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High-Availability Thanks to State Replication

Orbeon Forms has supported load balanced and failover configurations for a long time. This allows you to ensure that if a server fails, a user can still access her forms. But until now, users with active sessions could lose work [1] as form state was stored in memory on the... More

Orbeon Forms 2017.2.1 PE

Today we released Orbeon Forms 2017.2.1 PE. This update to Orbeon Forms 2017.2 PE contains bug-fixes and is recommended for all Orbeon Forms 2017.2 PE users. This release addresses the following issues: Form Builder Toolbar doesn't scroll properly with Firefox (#3438) Label disappears when clicking quickly (#3449) Large form no longer closes sections... More

New PE Gold Benefits and Perpetual Licenses Grandfathered

Today, we are announcing two changes to our PE subscriptions. New PE Gold benefits Customers with PE Gold subscriptions will have new benefits: 4 hour response time – In our support queue we will prioritize messages from PE Gold customers. As a result, as a PE Gold customer, you'll typically... More

Orbeon Forms 2017.2

Today we released Orbeon Forms 2017.2, the second and last major release of Orbeon Forms in 2017! This release introduces several major features and enhancements which should help form authors and form users be more productive! Major features and enhancement More flexible form layout With Form Builder, all form controls... More

New Orbeon Forms 2017.2 feature: undo and redo

Some Form Builder actions can have important consequences. For example, you can delete an entire section, or delete a control with carefully crafted validations. Up until Orbeon Forms 2017.1, Form Builder asks you to confirm certain big operations, but not all. Further, even once you have accepted the operation, the changes... More

Lease on documents

When two users have permission to edit the same instance of form data (also known as a document), there is a chance that they might inadvertently overwrite and lose changes done by another user. This situation is illustrated by the diagram on the right. Say a first user, Homer, loads a... More

Orbeon Forms 2017.1.1 PE

Today we released Orbeon Forms 2017.1.1 PE. This update to Orbeon Forms 2017.1 PE contains bug-fixes and security enhancements and is recommended for all Orbeon Forms 2017.1 PE users. This release addresses the following issues: Form Builder Fix for label in repeated grid showing above control and in table header FB includes both... More

Orbeon Forms 2017.1

Today we released Orbeon Forms 2017.1, the first major release of Orbeon Forms in 2017! This release introduces several important features and enhancements. Major features and enhancement Liferay 7/DXP support This version introduces initial Liferay 7/DXP support for the Form Runner proxy portlet. See the documentation for details. Orbeon Forms Running in Liferay... More

Orbeon Forms 2016.3.1 PE

Today we released Orbeon Forms 2016.3.1 PE. This update to Orbeon Forms 2016.3 PE contains bug-fixes and is recommended for all Orbeon Forms 2016.3 PE users. This release addresses the following issues: Form Builder Image Annotation listed twice in the Form Builder sidebar (#3181) Explanatory text overwrites rich text (#3161) Form Runner Fixes... More

More flexible email senders and recipients

Orbeon Forms allows you to send email, typically as part of a simple form data submission process: the user activates a “Submit” button, the data is saved or delivered to a service, and a confirmation email is sent to the user, a third-party, or both. Email recipients are determined either... More