The Orbeon Forms Blog

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

PDF icon by Double-J Design In addition to saving data to a database, Orbeon Forms can submit (or send) data to external services. If you just want to send the captured data as XML, it is very easy: Add the built-in "Send" or "Submit" button Configure the URL of the... More

When using formulas or custom components with Orbeon Forms, there is often a need to access information about the current form, such as: What is the current form name? If this component currently running at design-time in Form Builder? Is the form in read-only mode? Is the form data currently valid? Is... More

When you create a form with Form Builder and use Orbeon Forms’ implementation of the persistence API for relational databases, data collected by the form at runtime is stored in a set of 4 generic predefined tables. The tables are generic in the sense that they are not form-specific. This has a... More