Welcome to the JMP Development Update for July 12, 2024!
JMP and JMP Pro 19 EA1 installers are now available for authorized users in My JMP. Thanks to everyone for getting this first iteration out there for testing by our beta customers! We are already getting beta tracks and crash reports. We’ll be freezing JMP 19 EA2 on 7/26 so please don’t forget to add feature pages (see How to here) for major new items you’d like to showcase in EA2 and upcoming EAs.
JMP 18.1 source code freeze was on 6/28/24 and security freeze for 18.1 is a little less than a month away (8/9/24). Any showstopper source code fixes requested post-freeze will need to go through the approval process per usual. A critical numeric bug was fixed early in the week and a few final JMP Clinical source changes were approved today.
The JMP 18.2 branch is now open for maintenance bug fix integrations. We will also have an 18.1.1 branch open in the near future reserved for third party security updates and critical showstoppers that cannot wait for 18.2. It remains to be seen if we will encounter showstopper or library fixes that impact JMP source code, but JMP Live is sure to have changes to make there due to its extensive set of third party libraries.
Thanks very much to intern Parker Dingman for offering to demo improvements he’s made to JMP 19 map functionality at the dev meeting this week! If you missed the meeting, you can find the recording here. We’ll have a series of intern-focused JMP Dev meetings over the next few weeks as our students present their summer work.
Thanks to Shannon Leslie for sharing the details on recent Atlassian updates! Please check out the links below to learn about some new items that you may want to take advantage of when working with our Atlassian cloud products.
Thanks very much to Tonya Mauldin for providing details about this week’s JMP 19 beta cases with crashes selected. As always, I’m very grateful to Tonya and Nicole Jones for triaging so many beta cases and working with testers to investigate and report on EA issues. Thanks also to JMP technical support for helping customers with authorization questions as they adopt 18 and 19!
JMP Beta Report for the week of 7/12/24 | JMP Live
General Announcements
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 19 EA2 Code Freeze – 7/26/24
- JMP 18.1 Security Freeze – 8/9/24
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 18 and JMP 19 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Interactive HTML
- Paul Spychala: Firefox 128 updated their rendering engine, so we needed to rebase all of our test reference images. Pushed in large changes in Javascript to implement laying out Graph Builder reports natively in Javascript instead of relying on JMP JMPHTML-13843, JMPHTML-13844, JMPHTML-13845, JMPHTML-13883. This is needed to implement responsive reports that respond to browser screen size. Added support for Model Screening Profilers in HTML (as long as all methods support HTML profilers) JMPHTML-13918.
- Mike Stickles: Completed temporary enabling of one-way selections – word cloud selections being reflected in the term table - in word clouds (JMPHTML-13665), continuing to work on enabling two-way selections (term table selections also getting reflected in the word cloud), which is requiring fixing the existing table export to work with HTML tables properly. I will be on vacation next week and will pick up this work again on the 22nd.
- Worked with John Sall and Praveena on a web-based Process Screening Browser prototype (JMP-22074). Working on an issue where points with warnings in control charts produced by the Process Screening platform don’t display the row number(JMPHTML-13927).
- Participated in discussions with regard to Interactive HTML New Features and UI Improvements with Dieter, Bryan F., Praveena and Paul S.
- Q2 Check-in conversations. Completed SAS security Training. Attended meetings for the Control Chart Warnings Triage patent application.
JMP Live
- Aurora: Control chart warning improvements. Added notification to users when they are assigned a marker to triage, and when they are mentioned in a triage annotation. Fixed various bugs. Held a Q&A meeting between project developers and testers. Presented to patent committee along with others.
Statistics
- John Sall:
- Fit Least Squares now guards against rogue axis scales in Actual by Predicted from excluded rows (JMP-22086).
- Categorical menus have been reorganized further (JMP-21300).
- Implement BSpline effect type for all Fit Model personalities using Ryan Parker's routines from FDE (JMP-22024).
In Process Screening initial work to make a web page that can bring up any control chart among many processes. Praveena Panineerkandy already has the html page starting to work. (JMP-22074)
- Laura C-S: Completed latest HR training. Worked with Murali in the academic team on a couple advanced SEM examples. Fixed a relaunch bug with the SEM customized launch dialog. Reviewing a draft of Ken Bollen’s SEM book. Started research on polychoric correlations. Met with Haley during her visit to campus and we submitted a proposal for a SEM workshop at the 2025 SPSP convention.
Stat Documentation
- Hamid: Completed a 3-day JMP Onboarding with James. Finished Compliance Training.
Planned the next set of tasks with Michael.
- Michael C: Reviewed 18.1 help build on the test server and helped James with onboarding sessions for new hires in Stat R&D.
Stat Testing
- Tonya: Testing Short Run Control Charts, working on an xpath presentation for Discovery, and working with beta feedback.
Life Sciences Updates
- Reetika Sarkar: Validated counts for potential Hy's law in the DILI screening reports for 0 lag days. Turned in my poster for SAS Intern Expo and worked on some of my slides for the JMP intern presentation.
- Drew: Continued work to replace Java implementation of Apache Velocity template processing with Python implementation using airspeed package. Bug fixes and feature work for JMP Clinical 18.2 and 19.0. Provided support for triaging and assisting JMP Clinical customers.
- Tom: Worked with Susan Conaghan to fixed broken Help Keys in Genetics documentation. Met with Monica Beals to discuss incorporating videos in Clinical docs. Continued clearing old (and some new) Jira issues. Continued updating Clinical docs for 18.1.
- Richard: Worked on a graphics function to easily reproduce more complex Graph Builder graphs.
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Bryan F: Last week, I prepared icons for Parker Dingman to utilize in his map refactoring project and offered guidance on the appropriate method to showcase these icons. Offered insights and suggestions for the redesign of the JMP Live homepage to Michael Goff and Justin Chilton. Offered feedback on the Venn Diagram Add-In created by Russ Wolfinger. Engaged in discussions with members of the HTML5 team (Praveena Panineerkandy, Paul Spychala, and John Powell) regarding icons, text, and the Vuetify design system. Offered advice to John Powell on how to effectively convey that a graph lacks interactivity by omitting a tooltip, along with instructions on implementing the Roboto font within an HTML5 canvas. Categorized potential product management metrics into broad groups based on external or internal focus, as well as outcome or output orientation. Developed a voting form to assess the value and effort associated with these metrics. Conducted telemetry analysis to track the number of users making stylistic changes to reports.
Technical Support and Engagement
- Duane: As expected, we have fielded a few cases regarding authorization and accessibility of the JMP 19 EA1. My JMP usage and authorization with JMP 18 have also generated numerous cases. Here are the TS JMP Live reports and the link to the Jira filter showing the tickets reported by TS for the last 14 days.
- Technical Support Case Volume by week:
- Engagement Support Case Volume by week:
- Case Topics for Engagement queue, total:
- Case Topics for Engagement queue, last week:
Development Operations
- Melanie: Jira! Jira! Jira! Learned how to batch create Jiras from a csv file (exported from JMP). Then put it into action for 18.2 branching Jiras. Worked on improving the branching template with assignees, jirabot update field, and watchers. Experimented with ways to automate updating the table in JMP before exporting the csv. Localization consultant: Gave input to localization on their plans to simplify and improve taking and delivering PortableUI strings. SAS Training: Completed the latest SAS training modules. DevOps: General investigation, testing, troubleshooting for a variety of DevOps processes.
- Shannon L: Met with doc process team to assist in further Jira board configurations; assisting with 18.1 open issue cleanup past code-freeze; finalized Atlassian renewals and other Atlassian license management; researched Jira options for adding watchers to issues created via csv file; assist with investigating JMP crash reports; curated Atlassian July release affecting our Jira and Confluence sites.
- Jim: Disabled all JMP 18.0.2 Jenkins projects. Archived many 18.0.1 Jenkins projects. Created //depot/rel/r18.2/… Perforce branch; updated many 18.2 process related JIRAs. Installed new mac OS, Sequoia, on mac minis; set up 18.2 and 19.0 unit test runs. Perforce support, including reverts, integrations, new user set up and permissions. Reported numerous assertion failure JIRAs.
- Myron: Worked on the AWS version of Stringbot – getting it running without errors and getting it ready for testing. Also fixed bugs with the testing dashboard results and with the crash system.
- Bob: Updated 18.1 and 19.0 installers with new strings to help with installs when no administrative privileges are present (JMP 21717). Created JMP Live 18.0.2, which uses JMP Pro 18.0.1. Registry updates for version 19 installers to support JMP notebook file type (JMP 22047). Force GUIDs of Windows installers to match between production and EA for each edition (JMP-21955). 18.2 installer scripts have been created and will now run on nightly schedule.
- Shannon C: Participated in JMP leadership Q&A session with interns and recent new hires on Tuesday. Helped direct questions from interns about Python integration and presentations. Investigated several crashes. Looked into problems with crash links and symbolize projects not running as expected and worked with Lisa on reducing the size of Crash Scores table by removing versions older than 15.2. Worked with Shannon L and Melanie on release planning Jira process.
Localization
- Allison: Sent out JMP Live Public Help to vendors for localization; finalized JMP Marketplace translations and delivered to Kristen; tried to upload updated 18.0 KO, JA, ZH Doc add-ins to JMP Community and there was an issue with KO and JA pages so I reported the issue to Ryan Gilmore; put together 18.1 JMP and JMP Live TMs and Termbase and shared with the Marketing team.
- Krzysztof: Processing JMP Marketplace, Books and JMP Live Public translation returns. TM maintenance (cleanups) for JMP 18.1 UI projects. Wrote up a proposal for new commit and return jobs/scripts for UI projects. Developed a prototype for JMP Clinical translation workflow. Bug fixes in translations.
- Howard: Add forced sync feature to memoQ Commit Job. Add label for MIF Conditional Job. Add File comparison feature for memoQ imported files with source files.
- Trish: Conversations regarding Clinical localization. Review of Marketplace localizations. Defect triage & resource planning for 19.
- Sandy: Worked on testing file comparison program that validates file population for all projects.
Documentation
- Qiana: Production checked deliverables for 18.1. Worked with Audrey and Legal to address stale URLs in sample data tables. Met with Shannon L. about Jira sprint set-up. Received training from David W. on updating the Sample Index. Met with Jim to discuss upcoming P4 branching of 18.1. Worked with Roger to update the DE, ES, FR, IT JMP Documentation pages to point to the language-specific doc add-in page, instead of the EN page. Oxygen and project planning and coordination.
- Khawar: Production checked GA and DOE books. Attended a training session to understand editing the sample index. Started analyzing the sample index entries and identifying possible issues. Researched DITA to PDF conversions with Oxygen; Learned about Oxygen Styles Basket and creating templates for PDF and web help. Started HTML course on CodeAcademy.
- Susan C: Completed two mandatory training courses. Met with Shannon L & Qiana to make the Jira board changes. Finished up the June UI strings, over to Chris for review before sending feedback to developers. Met with Landra, Qiana & Aaron to talk about versioning the What's New page. Working on Work Smarter, Not Harder course.
- Devon: 18.1 doc publishing tasks, resolving errors in an XML chapter for testing output, continued reading The Global English Style Guide.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Adnane El Hachami: Worked on verifications and my intern expo poster. Learning React, and I have fixed several bugs in the Testing Dashboard.
- Mandy: Keeping up with my JIRA’s and trying to add tests where needed. Worked on about 4 EA1 TS tracks from customer Holgar Specht who been very direct and helpful. Currently investigating a 19-only Tables > Join crash he reported today. Worked on another crash with Column Tags that I found last week. Got 2 different calls from SE’s working on Workflows with Multiple File Import – it sort of works, but required a bit of JSL to get it to let you pick files so I opened a JIRA which may be a New Feature if it gets done in 19. Spent some time testing the New Data Grid for David White on Windows by turning on the proper Preference and running the JSL test suite and filed a few JIRA issues. Need to work hard on this feature if it will be showcased for EA2.
- Nick H: worked on some 19 EA tracks, filing a Jira for a customer suggestion for the new Forced Values column property and reached out to Morgan about a few Notebooks suggestions. Found a crash when clicking on ‘Forced Values’ in the column property window. Noticed that we are no longer able to import JSON files on Mac in JMP19 – the file type is grayed out. And lastly found a bug with Find and Replace on Mac. Continually working on JMP 19 bug verifications and the data project I will be presenting for virtual Discovery.
- Hunter: Checked messages returned at startup with JMP 18.1 and 19.0 on Mac and Windows as my valid license transitioned to expired and later terminated during the week. JIRA verifications and updates on open items, installed Mac Sequoia Dev. Beta 3 on macbeta1x86 in the lab and ran tests, and completed the two security training courses.
- Audrey: Learning about new changes supporting triaging of Control Chart warnings in JMP Live. Updating Jenkins projects now that we’ve switched our maintenance branch to 18.2. Jira & Confluence admin work and consulting with teams. Thank you to James Koepfler, Christine Bevan, Diana Levey for hosting an R&D Leadership Chat and a Resume Workshop for our interns this week!
- Lisa: Looked at an EA track from Holger, tweaked some of the visualizations from the Jira Issues Dashboard and added an activity report for 19.0, and cut out crashes older than 15.2 from the crash scores table.
Web Testing – Cary
- Natalie Horton: Catching up from a long vacation, Large UI changes within the HTML5 reports has impacted our automated tests, specifically the new centered report. The altered location caused all tests to fail. Lots of meetings with Steve and Josh this week to devise a new coordinate strategy. The framework is in place but the testcases must be updated individually. This is underway with the first wave of updates going into a PR today.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
Core
- Parker Dingman: Created and presented slides for “Better Maps in JMP 19” dev talk. Video (and slides) of my dev talk can be found in JIRA issue JMP-21520.
- Xan: Map country name updates, smoother work, multiple response row state ability, lasso tool, box dispatch.
- Ernest: Working on supporting SiType::NumberFormat in preferences. Working on Find utility across Workflow steps.
Hosting and Interfaces
- Will Morgan: [JMP-21519] - The S3 Data Connector is in testing in Beijing, and it is almost ready for deployment to the JMP Marketplace. [JMP-22169] - In the meantime, I have started development of another data connector that will utilize the new python framework. This new connector will interface with the Microsoft Sharepoint platform and allow users to interact with their sharepoint data sources. Additionally, I am working on my JMP intern presentation and demo for everyone to see, so I hope you will all enjoy that!
- Paul N: Worked on Python updates
- Fixed JMP-22039 – jmp.DataTable() was setting DtFlags::Private even if table was not private.
- JMP-22064 – jmp.run_jsl() now returns the result of the topSubmit() instead of the success or failure status.
- JMP-21924 – Python equivalent to JSL Python Send() / Get(). The new functionality adds a jmp.globals which is a Python stand-in for the TopSymbolMap of global variables. Usage of this from Python is: value = jmp.globals[‘ variable name’] to get the JSL value as a Python Object. ( operates on same types as JSL Python Send() / Get ). And to set a JSL value from Python: jmp.globals[‘variable name’] = value.
- Fixed JMP-22167 – related to work above, crash after iterating across jmp.globals in Python.
- Working on JMP-20584 – so Python scripts running in projects can find files within the project.
- Kristen: Development this week was primarily loading Add-Ins to the JMP Marketplace stage environment, with progress being tracked in this epic JMPMRKT-106. If any JMP staff have any Add-Ins that aren’t in this epic for consideration for moving to the JMP Marketplace that they would like moved, please email me so I can get them added in for consideration.
Note from Shannon
Thanks to doc team member Devon Powell for sharing this funny meme! Hope you all made it through the storms today ok and enjoy the weekend!
