Index of Features
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
Status
As of 2016-02-11 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 and sections
- Repeated grids: doc, older blog post
- Repeated sections: blog post
- Options for new repeat iterations: blog post
- Mimimal appearances of repeated grids and 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)
- white space trimming: doc, 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
- Persistence (databases)
Form Builder
- Summary page: doc
- Toolbox:
- Control Settings: doc
- Itemset Editor: doc
- Hints for checkboxes and radio buttons: blog post
- Section Settings: doc
- Publishing a form definition: doc
- Explanation text: blog post
- Extension API: doc
- Access control for editing forms: doc
- Internationalization (i18n) / localization (l10n): doc
- Services and actions
- 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
- Validation
- as-you-type validation
- centralized error summary showing currently relevant errors: component doc, blog post on warnings/infos enhancements
- Sending emails
- Captcha: properties doc, component doc, blog post
- Appearance of repeated sections: properties doc, component doc
- Appearance of repeated grids: properties doc, component 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: blog post
- Buttons
- Button
- Link button
- Other
Databases
- Database support: doc
- SQL Server support in Orbeon Forms: blog post
- PostgreSQL support in Orbeon Forms: blog post
Form handling
Embedding
Performance
- Limiter filter to limit the number of concurrent form requests: doc
- Internal service requests: blog post