Print preview with edit hyperlink

• US 20040073705A1
• Filed: 10/15/2002
• Published: 04/15/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: simpson, Shell Sterling, Madril, Robert John Jr.
• Application Number:
  US10/281,082
• Publication Number:
  US 20040073705A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/245
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing

Abstract

Method and apparatus for providing an edit hyperlink within a production system includes generating a link to an editable document at a different web site location than the production system. The production system does not need to know anything about editing the document.

Claims

1. A method of providing a web based link to edit a document, comprising:

deriving a reference for the document; and

placing a hyperlink containing the reference on a preview page of the document.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein deriving the reference comprises:

obtaining the reference from the document.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein deriving the reference comprises:

obtaining document information through an identity service.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein obtaining document information comprises:

accessing a preferred printing destination identity service from a source application of the document to obtain a printing destination;

accessing a selected document identity service from the printing destination to obtain a reference to a document object; and

creating an edit link in the printing destination application for the selected document with the reference provided by the selected document object.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein deriving the reference comprises:

obtaining the reference from an application that created the document.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein deriving a reference comprises deriving a uniform resource locator (URL).

7. A method of generating a link to an editable document from a production system, comprising:

gathering document information from the document;

using the document information to generate a location URL for the document; and

placing a hyperlink on a preview web page of the production system containing the generated URL.

8. A method of generating a link to an editable document from a production system, comprising:

gathering document information from a reference generated by a web application on which the document was created;

using the document information to generate an edit URL for the document; and

placing a hyperlink on a preview web page of the production system containing the generated URL.

9. A method of generating a link to an editable document from a production system, comprising:

gathering a reference to a document from an identity service providing information regarding an active document;

using the document information to generate an edit URL for the document; and

placing a hyperlink on a preview web page of the production system containing the generated URL.

10. A method for generating an edit hyperlink to a document, comprising:

deriving an edit uniform resource locator (URL) for the document; and

placing a link containing the edit URL on a preview page of a web application representing a preferred production system.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein deriving an edit URL comprises:

accessing an identity service to obtain a preferred production system from a web application representing a source of the document; and

accessing a second identity service from the preferred production system to obtain a URL for the document.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein deriving an edit URL comprises:

accessing the document; and

determining from the document the URL at which the document is located.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein accessing the document is accomplished using a remote procedure call mechanism.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the remote procedure call mechanism is Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).

15. The method of claim 10, wherein deriving an edit URL comprises:

attaching edit URL information to a redirection URL reference passed from a web application at which the document was created to a production system; and

retrieving the edit URL from the reference.

16. A method of providing an edit hyperlink for a document in a web application, comprising:

initiating a web application representing a production system;

obtaining a uniform resource locator (URL) to an editable version of the document;

accessing a production system for the document;

generating a document preview in the production system; and

placing a link containing the URL in the document preview.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein obtaining a URL comprises:

accessing a document object containing information about the document; and

retrieving the URL to the editable version of the document from the document object.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein obtaining a URL comprises:

accessing the document; and

retrieving document information from the document.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein accessing the document is accomplished using a remote procedure call mechanism.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the remote procedure call mechanism is Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).

21. The method of claim 16, wherein accessing a production system comprises:

accessing a preferred production system identity service; and

retrieving a URL to a web application representing the production system.

22. A method of generating an edit hyperlink to a document within a production system, comprising:

accessing the production system from a web application in which the document was created;

passing a reference to the document to the production system; and

embedding the reference to the document within a hyperlink on a preview page of the document within the document production system.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein passing a reference comprises:

obtaining a reference to the location of the document from a redirection URL; and

obtaining a reference to a web site at which the document can be edited from the document.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein obtaining a reference to the location of the document comprises:

accessing a selected document identity service that provides the location of the document.

25. The method of claim 23, wherein obtaining a reference to the location of the document comprises:

synthesizing the location based on a type of the document.

26. A method of providing an edit hyperlink for a document at a production system, comprising:

initiating a print request to the production system from a web application representing a document creator;

passing a reference for the document to a web application representing the production system;

generating a production preview of the document in the production system; and

providing a link to an editable version of the document in the production preview, the link containing the reference.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein the reference for the document is obtained from a redirection reference used to redirect a user browser from the web application representing the document creator to the web application representing the production system.

28. The method of claim 26, wherein passing a reference comprises passing a uniform resource locator (URL).

29. A machine readable medium having a set of machine readable instructions for causing a processor to perform a method comprising:

deriving a uniform resource locator (URL) for a document; and

placing a link containing the URL on a preview page of the document within a production system.

30. The machine readable medium of claim 29, wherein deriving a URL comprises:

accessing an identity service to obtain a preferred production system from a web application representing a source of the document; and

accessing a second identity service from the preferred production system to obtain a URL for the document.

31. The machine readable medium of claim 29, wherein deriving a URL comprises:

accessing the document; and

determining from the document the URL at which the document is located.

32. The machine readable medium of claim 31, wherein accessing the document is accomplished using a remote procedure call mechanism.

33. The machine readable medium of claim 32, wherein the remote procedure call mechanism is Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).

34. The machine readable medium of claim 34, wherein accessing the web application at which the document was created comprises:

accessing a document object containing information about the document; and

retrieving the URL to the editable version of the document from the document object.

35. A machine readable medium having machine readable instructions for causing a processor to perform a method of providing an edit hyperlink to an editable document on a preview page in a production system, the method comprising:

determining an edit uniform resource locator (URL) for a web page where the document can be edited;

previewing the document; and

placing an edit hyperlink containing the determined URL for the editable document on the preview page of the document.

36. The machine readable medium of claim 35, wherein determining comprises:

accessing a document object; and

retrieving document information from the document object.

37. The machine readable medium of claim 35, wherein determining comprises:

accessing the document; and

retrieving document information from the document.

38. The method of claim 37, wherein accessing the document is accomplished using a remote procedure call mechanism.

39. The method of claim 38, wherein the remote procedure call mechanism is Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).

40. The machine readable medium of claim 35, wherein determining comprises:

accessing an identity service for the document;

retrieving a document object URL from the identity service; and

retrieving the edit URL from the document object.

41. A machine readable medium having machine readable instructions for causing a processor to perform a method, comprising:

gathering document location information from an identity service representing a document;

using the document location information to access a document object containing document information;

generating an edit URL for the document from the document object; and

placing a hyperlink to the edit URL on a preview web page of a production system.

42. A web application representing a production system, comprising:

a production system driver module; and

a preview command module having machine readable instructions for causing the web application to perform a method comprising;

deriving a uniform resource locator (URL) for editing a document that is to be produced by the web application; and

placing a link containing the URL on a preview page of the document.

43. A method, comprising:

displaying a document selected for printing; and

placing a hyperlink to an editable version of the document in the document display.

44. A method, comprising:

generating a non-editable version of a document;

hyperlinking the non-editable version of the document to an editable version of the document; and

displaying the hyperlink in the non-editable version of the document.

45. A method, comprising:

generating a non-editable version of a document in a production system;

hyperlinking the non-editable version of the document to an editable version of the document at a location external to the production system; and

displaying the hyperlink in the non-editable version of the document.