Print preview with edit hyperlink
OwnerRobert John Madril JR., Shell Sterling simpsoninventors
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Abstract
Method and apparatus for providing an edit hyperlink within a production system includes generating a link to an editable document at a different web site location than the production system. The production system does not need to know anything about editing the document.
Claims45
A method of providing a web based link to edit a document, comprising:
- deriving a reference for the document;
- and
- placing a hyperlink containing the reference on a preview page of the document.
A method of generating a link to an editable document from a production system, comprising:
- gathering document information from the document;
- using the document information to generate a location URL for the document;
- and
- placing a hyperlink on a preview web page of the production system containing the generated URL.
A method of generating a link to an editable document from a production system, comprising:
- gathering document information from a reference generated by a web application on which the document was created;
- using the document information to generate an edit URL for the document;
- and
- placing a hyperlink on a preview web page of the production system containing the generated URL.
A method of generating a link to an editable document from a production system, comprising:
- gathering a reference to a document from an identity service providing information regarding an active document;
- using the document information to generate an edit URL for the document;
- and
- placing a hyperlink on a preview web page of the production system containing the generated URL.
A method for generating an edit hyperlink to a document, comprising:
- deriving an edit uniform resource locator (URL) for the document;
- and
- placing a link containing the edit URL on a preview page of a web application representing a preferred production system.
A method of providing an edit hyperlink for a document in a web application, comprising:
- initiating a web application representing a production system;
- obtaining a uniform resource locator (URL) to an editable version of the document;
- accessing a production system for the document;
- generating a document preview in the production system;
- and
- placing a link containing the URL in the document preview.
A method of generating an edit hyperlink to a document within a production system, comprising:
- accessing the production system from a web application in which the document was created;
- passing a reference to the document to the production system;
- and
- embedding the reference to the document within a hyperlink on a preview page of the document within the document production system.
A method of providing an edit hyperlink for a document at a production system, comprising:
- initiating a print request to the production system from a web application representing a document creator;
- passing a reference for the document to a web application representing the production system;
- generating a production preview of the document in the production system;
- and
- providing a link to an editable version of the document in the production preview, the link containing the reference.
A machine readable medium having a set of machine readable instructions for causing a processor to perform a method comprising:
- deriving a uniform resource locator (URL) for a document;
- and
- placing a link containing the URL on a preview page of the document within a production system.
The machine readable medium of claim 34, wherein accessing the web application at which the document was created comprises:
- accessing a document object containing information about the document;
- and
- retrieving the URL to the editable version of the document from the document object.
A machine readable medium having machine readable instructions for causing a processor to perform a method of providing an edit hyperlink to an editable document on a preview page in a production system, the method comprising:
- determining an edit uniform resource locator (URL) for a web page where the document can be edited;
- previewing the document;
- and
- placing an edit hyperlink containing the determined URL for the editable document on the preview page of the document.
A machine readable medium having machine readable instructions for causing a processor to perform a method, comprising:
- gathering document location information from an identity service representing a document;
- using the document location information to access a document object containing document information;
- generating an edit URL for the document from the document object;
- and
- placing a hyperlink to the edit URL on a preview web page of a production system.
A web application representing a production system, comprising:
- a production system driver module;
- and
- a preview command module having machine readable instructions for causing the web application to perform a method comprising:
- deriving a uniform resource locator (URL) for editing a document that is to be produced by the web application;
- and
- placing a link containing the URL on a preview page of the document.
A method, comprising:
- displaying a document selected for printing;
- and
- placing a hyperlink to an editable version of the document in the document display.
A method, comprising:
- generating a non-editable version of a document;
- hyperlinking the non-editable version of the document to an editable version of the document;
- and
- displaying the hyperlink in the non-editable version of the document.
A method, comprising:
- generating a non-editable version of a document in a production system;
- hyperlinking the non-editable version of the document to an editable version of the document at a location external to the production system;
- and
- displaying the hyperlink in the non-editable version of the document.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.