The Orbeon Forms Blog

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

Grids are among the most powerful features of Orbeon Forms. With Orbeon Forms 2021.1, we are improving grids in two ways. First, the Grid Settings dialog now shows the number of grid rows in the grid. This parallels the number of grid columns, with some differences. Grid Columns Grid Rows... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 2020.1.4 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

Introduction Orbeon Forms 2021.1 includes a new feature to import and export Excel files.1 Previous Orbeon Forms versions already supported an Excel import feature. Here are the main differences between the two types of Excel imports: Existing import feature New import feature multiple form documents at a time (batch) one... More

Say you have a form that contains 2 fields, a and b, and you want users to provide a value for a or for b; it is ok if they provide values for both a and b, but it isn't ok if they leave both a and b empty. A... More

Today we released Orbeon Forms 2020.1.3 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

The Orbeon Forms date field allows users to type a date, but also to select a date using a date picker. While most people are used to interacting with date pickers using a mouse, touchpad, or a touch interface, the Orbeon Forms date picker also supports doing so with the... More

Today we released the Orbeon Forms 2019.2.3 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 2020.1.1 PE and Orbeon Forms 2020.1.1 CE! 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