Services and actions

Orbeon Forms comes with a few powerful options to perform complex operations on or with forms. These fall into two main categories:

• Actions: They run within a form while the user is working with the form.

• Simple Processes: They typically run in association with a form button, such as a "Submit" button.

The following diagram illustrates how Actions and Simple Processes relate to a form:

Actions and processes

For more details, see the following blog post: Making sense of Form Runner Actions.

See also:

• Simple Actions
• Action Syntax
• Action Syntax Examples
• Database Services
• HTTP Services
• Synchronizing repeated content
• Simple processes