Welcome to the JMP Development Update for August 9, 2024!
I hope that everyone on the east coast made it through the storm ok! We had 5” of rain at my house in Cary yesterday and about an inch or so today, but the sun has been shining this afternoon. I hear the storm caused travel delays, power outages and water issues for some of you, but hopefully those have since resolved for everyone!
While many people were out of the office this week due to vacations, illness, JSM or customer travel, there was still quite a lot going on in development. In release news, testing for JMP Student Edition 18.0.2 is nearly complete. JMP 19 EA2 work is also closer to wrapping up, with rounds of testing and rebuilds happening this week for some configurations. We have a few remaining EA issues that we hope to resolve early next week prior to signoff.
With many of our JMP summer students finishing up their projects and preparing to head back to school, we had quite a few dev meetings in the past several weeks. This week, we took a break from meeting and I do not currently have a topic for next week either. I will be out of the office next week from Wednesday-Friday getting my own college student back to Western Carolina University in the mountains, so Audrey Shull has kindly volunteered to do the update next Friday. Please send your news to her – she will also send out the reminder email on Friday morning.
Our next scheduled JMP dev meeting is planned for 8/22. At that session, we’ll hear a presentation by the Data Connectors team on their JMP 19 progress. Also, we’ll meet on 8/29 to hear about an add-in Luciano has created to integrate more genomic sequence pre-processing capabilities into JMP Pro! If you’d like to sign up for a future JMP Dev slot, please see the JMP Dev Volunteer Schedule in Confluence here.
Thanks to Tonya Mauldin for sharing this week’s beta/crash details for the last two weeks (with crashes selected)!
Beta/Crash report for the weeks of 8/2/24 and 8/9/24 | JMP Live
General Announcements
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 18.1 Security Freeze – 8/9/24 ß TODAY
- JMP 18.1 Final Installer Candidates – currently planned for 8/19/24 (but may be ready even sooner).
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 18 and JMP 19 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Core
- Dave B: Fixed a problem with table boxes with column spans saving as html. Fixed multiple display issues with the MFI dialog. Fixed a bug with table box and rows being too tall when variable row height was turned on. Pushed a first pass at table box row grouping:
dt=open("$sample_data\big class.jmp");
new window("row groups",datatablebox(dt,<
- Xan: Matrix const work; p-spline Matrix math functions; adding Hide and Settings options to legend right-click menu.
- Evan: Beginning work on Copy/Paste improvements for Table Scripts, Table Variables, and Columns in v19.
DOE and Reliability
- Caleb: Attended JSM in Portland, OR. It was a great opportunity to reconnect with some of my external colleagues. I even made a few pitches at the JMP Booth on Sample Size Explorers and Easy DOE! Thankfully, the weather did not interfere with my return travel.
Hosting and Interfaces
- Will Morgan:
- SharePoint Connector: Code is up for review: http://jmpswarm.na.sas.com/reviews/793359 The user no longer needs to authenticate on every API request. However, the application is still a bit slow when not utilizing schemas or a configured folder to narrow down the search for files in OneDrive. I will be looking into other solutions for this, or methods to let the user know that API calls that parse their entire OneDrive will take a while.
- Aside from that I have been learning more about the JMP C++ codebase to start developing more backend code for data connectors. I have a few JIRAs piled up that require come C++ coding that I have on my radar for the next while. It will take me a while to get acquainted with the complex codebase, but I will get there! If anyone has any tips or tricks I would love to hear them!
- John Schroedl: More work on Dark Mode support with the Preference still disabled. Helped on some tech support tracks and fielded a couple of Visual Studio questions. Manning the pump to remove water from our crawlspace.
Interactive HTML
- John Powell: Modified Interactive HTML export, loading, and storage mechanisms to support integrating multiple XML sections(JMPHTML-13996). Integrated Praveena’s shelved code to produce a new Process Screening browser example that displays control charts when you select rows in the Process Summary table.
- Paul Spychala:
- Worked on more Profiler support for HTML/JMP Live.
- Life Distribution CDF HTML Profiler Confidence Intervals [JMPHTML-14012].
- Life Distribution Quantile HTML Profiler Confidence Intervals [JMPHTML-14013].
- Also Life Distribution Hazard HTML Profiler Confidence Intervals [No Jira].
- Fit Life by X CDF HTML Profiler Predictor and Confidence Intervals [JMPHTML-14008].
- Fit Life by X Quantile HTML Profiler Predictor and Confidence Intervals [JMPHTML-14009].
- Fit Life by X Hazard HTML Profiler Predictor [JMPHTML-14010].
- Fit Life by X PDF HTML Profiler Predictor [JMPHTML-14011].
- Fit Life by X Comparison HTML Profiler Predictor and Confidence Intervals [JMPHTML-14015].
- Also worked on more Math Operation support for use in Profilers (such as Distribution Platform):
- Add HTML MathML Support for Cauchy Distribution Operation [JMPHTML-13968]
- Add HTML MathML Support for Lognormal Distribution Operation [JMPHTML-13975]
- Add HTML MathML Support for ExGaussian Distribution Operation [JMPHTML-13973]
- Add HTML MathML Support for Exp Distribution Operation [JMPHTML-13972]
- Add HTML MathML Support for Gamma Distribution Operation [JMPHTML-13974]
- Add HTML MathML Support for Poisson Distribution Operation [JMPHTML-13978]
- Worked on a UI Proposal for adding a preference for Fit to Window for HTML Reports
JMP Live
- Adrianna: Added an option to download a JMP Exception Report from post history; tweaked who can view history and history details; investigated an issue on jmplivesales; investigated a regeneration issue.
- Aurora: Control chart warning improvements (finish support for assigning to group, improve migration from pre-19 JMP Live, design format for two new downloads, start work on supporting customized tests).
Statistics
- Laura C-S: Fixing several bugs that Haley has found in MIIV-2SLS involving the improvement of the appearance of the report, the approach for reporting issues in estimation, and adjusting the status tab. Fixed a performance bug in MIIV with Haley’s help. She found a formula that made a huge impact!
Added some warnings to the Generate R Code option suggested by Haley and Yusuke. Met with Haley to discuss all these ongoing changes. Answered questions about SEM for tech support.
- John Sall: For the Profiler, the Set Desirabilities dialog now shows all responses in one window; also the menus have been restructured somewhat (JMP-22515).
Stat Testing
- Haley: Met with Laura C-S a couple of times to discuss testing the MIIV estimator, as well as adjustments to the SEM platform when using the MIIV estimator. Started looking into the JMP-to-Python integration to see if I can use it to test the R Code Generator in the SEM platform. Completed STIPS module 2.
- Tonya: Working on my Discovery presentation with Mark Bailey. Cleaning up unit tests. Bug verification.
Life Sciences Updates
- Wenjun: We had a great visit to Eli Lilly. We gave two seminars: JMP Clinical in the morning and AI in the afternoon. Each seminar was followed by 2 focused sessions with the topic Lilly chose to dive deeper with very active discussions, and then leadership briefing sessions joined by several VPs and a senior VP. Also, Mia and I were randomly selected as VIPs by the hotel so we had upgraded suites and free access to a lounge. The four of us got free breakfasts and a "private" meeting room to brief after we finished the Lilly visit. We flew back today - most of us got delayed in different airports. ☹
- Drew: Bug fixes and feature work in JMP Clinical 18.2/19.0. One in particular to bring consistency of behavior between the Review Subject Filter and reports by honoring the study-wide population preference.
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Bryan F: Completed the tasks related to conducting a usability study and setting up automated user data collection through AWS S3. The AWS S3 hosted Marketplace usability script was distributed and 9 responses have been collected so far, which I’m currently processing. In collaboration with Sarah Sylvestre, a heuristic evaluation of the Marketplace is also underway. I plan to provide feedback to Kristen Slappey on both fronts next week. I am coordinating with Dieter, Alex Taylor, and Aurora for an upcoming JMP Live usability study involving Evonik.
Technical Support and Engagement
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
- Shannon L: Creating a user access policy and regular process for managing inactive users for the JMP Atlassian tools, to be announced soon; investigated upcoming Atlassian changes and potential bugs; assisted with registering JMP 18.0.2 product versions for compliance auditing; finalizing upcoming Jira workflow enhancements, to be announced for review next week; assisted Doc team with Jira improvements; researching limitations of updating Jira via the Cloud API.
- Melanie: Investigating Unit Tests; devising ways to collect information and categorize and diagnose problems. I’ve played around with the new databases available in Confluence and grabbing information from Jenkins logs and then parsing them looking for certain errors. Very large table!
- Shannon: Discussions on release testing. Various tool-related investigations (Jira issue skips, Jenkins data collection, existing dashboards and reports). Reviewed Jira dashboards with Shannon L. Continued assessing telemetry cleanup efforts (thanks Myron Chandler!). We’re getting a lot of customers opting in to sending telemetry to us with JMP 18, and there’s a constant need to review large submissions (tens to hundreds of thousands of rows) to remove highly redundant or uninteresting records. Thanks to Evan McCorkle for discussions on possible removals and Lisa Grossman for continued support of JMP Live reports that help monitor telemetry submissions.
- Myron: Continued working on JMPTOOL-1183 – create/complete AWS stringbot job, JMPTOOL-1278 – clean up of telemetry tables and exports, and JMPTOOL-1048 – add “extra info” Mac attachments in crash system.
Localization
- Trish: Meetings with Allison to review over workflow for localization automation and create document. Completed the JMP Marketplace UI feedback survey. Sifting through localization feedback of JMP Marketplace from JMP Japan staff (many thanks to Daisuke Harada, Taku Ogasawara, Yuichi Katsumura, Naohiro Masukawa, and Kyoko Takenaka) and will forward feedback to Kristen and Krzysztof. Provided feedback to doc team regarding Release Notes formatting.
- Allison: Finalized and validated localized 18.1 DJ books and handed off to QA for testing; created updated 18.0 localized JMP Documentation add-ins and shared with JMP Marketing teams in Japan and Korea; provided inputs for Howard's integration of the localization dashboard and jira automation.
- Sandy: Tested new function on project creation dashboard. Added new features to file validation program. Tested addition of file validation to end of file population job. Began work for kickoff meeting for new automation framework.
- Krzysztof: Maintenance and cleansing of TMs for Book projects based on recent return from vendors; Assisting Clinical with their translation process for Chinese; Planning new automation projects and housekeeping existing projects.
- Sohail: Added new features to TM Search interface while continuing to optimize search result times through asynchronous request, query reoptimization, and lazy loading.
- Howard: Conducted Dashboard Jira integration presentation, this is going to utilize Jira functionality into memoQ process. Worked on couple of memoQ return features such as package return, translation export, and push back to production.
Documentation
- Devon: Final edit of Python release notes; cleaned up our title page files as part of JMPDOC-2263; WebWorks DITA publishing training, digging into RelinkLocalizedFiles.fsl, which we use to fix cross-references and images after we get localized documentation back from the L10N team; reviewing doc needs from the 19.0 Single Source page (thank you Mia!); making updates to doc for the Ruler tool.
- ChrisB: Fixed a couple of small JIRAS: JMP-22383, JMP-22410. Did a bit of investigation of Karen’s HTML output issues in JMPDOC-2262. Started JMP-22441 (doc about preset add-ins). DITA to WebWorks training. Created the initial 18.2 help for Mike.
- Susan C: Working on the JMP Live localized help, generating it and checking it before I hand off to test. I’ve also been working on the 18.1 release notes, all review feedback was implemented and we have handed the files off to localization.
- Khawar: Finished reviewing DJ for Oxygen; will discuss with Chris. Attended WebWorks training. Working on the analysis/audit of the sample index. Learning CSS on Codeacademy. Working on the Fall work authorization.
- Qiana: Submitted updates to Kristen for the Doc Add-in page in the Marketplace. Worked on the JMP help doc retention plan. Project planning and coordination.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Worked on the New Data table Grid and changes there; Answered some TS tracks from the EA1; And at least 1-2 crashes – but from JMP folks and related to 19 changes; Worked on workflow builder and the New find dialog that is added to that – will be in EA2, but not highly advertised – a few crashes found there but hoping we got them all out; Did EA1 installer testing on Mac and worked with that mostly.
- Hunter: Spent much of the week testing JMP 19 EA 2 and investigating issues with the EA builds. Tested launching JMP 19 EA 2 with expiration and termination dates that occurred before the EA die date to verify that proper messages are displayed to the user. Installed the latest Mac Sequoia Dev. Beta 5 on the Intel and Apple Silicon host testing Macs in the lab and ran some tests. Investigated one JMP 19 EA 1 track.
- Audrey: Testing for JMP Student 18.0.2. Testing for JMP 19 EA2.
Web Testing – Cary
- Natalie: Continued with HTML5 automation updates due to UI changes. Began new test coverage for Pie Chart.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Beijing Team:
- Da Li: (1) Bug verification (2) IN-Progress: JMP 19.0 EA2 testing, 2 bugs created. (3) DONE: Feature testing WEBJMP-8524: Build a skeleton of a new layout on the home page, total 31 bugs created. (4) DONE: Feature testing WEBJMP-8833: Swap code editor third-party library to prism-code-editor, total 8 bugs created.
- Nan Wu: (1) bugs regression testing. (2) JMP 19.0 AWS S3 data connector testing on Windows and Mac. (3) JMP Pro 19.0 EA2 testing on Mac (JMPTESTBJ-3110).
- Kimi: (1) Bug verification. (2) Python – NF: JMP-21921: Row State support for jmp.DataTable – In Progress. JMP-21922: Expression Column Support for jmp.DataTable – In Progress. JMP-21707: Support column.format property to get / set column formatting from Python. – Done. JMP-20584: Python code cannot get the actual file path to the parquet file in the project’s content directory. – Done. (3) SAS – NF: JMP-21263: Users should be able to use Build a Query with a SAS connection – In Progress. (4) JMP 19.0 EA2 Testing. (5) ControlChartWarning – NF: WEBJMP-8647: Notify users about control chart marker assignment – In Progress. WEBJMP-8651: Improve control chart marker annotation in audit log, history tables (back end) – Done. WEBJMP-8837: Improve display of triage annotation in history table – Done. (6) Jenkins: Check results for Beijing Daily UT. JMPTESTBJ-3111: Optimization: license of VS2022 is expired - 2024 August - Done. JMPTESTBJ-3113: Jenkins job cannot finish and cannot copy logs to jmpsrv01 for 19.0 - Done.
- Da Zhang: (1) Bug verification. (2) Feature testing for WEBJMP-5775. (3) JMP 19.0 EA2 installer testing.
- Lily Meng: (1) Setup MFA and devices and install some required apps. (2) Complete the Workday to-do list. (3) Understand the Workday Absence System and learn Outlook, Teams, Service-Now, ESC, OneDrive, Cisco Secure VPN, JMP Community, Yammer. (4) Complete Getting Started with JMP - New Employees | 1 Get settled: New Hire Checklist. Update profile picture. Confluence and jira( JMP Jira Software workflow, Jira Software How-To). (5) Complete Getting Started with JMP - New Employees | 2 Install software and other administrative tasks. (6) Start Getting Started with JMP - New Employees | 3 Learn JMP: Check out the JMP origin story and learn about John Sall and watch the video from the 2023 JMP Reunion. Started to learn JMP : On Demand Course.
- Nala: (1) Bug Verification. (2) Preparation for new tester: Lili Meng. (3) JMP Student 18.0.2 installer testing - Almost Done. (4) Sanity check my components for JMP 19 EA#2. (5) JMP Clinical 19 EA#2 testing - on hold.
Note from Shannon
Thanks to Anna Kushner for sharing another cool map thread! Hope you all have a great weekend!
