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An important feature of Orbeon Forms are formulas. They allow you, as if the case in spreadsheets, to perform calculations of values and much more. Some formulas can refer to the current value of form controls using a variable notation, with a dollar sign followed by the name of the... More

We just released the Orbeon Forms 2021.1.2 PE maintenance release! For details, see the release notes.You can download the latest version of Orbeon Forms from the downloads page.We hope you enjoy this release! More

We just released the Orbeon Forms 2021.1.1 PE maintenance release! For details, see the release notes.You can download the latest version of Orbeon Forms from the downloads page.We hope you enjoy this release! More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 2021.1 PE and Orbeon Forms 2021.1 CE! This release includes improvements to Form Builder and Form Runner, including the ability to test PDFs, to export and import forms in Excel and XML formats, and much more.<div>For details, see the complete release notes.You can download the latest version... More

Today we released a new series of maintenance releases that bump the Log4j version to 2.17.1, the latest at the time of publication. See also our two previous blog posts: Vulnerability in the log4j libraryOrbeon Forms PE Log4j maintenance releases You can download the latest version of Orbeon Forms from... More

While the recent Log4j vulnerability, discussed in our previous blog post, does not immediately impact Orbeon Forms, we have now upgraded supported versions of Orbeon Forms to the latest version of Log4j 2. For details, see the following release notes: Orbeon Forms 2020.1.6 PEOrbeon Forms 2019.2.4 PEOrbeon Forms 2019.1.2 PEOrbeon Forms... More

A few days ago, a serious vulnerability in a popular Java logging library, log4j, was discovered. See CVE-2021-44228 for details. Orbeon Forms uses the log4j library and therefore we have reviewed the issue. Luckily in this case, since Orbeon Forms use an older (version 1) of the library, it is not likely to... More

We just released Orbeon Forms 2020.1.5 PE! For details, see the release notes.You can download the latest version of Orbeon Forms from the downloads page.We hope you enjoy this release! More

Background Orbeon Forms both features PDF production and the ability to test a form in Form Builder. The latter allows you to run your form in a special “test” mode, where you can test a few of the form’s features without having to deploy it. But so far there wasn’t... More

The Actions Editor in Form Builder allows you, as a form author, to run services. Services are of 2 types: HTTP services (to call web services or REST services) and database services (to run SQL on your relational database). In the Actions Editor, you define: when those services run (e.g.... More