If you have ever been to a JMP Discovery Summit or perhaps a JMP user group meeting you will no doubt have come across journal files. The first time you create one can be an unnerving experience since a new journal is simply a blank window. But that is their beauty: they are a blank canvass onto which you can save your JMP output. But more importantly they are a place to capture your thoughts.
Category Archives: Tips&Tricks
Scripting Table Subsets
The best way to script table manipulation tasks such as joins and subsets is to first perform the task interactively and then make a copy of the source JSL that is automatically generated by JMP. In many instances this code is sufficient, but sometimes you need to make the code more general, and that’s where things can get tricky.
In this post I will take you through the process of transforming the JMP-generated code into a more flexible piece of JSL.
Lists – By Example
14 things you can do with lists.
Top 6 Blog Posts
The top 6 visited posts of 2016 were all written in 2015!
Here is the list:
Splitting Scripts
One of the most useful features in the JSL editor is the ability to split a window. This is best illustrated by seeing how it is used in the context of creating a script. I’ve tried to capture that workflow in the following video …
exception_msg
Sometimes a script will fail with no apparent cause. The usual course of action is to check the log window, but sometimes there is just silence – an empty trail with no leads to follow. But there is a another source of information, the global variable exception_msg.
Display Box Misalignments
Sometimes you compose a collection of display boxes and they don’t appear to be fully aligned. If you care about the aesthetics of a user interface this can drive you a bit crazy! Here is a trick that will help you fix the problem.
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Legend Position
This is one of a series of posts highlighting new features available in version 13 of JMP.
When creating a graph using Graph Builder, it is now possible to place the legend inside the graphical frame:
Virtual Columns
This is one of a series of posts highlighting new features available in version 13 of JMP.
Joining tables has gotten much easier in version 13 of JMP. In fact you can get the benefits of joined data without actually performing the join! This new feature is referred to as a virtual join, and gives you access to virtual columns in a data table.