☐ cool new feature
☑ could help many users!
☐ removes a „bug“
☐ nice to have
☐ nobody needs it
Name Selection in Columns from the Rows/Row Selection menu is great to define labels by selecting different subsets and writing the corresponding labels step by step into the same "label" column:
https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/manual-grouping-extended-version/td-p/540203
The current behaviour of the function is:
a) just do something if the user entered a value [This feature enables the user to "collect" information by writing values again and again to the same column - without over-writing existing labels in other rows]
b) If there is already a label in a selected row, it is replaced by the new label.
This is the reason why the function can not be used for "multiple response" entries:
A second response just replaces a first one.
My wish: an option to append the entered string, if a selected row already contains a value:
This will allow to collect "multiple response" entries like in the example below.
best: a function that automatically handles the commas right (i.e. no comma for the first label).
Additional useful options:
- prepend text
- search and delete text
- search and replace text with another text
...
dt = Open( "$SAMPLE_DATA/Big Class.jmp" );
dt << New Column("activity", Character, "Multiple Response");
dt << Clear Select << Select Rows( [2, 4, 8, 9, 20, 25, 26, 35, 36] );
wait(2);
dt << Name Selection in Column( Column Name( "activity" ), Selected( " ,football" ) );
wait(2);
dt << Clear Select << Select Rows( [2, 4, 8, 12, 22, 27, 28, 29, 30] );
wait(1);
dt <<NAME selection="" in="" column=""></NAME>
OK, I am curious to see the new "JMP 17 workflow" 
For those who want a JMP script I will add it to manual grouping - extended version?
We appreciate the suggestion. We do not plan to offer this in a near term future version of JMP. Several options exists to do this, including:
- Create separate columns for each name selection step, and then concatenate them
- Use JMP Script (or, coming in JMP 17, a JMP Workflow) to do this
Writing an addin to do this, with a dialog as you suggested, could also achieve the final result.
@hogi Thank you for this suggestion, it has been submitted and is being evaluated for possible inclusion in a future release.
@hogi - Thank you for your suggestion! We have captured your request and will take it under consideration.
