US 2008/0072133 A1 · FORM BUNDLING

Abstract

A form management system is provided that bundles individual electronic form instances into a single bundled form. Form field names in the electronic form instances and scripts are renamed at the time the form instances are merged into a bundle. In this manner, common names can be assigned to individual form fields in individual forms and then only the form field names in electronic forms selected for the bundle are renamed. Furthermore, the same renaming scheme is also executed in the scripts associated with the individual form documents and fields. As such, the form field names in the scripts of bundled documents are altered to reference the renamed form fields in the corresponding component forms.

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Dependent claims

A computer-readable storage medium encoding a computer program for executing a computer process on a computer system, the computer process comprising:

receiving a selection of electronic form instances to be merged into a bundled electronic form instance, each electronic form instance including at least one named form field and at least one script referencing the at least one named form field;
renaming at least one named form field in at least one of the electronic form instances of the selection to be unique across the selection of electronic form instances;
renaming one or more references to the named form field in the at least one script in the at least one of the electronic form instances of the selection to match the renamed form field;
merging the selection of electronic form instances into the bundled electronic form instance, responsive to the renaming operations.

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Abstract

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