This release is rich in new features:
- Form Builder and Form Runner
- Enhanced validation. You can set multiple validation constraints, each with its own alert message. In addition to errors, you can also create warnings and informational messages (blog post, doc).
- Owner/group-based permissions AKA "See your own data". You can set permissions associated with the user who created the data (the owner of the data) or the group to which that user belongs. In this release, this is supported with MySQL and DB2 only (doc).
- Italian and German translations. In addition to the English and French translation, these are full sets of translations for Form Builder and Form Runner.
- Form Runner
- Autosave. When enabled, drafts of your data are automatically saved so that you never lose anything. In this release, this is supported with MySQL and DB2 only (doc).
- Unpublish/republish. If granted administrator rights, you can unpublish and republish forms directly from the Form Runner home page.
- New DB2 persistence layer. In addition to Oracle, MySQL, and eXist, this adds support for DB2 out of the box. This is an Orbeon Forms PE feature (doc).
- New image annotation component. This component allows you to attach and annotate an image right from a form (requires a browsers supporting the canvas element) (doc).
- XForms
- Multiple constraints and alerts and constraint levels. You can now place children xf:constraint elements within xf:bind, and multiple xf:alert elements within a control. The alerts can optionally bind to individual constraints or to validation levels, so you can have different error messages depending on which constraint has failed (doc).
- Support the `accept` attribute on xf:upload. This XForms 2.0 feature allows you to suggest which type of files the user is allowed to select, such as images, audio, video, or text files. This depends on browser support but most browsers do support it.
- Form Builder
- Support multiple alerts and warnings (#794)
- Move Edit Source button (bb5ac3c8cf)
- Don't place unneeded help elements in form (9f14be6057)
- Show app name in output when no choice (#1025)
- Setting datatype from Schema with namespace fails (#1113)
- Support AVTs in service's resource, in Form Builder dialog (#1118)
- Combine controls details and control validation dialogs (#85)
- FB: Simplify list of built-in data types (#1125)
- "Old" forms with xf:bind/@nodeset instead of @ref cause error on search page (#1133)
- Id conflict between section templates (#142)
- Opening control settings shows image attachment as required (#1128)
- FB: Dot in the app name causes toolbox to fail loading (#1045)
- Required is grayed out when using Schema type (#719)
- Form Runner
- Summary page to show data based on owner and/or group (#1021)
- New image annotation component based on wPaint (#1039)
- Image attachment: use accept attribute (#1047)
- Actions: old value kept in instance even when out of range (#1019)
- Alerts issues in single-line repeats (#1072)
- Updated Form Runner Spanish resources (31f2333221)
- FR: Exceptions don't show filename/line number (#1020)
- New fr:tabbable component (0441d5b0ce)
- Number / currency: show "0.x" instead of ".x" for numbers between -1 and 1 (#1106)
- fr:grid: ability to freeze n first rows (#1108)
- Autocomplete: in static mode, list showing only on Ajax response (#1124)
- fr:alert-dialog: Callbacks don't support static ids anymore (#1131)
- Proxy portlet: keep order of preferences (9e901a6241)
- fr:error-summary: HTML label is escaped (#1145)
- Some icons height incorrect with IE7 (#1042)
- FR: Summary page shows escaped HTML labels (#1150)
- FR: Autosave feature (#990)
- FR: Unpublish/republish (#1054)
- XForms engine
- Support the upload `accept` attribute (#831)
- Upload: same seq number sent twice (#1009)
- Currency field fails to format the second time the same value is entered (#1026)
- @xxf:maxlength not working for controls which are initially not visible (#1061)
- Support observer in XBL handler (044c7b73d9)
- Restored cache configuration default properties (579e2b1408)
- Make xforms.state cache a disk cache (481b6f6d28)
- Alert tooltip: JavaScript error, alert icon not hiding after tooltip is shown (#1075)
- Bind XPath analysis incorrect modifies expressions (#1085)
- Use separator other then "$" in ids (#1094)
- Model variable uses older value of preceding model variable (#1104)
- Model variables shadow action and view variables (#698)
- xf:model/xf:var/@model doesn't scope other model's variables (#1132)
- Implement support for data: in xf:output mediatype="image/*" (#1065)
- Portlet: Help message blank when user is logged in (#1206)
- xxf:evaluate-bind-property() not working with bind defined in other models (#1103)
- XBL with mirror instance doesn't rebind after context change (#1166)
- When a request is blocked, Ajax retries can end up using all the available threads (#1151)
- New XPath functions
- xxf:split() (#1080)
- xxf:client-id() (c47e427b13)
- xxf:forall and xxf:exists (5d01ec872d)
- Other
- The maybe-require-valid sub-process introduced in 4.2 has been removed, as well as the oxf.fr.detail.save.validate property.
- The pdf action in processes has been removed. Use the pdf-url property in submission content instead.
- The XForms repeat and component separators have changed to help with jQuery integration. If you depend on them for testing (for example with Selenium), you might have to make some changes.
You can download the latest version of Orbeon Forms from the downloads page.
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