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Michael J McCormack

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Christopher Warren Bryant

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Scott Timothy Gardner

Clinton Dee Covington

Chad B Rothschiller

Ramakrishnan Natarajan

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Kelly J Lynch

Robert Coggins

Richard Lee Dickinson

Robert C Collie

Juha P Niemisto

Timothy E Getsch

Marise Chan

Indrojit Deb

Ulrich Homann

Joseph N Chirilov

Parul Dalia

James Rivera

David Robert Shutt

Ron Mondri

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Jason A Bould

Zachary P Woodall

Theresa Naramore

Christian Heydemann

Pavel R Karimov

Kelly Michael Krout

Dan Jacob Hough

Matthew Lenell Cooper

George R Fordham

Daniel Hough

Alfredo Mendonça De Almeida

Vijay Mital

Suraj T Poozhiyil

Marcus Eduardo Markiewicz

Eric W Patterson

Arthur Charles Leonard

Su-Piao Bill Wu

Shashi Ranjan

David Jon Conger

Robert Wayne Coffen

Stephen I Lesser

Vitore Selca

Navin Ishwar Thadani

Kumar Srinivasamurthy

Jonathan McPherson

Tobin James Zerba

Sharad Bajaj

Michelle A Watkins

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Gregory Scott Lindhorst

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Julianne Prekaski

Michael M Santos

Bharath Swaminathan

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Prasant Sivadasan

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Xiaohui Pan

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A command interface for a software application is implemented on a client computer. A first definition of the command interface is received from a server computer. The first definition includes rules for encoding the command interface on a web browser. A conversion of the first definition to a second definition is performed. The second definition includes language for encoding the command interface on a user interface of the software application. The second definition is used to render the command interface on the user interface of the software application.

Web client command infrastructure integration into a rich client application

Embodiments include a computing system configured to display an icon label with a dynamic display characteristic. The system may receive an indication of an icon representing a data object, determine a type of the data object, and based on the determined type, dynamically determine a label that is associated with the data object and includes a dynamic display characteristic. A user interface display is generated that includes the icon having a display portion configured to display the label with the dynamic display characteristic.

Dynamic display of icon data

On a client computer, customer relationship management software is integrated into a messaging application that includes a user interface. Customer relationship management (CRM) information is received from a server computer. An automatic determination is made as to whether the received CRM information is to be cached on the client computer. When it is determined that the CRM information is to be cached on the client computer, the CRM information is cached in a cache on the client computer. When at least some of the CRM information is cached on the client computer, the cached CRM information is displayed as a view on the client computer. The display of the CRM information is integrated into the user interface of the messaging application program.

Cached and server views with automatic caching and smooth scrolling

A customer relationship management (CRM) system utilizes a form definition, user interface (UI) definitions, and UI code to generate Web pages for interacting with CRM data. A CRM plug-in is configured to execute in conjunction with a personal information manager (PIM) client application and to utilize the same form definition, UI definitions, and UI code utilized by the CRM system to generate the Web-based CRM interface. The UI definitions are utilized to present UI controls for performing CRM-related functionality in the context of a UI generated by the PIM client application. The UI code utilized by the CRM system to implement Web-based UI controls can be utilized to implement the UI controls in the context of the PIM client application. The form definition utilized by the CRM system might be utilized to display CRM fields in the UI presented by the PIM client application.

Integrating a web-based CRM system with a PIM client application

Concepts and technologies are described herein for collecting and displaying information. A client device executes one or more application programs for providing operations with respect to entity-related data that relates to one or more entities. The application programs analyze the entity-related data to identify one or more entities associated with the entity-related data and transmit entity information relating to the entities to a server or database. Information relating to the entity is retrieved from the server or database and is presented to a user of the client device.

Collecting and presenting information

A business data system generates a user interface display showing a business data record. The business data system receives a touch gesture user input to manipulate the business data record to perform an operation, a task or a workflow within the business data system. The business data system performs the operation, task or workflow based on the touch gesture user input.

Use of touch and gestures related to tasks and business workflow

A workspace display includes a plurality of different groups, each group including a plurality of different components. Each group corresponds to a task, set of tasks or topic of information related to a user's role. The particular components included in each group are user interface display elements that are each related to an item of content within the corresponding group. The workspace display has filter mechanisms that are actuated to filter the content displayed in the components on the workspace display.

Filtering content on a role tailored workspace

Where a label for an item to be represented by an icon is customized, the icon is generated to dynamically display all of the label. Thus, at some point, the entire label is displayed, even though only a portion of the label is eventually displayed in the icon.

Dynamic display of icons on a small screen

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

Display screen with graphical user interface

Embodiments are provided for creating and reusing custom data types in a database. A selection of a field or group of fields may be received from a database table in the database by a database software application executing on a computer system. Each selected field may include a set of field properties. The application may further receive a user input to initiate saving the selected field or group of fields as a custom data type. In response to receiving the input, the application may be configured to generate a dialog for receiving custom data type information for the selected field or group of fields and save the selected field or group of fields as a custom data type. The custom data type may then be reused by the application in the database.

Database data type creation and reuse

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