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 such as set values to new columns, operations such as LR, NLFit, Stats etc are kept. This helps to reduce project file size. Simply re-import when need to do further new analysis. | CSV, HTML, JSON, Origin OPJU, Excel, and MATLAB
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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-2019bNew 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 |
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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 (New in Beta4)Improvement | The speed of import ASCII and CSV is almost 50% faster. It also applies to CSV connector. |
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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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Project name shows at the beginning of Origin title | The information in Origin2019b title bar ordered as Project name - Path - Current PE folder - Origin version - Bit - License Type If it's an unsaved new project, the order is Origin version - Bit - License Type - Untitled
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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. | ||
Block docked windows to auto expand when mousing over it | Customer complained Project Explore, Messages Log, etc. windows auto show while he is trying use tools on Tools toolbar which System Variable @AHBC is added to control this.
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File:Clone Current Project ... |
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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)Window |
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 | User can right click the Add Apps icon in Apps Gallery and choose Update All to updates all installed Apps to latest version. | |
Sort Apps in Apps Gallary | Sort apps by alphabetic order, newest, oldest | |
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 | 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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ORG-19307 | Rugs Plot |
New in Beta 4:
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Plot Heatmap from XY column or XYZ Columns | If XY columns is selected, Origin will open dialog for user to specify binning and counts to plot heatmap. If XYZ columns are selected, dialog will open for user to specify binning, data identifier for Z, quantities for Z, etc to plot heatmap. E.g. | |
Split Heatmap |
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JIRA | SUMMARY | DETAILS |
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View: Show: Frame will add frame according to current bottom x axis settings | In the past when using View: Show: Frame to add layer frame, it was a non-customizable thin black line. In Origin 2019b, it will follow the bottom axis color and thickness, etc. | |
Customize line segment remove line between two points on a line+symbol plot | Ctrl+double click the beginning point. In Plot Details go to Line tab and set Connect as No Line. | |
Add Include option for Common Display so adding layers, etc. will not affect existing layers. | ||
Use Number of X columns in worksheet to decide number of layers in Stack and Multi-Y Axes graph (New in Beta 4) graph | Number of layers will be same as number of X columns in worksheet. E.g. data in worksheet is XY XYY XYYY, 3 layers will be created for each layer. In the past, 6 layers would be created, with one Y data in each layer. | |
Stack lines by Y offset by grouping information in column label rows | User can subgroup plots by column label row and offset them. After plotting all data, In Plot Details dialog, On Group tab, set Enable Subgroup by Column Labels On Stack tab of Layer level, select Constant or Auto radio button and choose Offset Between Subgroup (in Group tab) for Constant / Auto checkbox | |
Independent Transparency control for multiple patterns of one plot | The Transparency controls are on corresponding tabs in Plot Details dialog.
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Independent Transparency of 2nd color in Gradient Fill | When user sets some pattern in graph to be gradient fill with two colors, for 2nd color, there is independent transparency control. This also applies to page and layer color with gradient fill. | |
Support line style customization for 3D vector graph | ||
Support highlight column in worksheet when highlighting plot on graph | Click on a plot in graph to select it, corresponding column is highlighted in workbook | |
Support Color list as Colormap Fill
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Support same symbol edge thickness no matter symbol size big or small (New in Beta4) | In the past in bubble graph, edge thickness is based on bubble size so the bigger the bubble, the thicker the edge. In Origin 2019b, a checkbox Scale by Symbol Size is added to control it. | |
Blank circle in the middle of Polar graph (New in Beta4)graph | On Scale tab of Redial axis, there is a Center at % box. Set it can add circle from center of polar. | |
Showing Date and Time profile label in Contour Profile | If user's contour profile has X or Y axis with date or time, profile label will show so. In the past, Julian date was displayed. | |
Updated Tick Label Custom Display examples when combining multiple @options | ||
Better handling of data point on the edge of layer frame | By default Clip Data to Frame is checked so data points outside layer frame are not be plotted. But this causes issue such as symbol, error bar and data labels on the edge of layer frame will show in half, error bar show in half or not showing. We improved it so that if the center of the point is around the edge of layer frame, show the data point, error bar and data label in full. System variable @PEC=0 by default. Set it to 1 to roll back to old behavior of strict clipping. |
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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)faster | 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)Origin | 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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JIRA | SUMMARY | DETAILS |
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Better support of doing fitting or peak analysis (including related gadgets) on Y offset plot. | In the past, if user plot stacked lines with Y offset and then do fitting, the fitted curves are not stacked and stay with original plot. Improved in Origin 2019b. | |
Adjust height of worksheet label row for output columns | After analysis is done, there are long column comments long names in output columns. In the past, we auto resized the column width to fit such info. In Origin 2019b, by default we adjust height of column label row to avoid very wide output columns. Use @RCW=1 to rollback the old behavior. | |
Peak Analyzer: Support output baseline subtracted peaks information after Finding Peaks (New in Beta4)Peaks | Before Origin 2019b, the peak center result didn't have option to subtract baseline. A checkbox Output Baseline Subtracted Peaks is added on last page. | |
ORG-19679 | Peak Analyzer: Report Baseline Mode in Notes node (New in Beta4) | |
Peak Analyzer: Add Hints tab in Fit Control dialog (New in Beta4)dialog | On Fit Peaks page of Peak Analyzer, if user click Fit Control button. There is Hint tab on bottom panel to help user customize settings. | |
Support 1.5, etc. in Multiple of SD in Mask Cells by Condition dialog | In the past, when choosing Condition as Outliers by Std. Deviation, the Multiple of SC can only be integers. | |
Show All Info in One Label for Vertical Cursor | Use the button to toggle showing all info. in one label or individual labels. | |
Compare two vertical cursors (New in Beta 4)cursor | Use the button to add or remove 2nd vertical cursor. | |
Cluster Gadget.: X at Min Y, X at Max Y, Y at Min X, Y at Max X are supported. (New in Beta 4) | In the past, depending doing statistics on X or Y, we only show the min and max values. In Origin 2019b, corresponding x or y info also shows. | |
ORG-19337 | Statistics Gadget: More outputs: besides x at min/max y, SE, confidence bands, percentiles are supported as well. (New in Beta 4) | |
Integration Gadget: Set significant digits (New in Beta 4) | Integrate gadget: Change the number of significant figures showing on top of the ROI box and output to Script window/Results Log | |
Support Censor Mark in Survival Plot | Choose menu Statistics: Survival Analysis: Kaplan-Meier Estimator You can select to mark censored values on survival plot not | |
ORG-19777 | Improve Statistics results for some special NLFit types | For Nonlinear Multiple Dependent Variables Fitting, ANOVA table is improved. Before 2019b, ANOVA table in the report only shows the results for the first dataset(Dataset B in the following case). Now the result is improved and similar to Global Fit's result, DF and TSS should be total data. For the Nonlinear Fitting using Orthogonal Distance Regression, R-Square quantity is improved. Before 2019b, R-Squared value may always be 1 though the ODR fit is normal. It is caused by the inappropriate TSS. Now the R-Square should be more accurate as TSS calculation is improved as: TSS = sum( (y - ymean)^2) + sum( (x - xmean)^2) |
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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)improvements |
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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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Code Builder Improvements for Apps |
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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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Skip Reboot Dialog at end of QuietMode Install (New in Beta4) | In Config.ini file, QuietModeNoRebootDialog is added. If QuietMode and QuietModeNoRebootDialog are both set to 1, then after the end of installation, no Reboot PC page will show. QuietModeNoRebootDialog setting will be ignored if QuietMode isn't 1. |
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