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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

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

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

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