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Dialog metadata is used to generate a metadata driven dialog definition. The metadata can define logic that is run on the dialog, and customizations to the dialog are made by modifying the dialog metadata.

Metadata driven dialogs

A task-based sub-application surfaces only controls that are needed to perform a task, from a plurality of different forms in a parent application. A sub-application system runs the sub-application by executing navigation logic and maintaining a separate navigation stack, so that the user can perform a task without the computer system needing to surface entire forms where only a small subset of the controls on those forms are needed to perform the task.

Authoring and running task-based flows within a computing system

A client device identifies a current context of an application and sends that context to a command component on a server. The client device receives a set of commands that are valid for that context and displays the commands on the client device. When a user input is received changing the context, a new command set can be locally computed based on the set of commands received from the server, or the new context can be sent to the server to receive the new command set.

Context aware commands

A layout transformation system accesses application metadata that defines a plurality of different structures for displaying components of the application, based upon the particular modality of the display device. The layout transformation system then transforms a user interface display based on the application metadata and based upon the particular modality, and provides the user interface display to the display device for rendering and user interaction.

Multimodal layout and rendering

An application displays a user interface (UI) component. A client can apply customizations to this UI component. After the client applies customizations to the UI component, the client modifies a solution set containing solutions that modify the UI component. After the client modifies the solution set, the application displays a new version of the UI component. Modifications provided by the solutions in the solution set are applied to the new version of the UI component. In addition, the customizations remain applied to the UI component without the client manually re-applying the customizations to the UI component.

Merging modifications to user interface components while preserving user customizations

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