Orbeon Forms 2022.1.4 PE

We just published the Orbeon Forms 2022.1.4 PE maintenance release!

For details, see the release notes.

You can download the latest version of Orbeon Forms from the downloads page.

We hope you enjoy this release!

Support for multiple email templates in Form Builder

When a form is submitted or another action is performed on it, you might want to send an email. This could be a confirmation message to the user who submitted the data, or you might want to inform someone that new data has been submitted and requires processing. Form authors can define what these emails look like and who they are sent to using an email template. As the name suggests, the template can have placeholders that get filled when the email is sent, for instance, with values entered by users in the form.

Up until version 2021.1, Orbeon Forms supported only a single email template per form. Starting with version 2022.1, we removed that limitation, allowing you to have as many templates per form as you'd like. This enables you to create different templates for various languages or have a template that informs users their data has been received and another template to email the person who needs to process the data. Additionally, if your form is used to implement a workflow, you can have different templates, for example, to notify a user that their request has been accepted or rejected, which opens up numerous possibilities for implementing workflows with Orbeon Forms.

We hope you'll find this useful!

Orbeon Forms 2021.1.8 PE and 2022.1.3 PE

We just published the Orbeon Forms 2021.1.8 PE and 2022.1.3 PE maintenance releases!

For details, see the release notes:

• Orbeon Forms 2021.1.8 PE
• Orbeon Forms 2022.1.3 PE

You can download the latest version of Orbeon Forms from the downloads page.

We hope you enjoy this release!

Orbeon Forms 2022.1.2 PE

We just published the Orbeon Forms 2022.1.2 PE maintenance release!

For details, see the release notes.

You can download the latest version of Orbeon Forms from the downloads page.

We hope you enjoy this release!

Drag and drop from the toolbox

Since the beginning, Orbeon Forms used the idea of a toolbox to insert form sections, grids, and controls. The way you, as the form author, use the toolbox is simply by clicking one of the elements in the toolbox, which results in the insertion of the element into the form.

In addition, once a control is inserted, you can drag it around to move it to a different location in the form. You can even “shift-click” the drag icon to create a copy of the control (which, probably, few users know!).

However, there was no way to directly drag a control from the toolbox to the form! Orbeon Forms 2022.1 addresses this, and you can now drag a control from the toolbox to its intended location in the form.

Drag and drop from the toolbox

This is a pretty straightforward improvement, but hopefully it will help make Form Builder more intuitive to beginners and non-beginners alike.

For more, see also the Orbeon Forms 2022.1 release notes.

We hope you will like this enhancement!

Look and feel improvements

Introduction

Orbeon Forms 2022.1 improves the overall look and feel of Orbeon Forms! In particular, we made the following changes:

“Flat” buttons

Web design has tended to go back and forth between flat and 3D buttons. With Orbeon Forms 2022.1, we have decided to go back to flat buttons, following in particular the latest Bootstrap style.

Example of flat buttons

Form Builder and Form Runner dialogs

Similarly, we have given our dialogs a fresher look!

Example of dialog

Form Builder cell highlights

Form Builder now has a new look for cell highlights, which are bolder and without shadows.

Example of cell highlight

Navigation improvements

It is important for the user to have easy access to the operations available in Form Runner. To this end, we have made the navigation bar as well as the buttons at the bottom of the page “sticky”, so that they remain visible even if you scroll the page. This applies to all Form Runner pages, including the Summary page.

In addition, in previous releases, if you didn’t explicitly add a “Home” button to your forms, the user would not be able to easily reach the Form Runner landing page. In Orbeon Forms 2022.1, we added a “Landing Page” navigation icon at the top of the navigation bar. This can be disabled via configuration properties if you don’t need it.

Navigation improvements

Cleaner look for the wizard

The wizard now has a new lighter look.

Cleaner look for the wizard

Card-based look for the Landing page

The new Form Runner landing page is based on cards. You can choose which card shows on the landing page via configuration properties.

Card-based look for the Form Runner landing page

Consistent Summary, Form, and Admin pages

The Summary page and Forms/Admin pages (previously known as Home page) do similar things: they list form data or published form definitions, have paged navigation, and operations. With Orbeon Forms 2022.1, these pages look much more consistent. In particular, the Summary page is now “fluid” like the Forms/Admin page, and the operations and navigation are in the same place.

For more, see also the Orbeon Forms 2022.1 release notes.

We hope you will like these enhancements!

Orbeon Forms 2022.1.1 PE

We just published the Orbeon Forms 2022.1.1 PE maintenance release!

For details, see the release notes.

You can download the latest version of Orbeon Forms from the downloads page.

We hope you enjoy this release!