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With Orbeon Forms 2025.1.1, we have included two new form controls: The Timestamp control The IBAN control The Timestamp control is a simple readonly form control which allows showing an instant in time in the timezone of the user. Use cases include storing moments where a specific action happens, such... More

Orbeon Forms 2025.1 includes a new dark mode for the user interface. This covers the following pages: Landing page Summary page Detail page In addition, the Forms Admin and Published Forms pages are also available in dark mode. You can enable the dark mode by default, or follow the user’s... More

We just published the Orbeon Forms 2025.1.1 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

With Orbeon Forms 2025.1.1, we are introducing some significant improvements to page load performance, especially for forms with a large number of fields. Whenever a user hits a form URL, the form definition is loaded from the database and processed, and the form is then rendered in the browser. This... More

We just published the Orbeon Forms 2024.1.5 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

Form controls such as input fields and dropdowns have associated data that needs to be saved or submitted. With Orbeon Forms, this data is, by default, stored into elements in an XML document. However, there are form controls which never1 have associated data, specifically the following: Explanatory Text: This form... More

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

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

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

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