Orbeon Forms Features

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Purpose

The purpose of this page is to index features, their documentation and blog posts in a central location so that you can get an idea of what Orbeon Forms offers at a glance.

See also the Orbeon web site and the Orbeon blog.

Status

As of 2015-09-18 this page is still being updated.

List of Orbeon Forms features

Form Builder and Form Runner

• Inserting and reordering grid rows: blog post
• Repeated grids: doc, older blog post
• Repeated sections: blog post
• Section Templates: doc
• Singleton forms: doc
• Versioning of form definitions: blog post about concept, blog post about publish options
• Form field validation: doc, blog post
  • required fields (also via formula, see blog post)
  • data types such as string, number, date, etc.
  • multiple constraints with formulas
  • common constraints such as minimum length and maximum length: doc, blog post
  • errors, warnings, and informational validations
  • custom alert messages per validation
• Access control
  • Owner / group permissions: doc, blog post
• Persistence (databases)
  • persistence API: doc
  • persistence implementations: doc

Form Builder

• Summary page: doc
• Toolbox:
  • features: doc
  • configurability: doc
  • XBL components: doc
• Control Settings: doc
  • control name
  • Summary page options
  • custom CSS classes
  • easy switching of control appearances: blog post
  • validation: doc
  • formulas: doc
  • help text (plain text and rich text)
    • appearance of help messages: blog post
• Itemset Editor: doc
  • Hints for checkboxes and radio buttons: blog post
• Section Settings: doc
• Explanation text: blog post
• Extension API: doc
• Access control for editing forms: doc
• Internationalization (i18n) / localization (l10n): doc
• Services and actions
  • HTTP Services: doc
  • Database Services: doc
  • Actions: doc
• XML Schema Support: doc
• Source code editor: doc
• Extension API: doc

Form Runner

• Standard look & feel
• Custom XBL components: doc
• Summary Page: blog post
  • search
• Detail Page
  • Responsive design for mobile devices such as smartphones: doc, blog
  • Review mode (printable)
  • Wizard view: doc, introduction blog post
    • validated mode: blog post
• Home Page: doc, blog post
• Buttons and Processes: doc, blog post
• Autosave: doc, blog post
• PDF
  • Production: doc
    • Automatic
    • Template-based: doc
  • Automatic highlighting of links blog post
  • customizable file name: doc
  • TIFF production: doc
• Validation
  • as-you-type validation
  • centralized error summary showing currently relevant errors
• Sending emails

Form controls

• Text controls
  • Input field
  • Textarea
  • Text output
  • Password field
  • Formatted text (rich text)
  • Explanation text
• Typed controls
  • Email field
  • US phone number field
  • Number field
  • Currency field
  • US state
• Date and time controls
  • Date, time, date and time
  • Dropdown date, fields date
• Selection controls
  • Dropdown menu
  • Radio buttons
  • Checkboxes
  • Scrollable list
  • Boolean input
  • Scrollable checkboxes
  • Dynamic data dropdown
  • Autocomplete
• Attachments
  • Static image
  • Image attachment
  • File attachment
  • Image annotation: blog post
• Buttons
  • Button
  • Link button
• Other
  • Character counter: doc
  • Custom components: doc

Databases

• Database support: doc
• SQL Server support in Orbeon Forms: blog post
• PostgreSQL support in Orbeon Forms: blog post

Form handling

• Session heartbeat: doc
• Browser back/forward button support: doc

Embedding

• Server side Embedding: doc, blog post
• Liferay proxy portlet: doc
• Liferay full portlet: [[doc|Form-Runner--Portal--Full-Portlet-Guide]]

Performance

• Limiter filter to limit the number of concurrent form requests: doc
• Internal service requests: blog post

Misc

• Namespaced jQuery to avoid conflicts with other jQuery versions
• Run modes: doc, blog