JSL file runs when open instead of opening in editor

Question

Hi, I recently ran into the opposite problem: When I click a jsl-file in a folder, JMP immediately start ot execute it. I note that there is mentioned in this string the special effect of //! in the beginning of the script. This should force the script to execute, as the more obvious 'On Open' command.

Do you know of any more obscure controllng characters that will affect the behavior of JMP when opening scripts?

The script in question, which opens immediately DOES have a lot of comments with all kinds of special characters in them, including !. But I do not see //! start the script.

Kind regards

Poul Ravn Sørensen

uday_guntupalli · Answer

@Jeff_Perkinson , 
      I have lately noticed that this happens to me as well in JMP 14. The files are neither applications nor do I have the selection in preferences to run files upon opening. The only way I can avoid JMP from doing this is by opening the script from File > Open interface.

Jeff_Perkinson · Answer

The icon for BA_ALL... is the source file for a JMP Application, saved from the Application Builder. If the application includes some JMP reports based on a given data table then that table and those reports will be run automatically when the source file is opened.

That sounds like it may be what's happening here.

@cwillden  posted a Gentle Introduction to Application Builder which may help you also.

poulravn · Answer

Right, I see the icon as 'BA_ALL...', not as the ones with keys. Will try your suggestions. Thanks.