Wix.com Ltd.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Uval A Blumenfeld

Yoav Abrahami

Amit Kaufman

Avi Marcus

Ziv Shalom Shalev

Shay Weiner

Ayelet Geva

Tomer Ohana

Shai Nagar

Shahar Prish

Uzi Tuvian

Hannah Waxman

Karin Agan

Or Fattal

Omer Ganim

Or-Avraham Ben-Ari

Noam Shalev Inbar

Tzufit Barzilay

Lior Shefer

Itay Shtekel

Dan Polak

Nathalie Aharon

Shahar Sonino

Itai Chejanovsky

Nir Natan

Maor Yosef

A website building system (WBS) includes a database of website components and definitions and instances of website building system configurable applications (WCAs), where the WCAs are single packaged entities which can also be accessed as a sets of customizable elements; a WCA app builder to enable a developer to develop a first version WCA; an in-site editor to provide specific editing capabilities for a user to edit at least one of a definition or an instance of the first version WCA and a WCA handler to receive a modification to the first version WCA from the user and an update to the first version WCA from the developer, the WCA handler to merge between the modification and the update to create a changed WCA, to resolve conflicts or loss of functionality and to handle permissions between the modification and the update.

System and method for creation and handling of configurable applications for website building systems

Disclosed embodiments relate to updating a back-end database containing data sets that populate a plurality of web pages of a website. Operations include receiving via a user interface, a plurality of data elements; storing groups of at least one data element in a database; generating a plurality of virtual web pages, wherein each virtual web page is a preview of a corresponding actual web page before the corresponding actual web page goes live; displaying each group of at least one data element in a separate one of the plurality of virtual web pages; displaying an editing tool to permit a user to edit a virtual web page from the plurality of virtual web pages; translating the edits to the virtual web page into updates for the database; storing the updates in the database; and enabling a display on the corresponding actual web page with the updates.

Editing a database during preview of a virtual web page

Disclosed embodiments relate to website hosting implemented in a server environment. Operations include co-hosting, on a hosting server, a plurality of websites generated by a plurality of users; making available to the plurality of users common editing tools; preventing at least some of the plurality of users from altering co-hosted specific websites generated by others of the plurality of users; generating an interface for enabling the at least one subset of the plurality of users to upload to the hosting server plugin code associated with plugins for the co-hosted specific websites generated by the at least one subset of the plurality of users; storing the user-uploaded plugin code; and securely enabling, using an isolation mechanism, at least one of execution of front-end plugin functionality code at the client or execution of back-end plugin functionality code at the plugin server.

Segregated user-uploaded plugins to avoid affecting co-hosted websites

Disclosed embodiments relate to previewing dynamic web pages via an online editor interface. Operations include storing a plurality of data elements for display on a plurality of web pages; storing instructions for enabling organization of the data elements into a plurality of groups; providing instructions to a browser to display an interface for enabling a user to add data elements to the database, to associate each added data element with at least one of the plurality of groups, and to modify the at least one of front-end code and back-end code; executing instructions to generate the plurality of scrollable virtual web pages; and providing instructions to the browser to display a preview interface configured to display the plurality of scrollable virtual web pages.

Dynamic preview of database-populated web pages

Disclosed embodiments relate to online website building using customized back-end functionality. Operations include maintaining an online database configured to store a library of website building elements for configuring a front-end of an indexable web page; transmitting instructions to a browser permitting a user to remotely access the stored library, and to permit the user to utilize a selection of the building elements for constructing the front-end of the indexable webpage; receiving specifications from user to configure a programmable event for activating user-editable code providing customized back-end functionality associated with the indexable webpage; receiving user edits to the code; storing the edited code; and in response to a trigger associated with the programmable event, executing the edited code for implementing the customized back-end functionality.

Custom back-end functionality in an online website building environment

Custom back-end functionality in an online web site building environment

Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for designing applications. In an implementation, a method comprises examining a spreadsheet to identify a plurality of spreadsheet components of the spreadsheet with which to generate a plurality of application components for potential inclusion in a software application under design. The method also comprises receiving user input comprising a plurality of design instructions to include in the software application at least some of the plurality of application components and generating at least an instance of the software application comprising the plurality of application components.

Using spreadsheets as a basis for enhanced application development

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