Overriding component attributes in a web application builder

• US 10,402,174 B2
• Filed: 08/25/2017
• Issued: 09/03/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Inventors: Varadarajan, Adheip, Olsson, Jan Ove Kristian, Moses, Dean, Jacobson, Eric
• Primary Examiner(s): Bui, Hanh Thi-Minh
• Application Number:
  US15/687,356
• Publication Number:
  US 20190065156A1
• Time in Patent Office: 739 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/34 Graphical or visual programming
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/36 Software reuse
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/38 for implementing user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/70 Software maintenance or management

Abstract

Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for overriding component attributes in a web application builder. A database system maintains a multi-tenant database associated with a number of users and a number of web application components each with one or more component attributes. The system displays a user interface for the web application builder framework with a layout including a number of web application components, and processes decorator rules for rendering the components. The system also processes decorator override rules for some attributes of the components. The system displays the prepared user interface with decorator rules and overrides, and, based on a user request to access one or more attributes of the components, presents those attributes for display with the decorator override rules applied.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a database system for presenting restricted component attributes in a server-hosted web application builder, the database system implemented using a server system comprising one or more hardware processors, the database system configurable to cause;

providing for interaction with a database storing one or more data objects identifying a plurality of web applications and web application components, each web application component comprising a respective one or more component attributes and being configured to be reusable within the web application builder;

preparing, for display on a client device, a user interface for the web application builder, the user interface comprising a page layout of one of the web applications comprising one or more of the web application components, the preparing comprising;

applying one or more component wrappers to the one or more web application components,

processing one or more decorator rules for rendering the one or more web application components, and

processing one or more decorator override rules associated with a subset of the one or more component attributes of the one or more web application components, the processing of the one or more decorator override rules comprising configuring one or more characteristics of the subset of one or more component attributes and restricting further configuring of the one or more characteristics by one or more users;

displaying, on the client device, the prepared user interface for the web application builder, the displayed user interface comprising a presentation of the one or more web application components having the configured one or more characteristics of the subset of one or more component attributes;

processing a user request to access the one or more component attributes of the one or more web application components; and

presenting, in response to the user request, the requested one or more component attributes in the displayed user interface.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein presenting the requested one or more component attributes in the displayed user interface comprises presenting one or more default values for the subset of the one or more attributes based on the one or more decorator override rules.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more decorator override rules restricts the subset of one or more component attributes from being modifiable on the client device.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more decorator rules relate to methods of presenting the one or more web application components in one or more component wrappers within the page layout.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more decorator rules provide one or more additional attributes for the one or more web application components.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more decorator override rules modify at least the one or more decorator rules.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more decorator override rules modify the subset of one or more component attributes.

8. The system of claim 1,

wherein the one or more component wrappers is associated with the one or more decorator rules.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more decorator override rules are configured by one or more developers associated with the subset of one or more component attributes.

10. A method comprising:

providing for interaction with a database storing one or more data objects identifying a plurality of web applications and web application components, each web application component comprising a respective one or more component attributes and being configured to be reusable within a server-hosted web application builder;

preparing, for display on a client device, a user interface for the web application builder, the user interface comprising a page layout of one of the web applications comprising one or more of the web application components, the preparing comprising;

applying one or more component wrappers to the one or more web application components,

processing one or more decorator rules for rendering the one or more web application components, and

processing one or more decorator override rules associated with a subset of the one or more component attributes of the one or more web application components, the processing of the one or more decorator override rules comprising configuring one or more characteristics of the subset of one or more component attributes and restricting further configuring of the one or more characteristics by one or more users;

causing display on the client device of the prepared user interface for the web application builder, the displayed user interface comprising a presentation of the one or more web application components having the configured one or more characteristics of the subset of one or more component attributes;

processing a user request to access the one or more component attributes of the one or more web application components; and

causing, in response to the user request, presentation in the displayed user interface of the requested one or more component attributes.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein presenting the requested one or more component attributes in the displayed user interface comprises presenting one or more default values for the subset of the one or more attributes based on the one or more decorator override rules.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more decorator override rules restricts the subset of one or more component attributes from being modifiable on the client device.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more decorator rules provide one or more additional attributes for the one or more web application components.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more decorator override rules modify the subset of one or more component attributes.

15. The method of claim 10,

wherein the one or more component wrappers is associated with the one or more decorator rules.

16. A computer program product comprising computer-readable program code capable of being executed by one or more processors when retrieved from a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the program code comprising instructions configurable to cause:

providing for interaction with a database storing one or more data objects identifying a plurality of web applications and web application components, each web application component comprising a respective one or more component attributes and being configured to be reusable within a server-hosted web application builder;

preparing, for display on a client device, a user interface for the web application builder, the user interface comprising a page layout of one of the web applications comprising one or more of the web application components, the preparing comprising;

applying one or more component wrappers to the one or more web application components,

processing one or more decorator rules for rendering the one or more web application components, and

processing one or more decorator override rules associated with a subset of the one or more component attributes of the one or more web application components, the processing of the one or more decorator override rules comprising configuring one or more characteristics of the subset of one or more component attributes and restricting further configuring of the one or more characteristics by one or more users;

displaying, on the client device, the prepared user interface for the web application builder, the displayed user interface comprising a presentation of the one or more web application components having the configured one or more characteristics of the subset of one or more component attributes;

processing a user request to access the one or more component attributes of the one or more web application components; and

presenting, in response to the user request, the requested one or more component attributes in the displayed user interface.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein presenting the requested one or more component attributes in the displayed user interface comprises presenting one or more default values for the subset of the one or more attributes based on the one or more decorator override rules.

18. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the one or more decorator override rules restricts the subset of one or more component attributes from being modifiable on the client device.

19. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the one or more decorator rules provide one or more additional attributes for the one or more web application components.

20. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the one or more decorator override rules modify the subset of one or more component attributes.