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Introduction Following up on the new SSN and EIN form controls discussed in our previous post, we are now introducing two additional form controls for ISIN (International Securities Identification Number) and LEI (Legal Entity Identifier) in Orbeon Forms 2024.1.2. These will be very useful for government forms and enterprise forms,... More

Introduction For government forms and enterprise forms in particular, having form controls for US Social Security Numbers (SSN) and US Employer Identification Numbers (EIN) is often a requirement. While you could create your own field with custom validation before, with Orbeon Forms 2024.1.2, we are introducing built-in new form controls... More

Orbeon Forms supports PDF templates. This feature requires mapping form fields to PDF fields. To achieve this, until now, you had to name the fields in the PDF to match the Form Runner fields. With Orbeon Forms 2024.1.2, the “Control Settings” dialog is enhanced to let you set a custom... More

We are regularly profiling and optimizing Orbeon Forms. With Orbeon Forms 2024.1, in particular, we: improved page loading times by removing overhead in our internal page router (#6547) added database indexes to speed up form publishing and other operations (#5689) added paging support for the form metadata API, which improves... More

We just published the Orbeon Forms 2022.1.9 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

Keyboard navigation in Form Builder We have been regularly adding keyboard shortcuts to Form Builder. Keyboard shortcuts are very useful for power users, as they allow you to keep your hands on the keyboard to create, edit, and navigate a form under construction. For all the details, see Keyboard shortcuts.... More

We just published the Orbeon Forms 2024.1.1 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

Workflow stage Orbeon Forms supports the notion of a workflow stage, which allows you to track the progress of a form through a multistep workflow. Workflow stages might be “submitted”, “approved”, “rejected”, and so on. Orbeon Forms 2024.1 introduces some new features related to the workflow stage. Searching by workflow... More

We just published the Orbeon Forms 2023.1.7 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 features many PDF-related features. In this post, we go over the different options available to produce and use PDF files with Orbeon Forms. Examples of PDF files Automatic PDF The automatic PDF generation is built-in: you don’t have to do anything to activate it. In general, the end-user... More