Interactive Form Editor for Code-Free Schema Creation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Non-technical users face difficulties in creating user interface forms for digital relational databases without custom programming or knowledge of schema definitions.
Innovation Solution
An interactive form editor that allows users to create forms by dragging and dropping data fields, concurrently updating data and user interface schemas, with live previews and automatic code generation, enabling non-technical users to define forms visually.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If custom programming or schema definition knowledge is required to create forms, then forms can be precisely tailored to database requirements, but non-technical users find it difficult to understand and create forms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a visual form builder as an intermediary tool between non-technical users and the database schema system. This mediator automatically generates and validates schema definitions based on user-friendly visual inputs, eliminating the need for users to directly understand or write schema code while ensuring proper database integration
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides self-service functionality where the form builder automatically generates schema definitions, validation rules, and database integration code without requiring user intervention in the technical aspects. The system serves itself by autonomously handling the complex schema generation based on simple visual form configurations
2Productivity
If manual coding is used to create forms, then precise control over form behavior is achieved, but the process becomes time-consuming and error-prone
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-defining schema templates, validation rules, and database connection configurations within the form builder. These preliminary setups allow users to quickly create forms by simply selecting and configuring pre-prepared components rather than coding everything from scratch
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses copying functionality where users can replicate existing form templates and schemas. Once a form is created or validated, its schema definition and configuration can be copied and reused across multiple forms, significantly reducing repetitive coding work and accelerating form creation
3Reliability
If forms are created without automated schema validation, then flexibility in form design is maintained, but forms may not conform to database schemas causing installation failures
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the form builder provides real-time validation of schema definitions against database requirements. The system continuously monitors form configurations, automatically checks for schema conformity, and provides immediate feedback to users about any issues, allowing corrections before deployment while maintaining design flexibility
4Ease of operation
If visual form builders automatically generate schema code, then non-technical users can create forms easily, but the complexity of managing concurrent schema updates increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the form design interface and schema code management into a unified system. The visual form builder and schema editor are combined into a single integrated environment where both the visual representation and underlying schema code are managed concurrently, eliminating the need to separately manage these complex processes
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AI summary
A computer-implemented method executed by one or more computing devices executing one or more sequences of stored program instructions, the computer-implemented method comprising initiating execution of an interactive form editor and presenting a graphical user interface and a concurrent display of three or more windows corresponding to a form, data schema, user interface schema, field attributes, and field templates; receiving first input specifying to drag and drop two or more data entry fields into two or more pages of a multipage form; automatically concurrently updating a data schema window with data schema code corresponding to the two or more data entry fields; receiving second input, and in response thereto, exporting the data schema code to a digital file in a digital data storage system; receiving third input, and in response thereto, copying the data schema code to a configuration file and adding the configuration file to a digitally stored package; uploading the digitally stored package to a shared filesystem.