hey Ryan, Thanks for this. A few of us had talked the other day and believe these topics to be our priority. While, i love all of john's tips, i think these topics are going to be more valuable to a wider audience. These are ranked by priority. Dieter and i will work on scripts for these and get back to you. Thanks!
- How to create and manage groups
- Automating report publishing, scheduling – Some people don’t even know what the scheduler is.
- Administrative tasks – admin menu (maintaining session pool… ?)
- Embedding in other pages, blogs, systems (teams)
- Interactivity of reports (column switcher)
- Downloading data from JMP Live and why this matters
If anyone has any suggestions ideas for JMP Live videos please comment below. Thank you John Powell for many these topics so far or the countless discccusions in the community.
Adding a hyperlinks in a JMP Live description
In some cases, it may be useful to provide a link to a web page from your JMP Live post. This can be added to your post description using a little bit of html markup. For example, a link to jmp.com can be added to your description in the Edit Details dialog as follows:
Sharing data or keeping it Private in JMP Live
You may want to share the results of your analyses on JMP Live, but not your data. You can do so by disabling “Publish Data” in the “Select Reports” dialog when you publish: When you do this, your audience will see the web-friendly user interface with collapsible sections and tables with tooltips, but they won’t be able to select or the interact with the graphs. If you are publishing multiple reports at once, you can add images. So, another way to share the result of your analyses without sharing your data is to save your reports as images, then add them when publishing. You can save reports as images using File > Save As with ‘Save as type:’ PNG, JPEG, GIF, or TIFF. When publishing multiple reports, you would use “Add Image” in the “Configure Report” dialog under the report previews to choose an image to include. The “Add Image” button can be used multiple times.
Optimnizing JMP Live Data for differnt Device
When sharing JMP reports with colleagues who have JMP, it’s often safe to assume that if it looks good on your computer, it will probably look good on theirs. If it doesn’t, they can easily resize graphs within JMP. When you publish reports to JMP Live, however, your colleagues could be viewing what you’ve published on mobile devices, which typically have smaller screens.
When the graphs don’t fit on their screen, they can usually zoom to fit, but then the titles and axes might become too small to read. So, just like when you’re preparing a presentation and you want to make sure the text in your reports can be read from someone at the back of the room, you should not create graphs so large that the titles and labels look tiny in comparison.
Sharing Interactive Data in JMP Live
Sometimes you may be wondering "Why is my report not interactive?" JMP Live uses JMP’s Interactive HTML capability to convert JMP reports into interactive web pages. Not all the features in JMP are supported in Interactive HTML; but rather than producing no result, Interactive HTML creates a web page that is not interactive or partially interactive. To know what feature is not supported, look at JMP’s Log window for a short description of what is not interactive.
Adding a Collection preview image in JMP Live
When you publish multiple reports at once, you have the option of including an image. You can do this by slecting Add Image in the Upload Dialogue window and then use the arrow to postion it on top. But, what if you want to download such an image when viewing it on JMP Live? On Windows or Mac using Chrome, you can modify the link to the image as follows:
https://public.jmp.com/packages/JMP-Ball/js-p/PkcPtM3y_0CfhVZwDCjPz-8
to: https://public.jmp.com/api/packages/JMP-Ball/js-p/PkcPtM3y_0CfhVZwDCjPz-1/indexPage?type=raw
Then hit “Enter” to navigate to this web address. Right-click and choose "Save image as". Pick a name and location. Then Save.
Simulating a dashboard selection filter in JMP Live
Selection filters are a powerful addition to dashboards because they allow you to filter one graph with another. Unfortunately, the functionality is not yet supported by Interactive HTML. However, since JMP Live communicates with JMP running on a server, we can get close to the same functionality in JMP Live using “Exclude and Hide Rows” from the toolbar’s hamburger menu. Instead of building a dashboard with a selection filter, just combine windows with any two graphs like the Mosaic and Heatmap shown in the embedded example below.
Customizing Thumbnails in JMP Live
Thumbnail images are generated when you post to JMP Live. They show up on cards throughout JMP Live. JMP uses the first graph in your report as the thumbnail, but this may not always be what you want to emphasize or use to catch the viewers’ attention. For example, if you build a dashboard, you might want to show more than one graph in the thumbnail.
To customize a thumbnail, you first need to capture an image or otherwise obtain an image to use as the thumbnail. Windows 10 includes an application called the “Snipping Tool” that allows you to capture a rectangular area of your screen and save it to an image file. On the Mac, you can use the shortcut (Command+Shift+4) to do the same. The thumbnail display is a bit wider than its height, so try to capture a rectangle that is approximately the same shape. It will be scaled to fit but clipped if it is too tall or wide.
To upload a new thumbnail in JMP Live, open the Edit Details dialog by clicking on the pen icon. Then click on the thumbnail, and you will be provided with a way to find and select the image file. Cards for folders will use up to four of the child thumbnails to make up the folder thumbnail. You can override this with an image of your own in the same way you update a post’s thumbnail.
Making an interactive legend in JMP Live
Legends are not interactive in Interactive HTML (at the time this post was written). But with this tip, you can build a graph that behaves like an interactive legend. That is, when you click on the item in the legend, the graphics in the main graph are selected. All you need to do is create a bar chart with the same variable as the legend. Hide the real legends and combine windows to create a dashboard. I also cleared the “Graph Builder” title from the bar chart “Legend” so it wouldn’t be distracting.
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