.   interactive html in Teams Channels    What is the improvement you would like to see?   for a future version of Jmp, would it be possible to slightly change the code of the interactive HTML? Instead of starting right-away with the start animation,  the HTML code could check if Java Code can be executed and if not: show a warning that it's actually the browser or the site which prevents the page to be loaded correctly. Then it could show a suggestion to download the file and open it from the hard drive.   Why is this idea important?  MS Teams, Sharepoint and Onedrive is used in many companies. Not every Company with Jmp licenses has a Jmp Live Server.   Therefore, users share interactive HTML files via Teams and Sharepoint - more and more in the future ....   If there are non-functional files, which were generated by Jmp,  this will "fall back" to Jmp. The new functionality will make sure that users understand the ussue and that they know how to make the files work.   Alternative solution: - Use in interactive HTML a code that is accepted by Teams/Sharepoint - align with MS how to solve the issue         more wishes submitted by   ... 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

When performing certain tests in JMP, the null hypothesis is stated, but not for all.  I found several people are confused by the interpretation of the results for hypothesis tests if the null hypothesis is not stated.  Could a future version of JMP state the null hypothesis whenever there is one to consider? ... View more

☐ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☐ removes a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   The rows summary table on the bottom left of a table is very useful to get DataViews (subsets) for selected rows, excluded rows and so on. The Data View    Unfortuntely, in my daily work it's much more often that I need a subset of non-excluded rows than of excluded rows. So, I go: 1)   2)    3)      my wish: an additional entry for non-excluded rows, like this and by this: the opportunity to generate a DataView for non-excluded rows.   Additional benefit: One can directly see the number of actually used (= non-excluded) rows and doesn't have to calculate it (all rows - excluded)   more wishes submitted by   ... View more

When I am using the Fit Model platform with Standard Least Squares, I can effectively save the prediction formula and standard errors to a separate column. When I do this for multiple responses, I can effectively use the Graph -> Profiler menu to overlay those models. This is very helpful, as each response may have a different set of meaningful predictors in it. Here is a reference to such a thread on the topic:   https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Confidence-Interval-in-prediction-profiler/td-p/10817   However, if I have a generalized linear model (GLM) such as a logistic regression, I have no such luck. Within the single model for fitting the GLM Personality, the results in that platform have confidence intervals on them. However, I am only able to export the prediction formula. If my most 2 important responses contains one normal response with Standard Least Squares, and one binomial response with a GLM logistic regression model, I cannot create a joint Prediction Profiler with effective predictions and confidence intervals. I am optimistic this can be done because we already have evidence that the confidence intervals can be created for GLMs. You just have to work out what the StdErr Pred Formula column would look like.   I brought this up as a ticket with JMP as well. The following series of responses from JMP support certainly brought attention to the issue, but perhaps if others find value in this enhancement, then it is more likely to be completed.   "Unfortunately, at the moment, I do not see a way to get a confidence interval around the predicted probability for the binary response in the combined standalone profiler."   "I see what you mean about the inability to save Standard Error Formulas for GLM's or for Least Squares models containing nested terms. I am not aware of any particular reason why this is the case. I will pass these items on to JMP R&D for their consideration in a future version of JMP."   ... View more

What inspired this wish list request?  I have been adding table scripts to our standardized data and telling user what they do just based on the name is starting to get a bit difficult.    What is the improvement you would like to see? I would like to be able to provide users with tip/tooltip when they hover over over table script (in similar manner as Notes works for Column Properties).   Why is this idea important?  Makes it easier to indicate user what the script is doing IF just the name isn't enough without them having to open the script and understand it (or read a comment in script). ... 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

What inspired this wish list request? Challenges with establishing the ability to pull data from SharePoint lists and/or files stored on sharepoint.  SharePoint is a tool that is used for managing tasks and incoming work.  There are several instances where we would like to be able to pull from these lists to use the data for metrics and dashboards.  Connecting to the lists and having the ability to pull in files (.jmp, .xlxs, .csv) that are stored on the SharePoint is very important to use.   What is the improvement you would like to see?  Something similar to what is available to Google Docs to allow easy access to import SharePoint lists and documents stored on a SharePoin   Why is this idea important?  To ensure metrics are accurate and up to date.   ... View more

  I frequently use Journals to capture snapshots of my output. I will then rearrange objects in the journal (typically so that things look more "square" or "wide" (since computer screens are wide, not tall, and JMP reports tends to be tall). Also Creating an outline box in the Journal to contain a section of analysis is a nice way to organize the journal. Then when I want to share it, my typical tool is powerpoint, but I would also like to use export to HTML.   Exporting to doesn't always work as I intend, because typically each outline box and sometimes text boxes in the display are exported as separate pages in power point.   Here are some wishes: 1) Allow Journals to be published to HTML.  (this would be great for JMP Live). 2) Create a way to indicated that a group of display objects should be treated as one thing for conversion to an image when exporting to powerpoint.  Ideas on how to do this:      a) create a flag for the OutlineBox() display object to indicate that everything contained in that outline box should be grouped together for export.  And then update the export / save to powerpoint to recognize that flag and capture the whole contents of the outline box as an image together    b) create a new display object (aka ExportTogetherBox()) that acts like what I described above     Even if the Outline Box() could have a flag to set that says "treat this like all one thing" for export to powerpoint, that would be fantastic. ... View more

What inspired this wish list request?  To respond the query for Pharmaceutical Regulatory body.   What is the improvement you would like to see?    In recent version of JMP 17, dissolution similarity features included that is really appreciating from the users from Pharmaceutical industry background. However, this new features have few limitation like, we are able to calculate the Dissolution similarity of n=12 units. If we want to establish similarity between Reference (R) and Test product (T) more than 12 units (either 24 or 36 units, if same lot the f2 calculation and if from different lots of R & T>> then f2 matrix) we need to take help of SAS coding experts.   Why is this idea important?  DDSolver plugin for EXCEL is freely available (which worked for 12 no. of units). If JMP will include this feature for more than 12 units, it would be a special proposition, not only for Pharma Industreis community, also for Pharmaceutical Regulatory bodies like FDA, EMA etc.   ... View more

☑ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☐ removes a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   [edited and adjusted to the new design]   What inspired this wish list request? deficiency of Conditional Data Filters  Conditional in this Data Filters means that "age (1)" defines the items which are displayed in "name (2)". --> cool Clearing the selection in age clears the selection in "name" -> not cool : (   What is the improvement you would like to see? Please add a control in the red triangle menu and via preferences to enable an alternative mode: !! lock childs when clear !! The new behavior: If a selection is cleared via >> the selection in child filters should not be reset anymore  << (sure: the row selection should be adjusted to fit to the displayed selection)   Why is this idea important? the proposed behavior has 2 modes where it can show it's advantages:   A) The new lock childs when clear  mode allows a very cool way of selecting rows: use a parent filter to select rows with interesting features, e.g. pass/pail = fail with "Conditional" activated, other filters will adjust accordingly e.g. batches will just shows batches with fail units  select all these batches clear the filter selection for pass/fail you just filtered all batches with fail chips Once you understand the magic behind it, it's a feature you won't want to miss. This way, during exploratory data analysis, you can  "stay in the flow" , just make one step after the other. No need to create a column formula with grouped Col aggregation or similar workarounds.   B) Another benefit which cannot be rated high enough! It will save users hours of waiting time over the course of their working lives:     The current "clear all child-selections" mode for conditional data filters results in long graph rendering times: Every time a selection is cleared, all child selections are cleared as well. No chance to restrict the plot to a subset! So, every the  user has to wait dozens of seconds, or even minutes.   I often work with large data sets which can just be displayed efficiently if a subset is selected (!). The current behavior of Conditional Data filters is so time consuming that I decided to deactivate it. Same for you?   The lock childs when clear mode will fix the issue: With the new behavior, the user can make a "dummy" selection (just a single row), clear all the other data filters, apply a new filter and then clear the dummy selection. What an improvement! right? ... View more

What inspired this wish list request?  Plots look better if we right click > Customize... and order Grid Lines so they are drawn first.     What is the improvement you would like to see?  Change so that grid lines are drawn first (in background) automatically.     Why is this idea important?  Not critical, just helpful to make plots look better without extra manual steps.   ... View more

☐ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☑ removes a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   #myTop10_2022 ➜ Jmp18 :)     Get rows where is extremely slow if the column is referenced with a varible (here i=5 ) i = 5; dt << get rows where( As Column( dt, i ) == 999 ); instead of a direct reference like in dt << get rows where( As Column( dt, 5 ) == 999 ); My wishes: Is it possible to "fix this issue in the background"? e.g. by a setting in the preferences: "hereby I confirm that JMP is allows to pre-evaluate variables to speed up code execution - accepting that this could lead to unintended/unusual behavior" (I am not good enough in JSL programming to predict all the collateral effects - would such a mode make sense?) If fixing the issue in the background is not possible, could you please implement a warning function in JSL such that the user gets informed about the bad performance due to non-pre-evaluated variables. Then he can adjust the code, with substitute Should you Loop through a data table or use Recode, or use Get Rows Where to change values in a data table  or Eval: https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Should-you-Loop-through-a-data-table-or-use-Recode-or-use-Get/m-p/580751/highlight/true#M78769        more wishes submitted by   ... View more