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Uffe Kjall

Christian Olaf Abeln

Mehmet Kerem Kiziltunc

Stuart Glasson

Peter Sloth

Thomas Sondergaard Jensen

Peter Villadsen

Eric B Beran

Per Bendsen

Freddy Kristiansen

Peter Christensen

Jens Møller-Pedersen

Jens Moller-Pedersen

Jesper Theil Hansen

A system for extending an enterprise resource planning application is provided. The system employs 'Add-ins' that each have a functional behavior that is independent of the client on which it executes and a user interface behavior that is dependent on the characteristics of the display, and other characteristics, of the client (i.e., a display target). When a user attempts to invoke an Add-in via the client runtime, the client runtime determines whether the Add-in is available at the user's computer. If not, the client runtime downloads the appropriate artifact for execution at the user's computer. In this environment, neither the client runtime nor the server-side business logic contains the logic used to implement a particular Add-in behavior on the supported display targets. Instead, this logic is contained within separate artifacts associated with a single Add-in having a particular behavior, each artifact implementing the behavior for a specific display target.

Add-ins dynamically extending display targets and business-logic programming model

User interface (UI) forms are rendered on different types of display targets. To generate a UI form that can be rendered on different types of display targets metadata stored in at least one application is transformed to build a logical user interface (UI) representation. The UI form is rendered on at least one of the different types of display targets based on the logical UI representation. Data and form layout from the at least one application is accessed for representation in the logical UI representation. The rendered UI form is populated with the data represented in the logical UI representation to provide content for the rendered UI form.

Logical representation of a user interface form

A method, computer readable medium and system are provided which generate a model driven form user interface to represent an application model. The method includes selecting which of multiple different logical form types to use to generate the form user interface to represent the application model. The method also includes providing a first map. A display target independent logical form is generated using the application model, the selected form type and the first map.

Method and apparatus for generating user interfaces based upon automation with full flexibility

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