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APPS-927

Connect to NI TDMS file.

TDMS Connector App is not pre-installed with Origin. To install, click Data: Connect to File: Add New.... The App Center opens listing only Connector Apps. Click the Download and Install button beside TDMS Connector to install the App.

  • Download TDMS Connector app from the page and install the app.

  • Basic Usage

  1. With a worksheet or matrixsheet active, click on the Data menu.

  2. To connect to a local file, click Data: Connect to File: TDMS and select the file. To connect to web data, click Data: Connect to Web and enter the URL. 

  3. In the Data Connector Browser, you can add worksheets to import or remove worksheets from the connector, and if you want to import all selected groups data into the same worksheet, you can check Import All Groups to Same Worksheet, then click OK to connect to the selected ones.

  4. Once a connector is added, click the connector icon in the upper-left corner of the book to open a popup menu with various commands.

  5. By default, connector-imported data are NOT saved with the project file. To save a book's data with the project file, click the connector icon in the upper-left corner for that book and uncheck Exclude Imported When Saving. Note that each book has its own Exclude setting.

 

APPS-857

Connect to a Yokogawa WDF file.

Yokogawa WDF Connector App connects the Origin project to Yokogawa WDF files. Yokogawa WDF Connector App is not pre-installed with Origin. To install, click Data: Connect to File: Add New.... The App Center opens listing only Connector Apps. Click the Download and Install button beside Yokogawa WDF Connector to install the App.

  • Download Yokogawa WDF Connector app from the page and install the app.

  • Basic Usage

  1. With a worksheet active, click on the Data menu.

  2. To connect to a local file, click Data: Connect to File: Yokogawa WDF and select the file. To connect to web data, click Data: Connect to Web and enter the URL. 

  3. In the Data Connector Browser, you can add traces to import or remove traces from the connector, then click OK to connect to the selected ones. Check Import All Traces to Same Worksheet to import selected traces to same worksheet instead of separate worksheets.

  4. Once a connector is added, click the connector icon in the upper-left corner of the book to open a popup menu with various commands.

  5. By default, connector-imported data are NOT saved with the project file. To save a book's data with the project file, click the connector icon in the upper-left corner for that book and uncheck Exclude Imported When Saving. Note that each book has its own Exclude setting.

 

APPS-914

Import tables in the pdf file.

Import PDF Tables app can be used to import tables in the pdf file.

Download Import PDF Tables app from the page and install the app.

This app requires embedded Python in Origin, Media Feature Pack from Microsoft and Ghostscript.

Operation:

  1. Select a PDF file and open the dialog.

  2. Enter the page(s) from which you want to extract.

  3. Click OK button. And tables will be imported into Origin.

ORG-22026

Better support of *.dat file with CSV Connector

Drag and drop of *.dat files will use CSV Connector if no Import filter is checked for Drag and drop of that file type.

Drag and drop *.dat file will use CSV Connector if no Import filter is checked for Drag and drop

ORG-14442

Matlab DC supports opaque variable like date time in v6/v7 version files

Matlab DC supports opaque variable such as date, time, duration, or table in Matlab v6/v7 version files.

import opaque type variables:

Date, Time, Duration, Table, etc.

ORG-22040

new TDMS Connector

A new NI TDMS Connector has been created.

can contact us to get the app to try

import NI TDMS file using connector app

ORG-21550, ORG-21211

import Bruker DQL/RAW files

A new DC DC to import Bruker DQL/RAW files has been created.

Add DIFFRAC Connector app to import Bruker DQL/RAW files

ORG-21338

Data; Connect Multiple Files improvement

Data: Connect Multiple Files… a Source drop-down list has been added that allows for Specified Files or all Files in Specified Folder.

Menu Data: Connect Multiple Files… adds a Source drop-down list that allows Specified Files or all Files in Specified Folder.

ORG-21528

Re-import Web DC should re-download the data

Re-import of Web DC now re-downloads the data based on the value of the @CFDT System Variable.

  1. Added system variable @CFDT = 900(number of seconds per 100K), if cache file is older than @CFDT, then delete it and re-get data from web.

  2.  Remember URL-to-File mapping across sessions. the cache file can be used by multiple Origin applications, then do not need to re-download if the file is not older than @CFDT.

  3.  Add LT cmd to delete URL-to-File mapping cache, for example:

delete -web "http://www.sidc.be/silso/INFO/snmtotcsv.php";

ORG-22211

Move Legacy Import menu to bottom

Legacy Import from File menu moved to lower position in the Data menu.

Push the "Import from File..." menu item to be after the DC menu items under Data menu.

ORG-22179

MATLAB connector supports Tables

MATLAB connector supports importing tables from .MAT files.

MATLAB Connector supports importing tables from .mat files.

ORG-22334

CSV Connector allows Append Rows

CSV Connector now permits appending rows to columns.

Set wks.DC.flags=256 for CSV Connector, subsequent import will append. From now on, every data source change or re-import will keep appending new rows to the end of existing data.

ORG-22252

DC Connected Sheet remembers customized sheet name

A DC-connected worksheet now remembers a customized sheet name and does not change its name.

Added LT access User-Sheet-Name property wks.USN=0(default), if the sheet is renamed from double-click or Name and Comments dialog, then will set wks.USN=1, and Data Connector import will no longer rename the sheet.

This applies only to those connectors that are using the Tree framework, so besides Matlab, it will affect JSON, netCDF, etc.

ORG-22087

Clone Import for Data Connector

Clone Import for Data Connector-based imports is now supported.

Support Clone Import for Data Connectors.

ORG-13146

Yokogawa Binary WDF File Connector

New Yokogawa Binary WDF File DC has been created.

  1. Support more oscilloscopes models for WDF. "DL350", "DL850", "DL850E", "XVWDF", "SL1000", "DLM2000", "DLM3000", "DLM4000", "DLM6000", "PX8000".

  2. Add a checkbox "Import All Traces to Same Worksheet" to import all data in a same sheet on Browser dialog.

ORG-21026

Import Menu Customization - Make it easier to find more Import Apps

Import Menu Customization via Customize… menu- makes it easier to find more DC Apps

Added "Customize..." item under “Data: Connect to File“ menu.

ORG-22481

@ISC=0 did not work

@ISC=0 System Variable fixed and a wks level control “wks.isc“ has been added.

Added a wks level control “wks.isc“.

default = 1 means it will follow @ISC, and if =0, it means do not resize column width after import.

ORG-22708

ISO Date-Time Format More Issues

CSV Data Connector now supports Zulu Time (UTC).

CSV Connector Supports Zulu Time (UTC), the 2020-10-21T19:32:52.300Z date format will be detected, and set as 2020-10-21 19:32:52.300 after import.

ORG-22691

Import entire folder fails – Beta6

Failed to import entire folder when using Import Filter connector

Select Data->Connect Multiple Files menu and pick Import Filter as Data connector. Then specify a folder to import failed.

Worksheet

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ORG-22399

Mini toolbar for label rows in worksheet

Easier way to turn on rich text , insert user-parameter, hide label row, move up and down, etc.

When right click a label row, mini toolbar shows for quick access of some userful operations, such as turn on rich text so user can type superscript, subscript, greek letters, etc.

ORG-21112

Data Display Format buttons on Column Mini toolbar

Use mini toolbar to customize date and time display or numeric digits

Add new mini toolbars for easily customize the number of digits, date, and time format.

ORG-21113

Change Column (Cell) Format on Pasting Date Time Data

Check if copied data is date and time and paste accordingly

  • Copy Date/Time data from Excel or other places and paste it into Origin worksheet cells. Column/cell will be auto formatted as Date/Time.

  • Insert info variable and select date from file info list, the cell gets correctly formatted as date

ORG-21701

Better Handling of Time Data that Wrap Around Midnight

Mini toolbar buttons is added to handle date/time data what wrap around midnight

User sometimes has time data that missing day info. When plotting with such data as X range, the plot may jumps back to beginning of axis at midnight.
Now Origin provides a new mini toolbar to deal with such problem. When click it, Origin will check and detect, then ask if can go ahead to add days to the data.


Also, for axis tick label, DDD info will not be added anymore for time HH format. E.g, 25:00 will be shown as 01:00 instead.

ORG-21720

Redo Worksheet Transpose Tool

There were many issues when using transposed data as input of further analysis.

In the past, output of wtranspose maybe problematic when directly use as anlaysis input. Now, this should not be a problem anymore.

ORG-22137

Support Color Column in Worksheet

New column type is added to support HTML color code. User can save the colors in the column as a color list or palette for other uses. User can use it to color plots.

In Column Properties dialog, set column format as Color.

  • support HTML color code. Cell background will be colored accordingly.

  • Mini toolbar to set color

  • Mini toolbar of column to save Color List or palette (system variable @MPS is the threshold to save as palette. E.g. default is 20. So if there are more than 20 colors in the column, it will be saved as palette. If less than 20 colors, it will be saved as color list.)

  • Set column as Color to show calculated color based on R, G and B values.

  • Add Display Color Value checkbox under Format in column property dialog if column format is Color.

  • Add Create Color List from Column… in Custom dropdown list under Color fly-out single tab.

ORG-22146

Allow setting HTML color code in colors popup.

Entering HTML color code to create color

In Color Popup, add HTML edit box allowing copying/pasting HTML color code.

ORG-22376

Support mask column based on Outlier by IQR

Support mask column based on Outlier by IQR

Select Column: Mask Cells by Condition… menu.

Outliers by IQR is added in Condition dropdown

ORG-21957

Alt+Enter for new line

We used to use Ctrl+Enter for new line. Changed to Alt+Enter to be consistent with other softwares

Use Alt+Enter for new line instead of old Ctrl+Enter.

System variable @FCA =1 to roll back to old way.

This also applies to adding mult-line text in graph and script window

ORG-22435

Missing Value NANUM for numeric column which is not double(8)

When data type isn’t double(8), we used to show 0 as missing values. Now user can specify what value to show as missing value --

When column format is set to Numeric and Data Type is set to other options e.g. Real(4) instead of the default Double(8), user can assign a custom value as missing value, such as:
wks.col1.missing = -99; //-99 will show as missing value --
wks.col2.missing = 0; //0 will show as missing value --

wks.col1.missing = 0/0 //turn the feature off

This property is saved with the column.

ORG-22469

Aligning on decimal character in column

Numbers are usally right aligned. Now you can align numbers by decimal points in a column

In Column Properties dialog, set Numeric Custom Display as e.g. .3?

ORG-22465

Paste space separated text into one column in worksheet

By default, space separated text will be pasted into multiple columns. A context menu Paste (Keep Spaces) is added to pasted text into one column

It will paste space separated text in one column

ORG-22574

Easier way to select highlighted columns in worksheet in Worksheet Query dialog

Newly added checkbox Check all Selected Columns Extract to quickly select highlighted columns only

By default when opening Worksheet Query dialog. All columns are checked so when extracting data, all columns will be extracted.

A new context menu Check all Selected Columns Extract is added. Check it, only columns highlighted in worksheet will be checked and extracted.

ORG-20123

paste report sheet table will set 1st row to long name

origin will set 1st row as long name when paste report sheet table since Origin2021, it will provide better format style look, also can easily change table style will mini toolbar.

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