The Orbeon Forms Blog

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

Recently, we implemented support for run modes in Orbeon Forms. The idea is not new and it comes down to this: sometimes you want to run Orbeon Forms with development settings, and sometimes with production settings. So far, to achieve this, you had to play with your properties-local.xml file, either... More

Who can do what with Form Builder? You guessed it: in this post, we’ll discuss access control, as it relates to Form Builder. More specifically, that question has two facets: When it comes to people using Form Builder to create or edit forms, often referred to as form authors, who... More

Photo by preservationgal In a previous post, we covered the basics of controls bindings, where XPath expressions are used to bind a control to XML elements. But it’s not always that simple, is it? So now is the time to cover all the cases you can encounter with binding expressions. First, there... More

Photo by Philippa Willitts Take the most basic HTML input field: <input name="nickname"> Then, compare to the equivalent XForms: <xforms:input ref="nickname"> Both look pretty much the same, right? Well yes, but only on the surface! In HTML, you just specify a name, which is later used by form submission (or to... More

For every form you create with Form Builder, after you deploy the form, Orbeon Forms exposes two pages: A new page, which end users go to to fill out the form. When a form is filled out and saved, it creates what we refer to as form data. A summary... More

XForms 1.1 makes a distinction between two commonly-used attributes: ref and nodeset. Both are binding attributes, and they hold an XPath expression pointing to zero, one or more XML element or attribute nodes: ref points to a single node ("single-node binding"). Its most frequent use is to bind a control such as xforms:input to XML data. nodeset points to... More