TOP FEATURES SUMMARY - Beta2 (Jan 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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Sample URLs for testing Data Connector with web-based file: CSV: This blog has an example. HTML: Try wikipedia page such as: JSON: This blog has an example of importing web-based JSON file. |
Exclude Imported Data when Saving Project |
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Blog: http://blog.originlab.com/data-import/exclude-imported-data-when-saving-project |
HTML Reports |
| Blog: http://blog.originlab.com/publishing/creating-html-reports-and-documents-in-origin-2019b |
Copy-paste Folders | Copy an entire Origin Project Folder and paste it within the same project or even to another Origin session running on the same PC | Right-click on Folder/subfolder in Project Explorer and select Copy, or do CTRL-C and then CTRL-V |
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. |
Ease of Use
JIRA | SUMMARY | DETAILS |
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ORG-19441 | Menu Reorganization |
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Copy and paste folder 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. | |
ORG-13029 | 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. | |
ORG-19141 | Reorganization of some controls on Layer level of Plot Details dialog |
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Graphing
JIRA | SUMMARY | DETAILS |
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ORG-19581 | Rugs Plot |
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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 leader line to labels of 3D vector graph |
Import and Export
JIRA | SUMMARY | DETAILS |
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ORG-15634 | Data Connector | CSV, JSON, OPJ, OPJU files from web or computer. Exclude imported data when saving project to make project file size smaller. Reimport supported. |
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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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" |
Analysis
JIRA | SUMMARY | DETAILS |
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Adjust height of worksheet label row for output columns | After analysis is done, there are llong 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-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. |
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 |