Calendar Quick Actions for Cloud Record Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional calendar applications require users to leave the calendar context to create new records or perform actions on existing records, leading to inefficient workflows and broken workflows due to the need to navigate away from the main user interface.
Innovation Solution
A calendar application and system that allows users to create new records and perform actions directly within the calendar context by automatically detecting object types, populating a new object creation UI element with options, and providing quick action options associated with calendar items, enabling users to interact with these options without leaving the calendar interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users follow conventional calendar application workflows, then they can create records and perform actions, but they must leave the calendar context and navigate away from the main user interface, resulting in broken workflows and reduced efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the record creation and action performance capabilities directly into the calendar application interface. Users can now create new records and perform actions on existing records without leaving the calendar context, as the system integrates these functionalities within the same user interface. This eliminates the need to navigate away and return, maintaining workflow continuity and reducing time loss.
Solution Approach 2:
The calendar application is enhanced with multi-functionality, allowing it to not only display calendar events but also create new records and perform actions on existing records. This universal approach enables users to handle multiple tasks within a single application context, improving ease of operation and eliminating the need to switch between applications or views.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the calendar application provides comprehensive record management capabilities, then users can create and act on records, but the system complexity increases requiring integration with cloud computing platforms and multiple object types
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer in the form of a cloud computing platform that handles the complexity of record management. The calendar application interfaces with this platform through standardized mechanisms, allowing comprehensive record management capabilities to be provided without directly increasing the complexity within the calendar application itself. The cloud platform acts as a mediator that manages the intricate relationships between multiple object types and records.
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs a universal object type mechanism that allows the calendar application to work with multiple types of records through a common interface. This approach provides adaptability and versatility in record management while managing system complexity by using a standardized, multi-functional framework that can handle different object types uniformly.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods and systems are provided for performing actions with respect to records maintained by a database system from within a calendar context of a calendar application. An association between a type of target object selected from a list of target objects for an organization, and an action type selected from a list of action types is created to define a quick action that is can be performed with respect to an instance of the type of target object. When a user interacts with a calendar item that relates to a record that is an instance of the target object and represents data associated with the calendar item, a quick action UI element is displayed within a main UI of the calendar application. When the user interacts with the quick action UI element, the quick action can be performed with respect to the record from within calendar context.