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Today we released the second Beta release of Orbeon Forms 4.0! Like 4.0 Beta and the previous milestone builds this is not a final release. In this release, we fixed a number of Internet Explorer issues (in particular for IE 7, which we don’t recommend to use but which we still... More

Today we released the first Beta release of Orbeon Forms 4.0! Like 4.0 M19 and the previous milestone builds this is not a final release. We have addressed lots of issues in this Beta release, covering Form Builder, Form Runner, Liferay support, and more. We also addressed a bunch of UI... More

Nowadays, almost everything uses Unicode, which supports a large (very large!) number of characters. Unicode assign a code (number) to each character, and in most cases this code is represented with: With UTF-16 when in memory (e.g. in Java and Windows since NT); With UTF-8 when sent over the wire.... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 4.0 M19 (Milestone 19). Like 4.0 M18 and the previous milestones this is not a final release. In this release, the following issues were addressed: Form Builder Copy/paste of control loses translation (#625) Enable XPath type annotations by default in Builder (#630) When creating a new... More

There are times when you'd like to create a service, want the service to be available publicly, and want to do this quickly, maybe for testing or for a demo you're putting together. In those cases, Google Apps Script might just be the solution you're looking for. As an example,... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 4.0 M18 (Milestone 18). Like 4.0 M17 and the previous milestones this is not a final release. In this release, the following issues were addressed: Form Builder Form Builder should use logo specified in oxf.fr.default-logo.uri (#616) Permissions dialog layout scrambled (#570) Hover over button doesn't show... More

One of the cool new features of Orbeon Forms 4.0 is the wizard view. By default with Form Runner all the form sections appear in the same page, on top of each other. If your form is large that means that you have to scroll to fill out the entire... More

Data persistence for forms created with Form Builder is done through a REST API. You can implement that API, or use one of the provided implementations. Orbeon’s implementation for relational databases, for now specifically MySQL and Oracle, always uses inserts instead of doing updates or deletes1. For this, tables have... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 4.0 M17 (Milestone 17). Like 4.0 M16 and the previous milestones this is not a final release. Due to the Thanksgiving break, M17 is a rather small update, but it happens to contain two important new bits: a new landing page for the Form Runner and... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 4.0 M16 (Milestone 16). Like 4.0 M15 and the previous milestones this is not a final release. In M16, we addressed the following issues: Form Builder FB: cut to clipboard fails if fr-form-binds id is missing (#579) FB: tabbing out of field reaches delete icon... More