Dashboard execution engine

• US 10,360,136 B2
• Filed: 05/23/2017
• Issued: 07/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Inventors: Zheng, Zuye, Diefenderfer, James, Agandeswaran, Srividhya, Badesha, Deepinder
• Primary Examiner(s): Zhen, Wei Y
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ung, Lanny N
• Application Number:
  US15/603,111
• Publication Number:
  US 20180341572A1
• Time in Patent Office: 791 Days
• Field of Search: 717125
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3664 Environments for testing or debugging software

Abstract

A user system includes a user interface, a processor, and one or more stored sequences of instructions. The one or more stored sequences of instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to display a script field within an editor dashboard, of a runtime environment, displayed on the user interface, the editor dashboard configured to define an interactive dashboard of the runtime environment, identify a script entry input into the script field, parse the script entry to identify an operation to be performed within the interactive dashboard in response to a trigger event, and associate the operation with the interactive dashboard, so that the operation will be performed within the interactive dashboard in response to the trigger event based on the association.

Claims

1. A user system, comprising:

a user interface;

a processor; and

one or more stored sequences of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to;

display a script field on an editor dashboard, the editor dashboard configured to generate an operation to be performed within an interactive dashboard of a runtime environment, wherein the operation is configured to;

analyze results of a data query;

determine a type of data presentation to display the results within the interactive dashboard based on the results; and

display the results within the interactive display using the determined type of data presentation;

identify a script entry input into the script field;

parse the script entry to identify the operation to be performed within the interactive dashboard in response to a trigger event and to generate a syntax tree for the operation; and

assign the operation to the interactive dashboard, so that the operation will be performed within the interactive dashboard in response to the trigger event wherein nodes of the syntax tree are configured to be performed within the interactive dashboard in response to the trigger event.

2. The user system of claim 1, wherein the one or more stored sequences of instructions which, when executed by the processor, further cause the processor to:

display a debug dashboard on the user interface;

perform a first node of the nodes of the syntax tree;

display a result of the performance of the first node within the debug dashboard;

perform a second node of the nodes of the syntax tree, wherein the second node is performed subsequent to the first node in the operation; and

display a result of the performance of the second node within the debug dashboard.

3. The user system of claim 1, wherein the one or more stored sequences of instructions which, when executed by the processor, further cause the processor to:

analyze the script entry for syntax errors; and

in response to identification of a syntax error within the script entry, display an indication of the syntax error.

4. The user system of claim 1, wherein the trigger event includes a user interaction with a data presentation within the interactive dashboard.

5. The user system of claim 4, wherein the operation is configured to update the data presentation based on the user interaction.

6. The user system of claim 1, wherein the operation is configured to:

determine a format in which to display a portion of data based on the results; and

using the format to display the portion of the data within a data presentation of the interactive dashboard.

7. The user system of claim 1, wherein the one or more stored sequences of instructions which, when executed by the processor, further cause the processor to:

determine whether the operation poses a security threat; and

in response to a determination that the operation poses a security threat, display an indication that the operation poses the security threat in the editor dashboard.

8. The user system of claim 7, wherein the one or more stored sequences of instructions which, when executed by the processor, further cause the processor to prevent performance of the operation within the interactive dashboard.

9. The user system of claim 1, wherein the operation includes a user interface operation that defines at least a portion of a user interface layout to be displayed within the interactive dashboard of the runtime environment.

10. The user system of claim 1, wherein the one or more stored sequences of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:

convert the script entry into JavaScript code, wherein performance of the operation includes performance of the JavaScript code.

11. The user system of claim 1, wherein the trigger event includes a user interaction with a certain element of a data presentation.

12. A user system, comprising:

a user interface;

a processor; and

one or more stored sequences of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to;

detect a trigger event within an interactive dashboard of a runtime environment displayed on the user interface;

identify an operation configured to be performed within the interactive dashboard in response to the detection of the trigger event and to generate a syntax tree for the operation, the operation generated and assigned to the interactive dashboard based on a script entry input into a script field of an editor dashboard of the runtime environment, wherein the operation is further configured to;

perform a data query of a database system for data to be displayed within a data presentation;

determine a type of the data presentation to be displayed within the interactive dashboard based on results of the data query; and

display the data presentation within the interactive dashboard, the data presentation being the determined type of the data presentation; and

perform the operation within the interactive dashboard, the operation configured to display the data presentation within the interactive dashboard wherein nodes of the syntax tree are configured to be performed within the interactive dashboard in response to the trigger event.

13. The user system of claim 12, wherein the operation is to update a previous data presentation displayed within the interactive dashboard to generate the data presentation to be displayed within the interactive dashboard, the previous data presentation displayed when the trigger event was detected.

14. The user system of claim 13, wherein the trigger event was associated with the previous data presentation, and wherein the operation is to update the previous data presentation based on the trigger event being associated with the previous data presentation.

15. The user system of claim 12, wherein the operation is further configured to:

determine a format in which to display a portion of the data within the data presentation based on the results of the data query; and

display the portion of the data in the format within the data presentation.

16. The user system of claim 12, wherein the one or more stored sequences of instructions which, when executed by the processor, further cause the processor to:

identify query data to be utilized by the operation;

determine whether a type of the query data is proper for the operation; and

in response to a determination that the type of the query data is not proper for the operation, display an indication that the type of the query data is not proper for the operation.

17. The user system of claim 16, wherein the one or more stored sequences of instructions which, when executed by the processor, further cause the processor to:

prevent performance of the operation in response to the determination that the type of the query data is not proper for the operation.

18. The user system of claim 12, wherein to perform the operation includes to:

perform one or more nodes of a syntax tree associated the operation.

19. The user system of claim 12, wherein the one or more sequences of instructions which, when executed by the processor, further cause the processor to identify the trigger event based on the script entry.