Organizing Your Work Using JMP Projects
MikeD_Anderson
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JMP Projects let you explore your data more efficiently with a single, tabbed JMP window and easily share your work with other JMP users by embedding your tables and scripts in a self-contained project file.
See how to:
- Create a new Project
- Move files into a Project
- Navigate the Project workspace, bookmarks and contents
- Understand what and how files and reports are updated
- Save and compress files
Q&A is included in the video beginning at time 28:30
Q: If you update data or report in the Project, is it saved to the original file?
A: It depends. Everything in the Project is independent in the Project and changes are not made to the original files. If you have a Bookmark pointing to a file, however, the work in the Project is occurring on the original source file on the desktop. Files dropped into Contents are copies living in the Project file.
Q: How do you open Excel file from a Project?
A: After you bring it in and launch it, the Excel Import Wizard will launch if your third-Party Preferences are set to open Excel Import Wizard for Excel files. See below. You can also, from the Project, File>Open and choose an Excel file.
Q: Can every JMP user with access to your Project saved to a shared drive access the Project?
A: Yes, and remember JMP will open a local copy onto the computer of whomever is accessing the Project. To avoid several people opening it and possibly saving it back at once, we recommend you use SharePoint or a file service where you have to check out a file to open it and be the only person able to open/edit the file at once
Q: How do I move something from a Project or between Projects?
A: Use Window>Move to/from Project.
Q: Do we have to save Reports in Projects?
A: If you save them to data table in a Saved Project, they will open. If you save them to Contents as a Report (.jrp) with data, and then Save the Project, you can open the Report directly when you re-open the Project.
Q: Does it make sense to Save files to the Project, and delete from elsewhere on hard drive to clean up file area?
A: Yes, and consider organizing using Folders. See below. To further compress files, consider using the red triangle> Compress Files When Saved Option.
Q: When would you use a Journal vs Project?
A: Consider using them together. Projects are a Presentation environment. Journals are more like a slide deck. Journals are good for organizing content but not as good as Projects for storing content.
Q: Does it make sense to use Bookmarks for Excel or .csv files that others update regularly?
A: Yes. Alternately, you can bring it into JMP when the Source file has a path to the original file.
Q: Can Projects run JMP Add-Ins?
A: Yes.
Reminder: When you open a file to Workspace, you will want Save it to Project Contents.
Reminder: When finishing your work, save each table/file and then Save the Project. Files listed in Workplace will not open as files when you reopen/unzip a Saved Project. Those Workplace files will unzip as .jsl scripts.
Resources
- Mastering JMP video and materials on Building Dashboards to Access and Share Updated Analyses
- Projects Documentation
- The Macintosh screen outliner Mike used in the demo is called Demo Pro
