CA2535131C - Data-driven actions for network forms - Google Patents
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Abstract
Systems and/or methods are described that enable a data-driven action associated with altering a data instance of a network form without altering and/or having access to the data instance. These systems and/or methods, in one embodiment, render a result of a data-driven action for a network form without transforming the network form's data instance. In another embodiment, the systems and/or methods map a data-driven action to a view-centric logical representation of the electronic form.
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,1 TECHNICAL FIELD
2 This invention relates to actions for network forms.
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4 BACKGROUND
Electronic forms are commonly used to collect information. Electronic 6 forms may be used locally or over a communication network, such as an intranet 7 or the Internet. For electronic forms used locally, a user's computer locally 8 accesses view information and data information about an electronic form.
With 9 this view information, the user's computer may enable the user to view and enter data into the electronic form. With this data information, the user's computer may enable data actions for the electronic form, like validating data entered into a field, 12 adding data from multiple fields and populating the result into another field, and 13 the like.
14 For electronic forms used with a network, a user's computer communicates is with a network computer to enable use of the electronic form. In so doing, often 16 the user's network browser receives view information but not data information 17 from the network computer. This view information may be used by the user's 18 network browser to permit the user to view and enter information into the 19 electronic form.
To enable data actions for the electronic form, the user's network browser 21 often needs to communicate with the network computer for each data action. A
22 user may, for instance, enter a price for a product in one data-entry field of a 23 network form and a quantity of these products into another data-entry field. A data 24 action may calculate a total price by multiplying the product's price by its quantity.
To present this total price in the form, often the user's network browser sends the I ee & Hayes PLLC 1 I price and the quantity to the network computer and waits for the network 2 computer to calculate the total, create new view information for the entire form but 3 now including this total, and send it to the network browser. The network browser 4 may then present the total to the user based on this new view information.
Communicating with the network computer, however, may slow the user's 6 network browser enough to negatively affect the user's editing experience.
In 7 some cases, the network computer may take an appreciable amount of time to a receive the request from the browser, perform the data action, and send new view 9 information to the browser. Also, communicating with the network computer may io be slow because of the network or how the browser communicates with it (e.g., u with a dial-up modem), thereby potentially affecting a user's editing experience.' 12 = In addition, having the network computer perform data actions expends 13 some of the network computer's resources. Expending these resources may slow 14 or inhibit the network computer's ability to service other users.
Accordingly, this invention arose out of concerns associated with 16 performing data actions for network forms. ' 18 -SUMMARY .
19 Systems and/or methods ("tools") are described that enable a data-driven action associated with altering a data instance of a network form without altering 21 and/or having access to the data instance.
According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system comprising: one or more processors; one or more computer-readable storage media having stored thereon computer-readable instructions therein that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform acts including: obtaining, over a network from a server configured to maintain a data instance of a network form, a downloaded data instance of the network form;
rendering an editable view of the network form, the editable view of the network form being derived at the computing device from the downloaded data instance of the network form by: extracting one or more navigation paths configured to map one or more data-centric data driven actions to the data instance; and transforming the one or more data-centric data driven actions to corresponding view-centric data driven actions to enable data-driven actions through the editable view of the network form by replacing the extracted one or more navigation paths with corresponding view template paths to map the one or more data-centric data-driven actions to a view template; receiving data through the editable view of a network form, the data capable of driving an action associated with the data instance of the network form maintained at the server if the data alters the data instance; and performing the action through the editable view of the network form using a corresponding said view-centric data driven action without altering the data instance maintained at the server.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided one or more computer-readable storage media having stored thereon computer-readable instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform acts comprising: obtaining, over a network from a server configured to maintain a data instance of a network form, a downloaded data instance of the network form; outputting an editable view of the network form, the editable view of the network form derived at the computing device from the downloaded data instance of the network form by: determining one or more navigation paths to map one or more data-centric data-driven actions to the data instance; extracting the one or more navigation paths; and transforming the one or 2a more data-centric data driven actions to corresponding view-centric data driven actions to enable data-driven actions through the editable view of the network form by replacing the extracted one or more navigation paths with corresponding view template paths to map the one or more data-centric data-driven actions to a view template; receiving a result of a said data-driven action for the network form that is performed through the editable view of the network form using a said view-centric data driven action; and rendering the result of the data-driven action in the editable view of the network form without altering the network form's data instance maintained at the server.
According to still another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method performed by a client computing device comprising:
obtaining, over a network from a server configured to maintain a data instance of a network = form, a downloaded data instance of the network form; outputting an editable view of the network form, the editable view of the network form derived at the computing device from the downloaded data instance of the network form by:
determining one or more navigation paths to map one or more data-centric data-driven actions to the data instance; extracting the one or more navigation paths;
transforming the one or more data-centric data driven actions to corresponding view-centric data driven actions to enable data-driven actions through the editable view of the network form by replacing the extracted one or more navigation paths with corresponding view template paths to map the one or more data-centric data-driven actions to a view template; receiving a result of a said data-driven action for the network form that is performed through the editable view of the network form using a said view-centric data driven action; and rendering the result of the data-driven action in the editable view of the network form without altering the network form's data instance maintained at the server.
= According to yet another aspect of the present invention, there is provided one or more computer-readable storage media having stored thereon computer-readable instructions that, when executed by a network computing device, cause the network computing device to perform acts comprising:
obtaining 2b . .
a first relation for a data-driven action that maps the data-driven action to a data instance of a network form maintained by the network computing device;
acquiring a second relation to map the data-driven action to a view-centric logical representation of the electronic form; sending the view-centric logical representation of the network form to a client device to enable the client device to render a result of the data-driven action.
According to a further aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method comprising using a network computing device configured to serve electronic forms to a client device to perform acts including: obtaining a first relation for a data-driven action that maps the data-driven action to an electronic form's data instance; identifying a second relation to replace the first relation in a view-centric logical representation of the electronic form thereby mapping the data-driven action to the view-centric logical representation; causing communication of the view-centric logical representation of the electronic form to a client device, the client device configured to enable the data-driven action locally using the view centric logical representation in lieu of accessing the data instance over a network.
According to still a further aspect of the present invention, there is provided a network computing device comprising: one or more processors; and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the network computing device to perform acts including: obtaining a view-centric logical representation of an electronic form having a data instance that is controlled under the influence of the network computing; ascertaining a navigation path expression for a data-driven action that maps the data-driven action to the data instance of the electronic form; causing replacement of the navigation path expression in the view-centric logical representation of the electronic form with a transformed path configured to map the data-driven action to the view-centric logical representation; sending the view-centric logical representation of the electronic form having the transformed path to a client device, the client device configured to perform the data-driven action using the view-centric logical representation in lieu of accessing the data instance over a network.
2c BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Fig. 1 illustrates an exemplary operating environment in which various embodiments can operate.
2d Fig. 2 is a flow diagram of an exemplary process for creating a view-centric 2 data-driven action.
3 Fig. 3 illustrates an exemplary view of a network form.
4 Fig. 4 is a flow diagram of an exemplary process for performing a data-driven action associated with altering a data instance of a network form and/or 6 rendering a result of a data-driven action.
7 Fig. 5 illustrates the view of Fig. 3 with edits.
8 Fig. 6 illustrates the view of Fig. 5 with an additional edit and results from 9 performing a data-driven action.
The same numbers are used throughout the disclosure and figures to I reference like components and features.
14 Overview The following disclosure describes one or more tools enabling a data-driven 16 action associated with altering a data instance of a network form without altering 17 and/or having access to the data instance. In one embodiment, a tool performs a 18 data-driven action without local access to a network form's data instance and 19 without communicating non-locally to access the data instance, such as by a roundtrip with a network computer having the data instance.
21 In another embodiment, a tool renders a result of a data-driven action for a 22 network form without transforming the network form's data instance. The tool 23 may do so without necessitating access to and/or an alteration of the data instance.
24 This may permit a user to edit a control in a network form and view the results of a data-driven action driven by the user's edit without requiring that the tool access Lee & Hayes, PLLC 3 j or alter the network form's data instance. This may permit a user to edit the form 2 and view the result of the action driven by that edit without waiting for a roundtrip 3 to a network computer having the data instance. Not having to perform a 4 roundtrip may improve a user's editing experience by making it smoother, faster, and/or more seamless. Not having to perform a roundtrip to view an action's 6 result may also reduce the resources needed by the network computer servicing the 7 network form.
8 In still another embodiment, a tool builds a relation mapping a data-driven 9 action to an electronic form's view template. The tool may do so by transforming an action's data-centric map of an electronic form's data instance to a view-centric II map of the electronic form's view template. This view-centric map may be used, 12 for example, to enable a tool to perform the data-driven action without needing 13 access to the network form's data instance.
Exemplary Operating Environment Before describing the tools in detail, the following discussion of an 17 exemplary operating environment is provided to assist the reader in understanding is where and how the tools may be employed. The description provided below 19 constitutes but one example and is not intended to limit application of the tools to any one particular operating environment.
Figure 1 illustrates one such operating environment generally at 100 22 comprising a computer 102, a communication network 104, and a network 23 computer 106. The computer is shown comprising one or more processor(s) 24 and computer-readable media 110. The processor(s) are capable of accessing and/or executing the computer-readable media. The computer-readable media Lee c9 Hayes, PLLC 4 comprises a network browser 112, an event log 114, and received media 116. The 2 dashed lines between the received media and media of the network computer show 3 that these indicated media may be downloaded by the computer from the network 4 computer.
The communication network enables communication between the computer 6 and the network computer and may comprise one or more of an intranet, like a 7 company's internal network, the Internet, and the like.
8 The network computer is shown comprising computer-readable media 118.
9 This computer-readable media comprises a network form 120 comprising a data instance 122, a schema 124 governing the network form, and data-centric data-ii driven actions 126. The network form's data instance is a particular data instance 12 of the network form; thus, if the structure or data of the network form is changed 13 (such as by a user entering information into a view of the network form), the network form's data instance is altered at some point in time to reflect the change.
The data-centric data-driven actions are actions driven by data changes in the data 16 instance and are mapped to the data instance.
17 The network computer's computer-readable media is also shown comprising view information 128, a view template 130, view-centric actions 132, 19 an actor application 134, and initial data 136. The view information, view template, view-centric actions, actor application, and initial data may be combined 21 or separate.
22 The view information is information sufficient for the network browser to display an editable view of the network form. This view information may also be 24 sufficient for the network browser and/or the actor application to display an alteration to the editable view resulting from execution of an action. In one Lee & Hayes, PL1 C 5 .1 embodiment, the view information comprises HyperText Machine Language 2 (HTML) resulting from a transformation declared in XML Stylesheet Language 3 Transformation (XSLT) of an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) embodiment 4 of the data instance. This HTML is usable by the network browser to display the network form. Also in this embodiment, the network form's schema comprises 6 XML Schema (XSD). This schema may comprise data-centric actions to validate 7 the network form.
8 The view template comprises a view-centric logical representation of the 9 network form. The view template's structure is, in one embodiment, one in which view information may be mapped sufficient for the actor application and/or the browser to build a view of the network form. The view template's structure may 12 also, in another embodiment, be one in which actions are related sufficient for the 13 actor application to perform actions in response to a user's interaction with a 14 portion of the view template.
The view-centric actions comprise data-driven actions, which may be 16 identified with or mapped to a position or node in the view template.
17 The actor application, in conjunction with or separate from the network 18 browser, is capable of performing data-driven actions without altering and/or 19 accessing the network form's data instance 122.
The initial data comprises stored data, such as default data. Default data 21 may comprise, for example, values for simple fields (like date, currency, and name 22 fields), and a number of repetitions for lists, tables, and rows. Other stored data 23 may comprise data previously entered into the network form, such as when a form 24 is altered, submitted, and later re-opened for viewing or further editing.
Lee & Hayes, PLLC 6 1 Various embodiments of these elements, and particularly an exemplary 2 process for creating view-centric data-driven actions, are set forth in greater detail 3 below. After describing this process, exemplary tools enabling these and other 4 actions are described.
6 Data-Driven Actions 7 Many data-driven actions for electronic forms are related to a form's data 8 instance, such as by being mapped to the form's data instance. But this relation 9 may require accessing the data instance, which may be undesirable for electronic forms accessed over a network.
An exemplary process 200 for creating a view-centric data-driven action is 12 shown in Figure 2 and described below. This process creates a view-centric data-13 driven action by transforming an existing data-centric data-driven action having a 14 relation to a network form's data instance to a data-driven action having a relation to the network form's view template. Process 200 is illustrated as a series of 16 blocks representing individual operations or acts performed by elements of the 17 operating environment 100 of Figure 1, such as actor application 134.
This and 18 other processes described herein may be implemented in any suitable hardware, 19 software, firmware, or combination thereof; in the case of software and firmware, these processes may represent a set of operations implemented as computer-21 executable instructions stored in computer-readable media 118 and executable by 22 processor(s) of network computer 106 and/or in computer-readable media 110 and 23 executable by processors 108.
24 To illustrate the process 200 a purchase order 300 showing an example of network form 120 is set forth in Figure 3. In the purchase order, a view of Lee & Hayes, PLLC 7 1 controls are shown, here for a name field 302, a phone field 304, item fields 306a 2 and 306b, quantity fields 308a and 308b, unit price fields 310a and 310b, total 3 fields 312a and 312b, and a grand total field 314. The purchase order's schema, 4 data instance, and view template are helpful in describing the process and so are set forth below.
6 The schema governing the data instance of the network form may be 7 represented as:
root 9 name phone orders 11 order itemid 12 quantity unitPrice 13 total total Lee & &ryes, PIM 8 ,i The data instance governed by this schema may be represented as:
<root>
3 <name></name>
<phone></phone>
<orders>
<order>
<itemid></itemid>
6 <quantity></quantity>
<unitPrice></unitPrice>
7 <total></total>
</order>
8 <order>
<itemid></itemid>
<quantity></quantity>
<unitPrice></unitPrice>
<total></total>
11 </order>
</orders>
12 <total></total>
13 </root>
And, the view template for this form may be represented as:
17 V1 - /root T1 - name 18 T2 - phone R1 - orders/order 19 T1 - itemid T2 - quantity T3 - price 21 T4 - total T3 - total Returning to Figure 2, at block 202 a tool (e.g., actor application 134) finds a relation mapping a data-driven action (e.g., one of the data-centric data-driven Lee&Nayes,PlIC 9 0104060908 APPLICATION - 311728.DOC
actions 126 of Figure 1) to data instance 122. This relation may comprise a 2 navigation path, such as an XML path language (XPath) expression.
3 Continuing the illustrated embodiment, assume that the data instance has 4 two data-centric data-driven actions. These actions may be represented as:
target="/root/orders/order/total"
6 expression=". ./quantity *../unitPrice"
8 and target="/root/total"
expression="sum(../orders/order/total)"
The first action is structured to multiply the data in the data instance's quantity node by the data in the data instance's unit price node. The second action 14 =
is structured to sum all of the data in the data instance's total nodes that are child nodes to the orders node.
The navigation paths may be extracted from these data-centric data-driven actions, which in this case are )(Path expressions. The tools extract the following )(Paths:
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1 As shown, these XPaths map to the data instance. The first maps to the two 2 total nodes that are children to the "orders" node (rendered as the total fields 312a 3 and 312b in Figure 3). The second maps to the total node that is a child of just the 4 root node (rendered as the grand total field 314 in Figure 3).
At block 204, the tool builds a view template path corresponding to the 6 navigation path. The tool may correlate the navigation path to the view template 7 to transform the navigation path into the view template path. The tool may also 8 compare the portion of the data instance mapped by the navigation path to the 9 structure of the view template. If the tool finds a node of the view template that corresponds to the mapped portion of the data instance, the tool may build a view II template path mapping this node.
Continuing the illustrated embodiment, the tool determines which view 13 template node corresponds to the data instance node mapped by the navigation 14 path. The view template may be represented as:
v1 - /root 16 T1 - name T2 - phone R1 - orders/order T1 - itemid T2 - quantity 19 T3 - price T4 - total T3 - total Lee & Hayev, PI LC 11 1 The tool determines that the data instance node mapped by the navigation 2 path of: "/root/orders/order/total", which is:
<root><orders><order><total></total>
4 </order></orders></root>
6 corresponds in the view template to:
Similarly, the tool determines that the data instance node for the second data-driven action corresponds to:
14 Alternatively, the tool transforms the navigation path by determining the node of the view template corresponding to the schema node mapped by the 16 navigation path. In some cases the structure of the schema governing the 17 electronic form is more easily or accurately parsed, thereby making the tool's 18 determination easier or more accurate. As shown above, correlating the schema 19 node of "/root/orders/order/total" may be correlated to:
21 V1 - /root R1 - orders/order 22 T4 - total 24 to find "V1/R1 /T4" of the view template.
Lee & Hayes, PLLC 12 1 In some cases, no view template node corresponds with the data instance 2 node mapped by the navigation path. One such case is where a data instance node 3 to which an action is mapped is not capable of affecting the form's view.
If a node 4 of a data instance (or schema) has a related action that alters data in a node that is not viewable, for instance, then that action may not have a corresponding node in 6 the view template.
7 If the tool determines that the mapped-to portion of the data instance does 8 not have a corresponding node in the view template, the tool does not proceed. If 9 it determines otherwise, it proceeds to block 206. In the illustrated embodiment, both of the data-centric data-driven actions are capable of affecting the view and II have a corresponding node in the view template. The tool builds view template 12 paths to these corresponding nodes.
13 At block 206, the tool replaces the navigation path mapping the data-driven 14 action to the data instance with a view template path mapping the data-driven action to the view template.
16 Continuing the illustrated embodiment, the navigation paths for the data-17 driven actions are:
/root/orders/order/total and 22 /root/total Lee&mosiuc 13 The tools replace these navigation paths with view template paths. Thus, 2 the data-centric data-driven actions are transformed to view-centric data-driven 3 actions, such as:
target="V1/R1/T4"
expression=". ./T2 *../T3"
7 and 9 target="V1/T3" expression="sum(../R1/T4)"
At block 208, the tool may, in some embodiments, annotate the view 12 template with the data-driven action. The view template paths indicate a node or 13 nodes of the view template to which an action is mapped. The tool may annotate 14 these nodes to indicate that the action may be triggered by a change to these nodes.
The view template may also be annotated with the action itself, thereby combining the action and the view template.
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Continuing the illustrated embodiment, the tools annotate the view template 2 with the view-centric actions:
V1 - /root T1-name T2 - phone R1 - orders/order 6 T1 - itemid T2 - quantity 7 data action =
8 target =
../T4 expression = Multiply(Select(../T2), Select(../T3)) 11 T3 - price data action =
target =
13 ../T4 14 expression = Multiply(Select(../T2), Select(../T3)) T4 - total 16 data action =
17 target =
../../T3 expression 19 = Sum (Select ( . . /R1 /T4 ) ) T3 - total This annotated view template indicates that data for the node "1.71 /R1 /T2"
(shown with the quantity field 308a) and "v1 /R1 /T3" (shown with the quantity field 310b) may be multiplied and the result placed in the "V1 /R1 /T4" node Iee&Ilayes,PLW 15 (shown with the total field 312a). The view template also indicates the same for 2 each iteration of these nodes (e.g., fields 308b, 310b, and 312b).
3 The view template also indicates that data for each of nodes "V1/R1/T4"
4 (shown as total fields 312a and 312b) may be summed and the result placed in another node, that of "V1 /T3" (shown with grand total field 314).
7 Performing a Data-Driven Action For a Network Form 8 As part of an exemplary process 400 shown in Figure 4, the tools perform 9 data-driven actions associated with altering a data instance of a network form without altering and/or having access to the data instance. Also in this process, a tool renders a result of a data-driven action for a network form without 12 transforming the network form's data instance. Process 400 is illustrated as a 13 series of blocks representing individual operations or acts performed by elements 14 of the operating environment 100 of Figure 1, such as actor application 134.
At block 402, network browser 112 receives a user's choice to edit a 16 network form. Assume, by way of example, that the user is browsing forms 17 available over a network and selects to edit purchase order 300 of Figure 3.
18 At block 404, the network browser receives information sufficient to enable 19 computer 102 to display and receive edits to the network form. This information may comprise computer-readable media from network computer 106 of Figure 1, 21 such as view information 128, view template 130, view-centric actions 132, actor 22 application 134, and initial data 136. With the view information and view 23 template, the actor application and/or the network browser displays an editable 24 view of the form.
Lee & Hayes, PI LC 16 1 In one embodiment, the actor application builds an editable view of the 2 form by mapping pieces of the view information to the view template. These 3 pieces are viewable pieces, such as HTML, which the actor application may concatenate into an overall view of the form. These view pieces may comprise, for instance, renderable HTML for data-entry fields, buttons, and other controls.
6 At block 406, the computer renders the network form chosen by the user.
7 In the illustrated embodiment, the actor application renders the purchase order of 8 Figure 3.
9 At block 408, the network browser receives an edit to a control of the network form. The user may edit the form by entering data into a field, selecting a it button, and the like.
Continuing the illustrated embodiment, the network browser receives data 13 entered into name field 302. This data is pushed into the view, shown in Figure 5.
14 At block 410, the actor application determines if an action is associated with the edit. In one embodiment, the actor application analyzes actions to determine if any are associated with (e.g., map to) the node edited by the user. In 17 another embodiment, the actor application navigates the view template to find actions associated with the edit (if there are any). If there are no data-driven 19 actions associated with the edit, the actor application returns to block 408 to receive additional edits from the user. If there are data-driven actions, the actor 21 application proceeds to block 412 (or skips to block 414).
Continuing the illustrated embodiment, the actor application navigates the 23 view template annotated with actions (shown above) to determine if any action is associated with "v1/T1" node (the "name node"), rendered as the name field 302 in Figures 3 and 5. This node does not have an action associated with it. The Lee & Hayes, PLLC 17 1 actor application then returns to block 408. The network browser receives other 2 edits from the user; entry of the user's phone number into the phone field 304, 3 shown in Figure 5, and an item identifier into item node 306a, also shown in 4 Figure 5. These entries are also not associated with a data-driven action.
The user next enters a quantity into the quantity field 308a, received at 6 block 408, and shown in Figure 5. The actor application determines if an action is 7 associated with this edit at block 410.
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1 Continuing the illustrated embodiment, the actor application navigates the 2 view template to determine if an action is associated with the received edit. The 3 annotated view template may be represented as:
V1 - /root T1-name T2 - phone R1 - orders/order 7 T1 - itemid T2 - quantity 8 data action =
{
9 target =
../T4 expression 11 = Multiply(Select(../T2), Select(../T3)) 12 T3 - price data action =
target =
14 ../T4 expression = Multiply(Select(../T2), Select(../T3)) T4 - total 17 data action =
{
18 target =
19 ../../T3 expression = Sum(Select(../R1/T4)) 21 T3 - total Lee&110yes,PLLC 19 1 The actor application navigates this view template and determines that the following data-driven action is associated with the user's edit to the quantity node:
data action =
target =
../T4 6 expression = Multiply (Select ( . . /T2) , Select ( . . /T3) ) 9 At block 412, the actor application determines whether or not performing the associated action will affect the view. Alternatively, the actor application may 11 skip block 412 to block 414.
12 The actor application may determine if the action will affect the view by navigating the view template to determine which nodes of the view template may 14 be changed by performing the action.
In the ongoing embodiment, the actor application determines that the data-16 driven action associated with the quantity node multiplies data in the "V1/R1/1112" node by the data in the "v1 /R1 /T3" node, and places this result in 18 the target node "v1 /R1 /T4". Thus, the data "17" in quantity field 308a is multiplied by no data (zero) in the unit price field 3 10a, the result of which ("0") is to be placed in the total field 312a. In this case, the result of performing the action 21 does not change the view. The total field 312a already has a zero. In this case the 22 actor application may forgo performing the action associated with this quantity 23 node and/or other actions, such as updating data for the form (i.e., do not perform 24 block 416) and rendering the results of performing this action (i.e., do not perform Lee & Hayes, PL1 C 20 1 block 418). If the actor application forgoes performing the action and/or these 2 other actions, it returns to block 408.
Returning to block 408, the network browser receives another edit, this 4 time entry of a unit price to the unit price field 310a. The price is shown in Figure 6 at field 310a ("299.99").
6 The actor application then determines at block 410 that the action is 7 associated with the edit. Continuing the illustrated embodiment, the actor application navigates the view template annotated with actions (shown above) and determines that an action is associated with "In /R1 /T3" node (the "price"
node).
Navigating the view template given above, the actor application determines that the following data-driven action is associated with the user's edit to the price 12 node:
data action =
target =
../T4 16 expression = Multiply(Select(../T2), Select(../T3)) 19 The actor application then determines that the action will affect the view. It does so by navigating the view template to determine which nodes of the view 21 template may be changed by performing the action.
22 In the ongoing embodiment, the actor application determines that the data-23 driven action associated with the quantity node multiplies data in the "V1/R1/T2" node by the data in the "V1 /R1 /T3" node, and places this result in the target node "v1 /R1 /T4". Thus, the data "17" shown in quantity field 308a is Lee & Hayes, PI I C 21 multiplied by "299.99" shown in unit price field 310a, the result of which may be 2 different that the zero currently rendered in the total field 312a.
3 At block 414 the actor application performs the action without accessing 4 and/or altering the form's data instance. In this exemplary process, the actor application uses the view template rather than a data instance, thereby freeing the 6 actor application from having to access or alter the form's data instance. The actor application may perform the data-driven action, in some cases, without any non-8 local communication, thereby potentially improving the user's editing experience.
9 In one embodiment, the actor application performs the action by executing an expression and locating a node of the view template into which the result may be rendered.
12 In the ongoing embodiment, the actor application multiplies the data entered into the quantity field, "17", by the data entered into the unit price field 14 "299.99", for a result of "5099.83".
At block 416, the actor application updates the data for the form. This data 16 for the form may be locally stored, which may permit fewer roundtrips to the network computer. In the ongoing embodiment, the actor application updates the 18 zero for the first total node (rendered as the total field 312a) with the result "5099.83". The actor application may proceed directly to block 418 to render this result in the view, but may also first determine if this data change triggers any 21 other actions. If so, the actor application may perform all of the triggered actions 22 (some actions may trigger another action, which triggers another action, and so 23 forth) before rendering the different actions' results.
Similarly to block 408, 410, 412, and 414, the actor application may proceed to receive data (e.g., a result from a performed action), determine in the Lee & flayei, PI I C 22 node into which the data is received is associated with an action, determine if that 2 action may affect the view, and perform the action. Thus, the actor application in 3 the ongoing embodiment receives the result of the action performed above to the 4 total node. The actor application may then determine whether or not the node to which this "edit" is made (e.g., a result automatically received from performance 6 of the action) has another action associated with it. If so, it may then determine 7 whether or not performing that other action will affect the view, and if so, may 8 then perform the other action.
9 In the ongoing embodiment, the actor application determines that the result for the total node has another associated action. This action may be represented 11 as:
data action =
target =
../../T3 expression = Sum(Select(../R1/T4)) 18 Thus, the total node ("v1 /R1 /T4") has an associated data-driven action.
19 This action sums the data of the total node and all other total nodes.
The result of this summation is then targeted for the "v1/T3" total node (rendered as the grand 21 total field 314).
22 The actor application next determines that performing this summation 23 action may affect the view. The actor application performs this action, summing 24 the data of the first and second total nodes, which are "5099.83" and "0", for a result of "5099.83".
Lee & Have. PLLC 23 The actor application may record this data entered into and resulting from 2 actions, such as in a locally stored hierarchically structured data tree or event log 3 114. The data tree, with the data and results of the ongoing embodiment, may be 4 represented as:
(V1) 6 (Dave, T1) (425-555-1234, T2) (R11) (1756, T1) (17, T2) 9 (299.99, T3) (5099.83, T4) (R1_2) (, T1) 11 , T2) 12 (, T3) , T4) 13 (5099.83, T3) At block 418 the actor application and/or network browser renders the 16 result of the data-driven action(s) performed without transforming the form's data 17 instance. The actor application may also, in another embodiment, render changes 18 to the view without accessing or altering the data instance.
19 The actor application may keep track of which controls in the view need to be updated by marking nodes associated with these controls, and then rendering 21 each of these nodes for new data once all of the actions have been performed (but 22 with results being rendered).
Alternatively, the actor application may re-render all of the form, though 24 this may take additional time or resources compared with selective re-rendering.
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1 To selectively re-render parts of the view, the actor application may 2 determine which of the pieces of information from view information 128 of 3 Figure 1 are associated with the nodes of the view template that have been 4 changed, such as by marking these nodes dirty. For the above view template, the marked nodes are "v1 /R1_1 /T4" and "V1 /T3". The actor application may then 6 push the results into these pieces of the view or re-render each of these pieces with 7 the results added.
8 As shown in Figure 6, the view of the purchase order shows the user the 9 results of data-driven actions. These results, shown in the total field 3 12a and the grand total field 3 14, are accurate renderings of how the view may look if the data-driven actions were instead associated with the data instance. Thus, this view may 12 be identical to the view shown by placing the results of these actions into a data 13 instance, transforming the data instance, and rendering the transformation.
14 In some cases, however, a data-driven action may require communication across a network, such as to access a data instance for the form or a database 16 having data needed to perform an action (e.g., validation of entered data against 17 data in a database). In these cases, the actor application may access the network, 18 thereby forgoing many of the blocks of process 400.
19 The actor application and/or network browser may record the user's edits and/or the results of performing various actions. This record of edits and/or results 21 may be sent to network computer 106, such as when sending it will not 22 appreciably hinder a user's editing experience, or on submittal by the user.
23 The network computer, responsive to receiving this event log, alters the 24 data instance of the network form. It may do so infrequently, thereby potentially reducing the resources needed to service the network form.
Lee & Hayes, PLLC 25 1 For the ongoing illustration, the actor application records the user's edits to 2 the view into event log 114 and communicates this event log to the network 3 computer. The network computer updates data instance 122 with information 4 from the event log. The data instance represented above at the beginning of the description relating to Figure 2 may be changed by the network computer using 6 the event log, in this case to:
<root>
8 <name>Dave</name>
<phone>425-555-1234</phone>
<orders>
<order>
<itemid>1756</itemid>
11 <quantity>17</quantity>
12 <unitPrice>299.99</unitPrice>
<total>5099.83</total>
</order>
14 <order>
<itemid></itemid>
<quantity></quantity>
<unitPrice></unitPrice>
16 <total></total>
</order>
17 </orders>
<total>5099.83</total>
</root>
Conclusion Systems and/or methods are described that enable a data-driven action 23 associated with altering a data instance of a network form without altering and/or 24 having access to the data instance. Although the invention has been described in language specific to structural features and/or methodological steps, it is to be Lee&HaYes.Pac 26 1 understood that the invention defined in the appended claims is not necessarily 2 limited to the specific features or steps described. Rather, the specific features and 3 steps are disclosed as preferred forms of implementing the claimed invention.
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Electronic forms are commonly used to collect information. Electronic 6 forms may be used locally or over a communication network, such as an intranet 7 or the Internet. For electronic forms used locally, a user's computer locally 8 accesses view information and data information about an electronic form.
With 9 this view information, the user's computer may enable the user to view and enter data into the electronic form. With this data information, the user's computer may enable data actions for the electronic form, like validating data entered into a field, 12 adding data from multiple fields and populating the result into another field, and 13 the like.
14 For electronic forms used with a network, a user's computer communicates is with a network computer to enable use of the electronic form. In so doing, often 16 the user's network browser receives view information but not data information 17 from the network computer. This view information may be used by the user's 18 network browser to permit the user to view and enter information into the 19 electronic form.
To enable data actions for the electronic form, the user's network browser 21 often needs to communicate with the network computer for each data action. A
22 user may, for instance, enter a price for a product in one data-entry field of a 23 network form and a quantity of these products into another data-entry field. A data 24 action may calculate a total price by multiplying the product's price by its quantity.
To present this total price in the form, often the user's network browser sends the I ee & Hayes PLLC 1 I price and the quantity to the network computer and waits for the network 2 computer to calculate the total, create new view information for the entire form but 3 now including this total, and send it to the network browser. The network browser 4 may then present the total to the user based on this new view information.
Communicating with the network computer, however, may slow the user's 6 network browser enough to negatively affect the user's editing experience.
In 7 some cases, the network computer may take an appreciable amount of time to a receive the request from the browser, perform the data action, and send new view 9 information to the browser. Also, communicating with the network computer may io be slow because of the network or how the browser communicates with it (e.g., u with a dial-up modem), thereby potentially affecting a user's editing experience.' 12 = In addition, having the network computer perform data actions expends 13 some of the network computer's resources. Expending these resources may slow 14 or inhibit the network computer's ability to service other users.
Accordingly, this invention arose out of concerns associated with 16 performing data actions for network forms. ' 18 -SUMMARY .
19 Systems and/or methods ("tools") are described that enable a data-driven action associated with altering a data instance of a network form without altering 21 and/or having access to the data instance.
According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system comprising: one or more processors; one or more computer-readable storage media having stored thereon computer-readable instructions therein that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform acts including: obtaining, over a network from a server configured to maintain a data instance of a network form, a downloaded data instance of the network form;
rendering an editable view of the network form, the editable view of the network form being derived at the computing device from the downloaded data instance of the network form by: extracting one or more navigation paths configured to map one or more data-centric data driven actions to the data instance; and transforming the one or more data-centric data driven actions to corresponding view-centric data driven actions to enable data-driven actions through the editable view of the network form by replacing the extracted one or more navigation paths with corresponding view template paths to map the one or more data-centric data-driven actions to a view template; receiving data through the editable view of a network form, the data capable of driving an action associated with the data instance of the network form maintained at the server if the data alters the data instance; and performing the action through the editable view of the network form using a corresponding said view-centric data driven action without altering the data instance maintained at the server.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided one or more computer-readable storage media having stored thereon computer-readable instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform acts comprising: obtaining, over a network from a server configured to maintain a data instance of a network form, a downloaded data instance of the network form; outputting an editable view of the network form, the editable view of the network form derived at the computing device from the downloaded data instance of the network form by: determining one or more navigation paths to map one or more data-centric data-driven actions to the data instance; extracting the one or more navigation paths; and transforming the one or 2a more data-centric data driven actions to corresponding view-centric data driven actions to enable data-driven actions through the editable view of the network form by replacing the extracted one or more navigation paths with corresponding view template paths to map the one or more data-centric data-driven actions to a view template; receiving a result of a said data-driven action for the network form that is performed through the editable view of the network form using a said view-centric data driven action; and rendering the result of the data-driven action in the editable view of the network form without altering the network form's data instance maintained at the server.
According to still another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method performed by a client computing device comprising:
obtaining, over a network from a server configured to maintain a data instance of a network = form, a downloaded data instance of the network form; outputting an editable view of the network form, the editable view of the network form derived at the computing device from the downloaded data instance of the network form by:
determining one or more navigation paths to map one or more data-centric data-driven actions to the data instance; extracting the one or more navigation paths;
transforming the one or more data-centric data driven actions to corresponding view-centric data driven actions to enable data-driven actions through the editable view of the network form by replacing the extracted one or more navigation paths with corresponding view template paths to map the one or more data-centric data-driven actions to a view template; receiving a result of a said data-driven action for the network form that is performed through the editable view of the network form using a said view-centric data driven action; and rendering the result of the data-driven action in the editable view of the network form without altering the network form's data instance maintained at the server.
= According to yet another aspect of the present invention, there is provided one or more computer-readable storage media having stored thereon computer-readable instructions that, when executed by a network computing device, cause the network computing device to perform acts comprising:
obtaining 2b . .
a first relation for a data-driven action that maps the data-driven action to a data instance of a network form maintained by the network computing device;
acquiring a second relation to map the data-driven action to a view-centric logical representation of the electronic form; sending the view-centric logical representation of the network form to a client device to enable the client device to render a result of the data-driven action.
According to a further aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method comprising using a network computing device configured to serve electronic forms to a client device to perform acts including: obtaining a first relation for a data-driven action that maps the data-driven action to an electronic form's data instance; identifying a second relation to replace the first relation in a view-centric logical representation of the electronic form thereby mapping the data-driven action to the view-centric logical representation; causing communication of the view-centric logical representation of the electronic form to a client device, the client device configured to enable the data-driven action locally using the view centric logical representation in lieu of accessing the data instance over a network.
According to still a further aspect of the present invention, there is provided a network computing device comprising: one or more processors; and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the network computing device to perform acts including: obtaining a view-centric logical representation of an electronic form having a data instance that is controlled under the influence of the network computing; ascertaining a navigation path expression for a data-driven action that maps the data-driven action to the data instance of the electronic form; causing replacement of the navigation path expression in the view-centric logical representation of the electronic form with a transformed path configured to map the data-driven action to the view-centric logical representation; sending the view-centric logical representation of the electronic form having the transformed path to a client device, the client device configured to perform the data-driven action using the view-centric logical representation in lieu of accessing the data instance over a network.
2c BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Fig. 1 illustrates an exemplary operating environment in which various embodiments can operate.
2d Fig. 2 is a flow diagram of an exemplary process for creating a view-centric 2 data-driven action.
3 Fig. 3 illustrates an exemplary view of a network form.
4 Fig. 4 is a flow diagram of an exemplary process for performing a data-driven action associated with altering a data instance of a network form and/or 6 rendering a result of a data-driven action.
7 Fig. 5 illustrates the view of Fig. 3 with edits.
8 Fig. 6 illustrates the view of Fig. 5 with an additional edit and results from 9 performing a data-driven action.
The same numbers are used throughout the disclosure and figures to I reference like components and features.
14 Overview The following disclosure describes one or more tools enabling a data-driven 16 action associated with altering a data instance of a network form without altering 17 and/or having access to the data instance. In one embodiment, a tool performs a 18 data-driven action without local access to a network form's data instance and 19 without communicating non-locally to access the data instance, such as by a roundtrip with a network computer having the data instance.
21 In another embodiment, a tool renders a result of a data-driven action for a 22 network form without transforming the network form's data instance. The tool 23 may do so without necessitating access to and/or an alteration of the data instance.
24 This may permit a user to edit a control in a network form and view the results of a data-driven action driven by the user's edit without requiring that the tool access Lee & Hayes, PLLC 3 j or alter the network form's data instance. This may permit a user to edit the form 2 and view the result of the action driven by that edit without waiting for a roundtrip 3 to a network computer having the data instance. Not having to perform a 4 roundtrip may improve a user's editing experience by making it smoother, faster, and/or more seamless. Not having to perform a roundtrip to view an action's 6 result may also reduce the resources needed by the network computer servicing the 7 network form.
8 In still another embodiment, a tool builds a relation mapping a data-driven 9 action to an electronic form's view template. The tool may do so by transforming an action's data-centric map of an electronic form's data instance to a view-centric II map of the electronic form's view template. This view-centric map may be used, 12 for example, to enable a tool to perform the data-driven action without needing 13 access to the network form's data instance.
Exemplary Operating Environment Before describing the tools in detail, the following discussion of an 17 exemplary operating environment is provided to assist the reader in understanding is where and how the tools may be employed. The description provided below 19 constitutes but one example and is not intended to limit application of the tools to any one particular operating environment.
Figure 1 illustrates one such operating environment generally at 100 22 comprising a computer 102, a communication network 104, and a network 23 computer 106. The computer is shown comprising one or more processor(s) 24 and computer-readable media 110. The processor(s) are capable of accessing and/or executing the computer-readable media. The computer-readable media Lee c9 Hayes, PLLC 4 comprises a network browser 112, an event log 114, and received media 116. The 2 dashed lines between the received media and media of the network computer show 3 that these indicated media may be downloaded by the computer from the network 4 computer.
The communication network enables communication between the computer 6 and the network computer and may comprise one or more of an intranet, like a 7 company's internal network, the Internet, and the like.
8 The network computer is shown comprising computer-readable media 118.
9 This computer-readable media comprises a network form 120 comprising a data instance 122, a schema 124 governing the network form, and data-centric data-ii driven actions 126. The network form's data instance is a particular data instance 12 of the network form; thus, if the structure or data of the network form is changed 13 (such as by a user entering information into a view of the network form), the network form's data instance is altered at some point in time to reflect the change.
The data-centric data-driven actions are actions driven by data changes in the data 16 instance and are mapped to the data instance.
17 The network computer's computer-readable media is also shown comprising view information 128, a view template 130, view-centric actions 132, 19 an actor application 134, and initial data 136. The view information, view template, view-centric actions, actor application, and initial data may be combined 21 or separate.
22 The view information is information sufficient for the network browser to display an editable view of the network form. This view information may also be 24 sufficient for the network browser and/or the actor application to display an alteration to the editable view resulting from execution of an action. In one Lee & Hayes, PL1 C 5 .1 embodiment, the view information comprises HyperText Machine Language 2 (HTML) resulting from a transformation declared in XML Stylesheet Language 3 Transformation (XSLT) of an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) embodiment 4 of the data instance. This HTML is usable by the network browser to display the network form. Also in this embodiment, the network form's schema comprises 6 XML Schema (XSD). This schema may comprise data-centric actions to validate 7 the network form.
8 The view template comprises a view-centric logical representation of the 9 network form. The view template's structure is, in one embodiment, one in which view information may be mapped sufficient for the actor application and/or the browser to build a view of the network form. The view template's structure may 12 also, in another embodiment, be one in which actions are related sufficient for the 13 actor application to perform actions in response to a user's interaction with a 14 portion of the view template.
The view-centric actions comprise data-driven actions, which may be 16 identified with or mapped to a position or node in the view template.
17 The actor application, in conjunction with or separate from the network 18 browser, is capable of performing data-driven actions without altering and/or 19 accessing the network form's data instance 122.
The initial data comprises stored data, such as default data. Default data 21 may comprise, for example, values for simple fields (like date, currency, and name 22 fields), and a number of repetitions for lists, tables, and rows. Other stored data 23 may comprise data previously entered into the network form, such as when a form 24 is altered, submitted, and later re-opened for viewing or further editing.
Lee & Hayes, PLLC 6 1 Various embodiments of these elements, and particularly an exemplary 2 process for creating view-centric data-driven actions, are set forth in greater detail 3 below. After describing this process, exemplary tools enabling these and other 4 actions are described.
6 Data-Driven Actions 7 Many data-driven actions for electronic forms are related to a form's data 8 instance, such as by being mapped to the form's data instance. But this relation 9 may require accessing the data instance, which may be undesirable for electronic forms accessed over a network.
An exemplary process 200 for creating a view-centric data-driven action is 12 shown in Figure 2 and described below. This process creates a view-centric data-13 driven action by transforming an existing data-centric data-driven action having a 14 relation to a network form's data instance to a data-driven action having a relation to the network form's view template. Process 200 is illustrated as a series of 16 blocks representing individual operations or acts performed by elements of the 17 operating environment 100 of Figure 1, such as actor application 134.
This and 18 other processes described herein may be implemented in any suitable hardware, 19 software, firmware, or combination thereof; in the case of software and firmware, these processes may represent a set of operations implemented as computer-21 executable instructions stored in computer-readable media 118 and executable by 22 processor(s) of network computer 106 and/or in computer-readable media 110 and 23 executable by processors 108.
24 To illustrate the process 200 a purchase order 300 showing an example of network form 120 is set forth in Figure 3. In the purchase order, a view of Lee & Hayes, PLLC 7 1 controls are shown, here for a name field 302, a phone field 304, item fields 306a 2 and 306b, quantity fields 308a and 308b, unit price fields 310a and 310b, total 3 fields 312a and 312b, and a grand total field 314. The purchase order's schema, 4 data instance, and view template are helpful in describing the process and so are set forth below.
6 The schema governing the data instance of the network form may be 7 represented as:
root 9 name phone orders 11 order itemid 12 quantity unitPrice 13 total total Lee & &ryes, PIM 8 ,i The data instance governed by this schema may be represented as:
<root>
3 <name></name>
<phone></phone>
<orders>
<order>
<itemid></itemid>
6 <quantity></quantity>
<unitPrice></unitPrice>
7 <total></total>
</order>
8 <order>
<itemid></itemid>
<quantity></quantity>
<unitPrice></unitPrice>
<total></total>
11 </order>
</orders>
12 <total></total>
13 </root>
And, the view template for this form may be represented as:
17 V1 - /root T1 - name 18 T2 - phone R1 - orders/order 19 T1 - itemid T2 - quantity T3 - price 21 T4 - total T3 - total Returning to Figure 2, at block 202 a tool (e.g., actor application 134) finds a relation mapping a data-driven action (e.g., one of the data-centric data-driven Lee&Nayes,PlIC 9 0104060908 APPLICATION - 311728.DOC
actions 126 of Figure 1) to data instance 122. This relation may comprise a 2 navigation path, such as an XML path language (XPath) expression.
3 Continuing the illustrated embodiment, assume that the data instance has 4 two data-centric data-driven actions. These actions may be represented as:
target="/root/orders/order/total"
6 expression=". ./quantity *../unitPrice"
8 and target="/root/total"
expression="sum(../orders/order/total)"
The first action is structured to multiply the data in the data instance's quantity node by the data in the data instance's unit price node. The second action 14 =
is structured to sum all of the data in the data instance's total nodes that are child nodes to the orders node.
The navigation paths may be extracted from these data-centric data-driven actions, which in this case are )(Path expressions. The tools extract the following )(Paths:
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1 As shown, these XPaths map to the data instance. The first maps to the two 2 total nodes that are children to the "orders" node (rendered as the total fields 312a 3 and 312b in Figure 3). The second maps to the total node that is a child of just the 4 root node (rendered as the grand total field 314 in Figure 3).
At block 204, the tool builds a view template path corresponding to the 6 navigation path. The tool may correlate the navigation path to the view template 7 to transform the navigation path into the view template path. The tool may also 8 compare the portion of the data instance mapped by the navigation path to the 9 structure of the view template. If the tool finds a node of the view template that corresponds to the mapped portion of the data instance, the tool may build a view II template path mapping this node.
Continuing the illustrated embodiment, the tool determines which view 13 template node corresponds to the data instance node mapped by the navigation 14 path. The view template may be represented as:
v1 - /root 16 T1 - name T2 - phone R1 - orders/order T1 - itemid T2 - quantity 19 T3 - price T4 - total T3 - total Lee & Hayev, PI LC 11 1 The tool determines that the data instance node mapped by the navigation 2 path of: "/root/orders/order/total", which is:
<root><orders><order><total></total>
4 </order></orders></root>
6 corresponds in the view template to:
Similarly, the tool determines that the data instance node for the second data-driven action corresponds to:
14 Alternatively, the tool transforms the navigation path by determining the node of the view template corresponding to the schema node mapped by the 16 navigation path. In some cases the structure of the schema governing the 17 electronic form is more easily or accurately parsed, thereby making the tool's 18 determination easier or more accurate. As shown above, correlating the schema 19 node of "/root/orders/order/total" may be correlated to:
21 V1 - /root R1 - orders/order 22 T4 - total 24 to find "V1/R1 /T4" of the view template.
Lee & Hayes, PLLC 12 1 In some cases, no view template node corresponds with the data instance 2 node mapped by the navigation path. One such case is where a data instance node 3 to which an action is mapped is not capable of affecting the form's view.
If a node 4 of a data instance (or schema) has a related action that alters data in a node that is not viewable, for instance, then that action may not have a corresponding node in 6 the view template.
7 If the tool determines that the mapped-to portion of the data instance does 8 not have a corresponding node in the view template, the tool does not proceed. If 9 it determines otherwise, it proceeds to block 206. In the illustrated embodiment, both of the data-centric data-driven actions are capable of affecting the view and II have a corresponding node in the view template. The tool builds view template 12 paths to these corresponding nodes.
13 At block 206, the tool replaces the navigation path mapping the data-driven 14 action to the data instance with a view template path mapping the data-driven action to the view template.
16 Continuing the illustrated embodiment, the navigation paths for the data-17 driven actions are:
/root/orders/order/total and 22 /root/total Lee&mosiuc 13 The tools replace these navigation paths with view template paths. Thus, 2 the data-centric data-driven actions are transformed to view-centric data-driven 3 actions, such as:
target="V1/R1/T4"
expression=". ./T2 *../T3"
7 and 9 target="V1/T3" expression="sum(../R1/T4)"
At block 208, the tool may, in some embodiments, annotate the view 12 template with the data-driven action. The view template paths indicate a node or 13 nodes of the view template to which an action is mapped. The tool may annotate 14 these nodes to indicate that the action may be triggered by a change to these nodes.
The view template may also be annotated with the action itself, thereby combining the action and the view template.
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Continuing the illustrated embodiment, the tools annotate the view template 2 with the view-centric actions:
V1 - /root T1-name T2 - phone R1 - orders/order 6 T1 - itemid T2 - quantity 7 data action =
8 target =
../T4 expression = Multiply(Select(../T2), Select(../T3)) 11 T3 - price data action =
target =
13 ../T4 14 expression = Multiply(Select(../T2), Select(../T3)) T4 - total 16 data action =
17 target =
../../T3 expression 19 = Sum (Select ( . . /R1 /T4 ) ) T3 - total This annotated view template indicates that data for the node "1.71 /R1 /T2"
(shown with the quantity field 308a) and "v1 /R1 /T3" (shown with the quantity field 310b) may be multiplied and the result placed in the "V1 /R1 /T4" node Iee&Ilayes,PLW 15 (shown with the total field 312a). The view template also indicates the same for 2 each iteration of these nodes (e.g., fields 308b, 310b, and 312b).
3 The view template also indicates that data for each of nodes "V1/R1/T4"
4 (shown as total fields 312a and 312b) may be summed and the result placed in another node, that of "V1 /T3" (shown with grand total field 314).
7 Performing a Data-Driven Action For a Network Form 8 As part of an exemplary process 400 shown in Figure 4, the tools perform 9 data-driven actions associated with altering a data instance of a network form without altering and/or having access to the data instance. Also in this process, a tool renders a result of a data-driven action for a network form without 12 transforming the network form's data instance. Process 400 is illustrated as a 13 series of blocks representing individual operations or acts performed by elements 14 of the operating environment 100 of Figure 1, such as actor application 134.
At block 402, network browser 112 receives a user's choice to edit a 16 network form. Assume, by way of example, that the user is browsing forms 17 available over a network and selects to edit purchase order 300 of Figure 3.
18 At block 404, the network browser receives information sufficient to enable 19 computer 102 to display and receive edits to the network form. This information may comprise computer-readable media from network computer 106 of Figure 1, 21 such as view information 128, view template 130, view-centric actions 132, actor 22 application 134, and initial data 136. With the view information and view 23 template, the actor application and/or the network browser displays an editable 24 view of the form.
Lee & Hayes, PI LC 16 1 In one embodiment, the actor application builds an editable view of the 2 form by mapping pieces of the view information to the view template. These 3 pieces are viewable pieces, such as HTML, which the actor application may concatenate into an overall view of the form. These view pieces may comprise, for instance, renderable HTML for data-entry fields, buttons, and other controls.
6 At block 406, the computer renders the network form chosen by the user.
7 In the illustrated embodiment, the actor application renders the purchase order of 8 Figure 3.
9 At block 408, the network browser receives an edit to a control of the network form. The user may edit the form by entering data into a field, selecting a it button, and the like.
Continuing the illustrated embodiment, the network browser receives data 13 entered into name field 302. This data is pushed into the view, shown in Figure 5.
14 At block 410, the actor application determines if an action is associated with the edit. In one embodiment, the actor application analyzes actions to determine if any are associated with (e.g., map to) the node edited by the user. In 17 another embodiment, the actor application navigates the view template to find actions associated with the edit (if there are any). If there are no data-driven 19 actions associated with the edit, the actor application returns to block 408 to receive additional edits from the user. If there are data-driven actions, the actor 21 application proceeds to block 412 (or skips to block 414).
Continuing the illustrated embodiment, the actor application navigates the 23 view template annotated with actions (shown above) to determine if any action is associated with "v1/T1" node (the "name node"), rendered as the name field 302 in Figures 3 and 5. This node does not have an action associated with it. The Lee & Hayes, PLLC 17 1 actor application then returns to block 408. The network browser receives other 2 edits from the user; entry of the user's phone number into the phone field 304, 3 shown in Figure 5, and an item identifier into item node 306a, also shown in 4 Figure 5. These entries are also not associated with a data-driven action.
The user next enters a quantity into the quantity field 308a, received at 6 block 408, and shown in Figure 5. The actor application determines if an action is 7 associated with this edit at block 410.
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1 Continuing the illustrated embodiment, the actor application navigates the 2 view template to determine if an action is associated with the received edit. The 3 annotated view template may be represented as:
V1 - /root T1-name T2 - phone R1 - orders/order 7 T1 - itemid T2 - quantity 8 data action =
{
9 target =
../T4 expression 11 = Multiply(Select(../T2), Select(../T3)) 12 T3 - price data action =
target =
14 ../T4 expression = Multiply(Select(../T2), Select(../T3)) T4 - total 17 data action =
{
18 target =
19 ../../T3 expression = Sum(Select(../R1/T4)) 21 T3 - total Lee&110yes,PLLC 19 1 The actor application navigates this view template and determines that the following data-driven action is associated with the user's edit to the quantity node:
data action =
target =
../T4 6 expression = Multiply (Select ( . . /T2) , Select ( . . /T3) ) 9 At block 412, the actor application determines whether or not performing the associated action will affect the view. Alternatively, the actor application may 11 skip block 412 to block 414.
12 The actor application may determine if the action will affect the view by navigating the view template to determine which nodes of the view template may 14 be changed by performing the action.
In the ongoing embodiment, the actor application determines that the data-16 driven action associated with the quantity node multiplies data in the "V1/R1/1112" node by the data in the "v1 /R1 /T3" node, and places this result in 18 the target node "v1 /R1 /T4". Thus, the data "17" in quantity field 308a is multiplied by no data (zero) in the unit price field 3 10a, the result of which ("0") is to be placed in the total field 312a. In this case, the result of performing the action 21 does not change the view. The total field 312a already has a zero. In this case the 22 actor application may forgo performing the action associated with this quantity 23 node and/or other actions, such as updating data for the form (i.e., do not perform 24 block 416) and rendering the results of performing this action (i.e., do not perform Lee & Hayes, PL1 C 20 1 block 418). If the actor application forgoes performing the action and/or these 2 other actions, it returns to block 408.
Returning to block 408, the network browser receives another edit, this 4 time entry of a unit price to the unit price field 310a. The price is shown in Figure 6 at field 310a ("299.99").
6 The actor application then determines at block 410 that the action is 7 associated with the edit. Continuing the illustrated embodiment, the actor application navigates the view template annotated with actions (shown above) and determines that an action is associated with "In /R1 /T3" node (the "price"
node).
Navigating the view template given above, the actor application determines that the following data-driven action is associated with the user's edit to the price 12 node:
data action =
target =
../T4 16 expression = Multiply(Select(../T2), Select(../T3)) 19 The actor application then determines that the action will affect the view. It does so by navigating the view template to determine which nodes of the view 21 template may be changed by performing the action.
22 In the ongoing embodiment, the actor application determines that the data-23 driven action associated with the quantity node multiplies data in the "V1/R1/T2" node by the data in the "V1 /R1 /T3" node, and places this result in the target node "v1 /R1 /T4". Thus, the data "17" shown in quantity field 308a is Lee & Hayes, PI I C 21 multiplied by "299.99" shown in unit price field 310a, the result of which may be 2 different that the zero currently rendered in the total field 312a.
3 At block 414 the actor application performs the action without accessing 4 and/or altering the form's data instance. In this exemplary process, the actor application uses the view template rather than a data instance, thereby freeing the 6 actor application from having to access or alter the form's data instance. The actor application may perform the data-driven action, in some cases, without any non-8 local communication, thereby potentially improving the user's editing experience.
9 In one embodiment, the actor application performs the action by executing an expression and locating a node of the view template into which the result may be rendered.
12 In the ongoing embodiment, the actor application multiplies the data entered into the quantity field, "17", by the data entered into the unit price field 14 "299.99", for a result of "5099.83".
At block 416, the actor application updates the data for the form. This data 16 for the form may be locally stored, which may permit fewer roundtrips to the network computer. In the ongoing embodiment, the actor application updates the 18 zero for the first total node (rendered as the total field 312a) with the result "5099.83". The actor application may proceed directly to block 418 to render this result in the view, but may also first determine if this data change triggers any 21 other actions. If so, the actor application may perform all of the triggered actions 22 (some actions may trigger another action, which triggers another action, and so 23 forth) before rendering the different actions' results.
Similarly to block 408, 410, 412, and 414, the actor application may proceed to receive data (e.g., a result from a performed action), determine in the Lee & flayei, PI I C 22 node into which the data is received is associated with an action, determine if that 2 action may affect the view, and perform the action. Thus, the actor application in 3 the ongoing embodiment receives the result of the action performed above to the 4 total node. The actor application may then determine whether or not the node to which this "edit" is made (e.g., a result automatically received from performance 6 of the action) has another action associated with it. If so, it may then determine 7 whether or not performing that other action will affect the view, and if so, may 8 then perform the other action.
9 In the ongoing embodiment, the actor application determines that the result for the total node has another associated action. This action may be represented 11 as:
data action =
target =
../../T3 expression = Sum(Select(../R1/T4)) 18 Thus, the total node ("v1 /R1 /T4") has an associated data-driven action.
19 This action sums the data of the total node and all other total nodes.
The result of this summation is then targeted for the "v1/T3" total node (rendered as the grand 21 total field 314).
22 The actor application next determines that performing this summation 23 action may affect the view. The actor application performs this action, summing 24 the data of the first and second total nodes, which are "5099.83" and "0", for a result of "5099.83".
Lee & Have. PLLC 23 The actor application may record this data entered into and resulting from 2 actions, such as in a locally stored hierarchically structured data tree or event log 3 114. The data tree, with the data and results of the ongoing embodiment, may be 4 represented as:
(V1) 6 (Dave, T1) (425-555-1234, T2) (R11) (1756, T1) (17, T2) 9 (299.99, T3) (5099.83, T4) (R1_2) (, T1) 11 , T2) 12 (, T3) , T4) 13 (5099.83, T3) At block 418 the actor application and/or network browser renders the 16 result of the data-driven action(s) performed without transforming the form's data 17 instance. The actor application may also, in another embodiment, render changes 18 to the view without accessing or altering the data instance.
19 The actor application may keep track of which controls in the view need to be updated by marking nodes associated with these controls, and then rendering 21 each of these nodes for new data once all of the actions have been performed (but 22 with results being rendered).
Alternatively, the actor application may re-render all of the form, though 24 this may take additional time or resources compared with selective re-rendering.
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1 To selectively re-render parts of the view, the actor application may 2 determine which of the pieces of information from view information 128 of 3 Figure 1 are associated with the nodes of the view template that have been 4 changed, such as by marking these nodes dirty. For the above view template, the marked nodes are "v1 /R1_1 /T4" and "V1 /T3". The actor application may then 6 push the results into these pieces of the view or re-render each of these pieces with 7 the results added.
8 As shown in Figure 6, the view of the purchase order shows the user the 9 results of data-driven actions. These results, shown in the total field 3 12a and the grand total field 3 14, are accurate renderings of how the view may look if the data-driven actions were instead associated with the data instance. Thus, this view may 12 be identical to the view shown by placing the results of these actions into a data 13 instance, transforming the data instance, and rendering the transformation.
14 In some cases, however, a data-driven action may require communication across a network, such as to access a data instance for the form or a database 16 having data needed to perform an action (e.g., validation of entered data against 17 data in a database). In these cases, the actor application may access the network, 18 thereby forgoing many of the blocks of process 400.
19 The actor application and/or network browser may record the user's edits and/or the results of performing various actions. This record of edits and/or results 21 may be sent to network computer 106, such as when sending it will not 22 appreciably hinder a user's editing experience, or on submittal by the user.
23 The network computer, responsive to receiving this event log, alters the 24 data instance of the network form. It may do so infrequently, thereby potentially reducing the resources needed to service the network form.
Lee & Hayes, PLLC 25 1 For the ongoing illustration, the actor application records the user's edits to 2 the view into event log 114 and communicates this event log to the network 3 computer. The network computer updates data instance 122 with information 4 from the event log. The data instance represented above at the beginning of the description relating to Figure 2 may be changed by the network computer using 6 the event log, in this case to:
<root>
8 <name>Dave</name>
<phone>425-555-1234</phone>
<orders>
<order>
<itemid>1756</itemid>
11 <quantity>17</quantity>
12 <unitPrice>299.99</unitPrice>
<total>5099.83</total>
</order>
14 <order>
<itemid></itemid>
<quantity></quantity>
<unitPrice></unitPrice>
16 <total></total>
</order>
17 </orders>
<total>5099.83</total>
</root>
Conclusion Systems and/or methods are described that enable a data-driven action 23 associated with altering a data instance of a network form without altering and/or 24 having access to the data instance. Although the invention has been described in language specific to structural features and/or methodological steps, it is to be Lee&HaYes.Pac 26 1 understood that the invention defined in the appended claims is not necessarily 2 limited to the specific features or steps described. Rather, the specific features and 3 steps are disclosed as preferred forms of implementing the claimed invention.
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Claims (16)
1. A system comprising:
one or more processors;
one or more computer-readable storage media having stored thereon computer-readable instructions therein that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform acts including:
obtaining, over a network from a server configured to maintain a data instance of a network form, a downloaded data instance of the network form;
rendering an editable view of the network form, the editable view of the network form being derived at the computing device from the downloaded data instance of the network form by:
extracting one or more navigation paths configured to map one or more data-centric data driven actions to the data instance; and transforming the one or more data-centric data driven actions to corresponding view-centric data driven actions to enable data-driven actions through the editable view of the network form by replacing the extracted one or more navigation paths with corresponding view template paths to map the one or more data-centric data-driven actions to a view template;
receiving data through the editable view of a network form, the data capable of driving an action associated with the data instance of the network form maintained at the server if the data alters the data instance; and performing the action through the editable view of the network form using a corresponding said view-centric data driven action without altering the data instance maintained at the server.
one or more processors;
one or more computer-readable storage media having stored thereon computer-readable instructions therein that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform acts including:
obtaining, over a network from a server configured to maintain a data instance of a network form, a downloaded data instance of the network form;
rendering an editable view of the network form, the editable view of the network form being derived at the computing device from the downloaded data instance of the network form by:
extracting one or more navigation paths configured to map one or more data-centric data driven actions to the data instance; and transforming the one or more data-centric data driven actions to corresponding view-centric data driven actions to enable data-driven actions through the editable view of the network form by replacing the extracted one or more navigation paths with corresponding view template paths to map the one or more data-centric data-driven actions to a view template;
receiving data through the editable view of a network form, the data capable of driving an action associated with the data instance of the network form maintained at the server if the data alters the data instance; and performing the action through the editable view of the network form using a corresponding said view-centric data driven action without altering the data instance maintained at the server.
2. The system of claim 1, further comprising determining which node of a view-centric logical representation of the network form the data is associated with, and wherein the act of performing the action comprises performing the action associated with the node.
3. The system of claim 1, wherein the act of performing the action is performed without accessing the data instance following the act of receiving the data.
4. The system of claim 1, further comprising determining that the data is capable of driving the action.
5. The system of claim 1, further comprising determining if a result of the action is capable of driving another action associated with the data instance if the result alters the data instance and, if the result of the action is capable of driving another action, performing the other action without altering the data instance.
6. The system of claim 1, further comprising rendering a result of the act of performing the action without transforming the data instance.
7. The system of claim 1, further comprising updating locally stored data for the network form with a result of the act of performing the action.
8. The system of claim 1, further comprising determining if a result of performing the action is capable of altering the editable view.
9. The system of claim 1, wherein the action comprises a validation operation.
10. One or more computer-readable storage media having stored thereon computer-readable instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform acts comprising:
obtaining, over a network from a server configured to maintain a data instance of a network form, a downloaded data instance of the network form;
outputting an editable view of the network form, the editable view of the network form derived at the computing device from the downloaded data instance of the network form by:
determining one or more navigation paths to map one or more data-centric data-driven actions to the data instance;
extracting the one or more navigation paths; and transforming the one or more data-centric data driven actions to corresponding view-centric data driven actions to enable data-driven actions through the editable view of the network form by replacing the extracted one or more navigation paths with corresponding view template paths to map the one or more data-centric data-driven actions to a view template;
receiving a result of a said data-driven action for the network form that is performed through the editable view of the network form using a said view-centric data driven action; and rendering the result of the data-driven action in the editable view of the network form without altering the network form's data instance maintained at the server.
obtaining, over a network from a server configured to maintain a data instance of a network form, a downloaded data instance of the network form;
outputting an editable view of the network form, the editable view of the network form derived at the computing device from the downloaded data instance of the network form by:
determining one or more navigation paths to map one or more data-centric data-driven actions to the data instance;
extracting the one or more navigation paths; and transforming the one or more data-centric data driven actions to corresponding view-centric data driven actions to enable data-driven actions through the editable view of the network form by replacing the extracted one or more navigation paths with corresponding view template paths to map the one or more data-centric data-driven actions to a view template;
receiving a result of a said data-driven action for the network form that is performed through the editable view of the network form using a said view-centric data driven action; and rendering the result of the data-driven action in the editable view of the network form without altering the network form's data instance maintained at the server.
11. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 10, further comprising performing the data-driven action without altering the network form's data instance.
12. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 10, wherein the act of rendering is performed without accessing the network form's data instance.
13. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 10, wherein the acts of receiving and rendering are performed without a roundtrip to a network computer having the network form's data instance.
14. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 10, wherein the act of rendering the result comprises re-rendering a portion of the editable view associated with a node having the result.
15. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 10, further comprising marking a node of a view-centric logical representation of the network form that is associated with the result and wherein the act of rendering the result comprises re-rendering the node.
16. A method performed by a client computing device comprising:
obtaining, over a network from a server configured to maintain a data instance of a network form, a downloaded data instance of the network form;
outputting an editable view of the network form, the editable view of the network form derived at the computing device from the downloaded data instance of the network form by:
determining one or more navigation paths to map one or more data-centric data-driven actions to the data instance;
extracting the one or more navigation paths;
transforming the one or more data-centric data driven actions to corresponding view-centric data driven actions to enable data-driven actions through the editable view of the network form by replacing the extracted one or more navigation paths with corresponding view template paths to map the one or more data-centric data-driven actions to a view template;
receiving a result of a said data-driven action for the network form that is performed through the editable view of the network form using a said view-centric data driven action; and rendering the result of the data-driven action in the editable view of the network form without altering the network form's data instance maintained at the server.
obtaining, over a network from a server configured to maintain a data instance of a network form, a downloaded data instance of the network form;
outputting an editable view of the network form, the editable view of the network form derived at the computing device from the downloaded data instance of the network form by:
determining one or more navigation paths to map one or more data-centric data-driven actions to the data instance;
extracting the one or more navigation paths;
transforming the one or more data-centric data driven actions to corresponding view-centric data driven actions to enable data-driven actions through the editable view of the network form by replacing the extracted one or more navigation paths with corresponding view template paths to map the one or more data-centric data-driven actions to a view template;
receiving a result of a said data-driven action for the network form that is performed through the editable view of the network form using a said view-centric data driven action; and rendering the result of the data-driven action in the editable view of the network form without altering the network form's data instance maintained at the server.
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