JMP Wish List

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

What inspired this wish list request? I use the tree map as a the base graph to report out a dashboard of summary statistics for multiple areas in my plant.  The current squarify option leaves some "boxes" almost useless.   What is the improvement you would like to see? I'd like to see a "forced square" option in the Layout drop down menu that would make the boxes all the same size, which could mean that there are blank boxes if there are not enough categories to fit a even row/column matrix.  Ideally every box would look like chem mill stacked or heat query stacked.  You can see on dry times stacked that there is one long and skinny box that is hard to see.         Why is this idea important? Dashboards are becoming key tools for conveying operational status quickly so charts that are easy to see all the elements are vital.  This is also critical as we move to JMP live as dashboard style graphics are a main reason for the move.     ... View more

☐ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☑ removes something which feels like a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it     What inspired this wish list request?    To generate presentations with consistent design and smooth transitions, users might want to generate Plots with consistent size and design. In Jmp it is very difficult generate plots with consistent plot region and label sizes: Graph builder Frame size JSL  In Jmp 18, a new feature was added to store plot settings and to apply the settings to other plots. But this does not include a fixed plot region.   Jmp support thinks that it might be possible to gernate plots with consistent plot region size - but cannot provide a recipe nor code to accomplish the task: TS-00076249   The background: In general, every Graph that is exported from Jmp (via Save or copy to clipboard) has a different size of the plot region, even if the Size() setting is the same. Factors which influence the size of the plot region - even for identical Frame sizes: - screen resolution - font sizes - axis orientation - axis label settings - ...?   What is the improvement you would like to see?  Please proved a method to generate plots with consistent size of the plot region and axis size settings.   Why is this idea important?  Graphs which are exported from Jmp look nice. But if every graph has slightly different size and label size, this looks chaotic when switching from one slide of a presentation to another. With the new option, this issue can be solved.       more wishes submitted by       ... View more

☐ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☑ removes something that feels like a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   Short: Graph builder needs this function:       Long: What inspired this wish list request?  Every Jmp user knows this issue: when you invested 15 minutes to optimize your Graph Builder plot, added some subplots, added some categories and then the legend looks like this - and you need another 15 minutes to figure out which entry in the legend corresponds to which subplot.   When computers started to have several video outputs, computer users had a similar issue: which monitor setting belongs to which monitor ?!?!?   And the programmers had a great invention: an Identify button. The user just has to click the button and numbers will appear: 1) in the overview 2) on each monitor   What is the improvement you would like to see?  1) I want the same functionality for Graph builder. An Identify Button . When a user clicks the button, numbers should appear in the Frameboxes and in the legend: [extreme case to illustrate the unbelievalble help of the suggested function]   ") please also add a button to "reset" the sequence of entries in the legend to a default setting: all entries from the first subplot, then all entries from the second subplot ....   Why is this idea important?  Nowadays it's very difficult to use different color coding in different subplots - as soon as a new subplot is added, all the color settings are scrambled. The unpredictable sequence of entries in the legend makes it almost impossible to efficiently adjust the settings.         more wishes from  ... View more

What inspired this wish list request?  When opening a JMP file (located on a shared folder in a company local network), JMP is copying it locally and opening it, modifications are only local until file is saved. But if in the meantime, the same file is open and modified by another user, some modificaitons can be lost.    What is the improvement you would like to see?  A message box informing that the file is yet opened by someone else can be very useful, or at least informing the user that you have to be careful with shared files. May be a lock information can be added to the JMP files ?   Why is this idea important?  Important because I experienced this situation and it is always annoying to discover that we have lost data or analyses!   ... View more

What inspired this wish list request?  Easy and automatic access to "fresh" information on JMP community or live events,...   What is the improvement you would like to see?  JMP home screen, split the right side in two with an area dedicated to news (new versions, webinars, events, etc.) with web links or even a web page displayed. The page would be automatically refreshed at startup if JMP is connected to internet       ... 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

What inspired this wish list request?    Whenever i move/organise my files and folders, all of the JMP analysis links break if the graph has used a reference to the data table rather than embedding - this is most annoying/inconvenient, and means that i have to perform the analysis all over again. I believe this is caused because the link between the analysis file and the data table file is an absolute reference (ie, starting at C:/)   What is the improvement you would like to see?    It would be SOOO helpful, if those 'absolute' references could be replaced by relative references - since quite often, my analysis files are stored in the same folder as the data table that they reference. Doing this would mean i could then put the files wherever i like and they would still work and be useful.    Why is this idea important?    This would make it much easier for your users to organise their work after performing the analysis of data, rather than having to think completely proactively about how many files you might generate, and whether it might be better for them to have their own folder/location on a drive.    ... View more

What inspired this wish list request?  Table variables are nice place to store information which users can then access as table variable or use in formulas. Currently we are limited to text and numeric values which limits the usage and requires workarounds save matrix as table variable?    What is the improvement you would like to see? I would like that Table Variables would support all JMP data types (or at least lists, matrices and associative arrays). Currently we have to use workaround where we convert these into string and then back to the original datatype using Parse() Names Default To Here(1); dt = Open("$SAMPLE_DATA/Big Class.jmp"); dt << New Table Variable("Day_mat", Char([42 43])); m = Parse(:Day_mat);   Why is this idea important? Makes table variables more useful without the requirement to use workarounds which might or might not work.     ... View more

What inspired this wish list request? These two community postsColor code Top 5 and How to use JSL to set the color gradient of a column in text format by the value of a numeric column?. Interactive option can be a hassle (and not sure if it works with gradient) (and JMP couldn't capture those actions for automatization) and other option is to go with scripting.   What is the improvement you would like to see?  I would like to have some option to color cells based on other columns colors. This could maybe be implemented as column property?   Why is this idea important? Improves the visuals of JMP datatables .     ... 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

What inspired this wish list request? Other user messaged me and told that they couldn't save a project and it did take some time to figure out why it couldn't be saved (most likely due me not using projects)     What is the improvement you would like to see? Improve the content management within JMP Projects: Provide easy way to move all files which aren't currently self-contained into the self-contained project Allow saving project as self-contained I think currently you have to first figure out which aren't currently self-contained and then save them all from Save As menu Allow user to see which file is self-contained and which is not Can you tell me which of these are self-contained and which are not?  Maybe even provide a preference where projects would make all content self-contained automatically   Why is this idea important? Improves one of the things JMP Projects are supposed to be used for and good at: content management.     ... View more

What inspired this wish list request?  Currently, when I trying to chose some samples from a plot of graph, it can only select by drawing a rectangular.  However, a lot of times, I need to select samples by a circular or oval shape, it's very hard to cherry pick each sample by using current method.    What is the improvement you would like to see?  Add a shape chose for select arrow, so we can chose if we want to select samples by drawing a circle or rectangular.    Why is this idea important?  Many company working on wafer like products, it's naturally a circle shape.  In this case, a lot of times, there are circular or oval shape defects, uniformity issue that need to be selected.  The user group is huge, since most semiconductor or other circular products company or manufacture need such tool to help.  It will be greatly saving time to have such selection shape.     ... 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

What inspired this wish list request? JMP is a great tool for data exploration, and helps build quickly prototypes for predictive models, to see if there is an added value in pushing the analysis and modeling further. Looking at the panel "Overall Statistics" for a classification topic, I find there may be some performance metrics missing that are frequently used in the Machine Learning / Data Science world. Here are the metrics currently displayed for a classification topic (example from a bootstrap forest):    What is the improvement you would like to see? I would like to see displayed commonly used performance metrics for classification, such as Sensivity, Specificity, Precision, Accuracy, F1 score, Matthews Correlation Coefficient ... Perhaps directly under the Confusion matrix ? Here are the possible metrics in use for classification topics from an online calculator, with the formulas explained : Confusion Matrix - Online Calculator (onlineconfusionmatrix.com)   Why is this idea important? As JMP is trying to bridge the gap between the Statistics and Machine Learning worlds by integrating several models from these two modeling mindsets in one platform, it would make sense to also integrate Machine Learning performance metrics in the results of a classification model, in order to have all infos in the same place and be able to speak the same common language.  ... View more

What inspired this wish list request?  Desire to have conversations about data and reports right in the platform.   What is the improvement you would like to see?  Ability to tag users in a comment, similar to this functionality in Microsoft Excel.        Why is this idea important?  Reduce barriers to meaningful conversations about data.  If it is very easy to ask someone a question WHILE they are viewing something, they are more likely to ask, and if someone is quickly brought to the exact place the question is about they are more likely to respond.   ... 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

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What inspired this wish list request? When I use % of factor as the summary statistic in graph builders bar charts or am using a mosaic plot I cannot use the sort by option for the X axis.  I have to make a new column that gives the % value I am seeing on the charts and then I can use "sort by" and choose that column.     This is from the Big class data set:   If I make this column I can make it do what I would want     As I can now sort by this column             What is the improvement you would like to see? I would like to be able to choose the level to sort by in the menu options.  In the case above there would also be a "levels" option that would show "M" and "F".  Which ever one was chosen would be the value the bars are sorted by.   Why is this idea important? Pareto'ing out factor levels for reject rates is a common activity in the manufacturing industry and the additional steps you need to take are not intuitive for new users (who then get frustrated because the sorting is not working like they are used to and they can't figure out how to make it work) as well as a lot of unnecessary steps, especially if you change around the factor in the X axis.   Thanks for looking this over with me @Jordan_Hiller  ... View more