Origin 2017 Graphing Miscellaneous

Plotting Customization

JIRA	SUMMARY	DETAILS
ORG-15071	Better color scheme for graph system theme	We have used our default black, red, blue, green color scheme for many versions. Some users felt the default are not good. A new system theme Candy Colors & Light Grids is created so when plotting common 2D graphs, e.g. line, scatter, line+symbol, column/bar, box chart, etc. the new color scheme will be used. Note: All 3D graphs and some 2d graphs don't allow system theme to override so when plotting those, it will still use the old color scheme and color palette.
ORG-14593	Map symbol size to an expression of a column	Sometimes the values in Size Column are very similar and user can't see the size difference. E.g. all are big values, etc. With Size formula, user can specify some math expression based on values in Size column.
ORG-13699	Control how each plot attributes increment in subgroups of a group plot
ORG-14444 S1	Dropline Direction Control in 2D and 3D graphs
ORG-14518	Provide none color for border line	Add option to select none color for border line
ORG-14637	Adjust sub-group spacing between subgroups of stacked column plot
ORG-14396	Hide left symbol part in Legend via context menu
ORG-13413	Histogram Plot with Bin Counts or Percentage as Labels	Label tab is added in Plot Details dialog turn show Count, Percentage of both for Histogram plot.
ORG-14280	Statistical bar support for Box Chart	Box chart can be plotted as statistical bars + data. See Box tab in Plot Details dialog. In plot_gboxindexed dialog, add a Graph Theme: Box_Mean Bar with SE with setting as Type = Bar + Data Overlap, Bar Represent = Mean and Error Bar Range = SE.
ORG-10621	Support hatching in contour plots for geologists, geophysicists, civil engineers and more fill patterns are added	In Plot Details dialog, Geology fill patterns are added in GUI as well as more normal patterns. Users are able to customize different hatching in contour plots, pie charts or area plots.
ORG-14620 S2, S3	GUI for new patterns	User can ship his own patterns to specified folder of User Files Folder, then the patterns will be shown at the end of the build-in pattern list. Two system values are added to control offset factor - @PGXOF: Pattern Geology Scale X Offset Factor(Multiple factor), @PGYOF: Pattern Geology Scale Y Offset Factor(Multiple factor)
ORG-14903, ORG-14773	Connect mean points, data points or other percentiles
ORG-15033	Add AutoX as a fly-out option for Input:X in Plotting dialog	For some plot types, Origin will open a dialog first for user to specify input and settings before plot is made. E.g. Trellis Plot, Stacked Plot, Grouped Column Plot - Index Data, etc. In Input node, user can specify X to be <autoX> if user wants to plot against row indexing
ORG-13552	Allow users to change the line color for Line Series plot	Improve Line Series plot to allow users to change the line color.
ORG-12765	Support Error Bars with Fill Area in Polar Chart
ORG-13835	Support color mapping for inclusive broken option	Fill Area now works for both inclusive and exclusive broken if have modifier.
ORG-14760	Improvements for Box plots customization.	Improve auto coloring for lines inside box so that it will be shown as contract to the box fill color. Two new system variables are introduced: @BAC: (default 1) works just like @DLC @BACM: (default 1) to control the behavior of auto Add an option to adjust the length of box chart line.

Layer/Page Customization

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

ORG-14137

Easier way to push change layer drawing orders.

Context menu when right click layer icon or selected layer frame to
- Bring o Front
- Bring Forward
- Push Backward
- Push to Back
Buttons on Graph: Layer Management dialog.
Select a layer and click Back and Front buttons on Object Edit toolbar
Drag to move layer orders in Object Manager.

ORG-13470

Exchange XY of Linked Layers together

In the past, if user has linked layers, such as Double Y, Multi-Y, multi-panel graphs, etc., when click Graph: Exchange X-Y Axes, it only changes current layer's X-Y axes. They are exchanged together now.

ORG-13834

Support Fill to Grid Lines in Polar Contour

The default color fill setting for Polar Contour by Matrix is Fill to Contour Lines. Additional option is added as Fill to Grid Lines in Colomap/Contours tab

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Others

JIRA	SUMMARY	DETAILS
ORG-14265	Object Manager Improvements: Bold active dataset Context menu to set as active
ORG-14416	Better options for Merge Graphs	Enable Merge Graphs toolbar button when active window is workbook since user can merge embedded graphs in workbook. When Merge Type is Specified, enable ... button for for embedded graphs.
ORG-14565	Additional global custom legend format	For Plot Details and Updat Legend dialog, add 3 more entries as a separate group, when Translation mode of %1,%2 is set to Custom, to show the value of a praticular row or cell for each plot in the layer. @L,n: n-th X value; n in additional format @V,n: n-th Yvalue; n in additional format @WT,col,row: (row, col) cell value; col, row in additional format
ORG-5537	Simple consolidated Object Properties dialog for all graph objects	Properties dialog and Programming dialog are combined to a simple consolidated Object Properties dialog. Users are able to control transparency features of graph objects in Object Properties dialog. A new system variable is added to enable/disable old Object Properties/Programming dialog: @OPD: (0/1, default is 0), 0 to disable, non-zero to enable.
ORG-13876	Improvement of copying Multiple Graph Objects	Copying multiple graph objects where layer has Fixed Factor != 1 or Scale with Layer Frame (and layer resized) may cause the objects to loose their scaling in the previous version, that is fixed in Origin 2017.
ORG-14835	Add legend support for Connect Data Symbol	When user select Data in Box Chart Component and Connect Data Points, the Connect Line show with symbol in legend.
ORG-14397	Update for Legend Symbol Width(%)	Setting the Legend Symbol Width to 0% in Plot Details dialog (Legend/Titles tab), whole legend symbol will not be drawn.
ORG-14117	Improve debugging of Function plots	In both Function plot dialog and Function tab of Plot Details dialog of a function plot, undefined variable will be indicated in red. In addition, underline will be added to script when it interrupts. In Y(x) dialog, add a Preview section that shows a table with two columns showing the actual XY values.
ORG-14899 S2	Batch plotting allow lower level meta element	Extend the batch plotting with option to duplicate plots from specified source.
ORG-15389	Update default speed mode threshold for 2D and 3D data	Increase the default speed mode threshold for key templates.
ORG-16104	Add an option to control the start of leader line of the label	For labels generated by label tab, we can change the gap between symbol and the start of leading line by "set %C -gtl 0".