Q: What is the difference between using a Journal or a Project?
A: Both require JMP for interactivity and therefore are useful to exploring and sharing. They can be complimentary. Some people use journals to organize reports that include content from a snippet in time and projects for things they are continuing to work on. Or, they might have a project from which they export reports and images to a journal.
One of our former SEs (Peter Bartell) shared this answer because he liked the format of the project: I like to describe a JMP Project as a container for all the various elements associated with a body of work. The container can hold lots of elements. To name a few, JMP (data tables, journals, applications, dashboards, scripts, platform reports) and non JMP files such a MS (PowerPoint, Excel, Word) and other files like pdf files, jpeg's, etc. So, your automation content (scripts or applications) could sit inside the Project. So, what you might want to consider is creating your automation elements and THEN including them as content in the project.
Q: When I save Journals to other formats, not much gets saved.
A: Exactly. They are designed for interactivity and flexibility so that the JMP author or recipient can access the data (if included or if the files are on a shared server) as well as other items (like URLs, PPTs, etc.) from one place. Then the user can take advantage of interactivity that JMP provides. Saving static reports to other formats is an option (like to Word) but you only get output.
Q: How do you re-size images?
A: Point your mouse at the corner of the image then click and drag. this is like the way your change the size of a window or report.
Q: Is there a shortcut to add a graph to the Journal?
A: From an open Journal, change to the selection tool (fat plus sign from toolbar), then put the selector inside the graph and use CTRL J (PC) or COMMAND J (Mac). That will add it to the current Journal or open a new Journal if one is not open.
Q: I have found it is hard to insert text items below an outline object. It usually ends up inserting my text within the outline when I really wanted it below the outline. Is there an easy way to move text up or down the hierarchy of items within the journal?
A: Yes, you can use the selection tool, highlight the text, then click and drag the text to where you'd like it. You will see a highlighted blue region where the text is going to land.
Q: How do I add text and indent items?
A: There are at least three ways. See how:
