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Systems and methods for exporting, publishing, browsing and installing on-demand applications in a multi-tenant database environment

  • US 10,521,211 B2
  • Filed: 03/08/2017
  • Issued: 12/31/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-based method of transporting an application package to at least one server of a hosted online service provider system, the method including:

  • preparing an application package for an application created by a source organization that is a tenant of the hosted online service provider system using an application builder, the application package including;

    (i) at least one object implementing a customer relationship management (CRM) solution to install onto the at least one server of the hosted online service provider system,(ii) metadata customizing one or more fields of the at least one object according to attributes imported into the application package, and(iii) logic implemented with code that executes in conjunction with the at least one object to implement the application; and

    publishing the application package as a customer specific solution for accessing and installing by one or more target organizations onto the at least one server of the hosted online service provider system;

    marking the at least one object as being manageable to enable customization of the at least one object by the one or more target organizations; and

    transporting the application package to the at least one server of the hosted online service provider system to enable a user of the one or more target organizations to select to import the application package to the one or more target organizations,wherein the hosted online service provider system is a multi-tenant system and the one or more target organizations and the source organization are separate tenants of the hosted online service provider system.

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