The Orbeon Forms Blog

In forms parlance, a required field is a field which must contain a value, or else the form will show an error and you won’t be able to save it or submit it. This is a pretty fundamental idea, and both XForms and HTML5 even include a way to mark... More

A while back, we explained how and why we greatly simplified the list of data types in Form Builder, and we wrote: We have reflected this in Form Builder by putting the decimal type at the top and the double type at the bottom, and we might even remove it... More

Orbeon Forms has a Number field which allows you to enter integer or decimal numbers, but until now this field didn’t particularly help users enter numbers efficiently on a smartphone or tablet without a physical keyboard. But we thought we could do better, since iOS has the ability to show... More

Orbeon Forms’s repeated sections and grids are powerful. For example they support adding, inserting, removing, and moving repeated content freely. But in some cases, users can prefer a simpler interface without all the bells and whistles. So repeated sections and repeated grids now support a minimal appearance, which you can... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 4.10.2 PE. This update to Orbeon Forms 4.10 PE and Orbeon Forms 4.10.1 PE contains bug-fixes and is recommended for all Orbeon Forms 4.10 PE users. Specifically, this release addresses the following issues on top of those addressed in 4.10.1: Form Builder Repeated fr:grid migration to 4.10... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 4.10.1 PE. This update to Orbeon Forms 4.10 PE contains bug-fixes and is recommended for all Orbeon Forms 4.10 PE users. Specifically, this release addresses the following issues: Form Runner Infinite loop with focus events on number control (#2387) Explicit commit/rollback for CRUD operations (#2430)... More

We recently implemented two improvements to repeated grids and repeated sections, which appear as two new options in the “Sections/Grid Settings” dialog: The Sections/Grid Settings dialog Initial values The new “Apply Initial Value Formulas when Adding Iterations” option specifies whether the “Initial Value” formulas apply to new fields when you... More

When you create a form, Form Builder encourages you to layout fields using multiple columns. This gives you more flexibility in: grouping fields in a logic way; making better use of the space available on the page. This works well on well on laptops, desktops, and tablets, but not so... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 4.10! The main user-visible feature is the introduction of responsive design for mobile devices such as smartphones. Form Builder also gets some nice enhancements. Major features and enhancements Form Builder Control appearance switcher. Form Builder now features a general-purpose mechanism to switch between control appearances: this... More

A while back, we had a customer with a production server exhibiting a curious problem: performance would start well after an application server restart, but over a few days, and sometimes over a single day under heavy load, response times would become longer, until the system would become unresponsive. Over... More