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new Column Property: Value Markers

☐ cool new feature
☑ could help many users!

☑ removes something that feels like a „bug“

☐ nice to have

☐ nobody needs it

 

#myTop10_2024

#myTop10_2025

Nominated as one of the top-5-wishes in the Category Data Blending and Cleanup
Wish List Prioritization Survey 2025

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What inspired this wish list request?

Who doesn’t know them—the colleagues who assign a different color or marker to the same variant in every new plot!

To ensure consistency in your plots, JMP offers helpful features.

For Color, JMP offer the Value Colors feature to lock in consistent color assignments across graphs, which is a lifesaver for visual clarity and collaboration. But when it comes to marker shapes, things get trickier. There’s no built-in equivalent Value Markers in the column properties, which means marker assignments often have to be manually redefined or scripted for each graph.



What is the improvement you would like to see?

My wish: An additional column property to specify Marker settings for specific column values.

The functionality should be analog to "value colors", but for markers.

 

 

Why is this idea important?

JMP is lacking a functionality to assign Markers "consistently" across plots.

 

 

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18 Comments
hogi
Level XII

ah,

and when you add Value Markers, please also add Value Marker Sizes

Status changed to: Acknowledged

Hi @hogi, thank you for your suggestion! We have captured your request and will take it under consideration.

Status changed to: Investigating
 
Status changed to: Not Planned For Now

Hi @hogi, we have decided not to implement this request for JMP 18, but we are holding on to it for potential inclusion in a future release. We will update this issue if anything changes. 

hogi
Level XII

ok.

too bad to hear that

hogi
Level XII

add-on:
use custom marker themes along the idea outlined here:
 Is it possible to create a custom marker theme? 

Byron_JMP
Staff

This is a great suggestion, I would really like to have this option too.

Super important to have Graph Builder read this property and obey it too.

hogi
Level XII

@Byron_JMP , whom do we have to ask to re-open the wish?

hogi
Level XII

@Sarah-Sylvestre , @mia_stephens ,

I hope you're all doing well! I just wanted to check if there are any plans to fix this little inconvenience in JMP19. It would be absolutely fantastic if that could be arranged. 

At least: open the wish to collect additional Kudos.
I am quite sure that other users want as well a way to specify value markers they way it is possible to specify value colors and value orders.

Status changed to: Acknowledged

Reopening so that this can be voted on. Thank you for the feedback!