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Securing web applications is always difficult and a moving target. Fairly recently, web browsers have started supporting the Content-Security-Policy HTTP header. This header is designed to help fight Cross Site Scripting (XSS) and data injection attacks. Content-Security-Policy is very configurable. Some organizations set that header to strict values which disallow... More

Since the early days of Form Builder, all form controls are placed within grids. The basic idea of a grid, of course, is to have rows and columns. Until Orbeon Forms 2017.1 included, with Form Builder, each grid could have from 1 to 4 columns [1]. Spanning rows in a... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 2017.2.2 PE. This update to Orbeon Forms 2017.2 PE contains bug-fixes and is recommended for all Orbeon Forms 2017.2 PE and Orbeon Forms 2017.2.1 PE users. This release addresses the following issues: Form Builder Collapsible section breaks editor icons (#3530) 5-column grid should be migrated to a better layout (#3594)... More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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