Chart Builder - One Chart Script Bug

Paul_J

Hi All! 

I think I've found in the Control Chart Builder.  I am using the chart builder to create an Individual Value chart, but do not want to show the Moving Range chart that goes also with the I chart.  There is an option in the Preferences for the chart builder platform to turn off "showing two Shewart charts".  This option works fine when I generate the chart manually, but does not work when I re-run the script saved from that chart. Has anyone experienced this?  Is it a bug with known fix? 

I did find a workaround, but if someone has anything better I'd be interested to hear it, as my workaround still requires manual manipulation.  My workaround is to remove the unwanted mR chart after it is generated by the script.  This can be done when the Control Panel is turned on by dragging the Y-axis title of the mR chart to the left (back into the control panel). I am using Version 12.1.0.

Thanks. PS., I know it's best to keep the mR chart, but in this case I want to remove it.

cwillden

Hi Paul,

I think an easier way to remove that mR chart is actually by right-clicking in the mR chart and selecting "Remove Graph."  You can do that with the control panel open or closed, and the script will reliably reproduce the same graph.

As far as the bug with the preference, I'm not seeing that behaviour in JMP 13 ( I no longer have a version of JMP 12 I can test this with), but I do notice that the preference you selected is hard-coded into the script that JMP 13 produces:

Control Chart Builder(
	Size( 522, 452 ),
	Show Two Shewhart Charts( 0 ),
	Show Control Panel( 0 ),
	Show Capability( 0 ),
	Variables( Y( :Abrasion ) ),
	Chart( Points( Statistic( "Individual" ) ), Limits( Sigma( Moving Range ) ) )
)

If JMP 12 doesn't include that "Show Two Shewhart Charts( 0 )" line, I would guess you could manually insert it into your script and it would work. This is a guess.  I'm basing that on the fact that JMP 12 has the preference, so the script command should work.

However, that's more work than the suggestion above using "Remove Graph" since you would have to insert that line into your script every time.

What's the long term need for a solution here?  You could always script a front-end to make just the individuals chart if you need to do this repeatedly long term.