Orbeon Forms User Guide

Welcome

1. Orbeon Forms in a Nutshell

Screenshot of Orbeon Form Builder

Welcome to the reference documentation for the Orbeon Forms platform!

Orbeon Forms is your solution to build and deploy web forms:

  • Handles complex forms typical of the enterprise or government
  • Works in standard web browsers
  • Does not require any special client software or plugins
  • Includes Form Builder, the web-based form authoring tool
  • Is provided as open source under a business-friendly license

Noteworthy features include:

  • Fully interactive forms

    • As-you-type validation
    • Optional sections
    • Repeated sections
    • Up-to-date error summary
    • Based on Ajax technology
  • Advanced form features

    • Create PDF documents
    • Full internationalization
  • Advanced controls

    • Auto-completion
    • Tab views
    • Dialogs
    • Trees
    • Menus
    • Programmable custom controls
  • An open solution

    • Open source (LGPL)
    • Standards-based (XForms)
    • Commercially supported
  • A Solid technological foundation

    • User-friendly Ajax-based XForms engine supporting XForms 1.1
    • The XPL engine, a mature, high-performance XML pipeline engine for processing XML data
    • Form Runner, the Orbeon Forms runtime environment

2. Getting Started with Orbeon Forms

If you are new to Orbeon Forms, we recommend that you first look at:

Important parts of the documentation include:

For any further questions, you are invited to join the Orbeon Forms community mailing-list.