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: Relative Data Source Path and Common Data Path:
CSV Connector: Many improvements have been made to this connector Context Menu for Connector Icon: This has new entries including Import All Sheets and Import all Books 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. Currently for beta4, this will show XML Connector as a new available connector for download. |
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: |
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 | 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. |
New in Beta4: Copy-paste workbook is new in Beta4 |
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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Ease of Use
JIRA | SUMMARY | DETAILS |
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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 |
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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 |
HTML field codes:
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ORG-19156 | Recently Used Fonts | Recently used fonts show on the top of the font dropdown list |
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. | |
ORG-19661 | 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 |
Graphing
JIRA | SUMMARY | DETAILS |
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Rugs Plot |
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Plot Heatmap from XY column or XYZ Columns | If XY columns is selected, Origin will do 2D binning and use Counts in 2D binning result to plot Heatmap. If XYZ columns are selected, Origin will do 2D binning and use means in 2D binning result to plot Heatmap. | |
Split Heatmap |
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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 | |
Add label on specified indices for Waterfall 3 – 3rd data point position 0 - end point | ||
Independent Transparency control for multiple patterns of one plot | The Transparency controls are on corresponding tabs in Plot Details dialog.
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Support search in Template library | User can type keyword in upper-right corner of Template Library dialog to search for user-defined graphing templates. | |
ORG-19327 | 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. |
ORG-19412 | 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. | |
ORG-19522 | 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. |
ORG-19536 | Allow moving axis titles to corners (vertices) of the ternary | |
Support line style customization for 3D vector graph | ||
Support 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. | |
Support highlight column when highlighting plot on graph | Click on a plot in graph to select it, corresponding column is highlighted in workbook | |
Show All Info in One Label for Vertical Cursor | Use the button to toggle showing all info. in one label or individual labels. | |
Support leader line to labels of 3D vector graph | ||
Add Include option for Common Display so adding layers, etc. will not affect existing layers. | ||
Support Color list as Colormap Fill
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Support same symbol edge thickness no matter symbol size big or small | 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. | |
ORG-19421 | 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. |
Improve plot assignment for stack plots and multiple Ys | 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. |
Import and Export
JIRA | SUMMARY | DETAILS |
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ORG-15634 | Data Connector | 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. |
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 Mulitple 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. |
Worksheet
JIRA | SUMMARY | DETAILS |
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Exclude Imported Data when Saving Project | With ANY data import (not just Data Connectors), user can opt to clear the imported data when saving project. This allows for your "analysis project" to stay small in size. You simply re-import the data, when needed, to perform further analysis
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ORG-18313 | Filtering Columns based on Column Label Row | Show worksheet in Column List View (Ctrl+W or View: Column List View). Then add filter to the column that corresponds to the column label row. You can then choose Ctrl+W to switch back to normal view. |
ORG-14328 | More ways to Split Columns | Split Columns by a reference column is supported in Origin 2019b. |
ORG-19072 | Use Column Short Name directly in Worksheet Query | To define conditions for worksheet query in the past, user had to use Alias in the past. In Origin 2019, user can directly use column short name. E.g. B="Drug 2" to find all rows with B column cell value "Drug 2" |
Extraction of worksheet rows by Random sampling | ||
Reduce by Group should support X as Corresponding X | When reduce data by group, user can set merge X by X of Min Y or Max Y. So the output X will be X value of found Y. | |
Support recalculation in Split Worksheet | Auto recalculation wasn't supported for Split Worksheet tool till Origin 2019b. |
Analysis
JIRA | SUMMARY | DETAILS |
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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. | |
ORG-19427 | Peak Analyzer: Support output after Finding 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 included in Notes node | |
Peak Analyzer: Add Hints tab in Fit Control 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. | |
ORG-19343 | 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. |
Cluster Gadget.: X at Min Y, X at Max Y, Y at Min X, Y at Max X are supported. | 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. | |
Integration Gadget: Set significant digits | Integrate gadget: Change the number of significant figures for the ROI box values |
Programming
JIRA | SUMMARY | DETAILS |
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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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ORG-19284 | New Object is wbook but can be abbreviated as wbk | |
ORG-19715 | Labtalk string function improvements |
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Installation and Licensing
JIRA | SUMMARY | DETAILED |
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Skip Reboot Dialog at end of QuietMode Install | 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. | |