The Orbeon Forms Blog

Here is a summary of the recent Orbeon Forms developments: 1. Form Builder and Form Runner We keep polishing Form Runner and Form Builder. In addition to the usual bug-fixes: Form attachments are attached to emails, and Form Runner is able to include values from form controls in email subjects.... More

It is common to see, in web applications, Gmail-like UIs, where you show a list of items (emails in the case of Gmail), and where you’d like users to be able to perform actions on multiple items at a time. For this, users need to be able to select items.... More

For those of you who don't yet follow our updates on Twitter, here is a summary of some of the new developments since our last post: 1. Form Builder and Form Runner Work on Form Builder and Form Runner is ongoing. We have added important features: Support for custom components... More

Now that Orbeon Forms 3.7 beta 1 is out, we have committed a series of changes that intend to improve the performance of the XForms engine. These particular changes initially focused on <xforms:insert> and <xforms:delete>, but they ended up requesting a fairly major refactoring of the XForms controls code on... More

We have just made Orbeon Forms 3.7 beta 1 available for download. This release contains about 200 issues addressed since Orbeon Forms 3.6. There are still a few blockers to address before we can release 3.7 final. Here are useful links to see what's left to do: Issues by highest... More

In the last few months, we have been regularly posting updates to Twitter so we have had less of a need to write full blog entries. But now we feel that owe the followers of this blog a higher-level update: Form Builder and Form Runner. A big priority is our... More

It is with great pleasure that we are announcing Orbeon Form Builder. Form Builder allows you to build forms right from your browser and aims at taking the pain out of building forms. It is 100% open source, standards-based, and built on top of the Orbeon Forms XForms implementation, which... More

That's it, JavaOne 2008 is over! We were on the OW2 booth for three days last week, busy demoing the latest in Orbeon Forms. We got a few good contacts during the conference, which also provided us with the opportunity of knowing the rest of OW2 guys better. Go check... More

Orbeon is now on Twitter, under the username orbeon. We have started providing regular updates about Orbeon Forms there. If you don't know what Twitter is, or if you are thinking "Why would I join another social network?", think again: Twitter is different. Maybe this blog entry by Mark McGuinness... More

With XForms 1.0, xforms:output was limited to displaying plain text. With the introduction of XForms 1.1, xforms:output adds powerful capabilities which include handling images, HTML content and more, depending on your XForms implementation. To achieve this, XForms 1.1 introduces a new mediatype attribute. You use it to specify the type... More