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Since Orbeon Forms 4.1, released two weeks ago, the labels and hints for forms you create in Form Builder can be more than just plain text: you can now use HTML in your labels and hints, right from Form Builder. For instance, this allows you to add formatting, as in... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 4.1, which introduces a few new features since 4.0.1: Form Builder Ability to enter HTML labels and hints in the builder (#870) Introduce a distinction between the 'read' and 'update' permissions (#806) Form Runner Proxy portlet: ability to configure forwarding of headers and parameters (#886)... More

Photo by Keoni Cabral Up to version 4.1, Orbeon Forms had a few configurable buttons to specify what happens with form data: The “Save” button saves data to the database. The “Submit” button saves data and shows a dialog after saving (with options to clear data, keep data, navigate to... More

Since Orbeon Forms 4.0, Form Builder provides a UI allowing form authors to define who can do what on the forms they create, once they are published. For each role, form authors can define which function users can perform. The functions are create, read, update, and delete (CRUD). In 4.0,... More

You often need to monitor HTTP requests, be it from your browser to the server, or from the server to backend services. You can setup Orbeon Forms to log the body of Ajax requests and responses, as well as the body of requests and responses Orbeon Forms makes to backend... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 4.1 M1, a milestone build for the upcoming Orbeon Forms 4.1 release. This is not a stable release. Here is the list of changes since 4.0.1: Form Builder Ability to enter HTML labels and hints in the builder (#870) Introduce a distinction between the 'read'... More

Photo by hide99 During the Orbeon Forms 4 development cycle, we released over 20 intermediate builds (including milestones, betas, and a release candidate - you can see them all here). More often than not, we released one build per week. We have found that doing so was extremely positive: It helps... More

We've written before about the importance of having a set of comprehensive unit tests for Orbeon Forms. For instance, we put in place the necessary infrastructure to test code in Scala back in 2011 and to test XML pipelines back in 2005. With this, every time a check-in is made,... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 4.0.1, a bug-fix and performance release. Here is the list of changes since 4.0.0: Form Builder Open/close state of existing sections is lost when inserting new sections (#177) Itemset editor: fixup label/value if needed (#830) Close large form sections upon load to improve performance (#838)... More

Say you created two forms with Form Builder: a contact form and a phone call form. In the phone call form, you use one of the fields to capture the name of the person you'll have a call with. Instead of using a text field, you'd like to have a... More