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1. Anonymous data capture with administrator
1.Setup at least one user and role for your container.
The easiest way to do this with Tomcat, if you don't have already users setup within your system (via a Tomcat realm for example), is to modify Tomcat's tomcat-users.xml file, for example as follows:
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<tomcat-users>
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<user
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  username="orbeon-admin"
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  password="Secret, change me!" 
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  roles="orbeon-admin"/>
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</tomcat-users>
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2.Enumerate the role in the following property:
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 <property
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   as="xs:string"
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   name="oxf.fr.authentication.container.roles"
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   value="orbeon-admin"/>
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3.Protect Form Builder and, optionally, the Form Runner Home page
In web.xml, uncomment the permissions section.
Replace:
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<url-pattern>/fr/*</url-pattern>
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with:
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<url-pattern>/fr/orbeon/builder/*</url-pattern>
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<!-- Optional, to prevent anonymous users from accessing the Form Runner Home Page -->
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<url-pattern>/fr/</url-pattern>
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and replace the role name:
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<role-name>orbeon-user</role-name>
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4.Set, in form-builder-permissions.xml:
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 <role name="orbeon-admin" app="*" form="*"/>
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5.Remove demo forms and apps from Orbeon Forms.
See Creating a Production WAR.
6.Within Form Builder
make sure that all your forms have permissions enabled (PE feature only)
set the create permission for all users
set all permissions for the role orbeon-admin
republish your forms
see also #1860​
7.Configure forms' buttons
You will want only a "Send" or "Submit" button, as a plain "Save" button doesn't make sense in this case.
With this setup:
Published forms are not protected by the container. They are protected by Form Runner permissions.
Form Builder is protected by the container so that anonymous users can't create new forms.
Form Builder also requires orbeon-admin at the Orbeon Forms level.
Any user, logged in or anonymous, can create form data from any published form.
All other operations (read, update, delete) are not available to anonymous users or logged in users without the orbeon-admin role.
Users with the orbeon-admin role have
Users with the orbeon-admin role can perform any operations on the form data after they are logged in.
Limitations:
Anonymous data entry does not support autosave.
As an administrator, you first have to login, for example by accessing Form Builder, before accessing published forms' Summary page (issue #1292).
See also
​Setup users for access control - How to setup Orbeon Forms so that users and roles are provided.
​Login & Logout - Optional user menu for providing links to login and logout functions.
​Access control for deployed forms - How to control access to deployed forms.
​Form fields - How to control access to specific form fields based on the user user's roles.
​Access control for editing forms - How to control access to Form Builder.
​Owner and group member permissions - Access based on ownership and groups.
​Organization-based permissions – Access based on organizational structure.
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1. Anonymous data capture with administrator