Welcome to the JMP Development update for June 3, 2022!
JMP 17 EA9 will freeze in about 5 weeks. Please make sure to review your feature pages to add any necessary details for EA9, and don’t forget to evaluate all the items on the feature readiness checklist including testing with HTML5 and JMP Live. If you’re not sure how to do that testing, please reach out to Audrey Shull, Hui Di or Anna Kushner to ask for help with it. Changes in JMP can impact interactive HTML reports so it’s important to evaluate new features for that kind of regression.
As you are triaging your remaining Jira issues, please consider demoting Story items to Feature Request type if the ideas captured seem to deserve consideration at some point but do not appear to align with current product priorities. You can assign a Story or Feature Request to a product management team member to ask for their input and @ mention other team members who may want to weigh in on the idea.
The JMP PM team is already actively planning product priorities for JMP 18 based on existing known priorities. In addition, they are soliciting input on priorities from internal and external users (including EA customers). You can contribute to this effort by responding to the JMP 18 priorities survey linked in this Inside JMP article. Mia shared some details below about how you can help offer feedback on the new JMP 17 Easy DOE feature. She will be contacting our EA customers with a similar request.
In case you haven’t seen it, a new feature coming in JMP 17 is Easy DOE. This new platform makes it easy for someone new to DOE to get started and addresses the many requests we’ve received to improve the DOE workflow.
You might have already taken a look at Easy DOE as a member of the Early Adopter program, but the development team has made many improvements since EA8 came out in May. If you’re interested in learning more and in seeing this feature in action, please watch this video: Easy DOE in JMP 17. It was recorded by Mark Bailey using the Tuesday night build (May 31). If you have access to daily builds, please give it a try there. If you don’t, please try Easy DOE in EA8 which can be downloaded from jmp.com/earlyadopter. Please note that some functionality has changed since EA8 (as reflected in the video).
The DOE team is interested in receiving your feedback! Mark asks several questions at the end of the video. Please send your thoughts and feedback through jmpbeta@jmp.com. Thank you!
Speaking of new features in JMP 17, thanks very much to Xan Gregg and Dan Schikore for presenting some new work at this week’s JMP Dev meeting! If you missed the meeting, you can find a downloaded copy of the recording here. Xan presented on the enhanced tabular data view of the JMP 17 Graph Builder caption element and Workflow Builder. He asked me to give a shout out to tester Lisa Grossman who has been instrumental in improving the quality of this new feature. Dan Schikore also presented on the support he’s added for private reports in JMP 17 which has the potential to greatly improve performance for cases involving many windows.
If you’d like to present this summer at a dev meeting, please let me know! I still have dates available in June and July. Next week’s meeting will feature a JMP 17 update from the JMP Live team – “JMP Live comes of age”. Hope to see you there!
General Announcements
- If you’re willing to be a featured employee on Inside JMP, please download a copy of the Get to Know form. Simply fill out the questions and when you’re done, upload it, along with 3 photos of you to the folder. Thank you for helping to make our JMP family a little more familiar!
Important Upcoming Dates
- 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.
Product Management
- Bryan F: This week I created 14 workflow icons similar to the ones Stephanie had created previously. Sadly, we only had raster images of the icons that had been blended with a gradient background we no longer wanted. So, I created vector representations.
I also worked on creating splash screens for the various Windows Installers of JMP 17 products. For example:
For the Functional UX Workstream group I created and sent out a voting form to determine the priority on the various ideas the group developed for updating the Bivariate platform.
- Mia: Wrote internal and external EA members for feedback on Easy DOE with the video Mark Bailey recorded. Used workflow builder to create a repeatable workflow to prepare the EA campaign data for various outreach efforts. Conducting internal survey on the JMP 18 roadmap, with the plan of conducting a sister survey to EA members. Work on triaging Reliability wishes. Met with Sam and Kaylee to talk about the current wish list flow and process.
Technical Support
- Duane: Getting closer to having all my reports shown! Here’s what I have so far: TS JMP Live reports. I’ve pulled Sirius tracks and Service Cloud cases together for these. Additionally, below is the weekly counts of cases/tracks.
Development Operations
- Myron: More updates for .xlf and .jsl scripts for sample data (JMPTOOL-409). Redoing crash system scripts to work with Salesforce.
- Jim: Perforce support. Reported numerous Jira entries.
- Shannon: Completed testing of PDF process fixes.Revisited and updated a script for validating the population of image files in Perforce for L10N that used Multiple File Import to import sets of xlsx and png/gif files synced from Perforce. Reviewed and updated Jira issues for JMP and JMPTOOL. Reported a few issues with various Jenkins projects mostly due to machine issues. Participated with Mia, John and David W in a discussion on JMP telemetry improvements planned for 17.
Documentation
- Qiana: Completed the Sample Data Table work and handed it off to L10N. Copyright work: updated the Menu Cards, QRC, and DJ; created a Confluence page with instructions on upgrading the JMP copyright info and logo in the doc; corresponded with Rachel about some copyright questions; and began updating the JMP 17 Installation Validation doc.
- Chris B: Fixed the meta noindex tags for all languages (JMP-11165). Updated a script and dashboard to help with that.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Working on my short Workflow Builder demo for next week and preparing to write a blog that Mia suggested for Inside JMP. Found several WFB issues this week while working through some other fixes. Need to get to my Discovery paper writing too, which is all about Workflows too. Verifying JIRA’s and catching up after being out a few days last week.
- Hunter: Responded to JMP 17 EA 8 tracks, met with Aaron about remaining projects defects that need to be fixed in JMP 17, applied Monterey 12.5 beta 2 on host testing Macs in lab and ran some tests, and defect verification.
- Mike M: Opened 2 defects for Discovering JMP doc, long review of area images with Lisa, finally caught up with image diffs from being away on vacation. Attended 2 SAS security classes.
- Audrey: All owners of components in the JMP, JMPHTML and JMP Live projects can be easily searched here in Confluence.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Beijing Team:
- JMP Live 17 scenario-based testing has been done. Details can be found in Scenario-based Testing for JMP Live 17. Example scripts of publish reports to JMP Live 16.2/17 has been attached to the page as well.
- I18N testing for JMP 17 Round#4 has been done. Details can be found in JMPTESTBJ-1015 .
- Eric Wang: (1) JMP Live 17 scenario-based testing. Upgraded test server to 17. Completed migration testing and 17.0 scenarios testing. Provided publish/replace/update scripts for both 16.2 and 17. (2) Test JMP Live Jira stories/bugs. (3) I18N testing for JMP Desktop 17.
- Da Li: (1) JMP Live 17 scenario-based testing. (2) I18N testing for JMP Desktop 17. (3) Tested Jira stories/bugs. (4) Investigated the issue about "JMP Live iFrames not rendering".
- Mike Wu: (1) JMP Live 17 scenario-based testing. (2) I18N testing for JMP Desktop 17. (3) Tested Jira stories/bugs.
- Kimi: (1) JMP Live 17 scenario-based testing. (2) I18N testing for JMP Desktop 17. (3) Tested Jira stories/bugs.
- Nala: (1) JMP Live 17 scenario-based testing. (2) I18N testing for JMP Desktop 17. (3) Tested Jira stories/bugs. (4) Attended training of "Manager Journey".
Data Discovery
- Dave B: Fixed image sizes when exporting plot col, fixed plot col axis problem when scrolling, fixed measuring problem that caused the plot col axis to sometimes not show up when opening a journal, finished a change so that we no longer revert to lines when the possible number of parallel sets becomes too large.
- Dan S: Fix crashes in Make Binning Formula dialog, Fix private report interactions with App Builder, Fix problems with Move To/From Project dialog with App Builder open, Session file fix to omit windows without scriptable objects (data filter, platform, dashboard). Fix problem with hidden rowstates in MarkerSeg.
- Xan: Workflow Builder testing and tabular data demo. I should have mentioned in my presentation that Lisa Grossman has been instrumental in improving the quality of this feature.
DOE
- Peng: Patched code to fend off insufficient data edge cases in Repeated Measures Degradation. Cleaned up and consolidated some common code in Repeated Measures Degradation. Fixed a bug in setting up the default prior for b2 parameter in constant Arrhenius rate model in Repeated Measures Degradation. Fixed JMP-12738: Journaling DOE does not properly display Responses or Factors controls. Also fixed JMP-402: Competing risk mixture giving bad estimates.
- Joseph: Continued Easy DOE work. Worked on refactoring fitting routines for Analyze and Predict tabs and working through various bugs. Also, worked on addressing user feedback.
Host
- Paul N: Working with blackduck scans. Updated libcurl because of 15 vulnerabilities identified since March! Unfortunately, there is a single vulnerability in the most recent libcurl from May 11 that has been fixed in curl’s source repository, but with no updated public release, we will likely have to update libcurl again before we ship JMP 17.0. Still waiting to hear back from SAS on whether the pending changes to upgrade from the Java Spring Framework v3.2 to v5.x are ready - at present our only other issue in blackduck. If SAS has completed the updates, we will need to make that change as well.
- John Schroedl: Fixed memory leak when exporting PowerPoint. Added versioninfo to jmptojava dlls. Updated OpenBLAS credits. Crash investigations. Telemetry server work begins.
HTML5
JMP Live
- Aurora: Performed white box testing on JMP Live related JSL. Added support for JSL defaulting of data options when replacing a JMP Live report. Walked through some of our Command-Line Interface (CLI) Tools with Susan Conaghan. Added some more Useful JMP Live SQL in the course of doing Jira triage / bug investigations. Thought some more about the upcoming comprehensive JMP Live 17.0 demo.
- Michael G: JMP Live bug fixing. JSL whitebox testing. JMP Live dev demo prep.
Statistics
- Laura C-S: Investigated and fixed a few issues with modification indices in multiple-group analysis. Reviewing remaining Jiras in 17.0.
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Sent out early draft of the Multivariate Embedding doc for technical review; continued work on documenting JMP 17 NFs, including GLMM, SEM, and multiple comparisons in Fit Model.
- Colleen: incorporated review comments into Manage Limits and Fit Curve, updated some Response Screening unit tests, and added help keys.
Stat Testing
- Jacob: Testing Easy DOE, interactively testing the Analyze and Predict tabs and working with Ryan Lekivetz and Nicole Jones on preparing a usability study. Adding a unit test for Design Explorer with constraints. Creating a checklist of platforms that support progress bars for JMP-10112.
- Tonya: Service Cloud demo to Audrey, Anisa, and Wenjun. Bug verification. Cleaning up data from previous beta programs.
Note from Shannon
Special congratulations to Audrey and Lance Shull who did quite well in last week’s Raleigh Memorial Day Regional bridge tournament! Thanks to Xan for passing on the news that Audrey and Lance had several first place results and finished in the top 20 overall out of 500+ players – and they were the top two finishers from Raleigh! Congratulations also go out to Lance’s mom Carol who also played (and won) in the tournament. Full results can be found here.
Hope you all have a great weekend!
