The Orbeon Forms Blog

We regularly add new APIs (application programming interfaces) to Orbeon Forms. Those fall into two categories: server-side (exposed as Java or HTTP) client-side (exposed as JavaScript) The client-side API so far exposes functions as: low-level XForms APIs higher-level Form Runner APIs With Orbeon Forms 2019.2, we introduced a new JavaScript Form Runner API to... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 2019.2.1 PE! This update to Orbeon Forms 2019.2 PE contains bug-fixes and is recommended for all Orbeon Forms 2019.2 PE users. For details, see the complete release notes. You can download the latest versions of Orbeon Forms from the downloads page. We hope you enjoy... More

Until version 2018.2, Orbeon Forms shipped with 3 “dropdown” components: A plain dropdown where the possible values were provided by the form author. A plain dropdown where the values were loaded from a service. An "autocomplete" that enabled users to type in the field to do a search, with Orbeon... More

The Excel import feature now supports importing date and time formats. Excel cells that contain values formatted as date/time, date, or time in the Excel spreadsheet are automatically converted to their respective ISO formats before being stored as form data. This makes them available in your form for viewing, editing, and... More

In Orbeon Forms 2017.2 we introduced the lease feature, which is useful in cases where you need to have multiple users edit the same form data, and want to ensure that only one user does so at a given time, this to avoid any risk of conflicts with concurrent edits. We... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 2019.1.1 PE! This update to Orbeon Forms 2019.1 PE contains bug-fixes and is recommended for all Orbeon Forms 2019.1 PE users. For details, see the complete release notes. You can download the latest versions of Orbeon Forms from the downloads page. We hope you enjoy... More

In Form Builder, when you add a Formatted Text Area field to a form, under the hood Orbeon Forms uses the TinyMCE library. For Orbeon Forms 2020.1, we've upgraded TinyMCE to version 5. TinyMCE 5 provides better accessibility, stricter WCAG 2.1 compliance, and more. While we were at it, we've... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 2019.2 PE and Orbeon Forms 2019.2 CE, our second and final major release of 2019! This release includes landscape PDF mode, fluid layout in the browser, and date/time support for the Excel import feature. We closed over 180 issues since Orbeon Forms 2019.1. For details,... More

Orbeon Forms works in part in the web browser (the “client”) and in part on the server. Both sides communicate together via HTTP and what is known as “AJAX”. Simply put, it’s a way to exchange information between both parties. Now it turns out that the client-side code related to this part... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 2018.2.4 PE! This update to Orbeon Forms 2018.2.3 PE contains bug-fixes and is recommended for all Orbeon Forms 2018.2.x PE users. For details, see the complete release notes. You can download the latest version of Orbeon Forms from the downloads page. We hope you enjoy... More