TOP FEATURES SUMMARY - Beta4 (Mar ???, 2019)
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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 new connector 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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Show column list view of Workbook as tooltip when mousing over workbook in Project Explorer Set system variable @PEWP=0 to show regular view. | ||
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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JIRA | SUMMARY | DETAILS |
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Legend notation for controlling column plot and text for column/bar kind of legend,
For text part of legend, adjust font size by a scaling factor. | ||
Double click text side of legend enters in-place edit mode with cursor blinking | In previous versions, because the legend box shrinked to show Origin syntax when double clicking legend, if you click on right side of text, the whole legend may be highlighted and if user pressed Delete key, all entries would be deleted. | |
Merge Graph Label Improvements
| In Merge Graphs dialog, go to Add Label node and set Label Text as Custom. Set Custom as %H. In merged graph, source graph names show as labels of each graph. | |
Add label on specified indices for Waterfall 3 – 3rd data point position 0 - end point | ||
Support leader line to labels of 3D vector graph | ||
Allow moving axis titles to corners (vertices) of the ternary | ||
Support Data label for polar line plot | Plot polar line plot and open Plot Details dialog. There was no Label tab. Fixed in Origin 2019b. |
Import and Export
JIRA | SUMMARY | DETAILS |
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ORG-15634 | Data Connector (Improved in Beta4) | Connect to various data types (CSV, JSON, OPJ, OPJU, Matlab, Excel, HTML Table, XML, etc.) from web or on hard-drive. One workbook can only connect to one type of data. Different sheet can connect to different file of that type Icon is added to upper-left corner with context menu to change Data Source, select different node to import, exclude data when saving, reimport (Alt+4), etc. Exclude imported data when saving project to make project file size smaller. |
The speed of import ASCII and CSV is almost 50% faster (New in Beta4) | The speed is also faster when using CSV connector. | |
Export Worksheet or Book to Excel File | File: Export: Excel menu is added to export multi-sheet workbook as a multi-sheet Excel file.
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Replace existing data from Multiple files Importing | New option 3 is added to System Variable @ISE. When setting it to 3 and import multiple data files to a book with multiple sheet, no matter the sheet is empty or not, data will be imported to existing sheet first. Suppose there is a workbook with 3 sheets. There are data in them. Select 3 other files to import with Multi-file Import mode as Start New Sheet. Data will be imported to the 3 sheets, instead of creating 3 more sheet and import them. | |
Smaller Dialog Height for Import Wizard in E and G Origin (New in Beta4) | Height of Import Wizard in E and G Origin is reduced from 688px to 600px. | |
Copy graph and paste directly to online documentation tools | Ctrl+C or Ctrl+J and then Ctrl+V to online documentation tools, e.g. Confluence page, etc. System variable @CPGD 1: also copy dib — default | |
Hide Import HTML Table from Data: Import From Files menu | impHTML XF is very similar to the HTML connector. So we hide it from menu. |
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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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