Abstract: Various embodiments of systems and methods for lifecycle stable user interface adaptations are described herein. All adaptations done by partners/key users/end users to a user interface of a computer software application are preserved during the lifecycle of the application. In one aspect, the adaptations are persisted as additional metadata used for the generation of the user interface. In another aspect, the lifecycle stability is achieved by attaching the adaptations to semantically coherent set of fields placed in the UI that reappear in future releases of the computer software application.

Abstract: A tool is proposed for supporting active documents. In one embodiment, an active document may be opened in an application program executing at a first computer, the active document being in a format recognized by the application program. Data relating to a first active document may be received data at the first computer from a user of the application program, and a search request based on the received data may be sent from the first computer to a second computer that maintains a plurality of data objects. In one embodiment, the application program at the first computer is unable to perform any functions with data objects at the second computer. The first computer may receive information relating to a result of the search request from the second computer and may store the information in the first active document.

Abstract: Various embodiments of systems and methods for a composition model for components of a user interface framework for Web applications are described. The methods include a loosely coupled method and a tightly coupled method for composing components in a UI framework. The loosely coupled method includes triggering a navigation pipe from an out-port of a first component to an in-port of a second component and defining a context mapping between a first set of parameters of the out-port of the first component and a second set of parameters of the in-port of the second component. The tightly coupled method includes exposing a binding reference from the first component to the second component and specifying a first data model entity from the first component to be bound to a second data model entity of the second component via a binding contract.

Abstract: Various embodiments of systems and methods for improved user interface framework for Web applications are described herein. The UI framework is based on the MVC architectural pattern. An additional controller, a server controller, is included in the server part of the user interface framework runtime. A client controller is running at the client side of the user interface framework runtime. The client controller and the server controller form one logical synchronized controller. The server controller ensures that all needed controller calculations, which would lead to additional roundtrips between the client side and the server side, can be done on the server side. Thus, exact one roundtrip between client side and backend for every user interaction and transporting only the bare minimum of data needed to render the current UI state is achieved.

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing an integrated computer environment for software design and implementation are described. A number of UI components are connected in several sequences in the integrated computer environment. Each sequence describes a screenflow corresponding to a particular task in a software application. The screenflows are combined in a normalized interaction diagram representing the sequences of screens for every task that could be performed in the software application. The interaction diagram aggregates the similar UI components in different screenflows to avoid redundant duplicates. The UI components are bound to at least one business object (BO) as defined in a backend computer system. The software application is implemented and ready to be executed after the binding.

Abstract: Displaying a plurality of objects on a grid. Metadata indicates an object's display column and span. A lowest position is determined from objects displayed in the same column span. The object is displayed in the column span at the lowest position. A lowest position is determined after the last object is displayed. The grid is resized to minimize whitespace beyond the lowest position to border whitespace. Display overlay of first and second graphical objects. When the first object is directly manipulated in a GUI, the second object is automatically manipulated the same way. When the first object is scrolled in a first direction by a first amount, the second object is automatically displaced opposite the first direction by the first amount. When the first object is resized in a first dimension by a first amount, the second object can be automatically resized by the first amount in the first dimension.

Abstract: A method, including executing instructions recorded on a non-transitory computer-readable storage media using at least one processor, may include loading a component from a repository in a first user interface, notifying a second user interface that the component is loaded in the first user interface, performing one or more checks on the component using a check engine and generating one or more check results, storing the check results in a buffer and displaying the check results in the second user interface. The first user interface, the second user interface, the buffer and the check engine may be integrated modules of a single application.

Abstract: Methods for synchronizing data in client-server architectures are described. A client stores data in first and second fields. The value stored in the second field depends on the value stored in the first. When the client writes a new value to the first field, it disables writing to the second field. The client sends a refresh request and receives a refresh response from a server. The refresh request and response contain differences in data stored in the client and server fields. If the refresh response includes a new value for the second field, the client writes the value to the second field. A round trip pending flag associated with the first field is set. A data invalid flag associated with the second field is set. New data can be written to a third field when the value of the third field does not depend on the value of the first field.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for displaying objects in client GUI. A lead selection and scoping information is used to determine whether the object is viewable, and the object is rendered only if it is at least partially viewable. The lead selection and scoping information is used to determine whether data is needed to render the object, and data is received from a corresponding object on a server only if it is needed to render the object. Determining whether the object is viewable in the GUI can be based on declaratively marked entities within the object's view and on view calculation rules. Determining whether data is needed to render the object can be based on declaratively marked entities within the object's data model such as flags indicating whether the data field is valid or whether the binding of the data field to a data source is valid.

Abstract: A computer system includes a UI designer client that runs on a client device and is configured to enable creation of UI models. A client engine runs on a client device and is configured to initiate requests for the UI models, receive the UI models in response to the requests and interpret and render the UI models at runtime. A UI runtime server client is located on a server and is configured to interface with the client engine to receive and process the requests for the UI models from the client engine. A repository is located on the server and is configured to interface with the UI designer client and store the UI models as created using the UI designer client and interface with the UI runtime server client to deliver requested UI models to the UI runtime server client for interpretation and rendering by the client engine.

Abstract: A computer system can include a data handler configured to receive data for display within a plurality of layout elements. Each layout element from the plurality of layout elements can be identified for display within an application. The computer system can include a boundary generator configured to associate a first plurality of variable-size fields with a first column and associate a second plurality of variable-size fields with a second column. Each layout element from the plurality of layout elements can include at least one variable-size field from the first plurality of variable-size fields and at least one variable-size field from the second plurality of variable-size fields. The boundary generator can be configured to define a pair of alignment boundaries using a predicted size of each of the variable-size fields from the first plurality of variable-size fields.

Abstract: A non-transitory recordable storage medium having recorded and stored thereon instructions that, when executed, may perform the actions of assigning an object as a selected object in a property window in response to a selection of the object, the object including a driven property and a driving property, reading one or more properties of the selected object, determining an instance value of the driving property using a custom property descriptor and returning a value of the driven property based on the instance value of the driving property using the custom property descriptor.

Abstract: A component object binds business driven services to a graphical user interface (GUI). The object includes a data model, view model and controller. The view model graphically presents, and the controller manipulates data used by the object. The controller includes an event handler that respond to events generated within the GUI and binds data used by the object to a data source which can be another component object or a remotely located source. The event handler can call a local script to calculate the value of a data element within the object. The component object can be instantiated on a client, and can be configured to communicate with a corresponding component object on a server. The client and server component objects can exchange only that data that needs to be exchanged to maintain the current state of a user interface in the client computer.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing code representing instructions that when executed are configured to cause a processor to perform a process. The code can comprise code to receive, on a client side of a network, an indicator that a first software object has been moved from a first application into a dropzone region of a second application. The code can include code to receive an indicator that a second software object has been moved into the dropzone region of the second application, and code to access a plurality of dropzone conditions. The code can include code to determine that a dropzone condition from the plurality of dropzone conditions has been satisfied based on the first software object and the second software object both being moved into the dropzone region, and code to send to a server side of a network an indicator that the dropzone condition has been satisfied.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for supporting text-based context links for application programs. An embodiment includes a first computer to maintain a database of data objects and a second computer to execute an application program that operates on a file having text elements. In an embodiment, the second computer is to execute a link program to access a data object on the first computer based on a user of the application program having used the application program to select a text element that is related to that data object.

Abstract: A client database manager can cause a memory of a client device on a client side of a network to store a first component, a second component, and a relationship value representing a dependent relationship between the first component and the second component. A client processing module can cause a processor to receive, after the storing, a request to process the first component at the client device. The client database manager can send to the server side of the network a request for an update of at least one of the first component or the second component. The client processing module can cause the processor to process at the client device, before receiving a response to the request for the update from the server side of the network, at least a portion of the first component and at least a portion of the second component based on the relationship value.

Abstract: A host software application implementing business processes and providing a graphical display associated with a user interface (UI) for a user in a client program executing on a client frontend device that is separate from a backend device storing metadata associated with the UI may be initiated. An automation graphical symbol may provide the user with an option to initiate a test on events of the host software application, during execution of the host software application. A request from the user may be received, to initiate a test on events of the host software application. Information may be received from the user indicating one or more selected specific events for performing the test. The test may be initiated on the selected specific events, based on a state of execution of the host software application at an initial time of the user indicating the selected specific events for performing the test.

Abstract: A customized application that is declared based on an abstract class definition derived from a declared host component model associated with a host software application implementing business processes and providing a graphical display associated with a user interface (UI) for a user in a client program executing on a client frontend device storing metadata associated with the UI for the client frontend device may be initiated, the metadata including a declaration of the declared host component model and a declaration of the abstract class definition. Access to data and functionality of the host software application may be obtained via the customized application. Customized output may be provided that is different from host output provided by the host software application, the customized output generated by accessing, via the abstract class definition, the declared host component model, for accessing the same data and functionality that is accessed by the host software application.

Abstract: A system for extending a business object used in a user interface. The system includes a service layer comprising the business object. The system also includes a models framework comprising a meta model including business data of the business object, wherein the meta model is extended for use in the user interface. The system further includes a processing engine for generating the user interface, wherein the processing engine provides a platform for extending the meta model for use in the user interface.

Abstract: A schema builder includes a read service for reading data from a multi-node hierarchical deep schema configured database and a write service for writing data to the multi-node hierarchical deep schema configured database. A transformation module transforms schemas between multi-node hierarchical deep schemas and a flat schema, and stores meta data to record a structure of the multi-node hierarchical deep schema.