Wednesday, February 22, 2023

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
Example of flat buttons

Form Builder and Form Runner dialogs

Similarly, we have given our dialogs a fresher look!

Example of dialog
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
Example of cell highlight

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
Navigation improvements

Cleaner look for the wizard

The wizard now has a new lighter look.

Cleaner look for the wizard
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
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!

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