Siebel Systems, Inc.

Oracle International Corporation

Vipul Shroff

Dejia Wang

Rahim Mohamed Yaseen

Min Lu

Kaushik Roy

Jon Degenhardt

Sanjin Tulac

Maria Elisabeth Kaval

Christopher Scott Nash

Kanchan Shringi

Bharat Jindal

Sudhakar Kaki

Alvin H To

Yu Sui

Sean Kevin Frogner

Yee Wah Lee

Anil Mukundan

Mark Curtis Hastings

Peter Thorson

Atul Suklikar

Shu Lei

Ming W Lam

Jayant Kulkarni

Tim Fallen-Bailey

Victor Tao

Yuhong Wang

Russell Richardson

Isaac Levin

Ravikumar Gampala

A method for building wizard-style user interfaces (UIs) for a business task is disclosed. The method includes receiving metadata at a computer system, where the metadata comprises information regarding the business task, generating an analysis by analyzing the metadata, generating user guidance information, and executing flow and business logic of the business task. The user guidance information is with regard to the business task, and the user guidance information is based on the analysis.

Declarative task-based user interfaces

In an embodiment, a system for preserving user interface customizations while upgrading an enterprise application is provided. The system preserves customizations by identifying customizations made to user interface ('UI') objects of an enterprise application, and enabling these UI customizations to function with a newer version of the enterprise application. The system transforms UI customizations so that the transformed UI customizations function with a new UI model. By enabling a portion of an enterprise application to be upgraded while preserving UI customizations, the system dramatically reduces the time and cost incurred by companies when they upgrade enterprise software.

Preserving user interface customizations while upgrading an enterprise application

In one embodiment, a method for building wizard-style user interfaces (UIs) for a business task includes identifying a collection of metadata associated with the business task, and processing the collection of metadata to provide a set of wizard-style UIs pertaining to the business task.

A method and apparatus for providing a translation locking mechanism comprising a locking system to permit locking of translatable properties of an object within a project. The apparatus further comprises a lock tester to determine whether the locking system prevents edits to a particular property; and an editing tool to prohibit alteration of the properties that are affected by translation.

Method and apparatus to control translatable properties of metadata

Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and apparatuses for quickly and easily configuring an application user interface using a flexible generic layout file. For one embodiment, a free-form grid layout is provided that allows an application provider to create a desired number of placeholders, each of a desired size, by positioning objects at desired locations on the free-form grid. In this way the application provider configures the application user interface. For one embodiment, the placeholders are created by dragging selected objects, from a provided set of objects, onto the grid layout. For such an embodiment, a set of parameters that describe the objects on the grid layout (e.g., indicating number, size, and location) is stored to a database. At run-time, the parameters are used to dynamically generate HTML code, which when executed presents the application user interface.

Application user interface template with free-form layout

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Vipul Shroff