The Orbeon Forms Blog

Today we released Orbeon Forms 4.0 M5 (Milestone 5). Like 4.0 M4 and the previous milestones this is not a final release. In this build we have implemented the following improvements: Invalid controls in Form Builder do not prevent saving and publishing the form (#341). Orbeon Forms outputs the HTML 5 doctype by default... More

Your browser makes two types of HTTP requests to Orbeon Forms: Page requests, done to load your form, as an HTML page. Ajax requests, done after the form is loaded, in the background, to dynamically update the form as users interact with it. Since version 3.8, released in May 2010,... More

Photo by Juhan Sonin Nobody likes to see an application crash, but when it happens, it’s better to have useful information about what went wrong. A very long time ago, we implemented nicer stack traces in Orbeon Forms, but this did not transfer into nicer information in the server logs. Recently, with... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 4.0 M4 (Milestone 4). Like 4.0 M3, this is not a final release, but a preview release for those of you who want to see what’s coming up in 4.0 and send us feedback. In this release we have addressed a number of issues, including:... More

For every form field you create in Form Builder, you’ll be entering a label. And maybe, you’ll also enter a hint, typically a few words shown below the field, to provide more guidance for end users. When creating forms, you’ll be editing lots of labels and hints. So for Orbeon... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 4.0 M3 (Milestone 3). Like 4.0 M2, this is not a final release, but a preview release for those of you who want to see what’s coming up in 4.0 and send us feedback. In this release we have addressed a number of issues with... More

Image by John Trainor Orbeon Forms does pretty well with file uploads: in particular, it supports uploads in the background, repeated uploads, and allows you to process uploads with other controls and submissions. But file uploads are tricky business, with security implications. For example, you don’t want a web application... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 4.0 M2 (Milestone 2). Like 4.0 M1, this is not a final release, but a preview release for those of you who want to see what’s coming up in 4.0 and send us feedback. In this release we have fixed some important issues related to... More

Orbeon Forms focuses on making it easy for form authors to create and deploy forms, and for end users to fill out those forms. When you create and deploy a form with Form Builder, you get the URL of a new page for that form. You can point users to... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 4.0 M1 (Milestone 1). As the name implies, this is not a final release, but a release aimed at people who want to have a preview of what’s going to be in the upcoming 4.0 release and, hopefully, send us some feedback. Most features planned... More