Orbeon Forms 4.0 Beta 3

Today we released the third Beta release of Orbeon Forms 4.0! Like 4.0 Beta 2 and the previous milestone builds this is not a final release.

In this release, we fixed some more IE 7 issues, improved Section Templates, the Wizard, and XML Schema generation, and more. Here is the overall list of changes since Beta 2:

• Form Builder
• StackOverflowError when inserting section template with repeat (#725)
• xxforms:get-request-parameter() doesn't work in Validation Details (#742)
• Validation Properties: XPath validation uses wrong namespaces (#743)
• Crash with XBL containing a bind with id (#770)
• Form Runner
• Wizard: fix event handler showing first relevant section (453f257d5a)
• IE: Autocomplete menu closes almost immediately (#734)
• IE7: Summary page: search field too wide (#735)
• On IE, on `xf:setfocus`, client tells the server again the focus has been set (#747)
• Exception with form using the dialog editor (#760)
• Repeat in section template: controls resources are not included (#757)
• Section template with repeat doesn't write data back (#740)
• Issue when generating the PDF for a form with hidden sections (#756)
• PDF: CSS fixes (93f78aaddd)
• Wizard: shows non-valid section when invalid value is non-relevant (#778)
• Wizard: CSS fixes (0867a2978e)
• Schema generation failing when using the MySQL persistence layer (#772)
• Schema generation outputs items from itemsets (b63a25bc19)
• xxf:default doesn't run in section template (#786)
• The resource persistence layer raises an error when saving XML documents (#737)
• XForms engine
• Event handler with incorrect `ev:observer` associates with parent (#739)
• NPE in xf:load with AVT (#746)
• Data type not applied as CSS attribute to xf:input inside a xf:group (#659)
• xxf:default result is ignored in XBL mirror instance (#787)
• xf:recalculate: support xxf:defaults="true" with xxf:deferred="true" (34471c392d)
• Other
• Upgrade to Ehcache 2.6.3
• Upgrade Saxon with backported Numberer_it (fixes Unicode for Italian numbers, dates and times)

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.beta3.201301300219-PE.zip
• CE version: orbeon-4.0.0.beta3.201301300332-CE.zip

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

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