Workflow Template Stripping for Custom Data Collaboration

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current project management software applications are inefficient in managing complex operations across multiple employees and departments, lacking features for customizable data types and real-time data integration, which hinders optimal resource allocation and management.

Innovation Solution

A system that includes a processor configured to display customizable table headings, generate hybrid table templates pre-populated with real-time data, and represent data via multi-structured tables, enabling customizable row and column headings, data type identification, and seamless data migration across tables.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If project management software uses standardized table structures, then system simplicity is maintained, but adaptability to customize data types and headings is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecustomizability of data types and table headingsVSAvoidsystem structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adapts table structures based on user needs. Column headings and data types can be customized without altering the underlying system architecture. The software allows users to modify table schemas, add custom columns, and define specific data types for different project management contexts, making the system flexible while maintaining operational simplicity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

Different portions of the table structure can have different levels of customization. Specific columns can be tailored to local requirements (e.g., project-specific fields, department-specific data types) while other columns maintain standardized structures. This allows granular customization without requiring complete system restructuring.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Productivity

If real-time data integration across multiple tables is implemented, then data accuracy and operational efficiency are improved, but system complexity and processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoperation management efficiencyVSAvoiddata integration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements a universal data integration framework that can connect multiple tables and data sources through standardized interfaces. This multi-functional approach allows the same integration mechanism to handle various data types and table structures, reducing overall system complexity while enabling comprehensive real-time data synchronization across projects, departments, and resources.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses intermediary components such as data synchronization layers and integration APIs that mediate between different tables and data sources. These intermediaries handle the complexity of real-time data integration, translating and coordinating data flows between multiple tables while presenting a simplified interface to users and maintaining data accuracy without requiring direct complex connections between all tables.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Measurement precision

If comprehensive data tracking across employees and departments is implemented, then resource allocation accuracy is improved, but data processing time and system overhead increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresource allocation accuracyVSAvoiddata processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary data organization and categorization as data is entered into the platform. Metadata and data types are pre-defined for different project management entities, allowing the system to automatically classify and structure data before comprehensive tracking is required. This preliminary structuring enables accurate resource allocation tracking without requiring intensive processing at the time of analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements self-service data tracking mechanisms where data is automatically captured, validated, and organized through integrated forms and workflows. As users input project data, the system automatically tracks resource allocation, time spent, and departmental information without requiring manual data collection or extensive processing, thereby maintaining high measurement precision while minimizing time loss.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS11755827B2Digital processing systems and methods for stripping data from workflows to create generic templates in collaborative work systems
Publication Date: 2023.09.12 MONDAY COM LTD
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AI summary

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for deconstructing an integrated web of structural components and data are disclosed. The systems and methods may involve maintaining the integrated web of the structural components and the data, wherein the structural components include customized tables for maintaining the data, automations for acting on the data in the customized tables, and dashboards for visualizing the data; receiving instructions to alter elements of at least some of the structural components; updating the integrated web to comport with the instructions; receiving a command to generate a copy of the structural components of the integrated web without the data; and in response to the command, outputting the copy of the structural components in a template format that permits the copy to be adopted for secondary use.