Modification free cutting of business application user interfaces

• US 8,938,684 B2
• Filed: 03/05/2010
• Issued: 01/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP SE
• Inventors: Guertler, Jochen, Chadzelek, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Abdul-Ali, Omar
• Assistant Examiner(s): KEATON, SHERROD L
• Application Number:
  US12/718,657
• Publication Number:
  US 20110078594A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,782 Days
• Field of Search: 715/762
• US Class Current: 715/762
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus

Abstract

The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for modification free UI cutting of components in an application. One process includes operations for identifying a selection of a particular portion of the user interface of the application for cutting. The position of the identified portion of the user interface of the application in a user interface control tree is determined and defined as a root node of the user interface control tree. The identification information of the root node is stored in personalization settings of the application, and user interface elements associated with the root node are rendered.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for causing one or more processors to cut a mashup component in a user interface of an application, the method comprising the following steps performed by the one or more processors:

identify a user interface of an application, the user interface presented by rendering a user interface control tree associated with the user interface;

identify a particular portion of the user interface of the application to be cut from the user interface, the portion representing at least one function of the application and a non-identified portion of the user interface representing at least one disparate function of the application;

determine a position of the particular portion of the user interface in the user interface control tree of the application;

define the determined position as a root node of a subtree associated with the identified particular portion of the user interface;

store an identification of the root node in personalization settings of the application; and

re-render the user interface control tree by rendering the subtree that is associated with the root node and the at least one function.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying a particular portion of the user interface comprises receiving a selection of the particular portion from a user of the application.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the user interface elements associated with the root node and the at least one function are rendered based on rendering data defined in the subtree of the root node.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein only user interface elements defined in one or more subtrees of the root node are rendered.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one disparate function associated with the non-identified portion of the user interface is executed without rendering user interface elements associated with the non-identified portion.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the particular portion of the user interface comprises a user interface element representing a module of the application.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the personalization settings include attributes comprising at least one of persistence.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein a user interface of the application includes a plurality of modules and the selection of a particular portion of the user interface of the application comprises a selection of one of the plurality of modules.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein rendering the user interface elements associated with the root node comprises rendering only the selection of one of the plurality of modules.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising injecting a mashup component into the user interface of the application.

11. A computer program product encoded on a non-transitory tangible storage medium, the product comprising computer readable instructions for causing one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

identify a user interface of an application, the user interface presented by rendering a user interface control tree associated with the user interface;

identify a particular portion of the user interface of an application to be cut from the user interface, the portion representing at least one function of the application and a non-identified portion of the user interface representing at least one disparate function of the application;

determine a position of the particular portion of the user interface in the user interface control tree of the application;

define the determined position as a root node of a subtree associated with the identified articular portion of the user interface;

store an identification of the root node in personalization settings of the application; and

re-render the user interface control tree by rendering the subtree that is associated with the root node and the at least one function.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the user interface elements associated with the root node and the at least one function are rendered based on rendering data defined in the subtree of the root node.

13. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein only user interface elements defined in one or more subtrees of the root node are rendered.

14. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the particular portion of the user interface comprises a user interface element representing a module of the application.

15. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein a user interface of the application includes a plurality of modules and identifying a particular portion of the user interface of the application comprises identifying one of the plurality of modules.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein re-rendering the user interface control tree comprises re-rendering only the one of the plurality of modules without re-rendering user interface elements associated with non-identified modules of the plurality of modules.

17. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising injecting a mashup component into the user interface of the application.

18. A system, comprising:

memory operable to store information associated with splitting portions of a user interface of an application into mashable components; and

one or more processors operable to;

identify a user interface of an application, the user interface including multiple portions, the user interface presented by rendering a user interface control tree associated with the user interface;

receive a request for splitting a portion of the user interface of the application into a mashable component;

identify a discrete module in the user interface of the application for rendering as the mashable component;

determine a particular position of the identified discrete module in the user interface control tree of the application;

define the particular position of the discrete module as a root node of a subtree of the user interface control tree, the subtree associated with the identified discrete module in the user interface;

store identification information for the root node associated with the identified discrete module in personalization settings of the application; and

re-render the user interface control tree by rendering the subtree that is associated with the identified discrete module.

19. The system of claim 18, the processors further operable to:

receive a request to move the identified discrete module to a new location in the user interface of the application;

identify a position of the new location in the user interface control tree of the application;

define the position of the new location as a node associated with the identified discrete modules in the user interface control tree of the application;

store identification information for the node in personalization settings of the application; and

render the one of the plurality of discrete modules based on rendering data for the node in the personalization settings of the application.