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How do I wrap in multiple lines the label of a Group X variable in Graph Builder?

RandomFed

Hi,

I'm doing a very simple graph in graph builder. I have very long name for the sample (used as group X variable).
How can I wrap in multiple lines the labels? I would like to avoid to have half graph which are labels!!

Thanks

Accepted answers

jthi

If you want to wrap them on axis, sometimes you might manage with axis settings Wrap Lines, but I think it wont wrap one long string without any whitespace

You might also end up with some missing labels when using this:

When I had this problem in some earlier version of JMP (I think it was 14), I did create new label column with some very complicated regex to handle the splitting at correct place

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Georg

Welcome to the Community!

There are many ways to perform this:

One is to make a Calculation (Transform) on that column in the Graph Builder (in your case you may need character function word to get a part of your column content, my formula was subtr(name, 1,1), that gives the first character, Based on data table "Big Class.jmp" from the Help-Sample Data menu
another would be to generate a new Column by "Recode" (right click on Column name ...)

see also documentation that you can find under Help, or press ? and click on a part of the platform

RandomFed

Thanks a lot for your answer!

Actually I would not change the labels, but only display them in two lines in the graph as in the example below (I did it in power point because I cannot do it in JMP).

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ian_jmp

FWIW, when dropping a variable into the 'Group X' zone, I found that (JMP 16.2 on a Mac) Graph Builder did a reasonable job in breaking up the labels. And, if that's not to your taste, you can just drag to make changes to the widths:

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jthi

If you want to wrap them on axis, sometimes you might manage with axis settings Wrap Lines, but I think it wont wrap one long string without any whitespace

You might also end up with some missing labels when using this:

When I had this problem in some earlier version of JMP (I think it was 14), I did create new label column with some very complicated regex to handle the splitting at correct place

RandomFed

Thanks a lot! It was exactly my point!
Which version are you using now? I have JMP14 and there is not that option in Axis Label Row, but I will move soon at 15.