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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.

APPS-918

Create taylor diagram for facilitating the comparative assessment of different models.

Taylor Diagram app is capable of creating taylor diagram for facilitating the comparative assessment of different models.

• Download Taylor Diagram app from the page and install the app.

• Activate a worksheet with reference data selected, then click the app icon in the Apps gallery window, then a dialog will be brought up, and then choose test data, and set correlation coefficient range, and click OK button to create Taylor diagram.

APPS-931

Create 3D polar strain map plot.

3D Polar Strain Map app can be used to create 3D polar strain map graph.

Download 3D Polar Strain Map app from the page and install the app.

This app requires four input columns: time, angle, depth and strain. And groups for time, angle and depth must be balanced.

Operation:

1. Select columns for Time, Angle, Depth, and Strain.

2. In the Settings branch, set Numbers of Depths to Plot, adjust Minimum and Maximum in Strain Range in Colormap, and set Transparency.

3. Click OK button. A 3D polar graph will be created.

ORG-21934

Unicode Symbol for scatter plot

Enter unicode number to show unicode symbols in scatter plots

Enter Unicode for symbol in Plot Details dialog

ORG-21293

Lollipop Plot

Lollipop Plot added to connect corresponding rows vertically or horizontally

• Plot → Basic 2D → Lollipop Plot

• In Plot Details → Drop lines, tab, Drop to Next Data Plot

• The line color can be customize to change depending if it’s above or below baseline.

ORG-21325, ORG-21345, ORG-21204

Browser Graph -> Stack

Stacked Browser to plot stacked graphs based on grouping information in column label rows with interactive buttons on the left manipulate plots

• Plot: Browser: Stack… menu to plot stack graph grouped by metadata, e.g. Long name, units, etc.

• Select plots on browser panel will select plots with same name in each layer

ORG-22072

Flip through sets of plots

In Browser Graph user can now defined subset and flipping through

• Add Filp Through dialog to display a set of n plots at a time.

ORG-16883

Specialized - > Compass Plot, Polar Vector

Two graph types added: Polar Vector and Compass Plot.

vector plot in polar coordinates

Plot: Specialized: Polar vector, Compass Plot.

ORG-22000

Chord Diagram

Plot: Categorical: Chord Diagram

Plot: Categorical: Chord Diagram, Chord Diagram with Ratio Layout after Alluvial, in Plot menu: Categorical tab.

ORG-22114

Improvements on Row-wise Plot

Row-wise Plot can now follow categorical order and the data can be filtered

• Plot Order control to follow categorical order in source data

• Get Filter information from source data

ORG-22262

Sankey Node Order follow Data Order

Nodes in Sankey plot can now follow Data Order

We add Order by Data checkbox in Node tab, put it in Position group, on the right of alignment option. Select it should just use node order in data to decide node order.
1. when there is no Name column (input is 2 or 3 columns), we use link order in first 2 column to decide node order
2. when there is Name column(input is 4 columns), we use data order in 4th column, If this name column is set as categorical, then we could use categorical order.

ORG-21621

Easier layer reordering for Double-Y graph

the layers in a Double-Y graph can be reordered without breaking linking.

In older vserions layer reordering usually broke the linking but starting with 2021, the layers in a Double-Y graph can be reordered without breaking linking.

ORG-20942

Main Menu Rework

Social menu is added before Help menu, Help menu reorganization

1. App Center menu is moved under Tools main menu.

2. Training Videos, Graph Gallery and Open Folder: Sample Folder are added under Help main menu.

3. Help: View Origin Info menu is removed.

4. Social main menu is added:

5. 

ORG-21600

HTML Report Ease of Use

Some menus added related to HTML report

1. Added “Add HTML Report“ to worksheet tab context menu.

2. Added a number of shortcut menu items under the HTML menu

   

ORG-22434

Copy Notes Window within or across sessions

Copy Notes Window within or across sessions

• Right click a Notes window title bar and choose Copy

• Right click Notes window in Project Explorer and Copy.

Then in another running instance of Origin, Ctrl+V to paste such Notes window in current folder.

Labtalk command

note.copy();// copy the active Note window to clipboard

win -n notes __clip__ //create a new Note window from the content of the clipboard_ //create a new Note window from the content of the clipboard

ORG-12329

Set Project Protection in Save Project As dialog

Protect Project… button in Save Project As dialog

In the past, user had to use Tools: Protection: Protect Project… to set password.

Then save project to

In Origin 2021, user can set protection password from File: Save Project As… dialog.

Image Added

Group data according to periodic date/time range using specified statistical value.

Periodic Report app is capable of grouping data according to periodic date/time range using specified statistical value.

• Download Periodic Report app from the page and install the app.

• With a worksheet window activated, click the app icon to bring up the dialog.

  1. Choose Input columns for grouping, and date/time column for periodic calculation.

  2. Select how to merge the input columns, including 1st point, last point, mean, sd, mean and sd, min, max, sum, and count.

  3. Change a start and end date/time accordingly, leave them Auto if you want to cover all the data.

  4. Consider the period for grouping you want, including second, minute, hour, day, month, quarter and year.

  5. For day period, you can also specify how many days as a period.

  6. If you have included prior periods, the result will not be merged for the same period in different "parent". For example, the period you choose is month, if not include prior periods, then all data in each month, Jan. for example, will be merged, but it does not care about the years. If include prior periods, Jan.'s data is merged by year, but not all years together.

  7. If there are some other columns need specific consideration, you can include other columns to handle them.

  8. Specify where to output the result, and then click OK button.

APPS-936

Perform neural network fitting using Python.

Neural Network Regression App fits data with neural network backpropagation.

• Download Neural Network Regression app from the page and install the app.

• Operation

1. Activate a worksheet or a graph. Click the App icon to bring up the dialog.

2. On Input Data tab, select single or multiple datasets for Independent Variables and specify Dependent Variable by selecting a single dataset.

3. On Options tab, change settings to fit a neural network.

4. On Quantities and Plots tab, choose which quantities and plots to output.

5. On Prediction tab, you can select a range of independent data to predict the response with the fitted neural network.

6. Click OK to output reports.

APPS-917

Perform detrended correspondence analysis.

Detrended Correspondence Analysis App can be used to perform detrended correspondence analysis (DCA). It is a multivariate method that corrects for the major problems (the arch effect and compression of the ends of the gradient) of Correspondence Analysis.

• Download Detrended Correspondence Analysis app from the page and install the app.

• Operation

1. Click App icon to open the dialog.

2. Select data for sites and species.

3. Customize DCA parameters.

4. Click OK to output report sheets.

APPS-566

Use the apparent values for integration according to the current axis scales.

Apparent Integration App calculates apparent integral in Cartesian and polar coordinates according to the current axis scales.

• Download Apparent Integration app from the page and install the app.

• Operation

1. Activate a graph window. Click the App icon to open the dialog.

2. Choose area type from Mathematical Area and Absolute Area.

3. Click OK.

APPS-726

Find solutions that minimize or maximize a function defined in a worksheet's cell.

Optimization Solver app can be used to find solutions that minimize or maximize a function defined in a worksheet's cell. It can also be used for curve fitting by defining the residual sum of squares as the target function for minimization.

Download Optimization Solver app from the page and install the app.

Operation:

1. Highlight the Objective Function cell in the worksheet. Launch the app.

2. Drag and drop columns for Initial Values and Solution.

3. In the Settings branch, choose target, method, bounds and iteration options.

4. Click OK button. Results in the worksheet and graph will be updated.

APPS-788

Rank multiple fitting functions by their fit reports.

Rank Models by Fit Reports app can be used to rank fitting functions by fit reports. It can find the optimal model by AIC, BIC, Adj. R-Square, Reduced Chi-Sqr or Residual Sum of Squares.

Download Rank Models by Fit Reports app from the page and install the app.
Operation:

1. Choose Number of Models to Compare. Click OK button.

2. In the pop-up Choose Fit Reports dialog, click Browse button on the right of each Report edit box. Click OK button.

3. A summary report will be created. The optimal model by BIC is marked in red color. You can also select another column and sort worksheet to find the best model by other methods.

APPS-896

HTML Report Assistant

HTML Report Assistant app

• Download HTML Report Assistant app from the page and install the app.

• This propose of HTML Report Assistant app is to to help you edit a report according to HTML syntax in Notes window. You can get a nice table without touching the CSS part.

ORG-22170

Moving Average Functions NANUM (Missing value) Ignore or Zero Issues

Moving Average Functions NANUM (Missing value) Ignore or Zero Issues

Support different ways to treat missing value in the following functions: movavg, tmovavg and movcoef.

New option “missing“ is introduced:

• 0: omit missing values from the calculation by default which is same as before

• 1. include missing values in the calculation

• 2. omit missing values from the calculation, but keep missing in the output

ORG-21947

Improvement on Operation Lock tooltip

Improved info. shows when mousing over the green lock

• Shows input data range.

• Shows with better data range info.

• Shows main range info instead for secondary lock.

• Change background color of tooltip for locks on worksheet for better visualizing.

• For Set Column Value operation, shows formula and input range info in tooltip. And when user select the F(x) cell, the before formula script will be shown in the status bar if exists.

ORG-21848, ORG-3958

Range String Builder dialog updates

Makes it easier to build output range

Clearer labels and contexts, update menu entry name as Custom...

ORG-21642

Average Multiple Curves with Different X Ranges Issue

No extrapolation added when averaging multiple curves

Adding new option “No Extrapolation”:

1. Only available when Averaged X is set to Full X Range, Custom, and Follow Curve Trace.

   1. Determines whether to extrapolate the curves when the input curves have different X ranges.

ORG-22287

Set Sampling Interval in average multiple curves result

If all input Y has same sampling interval, no seperate X column will be created

If source data's sampling interval is all the same (including name and unit), then result column will set with sampling interval instead of output an X column.

ORG-19877

Support set sampling interval on locked columns

Support set sampling interval on locked columns

Allow set sampling interval on locked column now.

ORG-21964

Peak Analyzer default theme setting changes

Enable Linear Constraints Status and Constraints are checked by default

2 choices Enable Linear Constraints Status and Constraints change to check by default

ORG-22091

GCAS function has no abs

abs in the GCAS function is not necessary and so it’s removed now.

abs in the GCAS function is not necessary and so it’s removed now.

ORG-17275

Support Open Book(s) buttons from Summary Sheet when Data Source is set to Use Existing Data

Buttons on summary sheet will also work if the Data source is Use Existing Data in batch processing

There were Open Book, Reprocess and Update buttons in summary sheet created by Batch Processing only if Data Source was Import from Files in the past. Now there are also such buttons if Data Source is set to Use Existing Data.

ORG-22119

Vertical Cursor supports side by side layers

In the past, Vertical cursor only worked for layers stacked vertically in same graph. Now it will work for layers even on the left or right side

Linked Cursor for Each Layer button is added in Vertical Cursor tool to add vertical cursor at same X position for all layers in current graph.

ORG-22218

Pre-ship Fitting Function Library App and show it in appropriate tools

In Fitting Function Builder and NLFit dialog, there is Fitting Function Library link to download extra fitting functions provided by our website.

Choose Tools: Fitting Function Builder… menu. There is link to open the App

• Click Search button in Nonlinear Curve Fit dialog and search some non-existing function e.g. crossWLF. It will show hint to open Fitting Function Library App for more functions.

ORG-22216

Need consistent way for date time data in grouping variable

Improved tools that support group column with date time data so the output will be sorted by meaningful week, month, quarter, etc. order.

• When display julian date as Month format, date value with same Month will be considered as same group.

• Support sort result column by a internal order depends on Date format.

  • 10 (the 5th one, day): 1 to 31

  • Fri (the 6th one, day of week ): Monday to Sunday, Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

  • Jul (the 17th one, month display): January to December, Jan, Feb,...,Dec

  • Q3 (the 19th one, quarter display), Q1 to Q4

  • 2020 (the 8th one, year display): year ascending

• Set user-defined label in output result worksheet with correct date/time format setting.

Above rules will be applied in following tools,

• Pivot Table

• Unstack Columns

• plot_gindexed

• plot_gboxindexed

• plot_bygroup

ORG-21086

Support import data to embedded matrix sheet with data connector when batch processing

Allow importing data directly into embedded matrix imported by data connector in worksheet during batch processing

origin support importing data to embedded matrix sheet since Origin2018b, but not support if matrix data is imported by data connector. we improve this to make it more applicable.

note: drag and drop data or image to opened analysis template is also improved.