With Orbeon Forms, sections are a way to group related controls together, and to provide a visual and semantic structure to the form.

This has been true with Orbeon Forms even if your form is very simple and contains a single section. The drawback was you had to provide a possibly unnecessary section title, even if you didn’t want to display it. After all, in most cases the form title already provides enough information!

With Orbeon Forms 2023.1.3, we have implemented a simple heuristic to improve this: if a section title is blank, then we won’t show the section title at all when the form is deployed, instead of showing a blank section title placeholder as was the case before.

Notice, in the running form, that there is the form title at the top (“My Collection”), but no section title is shown.

We have also modified the default new form template in Form Builder: before, we had “Untitled Form” as default section title, which required you to remove that placeholder title and edit it. Now, the section title is blank by default, and you can just add one if you want to, or just omit it, in which case Orbeon Forms will omit the section title in the running form. It’s as simple as that!

This is a small change, but it makes the form authoring experience just a little bit smoother, and makes it easier to create simple forms.

We hope that you will like this Orbeon Forms 2023.1.3 feature!