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Integrating line-of-business application data with documents

  • US 20070106933A1
  • Filed: 11/04/2005
  • Published: 05/10/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, implemented at least in part by a computing device, for generating a data-merged document by integrating data from a line-of-business (LOB) application with a document template within a productivity application, the method comprising:

  • accessing meta-data from the LOB application;

    attaching an XML schema to the document template, wherein the XML schema provides a generic business object schema for modeling the data from the LOB application as one or more business objects and one or more business object properties based on the meta-data from the LOB application;

    mapping one or more schema nodes to the document template based on user input, the one or more schema nodes corresponding to the meta-data from the LOB application;

    accessing data from the LOB application; and

    merging the data from the LOB application into the document template based on the one or more schema nodes mapped to the document template to create the data-merged document.

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