Orbeon Forms Features

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Purpose

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

Status

As of 2015-07-07 this page is very incomplete.

List of Orbeon Forms features

• Form Builder/Form Runner
  • Inserting and reordering grid rows: blog post
  • Repeated grids: doc, older blog post
  • Repeated sections: blog post
  • 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
    • minimum length and maximum length validations: doc
    • errors, warnings, and informational validations
    • custom alert messages per validation
    • centralized error summary showing currently relevant errors
  • Access control
    • Owner / group permissions: doc, blog post
• Form Builder
  • Explanation text: blog post
  • Access control for editing forms: doc
  • Easy switching of control appearances: blog post
• Form Runner
  • Summary Page: blog post
  • Home Page: doc, blog post
  • Buttons and Processes: doc, blog post
  • Autosave: doc, blog post
  • Wizard view: doc, introduction blog post
    • validated mode: blog post
  • PDF
    • Production: doc
      • Automatic
      • Template-based: doc
    • Automatic highlighting of links blog post
    • customizable file name: doc
• 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
  • buttons
    • button
    • link button
• 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