Index of features

Purpose

The purpose of this page is to index features, their documentation and blog posts in a central location so that you can get an idea of what Orbeon Forms offers at a glance.

See also

• Orbeon website

• Orbeon blog

Status

As of 2016-04-19 this page is still being updated.

List of Orbeon Forms features

Form Builder and Form Runner

• Security features

  • Protecting against attacks: doc

  • Content-Security-Policy header: doc, blog post

  • Field-level encryption: doc

• Inserting and reordering grid rows: blog post

• Repeated grids and sections

  • Repeat settings: doc

  • Repeated grids: doc, older blog post

  • Repeated sections: blog post

  • Options for new repeat repetitions: blog post

  • Minimal appearances of repeated grids and sections: blog post

  • Frozen repetitions

• Section Templates:

  • main feature: doc

  • merging: doc

• Singleton forms: doc

• Versioning of form definitions: doc, blog post about concept, blog post about publish options

  • overwriting of existing version: doc

  • associating a comment with a given form version: doc, blog post

  • simple data migration: doc, blog post

• Viewing data revision history: doc

• Form field validation: doc, blog post

  • required fields (also via formula, see blog post)

  • whitespace trimming: doc, blog post

  • data types such as string, number, date, etc.

  • multiple constraints with formulas

  • common constraints: doc, blog post

    • minimum/maximum length

    • positive, positive or zero, negative or zero, or negative value

    • maximum fractional digits

    • attachment sizes and file types

  • errors, warnings, and informational validations

  • custom alert messages per validation

• Access control

  • Owner / group permissions: doc, blog post

  • Organizations: doc

• Persistence (databases)

  • persistence API: doc

  • persistence implementations: doc

  • relational database support: doc, blog post about new indexes

• Datasets: doc, blog post

• Multitenancy: doc

• User menu: doc

Form Builder

• 12-column layout: doc, blog post

  • Drag & drop of cell boundaries: blog post

• Summary page: doc

• Toolbox:

  • features: doc

  • configurability: doc

  • XBL components: doc

  • undo and redo: doc, blog post

  • cut, copy and paste: doc

• Form Settings: doc

  • General Settings

  • HTML form description

  • Form Options: doc

    • Singleton forms: doc

    • Wizard view: doc

  • Control Settings

  • View Options

  • PDF Options

  • About this Form

• Control Settings: doc

  • control name

  • Summary page options

  • custom CSS classes

  • easy switching of control appearances: blog post

  • validation: doc

  • formulas: doc

  • help text (plain text and rich text)

    • appearance of help messages: blog post

• Choices editor: doc

  • Hints for checkboxes and radio buttons: blog post

• Section Settings: doc

  • whether section is collapsible

  • whether section is initially collapsed

• Publishing a form definition: doc

• Explanation text: blog post

• Extension API: doc

• Access control for editing forms: doc

• Internationalization (i18n) / localization (l10n): doc

• Services and actions

  • HTTP Services: doc

    • JSON support (for reading only): doc

    • setting URL parameters

  • Database Services: doc

  • Simple Actions: doc

• XML Schema Support: doc

• Source code editor: docwhether section is collapsible

• Extension API: doc

• Basic keyboard shortcuts

  • Cut/Copy/Paste: doc

  • Undo/Redo: doc

  • Save button: doc

Form Runner

• Standard look & feel

• Automatic calculations dependencies: doc, blog post

• Custom XBL components: doc

• Summary page: blog post

  • search

• Detail page

  • Responsive design for mobile devices such as smartphones: doc, blog

    • show numeric keypad/numbers and punctuation" keyboard pane when possible: doc, blog post

  • Review mode (printable)

  • Wizard view: doc, introduction blog post

    • validated mode: blog post, doc

    • highlighting of sections in error/accessible sections

    • buttons appearing only on the wizard's last page

    • status information for each section

    • subsection navigation

    • optional separate table of contents

• File scan API: doc

• Forms Admin page: doc, blog post

• Published Forms page: doc, blog post

• Landing page: doc

• Excel and XML Import: doc

• Excel and XML Export: doc

• Buttons and Processes: doc, blog post

• Autosave: doc, blog post

• Export

  • Export of form definitions and form data

  • Excel export

  • XML export

• Purging historical data

• PDF

  • Production: doc

    • Automatic

    • Template-based: doc

      • multiple PDF templates

  • Automatic highlighting of links blog post

  • Customizable file name: doc

  • TIFF production: doc

  • Ability to send to services: blog post

• Validation

  • as-you-type validation

  • explicit validation: doc

  • centralized error summary showing currently relevant errors: component doc, blog post on warnings/infos enhancements

• Sending emails

  • controlling which attachments are included: Form Builder doc, Form Runner doc

  • controlling To, Cc, Bcc, From: doc, blog post

  • Email templates: doc, blog post

• Captcha: properties doc, component doc, blog post

• Appearance of repeated sections: properties doc, component doc

• Appearance of repeated grids: properties doc, component doc

• Function library: doc, blog post

• Repeated content synchronization: doc

• Grids

  • HTML tables-free layout: blog post)

• Services and APIs

  • Duplicate form data API

  • Generate XML Schema API

  • List form data attachments API

  • Publish form definition API

  • Run form in the background API

Form controls

• Text controls

  • Text field

  • Plain text area

  • Formatted text area

  • Password field

• Utility controls

  • Explanatory text

  • Calculated value

  • Hidden field: doc, blog post

• Typed controls

  • Number

    • control rounding when formatting/capturing data

    • left/right alignment

  • Email address

  • Currency

  • US phone number

  • US state

• Date and time controls

  • Date, time, date and time

    • date picker

    • option to exclude dates from the date picker: doc

    • date control: doc

    • time control: doc

  • Dropdown date

  • Fields date

• Selection controls doc

  • Dropdown menu

  • Radio buttons

  • Radio buttons with "Other": doc

  • Checkboxes

  • Scrollable checkboxes

  • Yes/No answer: doc

  • Single checkbox: doc

  • Dynamic data dropdown

  • Autocomplete

• Attachments

  • File attachment

  • Image attachment

  • Static image

  • Static video

  • Handwritten signature: doc

  • Image annotation: blog post

  • Control maximum size and file types: blog post

• Buttons

  • Button

  • Link button

• Other

  • Character counter: doc

  • Custom components: doc

    • support JavaScript Companion Classes: doc

Databases

• Database support: doc

• SQL Server support in Orbeon Forms: blog post

• PostgreSQL support in Orbeon Forms: blog post

Form handling

• Session heartbeat: doc

• Browser back/forward button support: doc

Embedding

• Server side Embedding: doc, blog post, Form Builder embedding blog post

• Liferay proxy portlet: doc

• Liferay full portlet: doc

Performance

• Limiter filter to limit the number of concurrent form requests: doc

• Internal service requests: blog post

Misc

• Loading indicator and spinners: blog post

• Namespaced jQuery to avoid conflicts with other jQuery versions

• Run modes: doc, blog