Special Reminder: JMP 17 Sample Data Freeze is coming up quickly on Wednesday, May 18. If you intend to simulate new sample data or create scripts or other samples, please create them and have a tester review them before this date. Thanks!
Welcome to the JMP Development Update for May 6, 2022! If you are working on applying retention labels to your content in preparation for the May 10 deadline, you may find this Confluence page on labeling OneDrive content helpful. Thanks to JMP L10N team member Sandy Jenkins for creating it!
This week we froze for JMP 17 EA8. A few important fixes were selectively integrated after testing on Tuesday and the EA installers for Mac and Win have been rebuilt with those changes. Please make sure your feature pages are up to date with any changes that you want to share with customers.
Thanks very much to Laura Castro-Schilo for presenting on JMP 17 SEM updates at this week’s JMP Dev Meeting! Laura detailed many additions and improvements made to the platform in 17 and mentioned a few features that are unique to JMP and present time-saving advantages over existing SEM tools. If you missed the meeting, you can find a downloaded copy of the recording in this folder.
If you’d like to present at an upcoming dev meeting, please let me know. I have two meetings on the schedule for June 2nd (FDE) and 9th (JMP Live) but I have other dates open in May and June so please let me know if you have something you’d like to share!
Thanks to Anne Milley for sharing some details on JMP’s recent experimentation with sponsoring podcasts:
We arranged for environmental advocate, Alexander Verbeek, to feature WildTrack on his fairly new podcast, The Planet, earlier this week. It was excellent. Zoe was brilliant and there was quite a bit of engagement for the live event, so it even went longer than scheduled. We hit a record for the number of people who listened live, but many more will listen to the podcast on demand. With his two Twitter accounts, Alex has ~450k followers.
Finally, I’m very sorry this week to share the sad news that HTML5 team member Josh Markwordt will be leaving as of May 13th for an opportunity outside SAS. Josh has been with us for nearly a decade since the beginning of the HTML5 project. More recently he has become a valued contributor to JMP Live development. John Powell is working with Josh on transition activities and John plans to open a replacement position soon. Thank you, Josh, for all your contributions during your time with us. I know we all wish Josh the best in his new position but will miss seeing him around the halls!
Important Upcoming Dates
- Third Weekend Maintenance – 5/20/22 – 5/22/22
- JMP 17.0 EA9 – 7/8/22
- JMP 17 Code Freeze – 7/20/22
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 16 and JMP 17 dates.
JMP Development Updates
- Please visit this page to view bug verification lists for JMP 17.0.
HTML5
- John Powell: Worked with Christine Bevan to start hiring a replacementfor Josh Markwordt. Spoke with team members about responsibilities they could learn and take over from Josh and attended Josh’s initial knowledge transfer sessions. Reported a regression with JMP Live’s Best Performance mode(WEBJMP-5116) and helped Aaron find a fix for it. Triaged and refined JMPHTML project’s backlog. Helped Paul S. obtain his Mac computer and some of the required peripherals. Updated Interactive HTML Feature Request documentation for EA8. Completed prework for Management Essentials Virtual Coaching. Helped Michael C. get around some limitations of Interactive HTML.
- Completed required SAS courses
- Social Engineering and Phishing
- Acceptable Used of SAS Systems and Networks
- Praveena: Working on JMPHTML-1143 - Long angled axis labels are clipped when reaching the left edge of the graph frame. Attended knowledge transfer session’s with Josh Markwordt and the team, going over the code for Lines and Area component.
- Mayowa: Fixed bug with Parallel plot row labels not showing properly (JMPHTML-1327). Fixed bug with Parallel plot tooltips not showing correct information when rows are excluded from the data table (JMPHTML-1305).
- Josh M: Worked on knowledge transfer with team members. Fixed JMPHTML-1270: Profiler lost 'Apply' buttons in Remembered Settings after updates to preserve Profiler State on JMP Live.
- Paul: Knowledge transfers with Josh for taking over profilers. HTML5 Histograms now support pictures in tooltips. And many bug fixes galore.
JMP Live
- Aurora: Working on enforcement of unique package titles within a space / folder. Non-unique titles disallowed during edit (done). Create a method to resolve non-unique titles (done). Resolve non-unique titles when publishing (done). Resolve non-unique titles when moving packages around (in progress).
Statistics
- Peng: Resolved Jira issues JMP-9943 S1532237: Zero-width Forecast intervals for AAdA models sometimes, JMP-12283 Overlay plot needs enhancement while having many group, JMP-12295 Add Likelihood Ratio Test for DS distributions, JMP-9962 S1588276: State Space Smoothing graphs are not displayed properly when excluded rows are present, and JMP-12335 Life Distribution compare groups when one level is hidden/excluded.
- Elizabeth: Outlook cleanup was a trip; ran into several names who’ve since moved on from JMP and remembered them fondly. Fixed a customer reported bug that came in via the Community in SVM with continuous responses and KFold validation (thanks Mark Bailey, Community Hero, for bringing the post to my attention!).
- Laura C-S: Finished preparing my JMP Dev presentation and presented it. Found a few bugs along the way that I’m now looking into. Also preparing another presentation for SEM professors to request their feedback (and do “indirect” marketing).
Stat Testing
- Tonya: Learning Service Cloud. There are no beta reports this week as I do not yet know how to create reports using Service Cloud. Working on cleansing data from the old EA releases so we can make comparisons between versions.
- Mark: Design Easy DOE with Brad and Joseph. Test Easy DOE with Jacob. Discuss testing Easy DOE transitions with Joseph, Ryan, and Jacob. Participate in UI/UX workstream activities. Complete SAS security training courses. Answer questions in JMP Community.
- Jacob: Testing MSA Design. Investigating unit test failures on Windows Server machines.
Product Management
- Dan V: Prepping for PM JMP 18 Planning/Strategy meeting in-person next week. The whole team will be in the office next Tue-Thur so say hi! Quote to cash workshop with Digital Operations, User Enablement, Finance and BusOps teams. Meeting with Deloitte to review revenue recognition use-cases. Telemetry sprint meeting with Mia and team. Understanding the current process, challenges and ideating on process improvements we want to make to increase the quality and quantity of telemetry that we collect in the trial.
- Presented Data Acquisition and Data Connectors training with Brian Corcoran and Sara Doudt. Worked with Sara to develop content for external Data Connectors page on jmp.com (also linked from the end-to-end analytic workflow page: jmp.com/workflow).
Key takeaways:
Data access is fundamental. It's the starting point for any analytic journey. That's why JMP makes it easy to access data from a variety of sources.
Broadly, and not perfectly, JMP gets data from three sources:Files, databases and web server-based programming interfaces.
We answer "yes" to many commonly asked questions like: “Do you have a data connector for X?” or "Is there an ODBC driver or API?" or "Can you export a file or Excel file?"
This is a strong focus of product development in the next few releases. We need your help in understanding the need and identifying requests around data connectors/data access.
- Mia: Met with Duane, Peter Hersh and others to discuss reliability requests from NXP. Met with Dan and Peng to discuss various reliability topics and planning for the JMP 18 cycle. Met with Taylor Ferguson and Sara Doudt to plan the next JMP User Platform poll, which will focus on the product. Also met with the User Platform Advisory group to see results of the previous survey on the JMP User Community. Working with Peter Hersh, Don McCormack and others on a tool originally built for STIPS (Data Analysis Director, or DAD) to help novice analysts know which methods to use and when. The impetus is ExxonMobil, which needs a tool like this to help displace Minitab in some locations. Working on videos, feature pages and the Single Source Doc for JMP 18.
- Bryan F: This week I worked on and delivered icons for Work Flow Builder. John Schroedl helped me figure out that icon dpi was controlling the size of icons on buttons. I also worked with Ernest Pasour on some details of the WFB user interface. I conducted a small usability study on some minor JMP user interface changes both internal and external to JMP. John Schroedl helped me with exploring on to make some minor tweaks to the user interface. I did some research on the history of heat maps and corrgrams for JMP-7412. Provided some feedback to Michael Goff on a help message for JMP Live. Had a meeting with Developer Process Workstream to listen to and present ideas for how to change the MSA Design platform.
Development Operations
- Bob: Worked with Jim to produce EA 8 and Clinical EA 8 installers for testing TOTD help with Doc group. Added workflow builder code to registry section of Windows installers. Finished social engineering and phishing classes mandated by company security. Continued work with SAS R&D on JMP 17 projects, focused on JMP Clinical.
- Myron: Troubleshooting anonymous crash process. Working with Antoine on ServiceCloud possibilities for connecting to crash system.
- Jim: Created EA branch from JMP 17 files and built EA #8. Verified several Jira tickets and reported new ASSERT and LEAKS tickets.
- Nick: Jenkins updates, Auto-integration and Windows test project troubleshooting.
Localization
- Angelita: MDC/QRC & DJ kits delivered to KO; Processing DE, ZH and IT portable UI kits; JMP Live kit processing.
- Howard: Updates to JMPTool-224 and JMPTool-422; updates need for localized doc add-in; validations for DJ project.
- Melanie: Validated portable UI KO return; documenting processes; vacay Wed/Thur/Friday :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:.
- Sandy: Completed testing for JMPTOOL-224 and JMPTOOL-422; review process for JMP Live validations; validated KO portable UI returns.
- Trish: Translation queries; discussing TOTD screenshots with Susan; pre-work for DJ handoff; professional development workstream
- Updates to JMPLoc Project Jiras this week.
Documentation
- Susan C: Finished creating 4 new tips for 17 for Mac & Win. Each tip has a JIRA and was reviewed, added to Perforce, verified in the Mac & Win daily builds, and sent for testing. Verifying and updating existing tips of the day for 17. Working with Trish on script questions pertaining to tips. Worked on formats for DJ and updated doc for localization.
- Chris B: Got my PC moved to building A and working (two small miracles). Updated the draft 17.0 help. Rewrote some instructions in Confluence. Started a FrameMaker course.
- Qiana: Finished running production scripts on FrameMaker files. Created the EA8 Help and pushed the files to production. Attended Situational Leadership class. Ran the production scripts on the DJ and text inset files.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Mostly working on JIRA fixes and making sure testing happens on Mac and Windows, for Action Recorder and Workflow builder for the most part. Verified a few TOTD JIRA’s with new tips being implemented. Seeing a good number of TS tracks coming in for Workflow builder – some issues, crashes, some suggestions. Double checking labels for files to be kept after next Tuesday. Need to write a few more WFB tests, with some of the new fixes implemented. Thanks to Mia Stephens for sharing the latest results of a survey on JMP 17 Workflow Builder!
- Mike M: Started discussion of ‘noinfo.html’ and ‘404 File Not Found’ usage for JMP Help. I think we can do a better job than we are. It’s difficult because it sits between Help, Docs, Help keys, URL redirection, etc. Worked through a couple of issues with changes from Peng’s updates to Likelihood Ratio Test. Investigating a Data Table Lock bug. Debugged a CPPUT error for new Marker Simulation. Sikuli running clean on new AWS VM!
- Hunter: Started JMP 17 EA 8 validation testing, responded to EA 7 track for projects and opened new feature suggestion, opened JMP-12312 for an MFI crash with an odd Excel file, applied OneDrive and Outlook folder retention labels, and defect verification.
- Josh L: JMP Live Story Testing. Planning the upgrade the JMP Live distributed test environment to 17.0. JMP Live Installation Testing.
- Beijing / Cary JMP Live Testing Jira Status
- 06 Stories in Testing
- 48 Stories in Test Ready
- 03 Bugs Created in the last 7 days.
- 17 Stories / Bugs Closed in the last 7 days
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Beijing Team:
- Beijing team had a vacation from April 30 to May 04 for May Day holiday
- Completed JMP 17.0 Desktop I18N 3rd round testing, details in JMPTESTBJ-1015.
- Eric Wang: Tested webview sessions story, added integration tests, WEBJMP-5026.
- Da Li: (1) Completed JMP 17.0 Desktop I18N 3rd round testing. (2) Verify stories/bugs.
- Mike Wu: (1) Completed JMP 17.0 Desktop I18N 3rd round testing. (2) Testing the AWS activation JMP update page against test server. Details can be found from: JMPTESTBJ-1530. (3) Verify stories/bugs.
- Kimi: (1) Fix the failure of JMP Live Migration in Jenkins. (2) Verify stories/bugs.
- Nala: (1) Prepared JMP Live I18N testing. (2) Verify stories/bugs.
Data Discovery
- Dan S: Additional work on FitGroup launch performance for many X/Y. Work on truncation problems exporting Graph Builder reports to Powerpoint and other vector formats. Fixes for saving of Dashboard to a session file.
- Sibusizo: Fixed an issue where “narrowing the range of a mosaic plot causes selection of boxes to be incorrect”. Working on two issues, one related to hierbox positioning and the other on mosaic plot hoverlabels.
- Ernest: Replacing icons for Workflow Builder (thanks Bryan!) Reworking subset helper in Workflow Builder. Fixes for packaging Workflows.
- Xan: Working on area element and PolySeg edge cases for missing and hidden values.
DOE
- Caleb: Did some bug fixing for MSA and Sample Size Explorers. Continued work with Ryan and Sky Alibhi on a Wildtrack project to determine Fisher sex based on their footprints (who knew!).
- Joseph: Continued work on Easy DOE, including work on “Loading Designs” and state transition anomalies. In addition, additional miscellaneous bug fixing work.
- Brad: Working on a revision of a paper for JQT.
Host
- John Schroedl: New API: DisplayWindow::getMonitorCoords to know the usable area of the monitor containing the window. Requested for workflow builder to help with window positioning. Install Checker fixes and additions for 17. Discussion of Telemetry submission plans for JMP 18. Removed trial checks from tip of the day.
- Michael H: Converting OwnerOfArrayOf to std::vector in many files.
Note from Shannon
Hope you all stay safe with all the wild weather this afternoon and evening!
I’ve heard the expression “the real McCoy” many times but hadn’t thought too hard about its origins, so I learned something when I clicked on the Google Doodle for Monday celebrating noted inventor Elijah McCoy. His parents escaped slavery in Kentucky via the Underground Railroad in 1837, raising their family in Ontario. Elijah and his siblings attended segregated schools there, and he left for Scotland at the age of 15 to become an apprentice and study as a mechanical engineer at the University of Edinburgh.
Later, he worked by day as a fireman and oilman for Michigan Central Railroad and by night on inventions in his shop at home. He obtained 57 patents during his lifetime, most related to railroad engine lubrication. His inventions reduced maintenance time, allowed trains to run farther and faster than ever before, and became standard issue on trains of the day. You can see this wikipedia article for more details on his diverse ideas and how his patents were used.
