US 10,768,926 B2 · Maintaining manageability state information distinct from managed metadata

Abstract

Techniques are disclosed relating to database techniques for storing metadata for web applications. In some embodiments, manageable state information indicates whether certain entities (e.g., developers or subscribers) are allowed to edit particular fields (e.g., upon installing a version of an application package or when updating a package to a new version). In some embodiments, the manageable state information is stored separately from the corresponding metadata, which may avoid a need to query the metadata to determine manageable state and may allow validation of manageable state rules upon insertion of metadata into a new organization. In some embodiments, a short-lived build organization may facilitate validation of updates to web application packages.

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Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

storing, by a computing system, metadata for one or more applications in one or more database tables of a multi-tenant database system, wherein the metadata includes one or more custom database table definitions that specify sets of fields included in one or more custom database tables, wherein the fields include one or more tenant-specified custom fields that are not included in a standard database table definition used by one or more other tenants of the multi-tenant database system;
storing, by the computing system in a separate database table from the metadata, manageable state information that specifies permissions for one or more entities to edit the metadata to alter the set of fields included in one of the custom database table definitions;
and
generating, by the computing system, information indicating whether an update to at least one of the one or more applications violates a permission specified by the manageable state information by accessing the manageable state information and without accessing the metadata.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer instructions stored thereon that are capable of being executed by a computer system to cause operations comprising:

storing metadata for one or more applications in one or more database tables of a multi-tenant database system, wherein the metadata includes one or more custom database table definitions that specify sets of fields included in one or more custom database tables, wherein the fields include one or more tenant-specified custom fields that are not included in a standard database table definition used by one or more other tenants of the multi-tenant database system;
storing, in a separate database table from the metadata, manageable state information that specifies permissions for one or more entities to edit the metadata to alter the set of fields included in one of the custom database table definitions;
and
generating information indicating whether an update to at least one of the one or more applications violates a permission specified by the manageable state information by accessing the manageable state information and without accessing the metadata.

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A system, comprising:

one or more processing elements;
and
one or more storage elements having computer instructions stored thereon that are executable by the one or more processing elements to cause operations comprising;
storing metadata for one or more applications in one or more database tables of a multi-tenant database system, wherein the metadata includes one or more custom database table definitions that specify sets of fields included in one or more custom database tables, wherein the fields include one or more tenant-specified custom fields that are not included in a standard database table definition used by one or more other tenants of the multi-tenant database system;
storing, in a separate database table from the metadata, manageable state information that specifies permissions for one or more entities to edit the metadata to alter the set of fields included in one of the custom database table definitions;
and
generating information indicating whether an update to at least one of the one or more applications violates a permission specified by the manageable state information by accessing the manageable state information and without accessing the metadata.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Maintaining manageability state information distinct from managed metadata

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Abstract

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