The Orbeon Forms Blog

Until Orbeon Forms 2016.3, there was only one way of controlling attachment constraints: via a single, global property. So you could say that that the maximum file attachment upload size was 100 MB, and that would apply to all attachments in all forms. The upcoming Orbeon Forms 2017.1 provides a lot... More

With Form Builder, form authors can define permissions for the form they are creating. Permissions can depend on: The user's role, for instance: "any user with the role admin can delete data". The user being the one who initially created the data, also known as owner, for instance: "owners can... More

Orbeon Forms has had a Java embedding API since version 4.7. This allows you to embed a form within a Java web application, including from a JSP page. Starting Orbeon Forms 2016.3,  in addition to published forms, you can also embed Form Builder in the same way: just use orbeon and... More

Many forms don’t live in a vacuum: they require communicating with the outside world to help the user enter data. The items of a selection control such as a dropdown list might come from a central database, for instance. Orbeon Forms PE provides a way to do this via HTTP... More

We just made it: today we released Orbeon Forms 2016.3, the third and last major release of Orbeon Forms for 2016! This release introduces several important features and enhancements. Major features and enhancement Support for organizations This release introduces support for the notion of organizations. An organization can be a... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 2016.2.2 PE. This update to Orbeon Forms 2016.2 PE contains bug-fixes and is recommended for all Orbeon Forms 2016.2 PE and Orbeon Forms 2016.2.1 PE users. Specifically, this release addresses the following issues: Form Builder Section/Grid Settings for repeated grid: can uncheck readonly checkbox (#2890) Form Runner... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 2016.1.1 PE. This is an update to Orbeon Forms 2016.1 PE which contains bug-fixes and important security fixes and is recommended for all Orbeon Forms 2016.1 PE users. Please note that this release is separate from the recently-released Orbeon Forms 2016.2.1 PE, which contains all these fixes and... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 2016.2.1 PE. This update to Orbeon Forms 2016.2 PE contains bug-fixes and important security fixes and is recommended for all Orbeon Forms 2016.2 PE users. Specifically, this release addresses the following issues: Form Builder FB: Cut & Paste client side errors related to 'fb-static-upload-empty' control ID (#2935)... More

When using a relational database, Orbeon Forms supports versioning of form definitions. This means that you can publish multiple versions of a form known by its name (like the “ACME Order Form”). Data captured by, say, version 1 of the form can be viewed and edited with that version of... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 2016.2! This release features several important features and enhancements. Major features and enhancements New indexes for relational database performance If you're using a relational database and rely on summary pages or the search API, this change will drastically improve the performance of those operations. If... More