The Orbeon Forms Blog

Here is a summary of the Orbeon Forms developments for April/May 2009: 1. Orbeon Forms release 3.7.1 is out. That's right, we have released Orbeon Forms 3.7.1! New Orbeon Forms flyer. Check the PDF here. 2. Form Builder and Form Runner Improved Form Builder layout. Form Builder now uses a... More

We are glad to announce that Orbeon Forms 3.7.1 is now available for download. Orbeon Forms 3.7.1 includes over 400 improvements since version 3.6, notably: New Form Builder preview. Orbeon Form Builder is the visual form designer which allows you to build and deploy forms in minutes right from your... More

Orbeon will be at JavaOne this week on the OW2 booth. We will be demoing Orbeon Form Builder and Form Runner so don't miss us! More

If you are using XInclude in IntelliJ, you might have seen errors like this:<div style="display: block; text-align: left;"> An XInclude errors reported by IntelliJ 8.1 </div>IntelliJ attempts to resolve paths in XInclude relative to the paths you defined as source folders in your Project Structure. You might have defined paths... More

Here is a summary of the Orbeon Forms developments for March 2009: 1. Form Builder and Form Runner Form Runner L&F improvements. The Form Runner look and feel is improved! We got rid of the overwhelming orange color in favor of a more appealing blue theme, put nicer-looking buttons, and... More

It is a last minute announcement but consider making it to the first OW2 Annual Conference in Paris over the next two days: Open Source for the Computing Infrastructure MAKE A DATE TO ATTEND THE FIRST OW2 ANNUAL CONFERENCE Two days at no cost to you to discover the enterprise... More

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