Welcome to the JMP Development update for May 20, 2022!
Please note that there is a Third Weekend Maintenance (3WM) happening this weekend. In addition to the usual server shutdowns and software updates that can disrupt JMP’s scheduled processes and VMs, it’s important to know that the Defects system and Defects clients like DARTS will be officially retired this weekend. JMP should not be greatly impacted by this change since we moved important features, bugs, and suggestions to Jira last year.
I appreciate that we all worked together to make this Defects retirement milestone a non-issue for JMP. Thank you again to the Jira discussion group for helping plan for the migration and to everyone in development who reviewed old items in Defects and worked with me to migrate the ones we needed to keep. Special thanks to Audrey Shull for doing numerous Jira demos for the group, creating an error checking dashboard to help identify problematic items and updating defects-using processes, Michael Crotty for taking on moving the doc defects and updating reports, Michaeland Nicole Jones for triaging many old stat items, and Amy Stuart for her assistance migrating component details.
On a related note, since Defects will retire the update and browse clients, Defect links in migrated Jira issues will likely become defunct over the weekend. This may result in you hitting a dead link from time to time. Unfortunately, we didn’t know ahead of time which links would remain active when Defects was retired. In the Defects to Jira migration process, I included a comment with a link back to the original defect and appended the defectID to the Jira issue title. It should still be possible to look up that defectID with HTML search tools (see next paragraph for details). Rest assured, we moved the important stuff from defects (links, attachments) so you should not need to revisit those original pages often. If you happen to hit a dead link, please feel free to delete it or update it.
You may be wondering how to access defect information after the retirement of the Defects system. According to this FAQ page from the SAS R&D DevOps team, you will be able to access DEFECTS Searchable Text Pages from InsideSAS.com. Simply paste a defectID or other search query into this search tool: https://search.unx.sas.com/defects?search-collection=defects&q=&filters= and use the checkbox filters on the left side of the page to narrow your search results. Another option is to use this table of JMP defects saved in Perforce to search or create subsets: //depot/main/test/Utilities/DefectsDashboard/All JMP defects.jmp
In non-Defect system related news, congratulations go out this week to Ernest Pasour, Clay Barker and Paris Faison on the occasion of their patent being issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office! The patent titled System and Methods for Interactive Text Regression Model Building was issued on 2022-05-17 as U.S. Patent No. 11,334,809 and has been uploaded to the Sharepoint site: Issued Patents.
Finally, JMP welcomes 11 summer interns this week working with many different groups in our company. Local and remote interns attended Internpalooza on the SAS campus this week and were introduced to JMP courtesy of Audrey. See this introductory post from Audrey on Inside JMP to learn a little more about our interns and where they are working. We will look forward to hearing from our interns in JMP Dev presentations later in the summer. And interns, please feel free to send your updates my way each Friday!
General Announcements
- John Sall shares this tip for Mac OneDrive users: If you are on a Mac, with a OneDrive folder alias in your dock, you may encounter "The specified file is not a JMP data table". If this happens to you, you should suspect the folder alias in the Dock, which seems to frequently get corrupted; just remove the alias, find the folder in your home Documents directory (or wherever you have it), and make a new alias by dragging it to the dock.
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.
Documentation
- Matthew (intern): This week we had Internpalooza, where there were a ton of events and learning opportunities for us to get adjusted to starting at SAS. They had everything from information sessions, games, networking events, etc. After that, I met with my managers and they started me on the track to learn the different skills I will need to be successful this summer. I’m excited for what’s to come!
- Qiana: Attended several coordination meeting with L10N. Met with Ruth and Mia to discuss the overlap and intersection of the information we provide to the customer. Met with our new intern, Matthew Warrant. Worked with Tony from WebWorks on ePublisher issues. Completed Sample Data Table tasks. Corresponded with Rachel on some copyright issues. Reorganized and updated the “Copyright and Naming in JMP Software” page.
- Susan C: Updating JMP Live installation help. Working on JMP Live user/admin help updates. Working on template updates. Met with localization about process questions & JMP Live/Public/HTML5 dates.
- Chris B: Getting our intern settled. Looking at an issue in the translated help. FrameMaker training.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Worked on Workflow Builder and TS tracks and verifying JIRA tickets. Had to chase down one crash with Evan and Dave B, got that replicated, fixed and verified. Working on WFB demo happening in a few weeks.
- Audrey: Training and onboarding for interns, updating automated scripts/processes so they no longer refer to the DEFECTS system, and looking into how we will edit our automated publish scripts for JMP Live 17 publishing.
- Hunter: Investigated several EA 7 tracks and opened new JIRA items, defect verification, and applied Monterey 12.5 beta 1 on host testing Macs in lab and ran some tests.
- Josh: Wrapped up the JMP Live Keycloak and Database installation changes due to some minor fixes. Story Testing / Jira Bug verification around open in JMP, Scheduling and Publishing.
- Beijing / Cary JMP Live Testing Jira Status
- 06 Stories in Testing
- 85 Stories in Test Ready
- 18 Bugs Created in the last 7 days.
- 54 Stories / Bugs Closed in the last 7 days
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Beijing Team:
- Eric Wang: (1) JMP Live schedule Testing. Now the ‘end time’ and ‘expire date’ work as expected. Most bugs are fixed. (2) Preparing JMP Live 17 scenario-based testing. Designed several scenarios for JMP Live 16.2 migration and 17.0 new features. (3) Deployed a JMP Live 16.2 server for scenario-based testing.
- Da Li: (1) Verify stories/bugs. (2) Preparing JMP Live 17 scenario-based testing. Designed several scenarios for JMP Live 16.2 migration and 17.0 new features. (3) Ask Aurora about how to deal with same UT cases in different test files overlap.
- Mike Wu: (1) Verify stories/bugs. (2) Preparing JMP Live 17 scenario-based testing. Designed several scenarios for JMP Live 16.2 migration and 17.0 new features. (3) JMP 17.0 new feature testing of the AWS activation JMP update page against prod server completed. Details can be found in JMPTESTBJ-1530.
- Kimi: (1) Handled the E-mail related error reporting for python interface, entered a story to track it (JMP-12477) (2) I18N Testing for Marker Simulation - Done. (3) Verify stories/bugs. (4) Preparing JMP Live 17 scenario-based testing. Designed several scenarios for JMP Live 16.2 migration and 17.0 new features.
- Nala: (1) Planned and organized the JMP Live scenario-based testing. (2) Preparing JMP Live 17 scenario-based testing. Designed several scenarios for JMP Live 16.2 migration and 17.0 new features. (3) Attended the Manager Journey workshops from May 11 to May 13.
Data Discovery
- Evan: Fixed JMP Search inconsistent sample data file indexing. Fixed crash with ambiguous :Column Group column name. Partially fixed emptyImage <
- Dan S: Continued work to avoid clipping of axis titles in different output formats. Fix customer-reported crash with ColBox. Fixed script saved to project so that Auto-run script will open without running. Fix empty window after launching Response Screening with NoReport option. Fix contour plot layout issue with by and multiple Y's. Fix crash in Bivariate with not enough data.
- Dave B: Mostly fixing bugs in graph builder parallel plot, fixed a problem with scripting to frame3d in Discriminant platform, fixed a focus problem with customize graphs dialog, and helped Mandy and Evan reproduce a header graphs/recode crash.
- Xan: Graph Builder sizing rework and Caption element bug fixes.
DOE
- Peng: Fixed a regression: JMP-10296 Use Condition curve is not visible. Resolved a long standing and challenging problem with Bilingual column names (JMP-9760, S1556308: Model Specification and Prediction Graph in Degradation Data Analysis doesn't work in ZH and JA JMP). Continued working on my SendToEmbeddedScriptable, so it can be applied to embedded platforms that the caller does not have control to change. Worked with Caleb on analyzing recurrence data, identified places that the Recurrence platform can be enhanced and did some experimental development for 18. Continue testing Repeated Measures Degradation with new data sets. Had some fun adding a Hello World platform example to this Confluence page.
- Joseph: More work on Easy DOE, mainly “Load Design” and “Load Factor” options and related transitions between Guided and Flexible mode plus Analyze tab improvements and miscellaneous bug fixing.
- Brad: Participated as a panelist with Bill Meeker and Allison Jones-Farmer in a panel discussion on the future of industrial statistics.
Host
- Daniel Powell: The JMP Check for Updates system has been migrated from SAS to AWS with help from Mike Shaddock, Bob, Audrey, Nan and me! We will be monitoring through next week, and fully decommissioning resources on the SAS side after that.
- Paul S: HTML5 Profilers all week long.
HTML5
- John Powell: Fixed alignment of text over SVD plots in Text Explorer (JMPHTML-725). Fixed incorrectly placed or missing map labels (JMPHTML-703). Collaborated with Michael G. to get performance metrics labels translated by JMP Live rather than JMP (WEBJMP-5152). Looked into an issue with a recent change to interaction plots and discovered a bug that causes user customization to be lost when sharing and redoing (JMP-12520). Fixed an issue with missing map labels when panning (JMPHTML-1642). Completed the PLATO introduction course and added a few courses to my PDP.
- Mayowa: Fixed bug with parallel plot tooltips when using page, wrap or group roles (JMPHTML-1296). Fixed bug with parallel plot axis label positions for reversed axis (JMPHTML-1620). Working on fixing selection bug with categorical parallel plots (JMPHTML-1617).
JMP Live
- Aurora: Minor publish-on-client updates. Started a JMP Live Terminologyconfluence page (more to come). Wrote a bit of JSL to publish N random sample reports to a JMP Live 17.0 instance. Bug fixing related to: Loggly, 'mydownloadable' posts, download-as-project, getting kicked out of a space that you've published to, attempting to change report_optimization on a package that doesn't support it.
- Michael G: Implemented a whole bunch of smaller 17.0 JMP Live stories. Starting to tackle 17.0 bugs.
Statistics
- Laura C-S: Fixing bugs and crashes in SEM related to auto-recalc, customized dialog, and relaunch. I also had the chance to welcome our summer intern, Haley Yaremych, during her time on campus and started discussing projects for the summer.
Stat Testing
- Jacob: Testing Easy DOE. Added a unit test for saving and loading .jmpdoe files and made some improvements the testing functions Mark and I are using to test the platform. Performance testing, looking into potential issues and updating analysis script. Testing Blas routines and Robust PCA Outliers across many machines for JMP-12409. Verifying Jira tickets and cleaning unit tests.
- Tonya: Learning Service Cloud. Gathering and cleansing old EA data.
Technical Support
- Duane: I’m making progress on TS reports, but don’t have any to share right now. I have access to some of the data, but I need to get the right fields… More to come later! Overall, we are smoothing out our processes and actions with in Service Cloud. Each week, small changes are helping us use the tools better. Some of us are involved in discussions regarding JMP Notes and the JMP Support pages on jmp.com, and changes will be coming to these areas soon.
Development Operations
- Bob: Coordinated with Brian C on the changes needed for JMP Clinical to have software license reflect new code (JMPCLNPRO). Worked with SAS R&D and have finally resolved issues enough to see the first JMP Clinical orders. Worked with Daniel Powell on the final tweaks for the software updater table that allows users to check for software updates. Updated copyright from SAS to JMP LLC in Windows installers.
- Shannon: Troubleshooting of documentation PDF process with Nick R. Worked with Mia on import of reliability items from wishlist into Jira feature requests for PM and Leo to triage. XLF script changes.
- Myron: Updated and checked in .xlf and .jsl scripts for sample data (JMPTOOL-409). Worked on redoing crash system scripts to work with Salesforce instead of Sirius.
- Nick: Troubleshooting PDF generation process on help-pdf-builds. Fixing sync and submit issues.
Localization
- Angelita: MDC/QRC kits delivered for ES and JA; DJ and SharedTextInset kits delivered JA and ES; JMP Live kit processing; finalized ES and JA portable UI return; Getting Tip of the Day kits ready to deliver to translation; ramping up for JMP Live Dev to EN review for next week…and more (thanks Angelita! You did all this in three days!)
- Howard: Post process JMP Live strings and push; Review Keycoak Strings; Development work on tooling Jiras.
- Melanie: Validations for JMP Live returns; JSL Conflict checking for portable UI begun; investigate JMPLOC-5282
- Sandy: Validations for ES portable UI returns; validations for JMP Live returns; Testing Howard’s development work (tooling Jiras).
- Trish: Translation queries; Project mgmt. L10N schedule & projects – Jiras updated in JMPTool and JMPLoc; professional development workstream; meeting w/doc team to plan handoff dates for JMP Live & HTML5 Help; i18n JMP bugs; planning for copyright changes to localized tips and builtins.
- Updates to JMPLoc Project Jiras this week.
Note from Shannon
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