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Form Runner produces automatic PDF files in US letter portrait format by default. It is possible, with custom CSS, to change that default, but this is not extremely convenient. With the upcoming Orbeon Forms 2019.2, you can set the PDF page size and orientation directly with the Form Builder Form... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 2019.1 PE and Orbeon Forms 2019.1 CE! This release is packed with new features and enhancements which should help form authors and form users be more productive, including non-repeated grid settings, renaming of control references in formulas, improved dropdowns, and much more. We closed over 180... More

In cases you need users accessing Orbeon Forms to be authenticated, if you decide to have that authentication done by your web container, the latter needs to be configured with: A login page, where users enter their username and password, which is then checked by the web container before it lets... More

Orbeon Forms 2018.2 introduced synchronized master-detail views. This is a powerful feature which helps form author and end-users alike deal with large forms. So far, however, all the repetitions of the details were presented on a single wizard page. If there is a lot of information to capture in each detail... More

Handling browser back and forward navigation has historically been difficult for web applications. [1] What should they do when the user activates the back and forward buttons? With plain old static web pages, the answer is easy: just show the page which is back or forward in the browser’s navigation... More

Repeated grids and sections in Orbeon Forms are already quite flexible. With Orbeon Forms 2018.2, we added a new option to allow making a number of repetitions frozen. Repeated grids and sections usually work as follows: At design time, the form author: creates a repeated grid or section and adds controls... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 2018.2.3 PE. This update contains bug-fixes and is recommended for all Orbeon Forms 2018.2 PE, Orbeon Forms 2018.2.1 PE and Orbeon Forms 2018.2.2 users. This release addresses the following 40 issues since Orbeon Forms 2018.2.2 PE: Security<ul> Remove YUI menu component for CVE-2010-4710 (#3972) Possible jackson-databind vulnerabilities... More

Orbeon Forms supports versioning of form definitions. However, the behavior of the Summary page did not properly reflect that in a useful fashion. Since Orbeon Forms 2018.2, when more than one form version is available, the Summary page now offers the user the choice of the version to access. This is important because different... More

In Orbeon Forms 2018.2.2 PE, we introduced the ability for you, as a form author, to mark form fields as encrypted at rest, by simply checking a checkbox in Form Builder. When doing so, with no additional effort, the values of those fields will, at all times, be encrypted in... More

With Orbeon Forms, some form controls have specific settings. For example, a Number field can be configured to show 2 digits after the decimal point. In the past, these settings could be configured in two ways: Using configuration properties, which could apply to a single form or or multiple forms. Using... More