The Orbeon Forms Blog

Watch our latest video about how you can copy and paste choices to and from the clipboard in Form Builder. This allows you to manage choices in a more efficient way, for example to copy/paste them between different forms, or to and from a spreadsheet like Google Sheets or Excel:... More

We are excited to introduce the Form Builder MCP, a new way to build and edit Orbeon forms using AI agents, available since Orbeon Forms 2025.1.2 PE, released on June 23, 2026. An Agent-First Approach Rather than embedding a generic chat widget directly inside Form Builder, we implemented a Model... More

We just published the Orbeon Forms 2025.1.2 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

Many applications of forms require some kind of workflow. Orbeon Forms supports a rich set of features to implement workflows, with different user roles, email notifications, PDF generation, and more. Example of workflow For more, read our new documentation page on workflows. Enjoy! More

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