Scenarios

1. Anonymous data capture with administrator

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:
```
<tomcat-users>
  <user
    username="orbeon-admin"
    password="Secret, change me!" 
    roles="orbeon-admin"/>
</tomcat-users>
```

Enumerate the role in the following property:

<property
  as="xs:string"
  name="oxf.fr.authentication.container.roles"
  value="orbeon-admin"/>

Protect Form Builder and, optionally, the Form Runner Home page

In web.xml, uncomment the permissions section.
Replace:

<url-pattern>/fr/*</url-pattern>

with:

<url-pattern>/fr/orbeon/builder/*</url-pattern>
<!-- Optional, to prevent anonymous users from accessing the Form Runner Home page -->
<url-pattern>/fr/</url-pattern>

and replace the role name:

<role-name>orbeon-user</role-name>

Set, in form-builder-permissions.xml:

<role name="orbeon-admin" app="*" form="*"/>

Remove demo forms and apps from Orbeon Forms.

See Creating a Production WAR.

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

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).

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