Orbeon Forms Features

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Purpose

The purpose of this page is to index features by name in a central place.

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

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

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

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

custom components: doc
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