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Discovering JMP > Save and Share Your Work > Save and Run Scripts
Publication date: 04/30/2021

Save and Run Scripts

Most platform options in JMP are scriptable, meaning that most actions that you perform can be saved as a JMP Scripting Language (JSL) script. You can use a script to reproduce your actions or results at any time.

This section contains the following information:

Example of Saving and Running a Script

About Scripts and JSL

Example of Saving and Running a Script

Create a Report

1. Select Help > Sample Data Library and open Companies.jmp.

2. Select Analyze > Distribution.

3. Select Type and profit/emp and click Y, Columns.

4. Click OK.

5. Click the Type red triangle and select these options:

Histogram Options > Show Counts

Confidence Interval > 0.95

6. Click the profit/emp red triangle and select these options:

Outlier Box Plot, to remove the outlier box plot

CDF Plot

7. Click the Distributions red triangle and select Stack.

Save the Script to the Data Table and Run It

1. To save this analysis, click the Distributions red triangle and select Save Script > To Data Table. The new script appears in the Table panel.

Figure 7.13 Distribution Script 

2. Close the Distribution report window.

3. To re-create the analysis, click the green triangle next to the Distribution script.

Figure 7.14 Running the Distribution Script 

Tip: Right-click the table script to view more options.

About Scripts and JSL

The script that you saved in this section contains JMP Scripting Language (JSL) commands. JSL is a more advanced topic that is covered in the Scripting Guide and JSL Syntax Reference.

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