Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Joshua S Bell

Jun Jin

Laurent Mollicone

Steven P Geffner

Scott M Roberts

Peter Faraday

Brian Teutsch

David Matthew Snow

Nicholas K Dallett

Jean Paoli

Alessandro Catorcini

Andrew Paul Begun

Willson Kulandai Raj David

Shuk-Yan Lai

Dafina Ivanova Toncheva

Willson Kulandai-Raj David

Aleksandr Tysbert

Aleksandr Tsybert

Willson Kulandai Raj

Systems and/or methods that enable addition of a designer-created aspect originating from one electronic form template into another electronic form template are described. The systems and/or methods may also, in one embodiment, enable a user to graphically package designer-created aspects of an existing electronic form template into a component capable of being added to another electronic form template. In another embodiment, these systems and/or methods may enable mapping of an existing non-structural designer-created aspect originating from one electronic form template onto a data structure of another electronic form template.

Designer-created aspect for an electronic form template

Systems and/or methods ('tools') are described that convert or present conversion problems for electronic documents. The tools may convert a generally unstructured electronic document to a generally structured electronic document using non-visual textual and layout information of the unstructured document. The tools can also present possible problems with this or other types of conversion. And the tools can enable a user to alter an electronic document's schema without altering its visual layout.

Enabling selection of an inferred schema part

A technology for identifying design issues during an electronic form generating process is provided. In one method approach, a user selected runtime environment to be applied to an electronic form is received. A form design check is performed on the electronic form. A reporting object generates a list of design issues identified by the form design check. The list of design issues is displayed in a user interface.

Identifying design issues in electronic forms

A system and method for graphically showing the order and timing of elements in a presentation program or other software. The sequence of events is shown in an event list, a list of events in sequence order, each event being associated with an event timeline bar and correlated with a universal timeline, in the editing window of an electronic presentation or other software that deals with the scheduling of events. In one embodiment, each item in the list represents an individual animation effect. Elements of the event list are logically related to each other and these logical relationships may be used in assisting a user to build a sequence of events (e.g., an animation sequence).

Integrated timeline and logically-related list view

A designer uses a forms designer application to build electronic forms from hierarchical data. Displays of hierarchical data, facilitation of selection of a portion of the hierarchical data, and displays of one or more suggested transformation-language components associated with a selected portion of hierarchical data are described. From the transformation-language components selected by a designer, generation of an electronic form is also described.

Building a view on markup language data through a set of components

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Joshua S Bell