The Orbeon Forms Blog

A little-known aspect of the design of the Orbeon Forms database schema1 is that writes to the database are non-destructive. In particular, Orbeon Forms keeps a history of the data associated with a form’s document id: The latest entry is called current data or current revision. Earlier entries are called... More

We usually don’t include new features in maintenance releases, but we couldn’t resist adding this one to Orbeon Forms 2023.1.3: the ability to export the Summary page data to Excel! The idea is simple: what you see in the Form Runner Summary page, including with sorting and filtering, and all... More

With Orbeon Forms 2023.1.3, we have made some improvements to Form Builder keyboard shortcuts. You might not know it, but Form Builder has had the following keyboard shortcuts for a while: Apple Shortcut Other Shortcut Action ⌘S ⌃S save ⌘X ⌃X cut ⌘C ⌃C copy ⌘V ⌃V paste ⌘Z ⌃Z... More

We just published the Orbeon Forms 2023.1.3 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

We are happy to announce the launch of the Orbeon Forms Newsletter! We recently realized that we didn’t have a great way to stay in touch with our users, evaluators, or people who are just curious about Orbeon Forms. We plan to send an update on average once a month,... More

Continuing with the theme of improving the form authoring experience, we have made a number of improvements to the settings dialogs in Form Builder. First, let’s review an existing feature: when focused in a form control cell in Form Builder, you can open its Control Settings with the Shift-Enter (⇧↵)... More

With Orbeon Forms, sections are a way to group related controls together, and to provide a visual and semantic structure to the form. This has been true with Orbeon Forms even if your form is very simple and contains a single section. The drawback was you had to provide a... More

Orbeon Forms’s grids allow for controls to be laid out in rows and columns. Orbeon Forms by default navigates grid cells by rows first, then by columns, that is, in reading order (for Western languages at least). Grid tab order by rows first Nothing prevents the user from filling out... More

We just published the Orbeon Forms 2023.1.2 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

Rationale There are multiple reasons why you might want to export form definitions and form data: Backup Back up your form definitions and form data. Analysis Analyze your form data outside of Orbeon Forms. Compliance Comply with regulations that require you to archive form data. Integration Integrate form data with... More