Salesforce Com, Inc.

Salesforce, Inc.

Doug Chasman

Eric David Bezar

Andrew Waite

Alan Ballard

Mary Kathryn Scotton

Simon Y Wong

Dean Bernard Jacobs

Daniel L Pletter

Manoj Cheenath

Trevor James Bliss

Sergey Gorbaty

James K Mooney

James Troup

Caridy Patiño

Billy Ma

Thomas Sola

Leo Tenenblat

Marko Koosel

Siuling Ku

Jeffrey Lloyd Sauls, Jr

Andrew Tran

Ning Song

K Andrew Waite

Ravi Jayaramappa

Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for providing components for building web applications within remote systems. A component database for web application components and an application database for web applications can be maintained in a multi-tenant database system. A first request can be processed to provide a web application for use at a remote site associated with a developer. Authorization of the remote site by the multi-tenant database can be determined based on a list of allowed remote sites for web applications. Data associated with the web application can then be sent to the remote site. A second request can be processed to provide a component for use at the remote site, indicating a component location of the remote site. Data associated with the first component can then be sent to the remote site. The data can be capable of causing an instance of the first component to be included at the component location of the remote site.

Providing web application components within remote systems

Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for providing a security model for component-based web applications. Documents for a web-based application are received, with the application containing custom components and Application Programming Interface (API) components. A Document Object Model (DOM) is processed corresponding to the web-based application, with the custom and API components modeled in hierarchical form. For each custom component, a key is assigned in accordance with the rules of capability security, accessible custom components are identified for which the custom component can provide the assigned key, a virtual DOM is generated for the custom component with the component and identified accessible custom components being modeled in hierarchical form, and the custom component is prohibited access to all inaccessible custom components.

Secure component-based web applications

A method for providing information to a mobile handheld device from a database system is provided. The method embodiment includes receiving by a node hosting an information management service a request for data. The request is received from a network enabled mobile handheld device that has intermittent network connectivity. The information management service is configured for identifying unrequested anticipated data based on the requested data. In an embodiment, the anticipated data is identified based on a data request pattern associated with the requested data. Once identified, the requested data and the anticipated data is retrieved from a database system. The requested data and at least a portion of the anticipated data is sent to the network enabled mobile handheld device via a network. By providing anticipated data along with requested data, a mobile user has direct access to unrequested anticipated data when network connectivity is interrupted.

Method and system for providing information to a mobile handheld device from a database system

Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for providing a security model for component-based web applications. Documents for a web-based application are received, with the application containing custom components and Application Programming Interface (API) components. A Document Object Model (DOM) is processed corresponding to the web-based application, with the components modeled in hierarchical form. Each API component is assigned to a system mode setting, where the system mode setting is configured to provide the API component access to all of the components in the application. One or more secure documents are generated for each custom component, with each secure document containing a key in accordance with the rules of capability security. Each custom component is then assigned to a user mode setting, where the user mode setting is configured to provide custom components access to other components in the application for which a key can be provided.

Security modes for a component-based web security model

Methods, devices and systems for providing a user interface in an on-demand software service environment are described. Some implementations involve receiving an indication of a component definition to instantiate. The component definition may be a portion of a component definition data structure. Such implementations may also involve instantiating the provided component, instantiating all remaining attributes of the component definition data structure to produce a component instance data structure and transmitting an intermediate representation of the indicated component to a client device. The intermediate representation may comprise a version of the component instance data structure. The intermediate representation may allow the client device to create an instance of the component in memory.

Methods and systems for providing a user interface

In embodiments, methods and systems for customizing a user interface to an on-demand database service. These mechanisms and methods for customizing a user interface to an on-demand database service can enable embodiments to provide a user interface designed by a tenant of the on-demand database service. The customization can include including third party content into the customized user interface, overriding a standard object, and providing content inline at a specified location.

Method and system for customizing a user interface to an on-demand database service

Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer program products for storing client-side information for identifying and requesting server-side actions. In some implementations, a computing device maintains a local cache storing client-side information maintained according to a local caching policy. The local cache includes responses received from the server in relation to performance of server-side actions based on requests previously communicated to the server. The local cache further includes an identifier of each server-side action associated with a respective response. The computing device receives, via a first component, a first request to perform a first server-side action. The computing device receives, via a second component, a second request to perform a second server-side action. The computing device determines, based on the local caching policy, that the first and second requests should be communicated to the server, and causes the first and second requests to be communicated to the server.

Providing an improved web user interface framework for building web applications

Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer-readable media for validating components of a dynamic user interface in an on-demand multi-tenant service environment are disclosed. Organizations corresponding to tenants in the on-demand multi-tenant service environment are identified. A multi-tenant database system residing on multiple servers is provided for each of the identified organizations. Dynamic user interface pages associated with the organizations are identified. First and second compilation outputs based upon respective first and second invocations of a compiler configured to compile the one or more dynamic user interface pages are produced with reference to respective first and second builds of computer program code. Differences between the first and second compilation outputs are identified and presented in a user interface on a display device of the multi-tenant service environment. The differences can be identified by performing a comparison and selecting one or more differences that match a pattern specifier.

Validating visual components

Methods and systems for providing a user interface in a multi-tenant database environment

Methods, devices and systems for providing a user interface in an on-demand software service environment are described. Some implementations involve receiving a component request from a first client device, locating class-level definition source code for a component definition corresponding to the component request, identifying the component definition within the source code, determining a language of the component definition and selecting a parser according to the language of the component definition. Such implementations may also involve parsing the source code to create the component definition and transmitting an intermediate representation of the requested component to the client device. The intermediate representation may allow the client device to create an instance of the requested component.

In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for providing access to an external service via an application services platform, utilizing an application program interface (API). These mechanisms and methods for providing access to an external service via an application services platform can enable embodiments to provide an effective way of allowing access to such external service without necessarily forcing access to the external service separately with respect to the application services platform. The ability of embodiments to provide such effective technique can enable the integration of an external service with an application services platform, thus allowing access to the external service in a more time effective manner.

API method and system for providing access to an external service via an application services platform

The efficiency and versatility for the implementation of formulas in an on-demand database is improved. Workflow field formulas are triggered by actions in a workflow, to produce values in fields. Resulting values are protected by preventing a subsequent reevaluation of the workflow field formula from taking place when values of input fields used in the workflow field formula change.

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Doug Chasman