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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

Today we released Orbeon Forms 2018.2.2 PE. This update to Orbeon Forms 2018.2.1 PE contains bug-fixes and is recommended for all Orbeon Forms 2018.2 PE and Orbeon Forms 2018.2.1 PE users. This release addresses the following issues since Orbeon Forms 2018.2.1 PE: Form Runner: Regressions fixes Minimal repeated section - remove button doesn't... More

Orbeon Forms 2018.2 features new Date and Time form controls. The reason the controls are new is that we wanted to modernize the date picker on one hand, and add new features such as the ability to exclude certain dates from the date picker on the other hand. This would... More

Orbeon Forms 2018.2 introduce a new form control in the toolbox called Hidden Field. Now you might wonder why you would always hide a form field. There are two major use cases: Holding intermediary calculations:  If the control has a "Calculated Value" and/or "Initial Value" formula, it can be referred... More