INDEPENDENT SUBMISSION OF FORMS IN A PORTAL VIEW

• US 20180246870A1
• Filed: 04/30/2018
• Published: 08/30/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Lection, David B., Masselle, Eric L., Salahshoor, Mohamad R.
• Granted Patent: US 10,235,352 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to processing forms submissions in a portal environment and provide a method, system and computer program product for independently refreshing a forms submission in a portal view. In one embodiment, a system for independently submitting forms in a portal view can include a portal server configured to render a portal view and a portlet aggregator coupled to the portal server. The portal aggregator can be configured to provide portlet markup for different portlets in the portal view where at least one of the different portlets includes a visible form includes one or more form elements.

Claims

1-10. -10. (canceled)

11. A computer-implemented method performed within and by a portal server system, comprising:

receiving, from a client computer, a request for a portal including a visible form;

transmitting, to the client computer, portlet markup corresponding to the portal; and

receiving, from the client computer, input from a companion form, wherein

the portlet markup transmitted to the client computer includes

a visible form element configured to receive any one of a plurality of inputs and

a hidden frame including the companion form having a form element corresponding to the visible form element, and

the form element in the companion form is updated upon an input for the visible form element being received within the visible form.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein

an update is received within the hidden frame and in response to the submitted companion form, and

the portlet is modified using the update.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein

the portlet is within a portal view,

the portal view includes a plurality of portlets, and

each of the plurality of portlets includes a hidden frame.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein

the hidden frame includes script logic configured to manage the submitting of the companion form.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein

the updating of the form element within the companion form includes copying the input for the visible form element to the form element within the companion form.

16. A portal server system, comprising:

at least one hardware processor configured to initiate the following executable operations;

receiving, from a client computer, a request for a portal including a visible form;

transmitting, to the client computer, portlet markup corresponding to the portal; and

receiving, from the client computer, input from a companion form, wherein the portlet markup transmitted to the client computer includes

a visible form element configured to receive any one of a plurality of inputs and

a hidden frame including the companion form having a form element corresponding to the visible form element, and

the form element in the companion form is updated upon an input for the visible form element being received within the visible form.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein

an update is received within the hidden frame and in response to the submitted companion form, and

the portlet is modified using the update.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein

the portlet is within a portal view,

the portal view includes a plurality of portlets, and

each of the plurality of portlets includes a hidden frame.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein

the hidden frame includes script logic configured to manage the submitting of the companion form.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein

the updating of the form element within the companion form includes copying the input for the visible form element to the form element within the companion form.

21. A computer program product, comprising:

a hardware storage device having stored therein computer usable program code, which when executed by a portal server system, causes the portal server system to perform;

receiving, from a client computer, a request for a portal including a visible form;

transmitting, to the client computer, portlet markup corresponding to the portal; and

receiving, from the client computer, input from a companion form, wherein the portlet markup transmitted to the client computer includes

a visible form element configured to receive any one of a plurality of inputs and

a hidden frame including the companion form having a form element corresponding to the visible form element, and

the form element in the companion form is updated upon an input for the visible form element being received within the visible form.

22. The computer program product of claim 21, wherein

an update is received within the hidden frame and in response to the submitted companion form, and

the portlet is modified using the update.

23. The computer program product of claim 21, wherein

the portlet is within a portal view,

the portal view includes a plurality of portlets, and

each of the plurality of portlets includes a hidden frame.

24. The computer program product of claim 21, wherein

the hidden frame includes script logic configured to manage the submitting of the companion form.

25. The computer program product of claim 21, wherein

the updating of the form element within the companion form includes copying the input for the visible form element to the form element within the companion form.