Template-Aware Document Editing for Structural Conformity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Productivity applications lack the ability to automatically create and update documents in conformity with document templates, as they fail to incorporate and synchronize content and structure effectively, leading to variations from the intended template structure and style.
Innovation Solution
Implementing template and content-aware document editing methods that identify and apply rules from document templates to generate and modify documents, including dynamic content based on data sources and functors, ensuring conformity with the template specifications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If productivity applications allow manual document creation without template enforcement, then ease of operation is improved, but manufacturing precision (document conformity to template) deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The document editor automatically applies template rules and generates content without requiring manual intervention to ensure template conformity. The system self-enforces template structure and style requirements, eliminating the need for users to manually verify document compliance while maintaining ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the operational parameters by automatically enforcing template rules during document creation. Instead of allowing free-form manual creation, the system modifies the creation process to automatically apply template structure, style, and formatting parameters, ensuring precision while maintaining user-friendly operation.
2Device complexity
If productivity applications do not automatically update documents based on template changes, then device complexity is reduced, but reliability (document template synchronization) deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where template changes are automatically detected and propagated to associated documents. When template rules are updated, the system feeds back these changes to all relevant documents, automatically updating them to maintain conformity without requiring manual intervention or complex user-side processing.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-establishing template rules and structures before document creation. Template changes are prepared and validated in advance, allowing automatic propagation to documents without requiring complex real-time processing or user intervention, thus maintaining reliability with manageable complexity.
3Productivity
If productivity applications lack automatic document generation from templates, then productivity (document creation speed) is improved, but manufacturing precision (document structure accuracy) deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-defining complete template structures, rules, and formatting styles before document creation. This allows documents to be automatically generated by simply instantiating the pre-prepared template, achieving both high speed (no manual formatting needed) and high precision (template structure is enforced by definition).
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses copying by creating documents as copies of template structures. Instead of manually creating documents and then adjusting them to match templates, the system copies the verified template structure directly into new documents, preserving both the speed of template-based creation and the precision of template conformity.
4Ease of operation
If productivity applications do not enforce template rules automatically, then ease of operation is improved, but reliability (document compliance) deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The document editor performs self-service by automatically detecting and applying template rules during editing operations. When users perform actions like inserting, deleting, or formatting content, the system self-verifies compliance with template rules and automatically corrects deviations, maintaining ease of operation while ensuring reliable template compliance without requiring separate verification steps.
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AI summary
A method and apparatus for performing template and content aware document and template editing is provided. Template and content aware document and template editing may include identifying a current document template, the current document template including a plurality of rules, generating a current document based on the current document template, wherein generating the current document includes, identifying a rule from the plurality of rules, the rule indicating an object and an object definition for the object, the object definition including a dynamic content definition, and including dynamic content in the current document based on the dynamic content definition, and storing or transmitting the current document.