The Orbeon Forms Blog

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

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

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

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

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