Graphical User Interface Configuration via Segmented Files
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing user interface systems are complex and time-consuming to deploy, requiring extensive development and manual updates, and fail to provide dynamically updated and compactly presented data to users, leading to inefficiencies in data interaction and presentation.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for generating user interfaces using configuration files that allow for quick deployment of customizable pages by retrieving configuration sections, transmitting content requests, and generating page sections dynamically, including the use of resource identifiers and metadata to create markup elements, enabling efficient and dynamic content presentation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If traditional user interface systems are used, then comprehensive functionality can be achieved, but deployment becomes complex and time-consuming requiring extensive development and manual updates
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the user interface configuration into separate configuration files that can be independently managed, retrieved, and deployed. Each configuration file contains specific page definitions and content settings, allowing granular control and faster deployment without requiring complete system rebuilding.
Solution Approach 2:
Configuration files are prepared and stored in advance with all necessary page definitions and content settings. This preliminary configuration allows the system to rapidly generate and deploy user interfaces by simply retrieving and processing pre-defined configurations rather than creating them from scratch during deployment.
2Productivity
If manual updates are used for user interface changes, then control over each element is maintained, but the update process becomes time-consuming and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically retrieves configuration files and generates user interfaces without requiring manual intervention for each update. The configuration service autonomously processes configuration files, retrieves appropriate content, and generates updated pages, eliminating the need for time-consuming manual updates while maintaining full control over configuration elements.
3Adaptability or versatility
If static content is used in user interfaces, then simplicity is maintained, but dynamic data presentation and updates are not provided to users
Solution Approach 1:
The configuration files serve multiple functions: they define page structure, specify content retrieval parameters, and control dynamic data presentation. This multi-functional configuration approach enables the system to handle both static and dynamic content uniformly, providing adaptability without requiring separate management mechanisms for different content types.
4Reliability
If complete application rebuilding is performed for interface updates, then consistency is ensured, but deployment time increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and isolates configuration data into separate configuration files that can be updated independently of the core application. This extraction allows interface updates to be performed by simply replacing or modifying configuration files without triggering complete application rebuilding, maintaining consistency through configuration management while avoiding time-consuming full rebuilds.
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AI summary
Systems and methods are provided for improved graphical user interface configuration. The system allows an administrator to rapidly and deploy create customized pages based on configuration files. Versioning and branching of the configuration files allows rapid development of the customized pages. The configurations for dynamic content cause such content to be retrieved and presented on pages. Short configuration sections cause large sections of a markup page to be generated without manual page programming.