The Orbeon Forms Blog

This is the Orbeon Forms blog. Stay up to date with the latest releases and new features of Orbeon Forms!

Built-In Confirmation Page

A confirmation page is simply a page which shows after a form submission has completed. We have wanted to have a built-in confirmation page in Orbeon Forms for a long time, and with Orbeon Forms 2025.1, this is now available.1 We had two requirements for this feature: We wanted it... More

Orbeon Forms 2024.1.4 PE

We just published the Orbeon Forms 2024.1.4 PE maintenance release! For details, see the release notes. You can download the latest version of Orbeon Forms from the downloads page. We hope you enjoy this release! More

Orbeon Forms 2023.1.8 PE

We just published the Orbeon Forms 2023.1.8 PE maintenance release! For details, see the release notes. You can download the latest version of Orbeon Forms from the downloads page. We hope you enjoy this release! More

Orbeon Forms 2025.1 PE and CE

Today we released Orbeon Forms 2025.1 PE and Orbeon Forms 2025.1 CE! For details, see the release notes. You can download the latest version of Orbeon Forms from the downloads page. We hope you enjoy this release! More

Custom Form Runner modes

With Orbeon Forms, form data is presented in one of several modes, the main ones being: New mode: For creating new form data. Edit mode: For editing existing form data. View mode: For viewing form data in a read-only HTML format. PDF mode: For viewing form data as a PDF... More

Orbeon Forms 2024.1.3 PE

We just published the Orbeon Forms 2024.1.3 PE maintenance release! It contains more than 80 bug-fixes and some new features. For details, see the release notes. You can download the latest version of Orbeon Forms from the downloads page, or use our Docker images. We hope you enjoy this release!... More

Keyboard Shortcut Improvements in Form Builder

We’ve continued to expand our support for keyboard shortcuts in Form Builder. Here’s a summary of the enhancements we’ve made so far this year. Discoverability We’ve updated the Keyboard Shortcuts page to display all shortcuts in one place, along with the version in which each shortcut was introduced. In dialogs,... More

Duplicate browser tab detection

Introduction A little-known feature of web browsers is their ability to duplicate a tab. Say you have navigated through a few pages, but would like to branch off: this allows you to copy the tab, and navigate to different pages in each tab. Each tab has a copy of the... More

Making your form data safer by preventing overwrites

Users invest significant time and effort in filling out forms, so losing any data ranges from mildly annoying to catastrophic. As engineers, we often focus on technical failures that can cause data loss. What if a server running Orbeon Forms goes down? (Solution: clustering.) What if users experience intermittent connectivity... More

Orbeon Forms 2024.1.2 PE

We just published the Orbeon Forms 2024.1.2 PE maintenance release! It contains more than a hundred bug-fixes and some new features. For details, see the release notes. You can download the latest version of Orbeon Forms from the downloads page. We hope you enjoy this release! More