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Wednesday, Dec 4, 2024
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Variable Completion in Formulas
Formulas appear in many places in Orbeon Forms, including: for initial and calculated values for showing and hiding form controls for validating form controls and more! Like in a spreadsheet, a formula often references other form control values. With Orbeon Forms, this is done with a “variable” notation using the...
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Thursday, Nov 21, 2024
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Form Density Setting
By default, Orbeon Forms places form controls fairly close to each other: the reason for this behavior is that Orbeon Forms is designed to handle large forms, and placing controls close to each other allows you to fit more controls on a single page. However, there are cases where you’d...
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Friday, Nov 8, 2024
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Playable Video Attachments
File attachments in Orbeon Forms As a quick review, Orbeon Forms supports the following file attachment form controls, available in the Form Builder toolbox: Attachment Type Description Static Image image attachment set by the form author Image Attachment 1 image attachment that can be uploaded and downloaded by the form user Single File Attachment a single...
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Wednesday, Oct 16, 2024
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The Form Builder Formulas Console
Forms that you create with Form Builder can use formulas. Most formulas are currently written “by hand” (not unlike Excel formulas). This means that they can, unfortunately, contain some errors. Some are caught by Form Builder when you write them, but some can only appear when you run the form....
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Thursday, Oct 10, 2024
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Orbeon Forms Docker Images
Behind the scene, on the server, Orbeon Forms is built as a Java web application. In order to install it on your own server, local or in the cloud, however, requires some fluency in technologies such as Java, Tomcat, and possibly relational databases. We have been wanting to make things...
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Wednesday, Oct 2, 2024
#Release
Orbeon Forms 2023.1.5 PE
We just published the Orbeon Forms 2023.1.5 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!
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Friday, Sep 13, 2024
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Orbeon Forms 2021.1.11 PE
We just published the Orbeon Forms 2021.1.11 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!
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Thursday, Sep 12, 2024
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Making sense of Form Runner Actions
Types of actions and processes Orbeon Forms comes with a few powerful options to perform complex operations on or with forms. These fall into two main categories: Actions: They run within a form while the user is working with the form. Simple Processes: They typically run in association with a...
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Friday, Sep 6, 2024
#Release
Orbeon Forms 2022.1.8 PE
We just published the Orbeon Forms 2022.1.8 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!
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Thursday, Aug 22, 2024
#Release
Orbeon Forms 2023.1.4 PE
We just published the Orbeon Forms 2023.1.4 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!
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