The Orbeon Forms Blog

Keyboard navigation in Form Builder We have been regularly adding keyboard shortcuts to Form Builder. Keyboard shortcuts are very useful for power users, as they allow you to keep your hands on the keyboard to create, edit, and navigate a form under construction. For all the details, see Keyboard shortcuts.... More

We just published the Orbeon Forms 2024.1.1 PE maintenance release! For details, see the release notes. You can download the latest version of Orbeon Forms from the downloads page. We hope you enjoy this release! More

Workflow stage Orbeon Forms supports the notion of a workflow stage, which allows you to track the progress of a form through a multistep workflow. Workflow stages might be “submitted”, “approved”, “rejected”, and so on. Orbeon Forms 2024.1 introduces some new features related to the workflow stage. Searching by workflow... More

We just published the Orbeon Forms 2023.1.7 PE maintenance release! For details, see the release notes. You can download the latest version of Orbeon Forms from the downloads page. We hope you enjoy this release! More

Orbeon Forms features many PDF-related features. In this post, we go over the different options available to produce and use PDF files with Orbeon Forms. Examples of PDF files Automatic PDF The automatic PDF generation is built-in: you don’t have to do anything to activate it. In general, the end-user... More

With Orbeon Forms 2024.1, we are introducing a new feature: form templates! This includes: the ability to create form templates in Form Builder; the ability to create a new form in Form Builder from one of the available templates. The “New Form” dialog now starts by presenting a grid of... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 2024.1 PE and Orbeon Forms 2024.1 CE! For details, see the release notes. You can download the latest version of Orbeon Forms from the downloads page. We hope you enjoy this release! More

We just published the Orbeon Forms 2023.1.6 PE maintenance release! For details, see the release notes. You can download the latest version of Orbeon Forms from the downloads page. We hope you enjoy this release! More

Formulas appear in many places in Orbeon Forms, including: for initial and calculated values for showing and hiding form controls for validating form controls and more! Like in a spreadsheet, a formula often references other form control values. With Orbeon Forms, this is done with a “variable” notation using the... More

By default, Orbeon Forms places form controls fairly close to each other: the reason for this behavior is that Orbeon Forms is designed to handle large forms, and placing controls close to each other allows you to fit more controls on a single page. However, there are cases where you’d... More