Form bundling
AssigneeEfficient Forms, LLC
InventorsHans Micah Eckelman, Douglas Leon Birch
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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.
Claims20
A computer-readable storage medium encoding a computer program for executing a computer process on a computer system, the computer process comprising:
- renaming one or more references to a named form field in at least one script in at least one of a selection of electronic form instances to match a renamed form field that is unique across the selection of electronic form instances;
- and
- merging the selection of electronic form instances into a bundled electronic form instance, responsive to the renaming operations.
A method comprising:
- renaming at least one named form field in at least one of a selection of electronic form instances 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 selection of electronic form instances to match a renamed form field;
- and
- merging the selection of electronic form instances into a bundled electronic form instance.
A method comprising:
- renaming all of named form fields in all of a selection of electronic form instances to be unique across the selection of electronic form instances;
- renaming all of references to the named form fields in all document-specific scripts and all form-field-specific scripts in the selection of electronic form instances to match the renamed form fields;
- merging the selection of electronic form instances into a bundled electronic form instance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.