APPLICATION BUILDER

• US 20140108971A1
• Filed: 09/03/2013
• Published: 04/17/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Inventors: Gadey, Vamsi Deepak, No, Jamie J., Maples, Beril Guvendik
• Application Number:
  US14/016,999
• Publication Number:
  US 20140108971A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/762
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/34 Graphical or visual programming

Abstract

A method and system in which a host system sends to a user system, information which when consumed by the user system, causes a page to be displayed on the user system having features to place in an application for the user to choose from. In response, the host system receives from the user system, a selection of at least one feature to place in the application. The host system, generates the application based on the selection of the feature that was chosen. The application is then sent from the host system to the user system for use on the user system.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

sending, from a host system to a user system, information, which when consumed by the user system, causes a page to be displayed on the user system having features to place in an application, the host system including a processor system having at least one processor and a memory system;

in response, receiving at the host system from the user system, a selection of at least one feature to place in the application;

generating, by the processor system, the application based on the selection of the at least one feature that was received; and

sending the application, from the host system to the user system.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

sending, from the host system, information which, when consumed by the user system, causes the use system to display page having selectable templates of applications.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

receiving at the host system a selection of one of the selectable templates.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a request to add an object to the application, and in response sending an interface requesting information about the object.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a request to add a field to an object of the application, and in response sending an interface requesting information about the field.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

associating with the field instructions to send a request to multi-tenant database to retrieve information from an object of an online multi-tenant database

7. The method of claim 5, the field being a picklist.

8. The method of claim 5, the field being a text field.

9. The method of claim 5, the field being a lookup field.

10. The method of claim 5, the field being a rollup-summary field that displays a value representing an aggregate of other values.

11. The method of claim 8, the method further comprising:

associating with the lookup field instructions to send a request to multi-tenant database to lookup information in an object of the multitenant database.

12. The method of claim 5, the field being a master-detail field, where the upon receiving an entry in a master object, related details are retrieved from a detail object and displayed in the application.

13. The method of claim 5, receiving a request to add a component to the application, and in response sending a view of a list of components posted on a component exchange.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising sending a list of selectable applications and an association of application with a status of the application.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising sending a list of selectable objects of an application to the user machine.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a request to add conditional formatting to a field, and in response sending an interface having fields for entering the formatting desired and a rule that determines whether to apply the formatting.

17. The method of claim 1, the interface having a picklist of formats, a picklist of fields and picklists of operators and field for entering a value, the operator determining whether the condition is met based on the value entered and the field chosen.

18. A host system comprising:

a processor system having one or more processors; and

a memory system communicatively coupled to the processor system, the memory system storing one or more machine instructions, which when implemented cause, the system to implement a method including at least;

sending, from the host system to a user system, information for rendering one or more webpages to the user system, the one or more webpages including instructions and tools for building an application, the tools being active page elements, which when selected, cause a request to be sent to the host system;

in response, receiving at the host system from the user system, a selection of features to place in the application;

generating, by the processor system, the application based on the selection of features received; and

sending the application, from the host system to the user system.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having one or more machine instructions stored thereon, which when implemented causes a method to be implemented, the method comprising:

sending, from the host system to a user system, information to the user system, information when consumed by the user system, causes a page to be displayed on the user system having features to place in an application, the host system including a processor system having at least one processor and a memory system;

in response, receiving at the host system from the user system, a selection of at least one feature to place in the application;

generating, by the processor system, the application based on the selection of the at least one feature that was received; and

sending the application, from the host system to the user system.