Monday, May 6, 2013

Orbeon Forms 4.2 M1

Today we released Orbeon Forms 4.2 M1, a milestone build for the upcoming Orbeon Forms 4.2 release. This is not a stable release.

This release contains the following new features:

Form Builder

Ability to enter HTML labels in checkboxes and radio buttons itemsets.

Form Runner

More powerful buttons which allow specifying simple sequential processes to execute when the user presses a button (see this blog post).
Wizard view improvements including more flexible buttons placement.

Here is the complete list of changes since Orbeon Forms 4.1:

Form Builder

FB: Ability to enter HTML labels in checkboxes and radio buttons itemsets (#965)
FB: Test mode shows warning icon (#883)
Move/nicer "Edit Itemset" icon (#662)

Form Runner

Universal send button (#885)
Wizard: support navigation buttons alongside other buttons (#937)
Wizard: scroll to section top when changing sections (#964)
Wizard: option to place buttons under section (#958)
Property to configure the start date in the dropdown-date control (#954)
Localize dropdown-date in French (#955)
attachment.xbl hardcodes "Download" string (#949)
Proxy portlet header forwarding must not change header case (#891)
Move status icons to navbar (576bff4598)
Compatibility note: Alfresco support is removed in this version. If you have any interest, please contact us!

XForms engine

YUI wait_mask keeps being added (#957)
NPE in XFormsModelSchemaValidator on second page load (#951)
xxf:get-request-header('User-Agent') returning an empty sequence (#926)
XBL: share readonly inline instances (#969)
XPath dependencies: support AVT analysis (#972)
XPath dependencies: xxf:lang() and xxf:format-message() (69dfe25bb8)
xxf:r() function (#970)
Seeing message on the console: "Warning: Comparison of xs:untypedAtomic? to xs:integer will fail unless the first operand is empty" (#975)
Support xxf:expose-xpath-types on per-instance basis (3db9fb1510)
Lightweight syntax for HTML item labels (#945)