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 web site​

• ​Orbeon blog​

Status

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

List of Orbeon Forms features

Form Builder and Form Runner

• Inserting and reordering grid rows: blog post​

• Repeated grids and sections

  • Repeated grids: doc, older blog post​

  • Repeated sections: blog post​

  • Options for new repeat iterations: blog post​

  • Minimal appearances of repeated grids and sections: blog post​

• Section Templates:

  • main feature: doc​

  • merging: doc​

• Singleton forms: doc​

• Versioning of form definitions: 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​

• 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​

Form Builder

• 12-column layout: doc, 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

  • Form Options: doc​

    • Singleton forms: doc​

    • Wizard view: doc​

• 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​

• Itemset 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](form-builder/database-services.md

  • Actions: doc​

• XML Schema Support: doc​

• Source code editor: docwhether section is collapsible

• Extension API: doc​

Form Runner

• Standard look & feel

• Automatic calculations dependencies: doc​

• 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

• Home Page: doc, blog post​

• Buttons and Processes: doc, blog post​

• Autosave: doc, blog post​

• 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​

• 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​

• Grids

  • HTML tables-free layout: blog post)

• Services and APIs

  • ​Duplicate form data​

  • ​Generate XML Schema​

  • ​List form data attachments​

  • ​Publish form definition​

  • ​Run form in the background​

Form controls

• Text controls

  • Text field

  • Plain text area

  • Formatted text area

  • Password field

• Output controls

  • Explanatory text

  • Calculated value

• Typed controls

  • Number

    • control of rounding when formatting/capturing data

  • Email address

  • Currency

  • US phone number

  • US state

• Date and time controls

  • Date, time, date and time

  • 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

  • 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](configuration/advanced/run-modes.md

  ), blog​