Orbeon Forms 4.0 M12

Today we released Orbeon Forms 4.0 M12 (Milestone 12). Like 4.0 M11 and the previous milestones this is not a final release.

This milestone is a rather big one, as we have just merged in (more than 170 commits!) a couple of major changes we have been working on since June:

• A new Form Builder and Form Runner look based on Bootstrap
• A much improved repeat editor in Form Builder

The new Form Builder look

The new Form Runner look

We addressed the following issues in this build:

• Form Builder
• Improved look and feel
• New repeat editor
• Improved section and grid editors
• Improved label and hint editors
• Simplify handling of sections with the regular `fr:section` component
• Forms crash on load (#482)
• Form Runner
• You do not have the privileges with noscript error summary (#406)
• fr:section component uses native XBL labels, hints, help
• Simplified implementation for the form table of contents
• Upon load, form automatically focuses on first field able to accept input
• Improved look and feel
• Use Bootstrap 2.1.1
• Use navigation bar at the top
• Don't use YUI layout and tables anymore
• Build CSS with LESS
• Highlight main buttons
• Control labels and hints properly wrap when too long to fit on one line
• XForms engine
• xxforms:case() not re-evaluated after xforms:toggle (#457)
• Error evaluating itemset when control label contains HTML (#479)
• Foreign content in the model is not recursively ignored (#494)
• `xml:lang()` used in variable in the view return an empty string (#495)
• xxf:dynamic NPE with update of XBL with models (#360)
• Selecting a date/time has no effect on iOS 6 (#510)
• Server sends type updates for fields other than input (#504)
• Add new xxforms:cases() function

In the next milestones we will polish things, including addressing the following known regressions from M12:

• The button for automatic PDF is temporarily disabled in this milestone  (#483)
• There are issues with custom buttons override

More information is available in the in-progress release notes for 4.0.

You can download the builds using these links:

• PE version: orbeon-4.0.0.M12.201210231855-PE.zip
• CE version: orbeon-4.0.0.M12.201210231908-CE.zip

Don't forget to grab a trial license for the PE version.

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