The Orbeon Forms Blog

It is with great pleasure that we are announcing the final release of Orbeon Forms 3.6! Orbeon Forms is an open source forms solution that handles the complexity of forms typical of the enterprise or government. It is delivered to standard web browsers thanks to XForms and Ajax technology, with... More

We had great success with the XForms Evening a the XML 2007 conference on Monday. We were wondering if people would really want to attend sessions that late in the evening (from 7:30 to 9:00 PM), but the attendance beat our expectations, with easily over 60 people cramped in the... More

As a reminder, there will be a free XForms Evening this Monday at the XML 2007 conference in Boston, and I will be presenting a talk about XForms and eXist. There are several great speakers scheduled and this is a great opportunity to learn about XForms, so don't miss it!... More

Yesterday, I was filling-out an application form on the E*TRADE web site. So here I go, entering my information in a traditional wizard-like workflow, with page reloads et al. When I get to the end of it (about six or seven pages total), I figure I would check if I... More

We have just posted a release candidate for Orbeon Forms 3.6. Orbeon Forms 3.6 now contains over 170 improvements over Orbeon Forms 3.5.1. The idea behind the release candidate is to see if anything is obviously broken before we release 3.6 final. It does not mean that Orbeon Forms is... More

When a form field is loosing the focus, the browser is supposed to send two events: blur and change. The latter is only sent if the you have changed the value of the field. When you change the value of a first field and tab to a second field, all... More

Over the last two weeks, we fixed a series of bugs that we considered blockers for Orbeon Forms 3.6: Error when using browser back button when using xforms:instance[@src = 'input:*'] Label is not hidden when repeat iteration is added Inspector does not show initial XML (in some cases) Issue with... More

A really cool thing about Orbeon Forms is that it automatically handles your browser's back and forward buttons. What are we talking about here? Browser back and forward buttons should just work, right? Well, not quite, at least not with web applications that dynamically modify the HTML page. What happens... More

We just committed changes in Orbeon Forms to handle a disk-based XForms state store. What is this about? As discussed recently, Orbeon Forms needs to store XForms state information somewhere. One option is client-side, but this has drawbacks in terms of bandwidth and latency. So the default since the beginning... More

We will speak at the XForms evening that will take place alongside the XML 2007 Conference in Boston (3-5 December 2007). The XForms evening will take place on Monday, December 3 and will feature seven 15-minute talks (we want to make sure you won't get bored). Our talk will be... More