The Orbeon Forms Blog

The two pillars of XForms debugging are the XForms inspector and the Orbeon log: The inspector, pictured below, allows you to see changes to your XForms instances right from your web browser, as you interact with the form. Logging is done on the server, to a file generally referred to... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 4.0 M10 (Milestone 10). Like 4.0 M9 and the previous milestones this is not a final release. We have addressed the following issues in this build: Form Runner Don't allow "dot" in app/form name in page flow PDF template: support output of file metadata for file attachments XForms engine... More

Photo by buschap Following up on changes making the upload control safer, we recently committed improvements to cryptography-related features within Orbeon Forms. Orbeon Forms doesn’t rely very much on encryption in the first place. That’s because a lot of information is created and stays on the server, without ever making it... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 4.0 M9 (Milestone 9). Like 4.0 M8 and the previous milestones this is not a final release. We have addressed the following issues in this build: Form Runner Not found error with noscript error summary (#405) Summary page: form title/description no longer shown (#408) Error summary uses improved "visited"... More

Photo by ladyvee9 Back when we started Orbeon we didn’t have to think too much about which technology to choose given our background: Java was cool then, it was king on the server, and we had worked with it before it even reached version 1.0. But that was maybe the last time we didn’t... More

In Orbeon Forms 3.9, Form Builder had for each control label: A read-only version of the label, shown most of the time. An HTML input, shown when editing the label. Both hold the same value, and only one is shown at a given point in time. But do we really... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 4.0 M8 (Milestone 8). Like 4.0 M7 and the previous milestones this is not a final release. We have addressed the following issues in this build: Form Runner Send email: support TLS and custom port (#395) New L&F: editor for title and description in Form Settings (#376) fr:number doesn't... More

For a long time now we’ve had a US phone number field in Orbeon Forms which looks like this: While fixing a validation highlighting issue for 4.0, we spent some time cleaning-up that control, and along the way thought about how to improve it. We thought about the following: Should... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 4.0 M7 (Milestone 7). Like 4.0 M6 and the previous milestones this is not a final release. We have addressed quite a number of issues in this build, in particular: Form Builder Delete grid row with confirmation doesn't work anymore (#362) Static image doesn't support hint so label is... More

On this blog, we often mention new features we recently implemented in Orbeon Forms, but rarely discuss how they have been implemented. Today, let’s make an exception, and come back to a feature discussed a couple of weeks ago: Form Builder’s new UI to edit labels and hints. UI programming... More