Interactive Form Editor With Concurrent Schema Synchronization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Non-technical users face difficulties in creating user interface forms for digital relational databases that conform to established data schemas, often requiring 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 bidirectional editing, enabling non-technical users to define forms visually and automatically generate schema definitions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If custom programming or schema definition knowledge is required to create forms, then form creation capability is maintained, but ease of operation deteriorates for non-technical users
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a visual form builder tool as an intermediary between non-technical users and complex schema definitions. Users interact with a simplified graphical interface where they can drag and drop field templates to create forms, while the system automatically generates and manages the underlying schema code, eliminating the need for users to directly manipulate complex schema definitions
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides pre-defined field templates and form patterns that users can copy and customize. Instead of creating forms from scratch using complex schema knowledge, users select from standardized templates and modify them as needed, significantly reducing the operational complexity while maintaining full schema compliance
2Ease of operation
If visual form building is enabled for non-technical users, then ease of operation improves, but manufacturing precision (schema conformity) may deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The visual form builder incorporates real-time validation feedback that automatically checks generated schema code against required constraints. As users build forms visually, the system provides immediate feedback on schema compliance, allowing users to correct issues without understanding the underlying complexity, thus maintaining both ease of operation and schema precision
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs self-service schema generation and validation automatically based on visual form building actions. The form builder translates user's graphical actions into correct schema code and validates conformity without requiring user intervention or knowledge, ensuring precision is maintained while keeping operation simple
3Productivity
If bidirectional editing of form and schema is implemented, then productivity improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the form design interface and schema editor into a single integrated environment where changes in either view automatically update the other. This unified interface handles bidirectional synchronization internally, allowing users to edit forms visually while schema code updates automatically, or vice versa, without exposing the complexity of coordination between the two representations
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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 comprising a concurrent display of an interactive form, a template panel comprising a plurality of data entry fields, and at least three windows corresponding to a form data window, a data schema window, and a user interface schema window; receiving a first input specifying to drag and drop one or more data entry fields into the interactive form; receiving a second input specifying one or more data values for the one or more data entry fields, respectively; and in response to receiving the first input and the second input, automatically concurrently updating the at least three windows corresponding to the form data window, the data schema window, and the user interface schema window.