The Orbeon Forms Blog

We regularly observe usage patterns reported by Orbeon Forms users. One pattern that comes frequently is support for what is traditionally called a master-detail view. For example, you first enter a list of initial information (the master), as shown in the following screenshot. "Master" view Later in the form, for example... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 2018.2, the second and last major release of Orbeon Forms in 2018! This release is packed with new features and enhancements which should help form authors and form users be more productive. Major features and enhancement Simple data migration Orbeon Forms 2018.2 introduces a new... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 2018.1.3 PE. This update to Orbeon Forms 2018.1 PE contains bug-fixes and is recommended for all Orbeon Forms 2018.1 PE users. This release addresses the following issues since Orbeon Forms 2018.1.2 PE: Form Runner: Properly handle showing dialog and setting focus on page load (#3792)... More

Form Runner can produce PDF files in two ways: Automatically. The PDF is produced based on the appearance of the form in your web browser. This is similar to printing a read-only version of your form. See also Automatic PDF. From PDF templates. You upload one or more PDF files... More

Orbeon Forms can send emails, typically as part of a “Send” or “Submit” process. [1] Such emails can contain text and attachments, including a PDF version of the form filled by the user. So far, while Orbeon Forms offered quite a bit of flexibility as to the recipients of the... More

If you have ever worked with a spreadsheet such as Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets, you know that values that depend on each other update automatically when you make changes. This is also a feature often requested in forms, where you might have calculations such as totals that depend on... More

In Orbeon Forms 2017.2, in Form Builder, we started using a web technology called CSS grid layout. This gave us a modern and solid foundation to implement new grid-related features in Form Builder. We already leveraged that new foundation in Orbeon Forms 2017.2 to switch to a 12-column layout. We... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 2018.1.2 PE. This update to Orbeon Forms 2018.1 PE contains bug-fixes and is recommended for all Orbeon Forms 2018.1 PE users. This release addresses the following issues: JavaScript error with mirrorContainer (#3758) Copy/paste of control with multiple alerts is done incorrectly (#3737) Copy/paste fr:explanation doesn’t... More

A form field typically has an associated label which indicates what the field is about. For example “Name” or “Street” or “Comments”. Usually, labels are defined once in for all for a given language. But there are cases where it is useful to allow those to change dynamically, depending for... More

Managing change is difficult and forms are no exception. For example, you might make a form available to users, and they start entering data. But then you realize that you need to capture just a bit more information than you had initially thought. So what do you do? You go... More