TOP FEATURES SUMMARY - Beta4 (Mar ???, 2019)
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TOP FEATURES SUMMARY - Beta4 (Mar ???, 2019)
- The following table provides a summary of key new features with brief description, and where to find the feature.
- Look in sections further below for detailed feature notes.
Feature | Brief Description | Where to find it in Origin |
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Data Connector |
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For Data→Connect to Web, there are sample URLs for various connectors. Click on the Recent URLs menu in the Connect to Web dialog to pick a sample URL. We have several blogs on data connectors: http://blog.originlab.com/category/origin-2019b New in Beta4: Main header lines handling
Relative Data Source Path and Common Data Path:
CSV Connector: Many improvements have been made to this connector, support SPACE separated ASCII data Context Menu for Connector Icon: This has new entries including Import All Sheets and Import all Books Tooltip when mousing over the connector icon is also improved. Deleting Columns after DC Import: After DC import, if you delete some columns, then next time you re-import, those columns are not brought in. In other words, your reduced set of columns will be unchanged and data will be imported only into those columns. Add New Connectors: Data→Connect to File→Add New... menu item has been added. This will open App Center and show more connector Apps that are available for download. There are two new connectors available with beta4: Connectors tab in Apps Gallery: All data connectors show on this tab. LabTalk Access:
Book Level Import Command:
"doc -e LBC" to loop all sheets on book with Data Connector
Adding DC to workbook using LabTalk: newbook; |
HTML Reports |
| Blog: http://blog.originlab.com/publishing/creating-html-reports-and-documents-in-origin-2019b New in Beta4: Markdown syntax supported (in addition to html) With Notes window active, go to HTML→Load Samples menu. You will find both HTML and Markdown samples. NOTE: If you plan to write your own Markdown syntax, after opening a new Notes window, you need to right-click on title and select the Syntax→Markdown menu item. To switch between HTML and Markdown syntax, you need to first set to Text and then change to the other. When in Markdown mode, you include html syntax, such as for setting styles, or for advanced formatting not supported by Markdown. To view a sample OPJU showing HTML+Markdown reports: System variable to control using HTML or Markdown when pressing Ctrl+M @NPS=0; /// 0 means HTML, 1 means Markdown |
Clone current Project |
| New in Beta4: Menu: File→Clone current Project This new menu replaces the old menu items File→Save Project without Data... and File→Duplicate Project without Data... The cloned project can optionally maintain Origin Data Connector connections to the original file. |
Exclude Imported Data when Saving Project |
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Blog: http://blog.originlab.com/data-import/exclude-imported-data-when-saving-project |
Copy-paste Folders Copy-paste workbook (New in Beta4) | Copy an entire Origin Project Folder and paste it within the same project or even to another Origin session running on the same PC Copy workbook and paste n same session or another session. |
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Add Rugs to Axes | Add Rug marks to axes to indicate data density |
New in Beta4:
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Export Worksheet or Book to Excel File.. | Added support for exporting multi-sheet workbook as a multi-sheet Excel file. | File: Export: Excel Sheets can be excluded by right-clicking on tab and selecting "Exclude from Excel Export" context menu |
Improved/Reorganized Menus | More first level menus to avoid too many entries in each menu
The Plot menu reorganization
Some context menu changes. | New in Beta4:
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Import Speed Improvement | The speed of import ASCII and CSV is almost 50% faster. It also applies to CSV connector. |
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JIRA | SUMMARY | DETAILS |
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Main Menu Reorganization |
Workbook window active: Graph window active: Matrix window active: Layout window active: Notes window active: No window active:
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Plot Menu Reorganization |
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ORG-19335 S1 | Copy and paste folder in Origin |
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ORG-19335 S2 | Copy and paste workbook in Origin (New in Beta4) |
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Appending Projects Improvements | If user's projects
then when appending project files, and you choose No to not create subfolders for each project, all windows will be put together to current folder. | |
HTML Report in Notes Window (Improved in Beta4) |
HTML field codes:
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ORG-19156 | Recently Used Fonts | Recently used fonts show on the top of the font dropdown list New in Beta 4: Fixed some bugs when typing to find fonts |
Font control for Notes window | Change Font and Font Size from Format toolbar for Notes window. It applies to all Notes window. | |
Reset all dialog custom positions on new Origin session | There are cases user moved some dialog, script window, etc. to other location .e.g. another monitor and when restarting Origin, user couldn't find them. So in Origin 2019b, by default the dialog locations will reset. Set System variable @RDP=0 to go back to old behavior. | |
Copy cell and paste to a range | E.g. Select A1 cell and copy (Ctrl+C). Select B1-B3 and paste. B1 -B3 will be filled with A1 value. Select A1 - A3 cells and copy (Ctrl+C). Select B1-B6 and paste. B1-B3 will be filled with A1-A3, B4-B6 will be filled with A1-A3. Set System variable @CPNB=0 to roll back to old behavior. | |
Reorganization of some controls on Layer level of Plot Details dialog |
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Group Folder Sharing Improvements |
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Easier way to update all Apps to latest version (New in Beta4) | User can right click the Add Apps icon in Apps Gallery and choose Update All to updates all installed Apps to latest version. | |
Support search in Template library | User can type keyword in upper-right corner of Template Library dialog to search for user-defined graphing templates. | |
Plot: 3D: Parametric Surface menu to plot 3d parametric plot from data (New in Beta4) | Data needs to be organized in z, x, y, z (optional) matrix objects order in Matrix |
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Multi-sheet range support | This is supported in many tools that supports multi-sheet range. E.g. if user wants to do statistics in same range of data on multiple sheets, user can specify the input as [book1](1:5)!1[89]:17[95]
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Improvements on IF() and IFNA() functions |
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New Object is wbook but can be abbreviated as wbk | ||||||||||||
LabTalk string function improvements (New in Beta4) |
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ORG-19719 | New Switch for DOC command |
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ORG-19719 | LabTalk command to clear imported data | del -di: Delete imported data in current sheet | ||||||||||
ORG-19719 | Improvement on Project class |
The following will get empty for Untitled, and if has path, will not have last backslash
This is mainly to allow easy changing code to generate the tree for Origin Connector, which orglab is making the call to get display tree.
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ORG-16946 | OC to provide access to LabTalk LT properties on OriginObject |
Example,
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Build new Python package OriginExt to access Origin functionality from external Python through COM. | OriginExt is a Python package that enables you to access Origin functionality from Python. OriginExt is built on Origin's COM/Automation interface that Python functions as the client application that connects with Origin. It allows exchange data back and forth between Python and Origin and can also send commands from Python to be executed by Origin. |
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